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	<title>Comments on: MAN CITY 0 &#8211; 0 Birmingham &#8211; MY THOUGHTS</title>
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		<title>By: Robbie Davids</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robbie Davids</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>piece on balotelli, in agreement?

http://postmatchpint.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/blatter-and-platinis-african-hypocrisy/

cheers, great mcfc blog keep it up!</description>
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<p><a href="http://postmatchpint.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/blatter-and-platinis-african-hypocrisy/">http://postmatchpint.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/blatter-and-platinis-african-hypocrisy/</a></p>
<p>cheers, great mcfc blog keep it up!</p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Engledow</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ryan Engledow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This blog is the best Manchester city blog in the world</description>
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		<title>By: Josh Davies</title>
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		<dc:creator>Josh Davies</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Steven, I must firstly say that I thoroughly enjoy your articles and that they are entertaining and of a great quality (unlike the recent city performances!)

I do not want Mancini sacked, I think it would be a foolish move for the club to make. However, we do need to improve.

&quot; Just because we spend vast amounts of money, so-called ‘supporters’ seems to think that we deserve success.&quot;

I really disagree with this, we dont deserve success, and i dont think anybody believes that, but expectations have changed due to the money. We are one of, if not the most, expensively assembled squads ever, and we should be playing decent football. We are not though. We are not comparable with Mourinhos Chelsea or George Graham&#039;s &quot;Boring Boring Arsenal&quot; because we arent even winning. In our last six games we have won just one. Four out of our last five league games we have not scored, and we have not scored in our last three home games! These statistics are bewildering considering we are in fourth place. But we have been lucky. We were lucky against Blackpool, and also against Newcastle who should of been awarded a penalty. Before that was the dismal performance against Juventus and previous to that was our fantastic win against Chelsea and our embarrassing cup loss to West Brom. Now, our win against chelsea was our last very good performance and that was in September and we are now half way through November. 

We are far too reliant on Tevez, and the manager concedes this so surely he should of done something about it in the summer. Its not like we were short of the transfer funds! Nevertheless our squad should be scoring a lot more than it is doing. Miraculously Milner has not broken his duck for us, which after watching him last season for villa is very suprising. Silva looks rather more like a creator than a finisher and none of Barry, YaYa nor De Jong look like they will offer goals. Mancini needs to get more out of these players. Particularly YaYa Toure, who has been a huge let down for me and many other fans.

We should be winning games against the likes of Birmingham at home, or at least scoring goals!

I think at the moment we are lacking ambition and imagination. 

We have not played well for a long time and our form is suffering. We attack slowly and in small numbers. Many times against Birmingham we had only Tevez, Johnson, Silva and Milner attacking while the other 6 ourfielders sat back and its just too cautious. 

Mancini needs to improve and he needs to get more out of the team. Fulham, Stoke, Bolton, West Ham, Everton, Newcastle, Aston Villa and Blackpool are our next 8 fixtures and it will be make or break time for Mancini. These are all teams that we are capable of beating. But we must start by scoring some goals...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Steven, I must firstly say that I thoroughly enjoy your articles and that they are entertaining and of a great quality (unlike the recent city performances!)</p>
<p>I do not want Mancini sacked, I think it would be a foolish move for the club to make. However, we do need to improve.</p>
<p>&#8221; Just because we spend vast amounts of money, so-called ‘supporters’ seems to think that we deserve success.&#8221;</p>
<p>I really disagree with this, we dont deserve success, and i dont think anybody believes that, but expectations have changed due to the money. We are one of, if not the most, expensively assembled squads ever, and we should be playing decent football. We are not though. We are not comparable with Mourinhos Chelsea or George Graham&#8217;s &#8220;Boring Boring Arsenal&#8221; because we arent even winning. In our last six games we have won just one. Four out of our last five league games we have not scored, and we have not scored in our last three home games! These statistics are bewildering considering we are in fourth place. But we have been lucky. We were lucky against Blackpool, and also against Newcastle who should of been awarded a penalty. Before that was the dismal performance against Juventus and previous to that was our fantastic win against Chelsea and our embarrassing cup loss to West Brom. Now, our win against chelsea was our last very good performance and that was in September and we are now half way through November. </p>
<p>We are far too reliant on Tevez, and the manager concedes this so surely he should of done something about it in the summer. Its not like we were short of the transfer funds! Nevertheless our squad should be scoring a lot more than it is doing. Miraculously Milner has not broken his duck for us, which after watching him last season for villa is very suprising. Silva looks rather more like a creator than a finisher and none of Barry, YaYa nor De Jong look like they will offer goals. Mancini needs to get more out of these players. Particularly YaYa Toure, who has been a huge let down for me and many other fans.</p>
<p>We should be winning games against the likes of Birmingham at home, or at least scoring goals!</p>
<p>I think at the moment we are lacking ambition and imagination. </p>
<p>We have not played well for a long time and our form is suffering. We attack slowly and in small numbers. Many times against Birmingham we had only Tevez, Johnson, Silva and Milner attacking while the other 6 ourfielders sat back and its just too cautious. </p>
<p>Mancini needs to improve and he needs to get more out of the team. Fulham, Stoke, Bolton, West Ham, Everton, Newcastle, Aston Villa and Blackpool are our next 8 fixtures and it will be make or break time for Mancini. These are all teams that we are capable of beating. But we must start by scoring some goals&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Cooke (The Grumpy Old Git)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard Cooke (The Grumpy Old Git)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My apologies, I was referring to the game and what followed from memory, and after all it was a long time ago!!
May I wish Man City every success for the rest of this season, I just wish we still had Joe Hart at St. Andrews!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My apologies, I was referring to the game and what followed from memory, and after all it was a long time ago!!<br />
May I wish Man City every success for the rest of this season, I just wish we still had Joe Hart at St. Andrews!!</p>
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		<title>By: longsightcity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Richard cooke..city were not relegated that season..in fact after that birmingham game we went on a fantastic run off the bottom of the league and finished mid table comfortably that season..reaching the league cup semis and the fa cup final as well that season..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Richard cooke..city were not relegated that season..in fact after that birmingham game we went on a fantastic run off the bottom of the league and finished mid table comfortably that season..reaching the league cup semis and the fa cup final as well that season..</p>
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