A New Life, & New Habits.
Howard talks about the strange new world he now inhabits.Whilst many of us who write and talk about football desperately scrabble around for things to talk about, expressing shock and horror at Premier League plans or pretending to care about Harry Kane being linked...
Istanbul We Are Coming: Manchester City’s Stuttering Odyssey In Europe
Simon looks at City's European adventures. Or at times - the lack of them.“Would you like to visit Europe’s most beautiful city, Istanbul? Stay at the Hilton, which is one of the world’s most modern and luxurious hotels? Make a grand tour of all the most famous beauty...
Manchester City’s 1998-99 Season: A Forensic Retrospective.
Mark takes a forensic look at a history-defining season.So what was the 1998-99 third division season really like? Not Wembley, but the other 48 games? While a load of XG stats for that era would be hugely fascinating, there are no modern statistical tools available...
From The Archives: What It Means To Be A Football Fan
Howard argues that being a fan is about one thing, and one thing only - the journey.I don’t have a great memory. That’s why I don’t remember that much about childhood, apart from it being very pleasant and normal. I can’t recall every moment like some people can....
The Premier League is post-revolution royalty. They just don’t know it yet.
Ste considers a new dawn for top-flight football.Here is an admittedly odd and laboured take that will undoubtedly peter out very quickly in a paragraph or two but let’s put it up for scrutiny nonetheless. The Premier League deserves our sympathy right now. Granted,...
My Fictional Isolation Diary
Howard copes with isolation - badly.This is my obviously fake isolation diary. Names have been changed to protect the guilty. The audio version can be found here. Day 1: This seems easy enough. Watched The Crown, and wrote a blog about a virus I know nothing about....
Thirty Years Ago, English Football Changed Forever
Mark recalls an amazing afternoon of cup football.When did the good old days end for football and the slippery slope to the TV and money obsessed world we now inhabit gather unstoppable pace? The easy answer is of course the foundation of the Premier League in 1992,...
FOOTBALL MANAGER – THE END, AND A NEW BEGINNING.
Howard makes the most difficult of decisions.Manchester City have lost to Liverpool, obviously. Liverpool are now top of the Premier League, having won 12 games on the row. They’re doing so well, they can even afford to pay their staff. Raheem Sterling has broken his...
THE 93:20 MAILBOX – PRE- 2008 PLAYERS.
Blues pick a pre-2008 player to play in the current team.In the final mailbox of the week, the question was this: Which pre-2008 Manchester City would you have in the current team? Mark Meadowcroft Self-indulgently, I am choosing three but they are all from very...
THE 93:20 MAILBOX – WHY ARE YOU ARE A CITY FAN?
Tales of how we all became blues.The first of two mailboxes this week asks the following question: Why did you become a City fan? Mark Meadowcroft Those of us who were given teddy bears called Franny and Colin came to realise in later life that the good ships...
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