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Tribes

Wednesday 30th June 2010

So, a great result for England on Sunday, no? Another fine victory over our greatest historic tribal foe. Makes one proud to be English, doesn’t it. Sarcasm? Me? Oh no, sorry, you misunderstand. Were you still thinking about the football, and Germany? Oh well, I’ve already moved on; to cricket, and yet another one-day international [...]

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It’s A Wonderfuel Life

Tuesday 22nd December 2009

I can’t say I’m happy about the changes over at Eastlands. I actually went to the City-Sunderland game – my first live match for some years – but all through Saturday evening I kept mulling over what I feel has been a disastrous and self-defeating decision. It’s truly shocking. Just when did they change the [...]

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Bin And Gone

Thursday 18th September 2008

Well you’re due a short post after my recent extended blatherings, so here it is. And I guess I can’t really complain, viewing pay-TV for free via the internet, piggy-backing parasitically on someone else’s football feed. But still and all, it’s a bit annoying while watching a match to find a bit of editorialising suddenly [...]

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Too Many Cooks

Friday 5th September 2008

Steve recently drew my attention to this Guardian interview with Garry Cook, the man headhunted from Nike to become Manchester City’s new “Executive Chairman”, whatever that means, and after a bit of delay and deliberation I finally stole myself to read it. And I wasn’t disappointed. In a bad way. Cutting to the chase, then, [...]

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A Question Mark

Wednesday 11th June 2008

I received a flurry of email newsflashes last week from Manchester City Football Club. First the shock news on Monday that Sven-Goran Eriksson and the club had “parted company by mutual consent,” then the follow-up formality on Tuesday that Hans Backe and Tord Grip had also left the club. The surprises continued on Wednesday when [...]

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