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How damaging is losing Danny Wilson? How much more are Rangers in their current state able offer?

Can’t say it even annoyed me as the whole premise of his argument is based on subjective opinions and assumptions: City would dominate in Europe if Mancini was still in charge. Our performances in the Champions League under him suggested otherwise and Mancini’s results in Turkey and back at...

I don’t believe the Aguero moment killed the passion but what has followed has probably failed to meet up to collective expectations. I don’t mean in terms of success or performances but in terms of what it’s like to be a winning club. In the back of our minds I think we all expected it to be...

End of the 92/93 season. Sam Ellis had fully worked his magic by then and the more seasoned observers in the crowd could see that we were seriously on the slide. As a 12 year old I assumed it was a mere blip.

Can’t believe people are still perpetuating the myth that this rag tw*t was up there with Baggio, Nedved et al. He was decent against bad teams in a second rate league 20 years ago. If he had been English and ugly he might have been Peter Beardsley.

The far left? Protectionist quotas are more UKIP light. The clubs are businesses argument is pretty weak and is the excuse for them fucking over their core support, charging £46 for West Brom at home, moving to Milton Keynes etc, etc. Football clubs are part of the fabric of society and rely on...

You’re right about Pellegrini’s tactics in the first leg but wrong about the transfers. Tevez left because he’d lost a yard of pace and was earning a fortune so it suited City to get off the books. For a player in the last year of his contract he didn’t go for peanuts and playing for Juve’ in...

Being treated like shit by the cops and having no fucking chance of getting in or out of the ground sounds more like Rotherham.

15-20 years ago I never got the impression that lads went away with the intention to aggravate or intimidate fellow blues (that sort of thing was generally directed towards Alan Kernaghan and Kit Symons). When we turned in particularly dismal performances people would start to fight amongst...

Qualifying: Pole Rosberg P2 Hamilton P3 Vettel Race: P1 Hamilton P2 Rosberg P3 Vettel Really pushed the boat out with this.

I completely agree with this and you can’t just blame it on people who started watching in the last few years. Many of the people in my block have been there for a decade or more and there are still recognisable faces from Maine Road. The abuse heaped on the players when we don’t just turn up an...

I thought I’d care less after we won it the first time but it’s the other way round for me. From 98ish to about 2010 I could more or less disassociate City’s results from my own mood, largely because I expected failure and I would have gone mad otherwise. Now, however, that we have a chance to...

Taylor never missed an opportunity to belittle us when we poor, unsuccessful and mancunian owned. Now we’re rich, successful and, as it happens, owned by an Abu Dhabi sheik he suddenly wants to build bridges and pretend like he loved us all along. Jamie Jackson may be the died in the wool...

The vast majority of welfare payments are benefits paid to people in employment and old age pensions. The former makes up for the fact that many jobs although essential don't pay a wage that actually allows for people to live, have families and contribute to the economy. It’s all very well for...

All the research that’s ever looked at charging has found it to be a false economy. You’d need a huge number of exemptions for it to be fair and then a massive administrative system to process the charges and the exemptions. It would be hard to make it pay for itself let alone make efficiencies...

It’s not true that everyone used to sit at Maine Road. The North Stand was mostly standing from 97ish onwards. The people who preferred to stand in the North Stand were then transferred to the South Stand when we moved and continued to stand. At a guess roughly 10% of people at any home game...

Re: Mangala Overall he played well last night but at times when we were chasing the game he was a bit too eager to press players into midfield consequently leaving a big gap behind him. His distribution was good but he seemed to be trying to force it towards the end. Both of these things are...

Re: The Worst City Player Who made More Than 100 Appearances I can’t see how you can attribute responsibility for relegation or needing to go up via the play offs to any one player. You could just as easily say that if Rosler had done his job in 97-98 we wouldn’t have gone down, especially as...

I think they also did one about how James McClean was right not to where a poppy. Self-loathing, ignorant, sanctimonious, right-on, intellectually bankrupt nonsense designed for only the most credulous Grauniad reading wanker. And I say that as a woolly lefty liberal myself.

Agreed, Atwell was applying two sets of rules that day. I’m sure the fact that it came a week after we put 6 past the rags was purely coincidental. It was as if he’d been briefed that City commit lots of sneaky fouls so don’t give them any leeway but on the other hand Wolves are a good honest...