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Bizarre "Echoesque" headline from today's Mirror : "Liverpool handed Champions League boost as Man City......face nightmare draw" They are refering to City's 14% chance of drawing PSG ( whom City have beaten at least twice in recent years ). Liverpool meanwhile have a 50% chance...

Pretty sure that this Derby loss was refereed by Atkinson... there were at least three very controversial decisions all going in favour of the rags

Crikey! I hope you don't playfully "tickle" the wife tonight . You could be joining Giggsy and Mason on "death row" .

So MoD highlight the Ederson and Haaland "incidents" as both controversially going in City's favour whereas they chose to ignore the forearm smash into Cancelo's face ( which led to the second goal ) But why no comment about CP's first goal ? The ball comes in from the free kick and it appears...

Slightly off-topic but still Giggsy related : in the late 80s, I was invited by sponsors to attend a match at Maine Road and was duly given "the match day experience" in the somewhat dated and shabby surrounds of the main stand. At half time I was introduced to a rather miserable looking bloke...

It's not St Marcus who's the problem ; it's the "brand" created by his minders ( who used to be JayZ -Roc Nation ). He's no longer a ManUre "footballer" but a sort of Frankenstein Creation / wannabee Beckham (but without the Beckham Ego ) Marcus was awarded first place in The Sunday Times...

Ferdinand vs MGN Ltd ( Mirror Group Newspapers ) Rio sued the Mirror ( for 'invasion' of privacy' ) , as it was publishing a "kiss and tell" story involving Rio . The Mirror provided details of his extensive "extra curricular activities" / "playing away from home", despite his being portrayed...

Was at the game : I can still picture Kinkladze receiving a pass very early in the game and a Port Vale player totally wiping him out with an absolutely career ending sort of challenge. The referee did absolutely nothing and continued refereeing the game in a similar manner. On first reading...

Just browsing the newspaper's "transfer rumours" to find out what is ( supposed ) to be happening at City : actually, not a lot - just Cucurella and Phillips. However, over there in Stretford it's a different story ! Darwin Nunez £111M "have submitted a bid to sign" Frankie...

Given the ridiculous number of penalties awarded to Salah, Vardy, Saha, St Marcus MBE, VC , DSO etc . in the past 2 years, referees have been told to consider "who initiates contact" when assessing penalty situations. Thus the penalty count this season is down 40% . Viewing Tottenham vs...

Yes, think it was at the Etihad, didn't Fellaini steamroller Aguero in the area and Oliver book Aguero for simulation? Didn't Fellainy then stand over the prostrate Aguero and spit on him? Nice bloke! Not forgetting (Rowan) Atkinson's bizarre interpretation of the rules in allowing The Rags to...

Went to many away games in the 80's' and 90's. Although I was always very well behaved, I do recall trips to Aston Villa, Coventry, Huddersfield, Barnsley , Stoke, where The Police themselves provoked a great deal of serious disorder. I would say - quite deliberately. The best example happened...

Match of the day excelled last night. At least the refs were consistent in awarding pens to all of the Big 4 and VAR was consistent in not overturning any of the decisions. The "3 Wise men" on MoD were consistent in applauding all of the -often contentious - decisions. That is - apart from...

Given the Glaizers announcement that they are placing 9.5M of their shares on the secondary market I thought it might be useful to clarify a few points : ManUre "A" Shares ( 43.3M paid up and issued ) Same par value as the "B" shares i.e. $0.0005 or to put it another way 2000 to the $ ( see...

I have not been watching the BBC's 4 parter -Fever Pitch : The Rise of the Premier League for the obvious reason it would be all about the rags. Today's Sunday Times, has an interesting review of the said programme : On the evidence of the first three episodes you would have thought the...

Just had a look at the Express Football ( sorry.....Manure ) Page on the Web. As per usual 22 Rag articles before City get a mention. The article on the Carabao Cup draw catches the eye : " Carabao Cup Draw in full as...

Made the trip to Carlisle sometime in the 80's - they were playing City. It was the only occasion in a career of over 120 away grounds clocked that we entered our designated turnstile via a flooded field full of cows. It's what watching football is all about ! Reminds me of a great quiz...

BBC's report on the rag's fine performance away to Southampton gives the loveable Trafford hobbit a platform to complain about the referee who in Ole's opinion cost the rags 2 points. I suspect we'll soon be fed the usual smokescreen of St Marcus receiving rude tweets! , after another below par...

Just back from the ground. Expected chaos but all went very smoothly. Directed to join the queue ( about 15 strong ) An assistant spoke to me in the queue and identified a problem which could only be sorted at the ticket office. A young lady steward actually sorted the mobile of the bloke behind...

"Give supporter services a ring" !!! Thank-you for giving me a good laugh after a harrowing week trying, unsuccessfully, to get any communication from the club ! I feel genuinely sorry for any Ticket Office staff who might have remained at their posts over the last two weeks. They'd better...