View From A Blue

Rather than another 2,000 words questioning the direction of this season and how a largely flat performance led to frustration once again, here is a list of fifteen questions that are on the lips of all supporters. The answers are not entirely clear. City were joint top of the table in January. Why has the [...]

It’s hard to know where to start with a review of this game. In many ways, it was a performance that characterised City’s season, but do you focus on just this match, how City fared in the Champions League as a competition or do you look more broadly at the issues surrounding the club? There [...]

It’s quite hard to know where to start. With the season slipping quickly away amidst a sea of lifeless and, frankly, boring performances, this was an excellent chance to record a win and build some notion of momentum ahead of Wednesday’s encounter with Barcelona. Burnley might have received their fair share of plaudits this campaign [...]

Having self-belief in your approach is commendable. Being blind to your faults is not. So here we are again: another big game, another crushing defeat, another painful deconstruction of how Manuel Pellegrini got it so horribly wrong. Fresh off the back of sustained and fully justified criticism after his mistakes at home to Barcelona, Pellegrini [...]

When will he learn? The most frustrating thing about last night was not losing at home, nor was it Luis Suarez scoring twice on his return to England, nor was it Manuel Pellegrini selecting an ill-advised formation, nor was it his steadfast refusal after the game to acknowledge his mistakes. No. The most frustrating thing [...]