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Surprised about the lack of positivity about both last season and the new season. In the latest When Saturday Comes, City fan and regular WSC contributor Ian Farrell is asked how City will do. His response: "To defend the title we need to not rely on other teams' transition periods and blown...

The friends & family option is always preferred but recently my step dad (twenty plus years a season ticket holder) has struggled to make it to weekend games because of a new job which requires him to work weekends (doh!). Problem is he's in his 70s and has a concessionary ticket. Usually he'd...

No mention of Maurizio Gaudino. Twice the player Silva is and could do you a nice deal on a luxury sports car to boot!

Considering our own Government's fairly ambivalent attitude towards the use of torture in "the national interest" it could equally be argued that the hugely successful English Premier League brand is used to 'launder' the UK's image overseas.

Stunning...mine's ordered. In the Maine Rd flavour.

I was in Taylor's year at school. Can't remember whether he was Utd or City but if people on here say he's Utd I'll take their word for it. What I do know is that refs from Cheshire are permitted by the FA to officiate at games involving teams from Lancs which includes City and Utd. This means...

My cab driver last night (on holiday in NYC) was Algerian. Good guy. Impressed by my knowledge of Ali B. Thinks England's best player is Gerrard and that Algeria, fired up by comments by Rooney that England have an easy group, can cause an upset.

Mancini is a NO for me. Can anybody on this forum say they honestly believe he is the board's first choice. Or even second choice. Let's face it if Hiddink or Mourinho had been up for it Mancini would not have had a sniff. Replacing Hughes has been a "typical City" knee-jerk reaction to a...

Having read an earlier thread about the merits of football hoolie books (which now seem bizarrely - and disappointingly - to dominate the sports literature sections in bookshops) and the fact the Colin Shindler (of Manchester United Ruined My Life fame amongst other City-related books) has...

I'm a Whalley Ranger (well, obviously). I took my bike for a spin round the Side last Sunday before setting off for the match. Took a look down Maine Road - you could call it a pilgrimage - and saw a few blue shirts on display. Not a red one in sight. I think we used to get a lot of...

I've heard if the appeal fails there'll be a two-minute silence before the game at Old Trafford on Sunday. I hope our fans will be impeccable again in a moving show of solidarity for the poor wee lad. Isn't this the same Darren Fletcher that earlier this season had United fans groaning with...

I’m enjoying reading Vincent and Nigel’s comments in the MEN: "For me this is one of the biggest derbies in the world. I have been aware of it since I was a kid and now I am part of it, I understand how special it is to the supporters and local people in Manchester - most of whom are...

A co-worker of mine changed his credit cards last year - which he uses to pay for his direct cup tickets (which he seldom uses) - but forgot to tell United's ticket office. When their attempt to draw the usual payment failed the club sent him a nasty letter warning him that if it happened again...

Probably because some twat from the radio scours these message boards for potential controversy. It's a shit radio station anyway - ignore it and it will go away.

For my part I think too many fans have let the team and the club down. All I hear are fans banging on about how important it is to be playing in Europe. That European football is the be-all and end-all. If your club's not playing in Europe you can't attract top players and so on and so on...

Both clubs originated from attempts to divert the energies of wild, young Irish immigrant lads away from crime and towards something constructive like sport, football in particular. Go back 100 years and walking through city centre Manchester meant taking your life in your own hands it was that...

Paranoid? Hell yes. I've been saying for years that no self-respecting city fan should pay money for the Sun ever since they printed a disgraceful full front cover picture of MVF stretched out dead on a football pitch robbing the poor bloke and his family of any dignity in death. Everything...

Apologies if this has been brought up before. Another post concerning the removal of a flag because it was covering a Thomas Cook advertisement brought this to mind. With the club's new wealthy backers it it really necessary to have a corporate sponsor contributing a (relatively) paltry £5m...

That seems to be the debate splitting fans on this forum. I'm no big Hughes fan. He's an ex-rag and I'm not impressed with his record in the short space of time since he took over. But lets face it, when players start to throw their weight around believing they have a right to be on the team...

Quinn's is truly excellent. It includes some tremendously funny anecdotes about going on the piss with Tony Adams and Paul Merson and about the comedy Swales-era antics at City. If you read Goater's book and believed everything he says you'd go away thinking he was the greatest striker ever to...