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Some comparative statistics on Edin Dzeko and RVP for this season's premier league, taken from EPL Index Stats Centre (as of 13 Feb 2013): Dzeko has played for 1190 minutes; RVP for 2116 minutes. Goal scoring: ED: 12 goals at 99 mins per goal RVP: 19 goals at 111 mins per goal Offsides...

I have despaired at how often over the last few weeks I have heard or read the claim that "City always win when Aguero and Tevez start", with the implication (explicit or otherwise) that it is City's best striker partnership. It has been repeated ad nauseam by the Sky Sports commentary team, by...

The following analysis is based on CAREER statistics provided by <a class="postlink" href="http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk</a>. The number in brackets after the player's name is the total number of goals minus the...

I have based the following on Career statistics taken from http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk I offer the calculations in good faith; it is a bit late at night for me to do these sorts of tedious calculations! But I found the results very interesting. The three indices are: (a) minutes /...

Having scored 4 of the 17 goals conceded in total in the Premier League (PL) by Spurs at White Hart Lane, Edin was omitted from the starting line-up for the next game. If Mario had scored those same 4 goals, he would not have been omitted. Instead, Roberto would probably have referred to a...

Daniel Taylor has written an article in today's Guardian that suggests that he has been in close contact with a key City person who knows about City's perspective on the Tevez transfer saga. The claim that "Manchester City want £25m" sounds much more realistic than the £35m cited in most recent...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/22/mario-balotelli-points-way-italian-society?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Ffootball%2Frss+%28Football%29

Another excellent article by Martin Samuel. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2044425/Carlos-Tevez-toast-Martin-Samuel.html

Excellent articles. Both agree that Sheikh Mansour MUST back Mancini and that Tevez must never play for City again. Whilst James Lawton believes that City owe it to the "beautiful game", Henry Winter is much more pragmatic. HENRY WINTER: Manchester City must show Carlos Tevez the door to...

We know most of them but some of interest: It would be interesting to know how many of those headers were by Edin. Currently he gets his head to more of the opponents' corners than to our own - latter is something to be worked on. http://www.sportingpreview.com/football2012/11121175.php

A good interview with Joleon by Henry Winter: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-city/8785594/Manchester-City-and-Joleon-Lescott-firmly-on-the-right-track.html I have a lot of time for Joleon. He is much underrated - on here as well as by journalists. He admits to...

A hard-hitting article about Carlos Tevez: http://www.lifesapitch.co.uk/opinions/tevez-too-clever-for-his-own-good/

Stats are from Danny Pugsley, who in turn acknowledges the people responsible for the EA Sports Player Performance Index. http://www.bitterandblue.com/2011/9/9/2414994/more-stats-ahead-of-wigan-dzeko-silva-and-barry

This article on Joe brought back a lot of memories: http://www.thisnorthernsoul.co.uk/index.php/history/8-latics-players/2125-them-and-us-joe-hayes-manchester-city-and-latics He was an 'inspirational' player. A decent scoring record: 152 goals in 363 games for City.

Sabella, the new manager of Argentina, has included Kun and Pablo in his 26-man squad. Carlos is not included. http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=goal-bocajuniorsjuanromanriquelm

I would be curious to hear of the experiences of other Bluemooners with the censor(s) on the Manchester Evening News forum. These days fewer of my posts get through. The last one to be rejected by the censor was a comment on Brennan's report on our match with Swansea. I simply wrote: "The...

We have missed out on a seven-year old Argentine playmaker! http://www.caughtoffside.com/2011/08/08/real-madrid-sign-7-year-old-argentine-called-leo/ Why did Dax777 not alert us to him in time?

Tomorrow's Sunday Supplement is a classic case of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly": the journalists are Henry Winter of the Daily Telegraph, Rob Beasley of The Sun, and Paul Smith of the Sunday Mirror! It should be interesting - even more so if it is confirmed that Sneijder is coming to us!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2022723/Sergio-Aguero-bench-Manchester-City-v-United.html Hopefully he will be available! Perhaps those who have insisted that we only need 3 main strikers will reflect on this. Given the inevitability of injuries and suspensions (Mario...

No doubt there are Bluemooners old enough to recall watching week after week, pretty much without change: Trautmann, Leivers, Little, Barnes, Ewing, Paul, Johnstone, Hayes, Revie, Dyson, Clarke But times have changed. These days professional football is genuinely a squad game...