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The City stands at the doorThe change cycle can be a reality this season. After the 1-6 and their 5-point lead, the City is seriously threatening the champion
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Josep Coves | 25.10.2011 | 4:05 pm The last time the ManCity had won at Old Trafford before Sunday was incredible 1-6 in February 2008. Vassell and Benjani then unleashed euphoria of the fans' citizen ¿, but the smile with which his fans left that afternoon the Theatre of Dreams will be wiped out by the roots a few months later, when United will face rubbed by titles Premier and Champions obtained that season.
Living in the shadow of the red giant has been the fate of the followers of the City. Only the most veterans remember when the club was hobnobbing with the best in the country, as far as in 1968 and entered the club's trophy cabinets that certifies them as league champions.
Riding the sixties and seventies of last century, the City experienced the best season in its history, before the arrival of the royal family of Abu Dhabi. Led the team Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison and players such as Colin Bell and Francis Lee were responsible for an idea to burnish football that kept them above their rivals citizens.
But besides that Alex Ferguson was forging the recent history of United, with 12 titles in the Premier and two Champions League since his arrival at Old Trafford bench in November 1986, the City became self-conscious in the shadow of his rich neighbors. Imagine that one day I would reverse the trend again was something that did not fall or in their wildest dreams.
But since the petrodollars flow like streams in the coffers of the City, the dreams are no longer taboo for the long-suffering fans' citizen ¿. The illusion of the first signings such as Robinho, one upstart whim but a necessity of the team, then followed with more tact other additions to the staff of the City turn into something more than a collection of cards.
Mancini, road serving two years at the Eastlands bench, has managed to mold a template to make a Silva eleven which handles the ball like few, Touré Yaya asserts its hierarchy and Aguero and Balotelli have not forgotten their instincts murderer .
But they are the only players to hold up the team. With them there is a court of good players, without much name, like Milner, Richards or Dzeko, without which the City would not be where it is. Over United and leader.
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