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Changes announced by UEFA: The UEFA Europa League winners will automatically qualify for the UEFA Champions League group stage (currently they can potentially take part in a play-off round). The top four clubs from the four top-ranked national associations will now qualify automatically for the...

The Premier League Table based on "deserved" points vs actually earned points looks like this: 1) Man City 25 2) Spurs 23 3) Southampton 21 4) Arsenal 19 5) Chelsea 19 6) Liverpool 18 7) Everton...

It's that time of year where we can start to imagine what the pots will look like for next season's Champions League: (edited to correct errors...) Pot 1: Barcelona / Bayern Munich / Real Madrid / Chelsea / Man Utd / Arsenal / Porto / Benfica Pot 2: At Madrid / Lyon / Shaktar Donetsk / AC...

I know some people hate stats....so if you're one of those...stop reading now as I don't want to start a "stats are useless" discussion. My take on this season is that our league form has been ok, but we have been poor in CL. A lot has been made of us "misfiring" , "not clicking" i.e. not...

It would appear that most other teams are now "intimidated" by our home form and regard coming to the Etihad as some form of damage limitation exercise... ...but the same thing cannot be said away from home. The biggest difference between ourselves + Utd this season...has been the ability to...

A word of warning to fellow Blues in CB Level 2 in Cup Scheme. Just been informed by ticket office that my normal seats are not available - because they need to make more seats available to UEFA / press etc. The alternative seats they have offered me are not as good - but nothing they can do...

If we were to sign Clichy + Nasri, it would bring up to 11 the number of players on City's books this year that have been voted into the Premier League "Team of the Year" at some point by their fellow players. Kompany + Tevez made it this year. Vieira made it 5 times at Arsenal. (Without...

A few thoughts on City's current ranking and how (quickly) it might change over coming years. City's current ranking is likely to place them towards the back of the queue for Pot 3 in seeding for the Champs League Group stage (see official Champs League thread for more details) Teams pick up 2...

I know Bluemoon may not be typical of overall City support, but 120 responses now on loyalty point thread is statistically enough to get a good idea of overall picture. (more likely error is that responses biased to those with higher points) ...but caveats aside, the results are in and...

I like RM and think he has the right sort of "winning" mentality. I like the addition of Silva , Yaya , Milner , AJ , Kolarov , Balotelli , Dzeko. BUT the cold facts slightly undermine the notion that we really are making any serious progress as a football team: Last season: p24 W:12 D:8...

Glass half full: United never looked like scoring Clean sheets this season vs spurs / liverpool / chelsea / utd Balotelli + Kolarov will improve our options going forward We need a bit more time to gel properly Glass half empty: Mancini fundamentally does not get the style + tempo of play...

Barcelona + Arsenal stand for passing fluent football. Man Utd + Spurs stand for attacking positive football played on the front foot. Real Madrid stand for quality played with a bit of swagger. Chelsea now stand for technical excellence + efficiency throughout the team. What do we stand for ...

I'm getting a little fed up with the excuses for playing such an inexperienced back 4 tonight. Yes ... we have injuries... but Kolo Toure / Kompany / Richards / Zabaleta / even Yaya Toure (who can play at CB) were available to start... with Bridge / Boateng soon to come back. Man Utd "risked"...

... and not really a "proper" goal from open play conceded. Ok... we needed Hart to be in superman form vs Spurs... and on his toes for a double save vs Liverpool. But otherwise just Micah being caught on his heels vs Sunderland + freak goal vs Blackburn. With all the attention on Yaya /...