View From A Blue

‘Good against the better sides, poor against the weaker ones’ was a phrase often uttered last season, as City delivered their best performances when faced with a higher quality of opposition. We came unstuck against teams such as Fulham, Burnley and Hull, sides which, with all due respect, we should be defeating comfortably. This season, [...]

Thursday 16th September 2010. Remember the day. In the midst of a vastly comfortable victory over a disappointing Austrian side, there was one moment that really stood out. Midway through the second half, our captain Carlos Tévez had a shot, well saved by the goalkeeper. The ball bounced out to our otherwise barren Brazilian, Jo, and he answered the [...]

Unfortunately, or, as it turned out in the end, fortunately, I wasn’t able to see the game today, but have already caught highlights of Carlos’s horrific howler. It would be wrong for me to construct a proper, full length review and assess the players’ performances without having witnessed the complete match, so I will leave [...]

Well, that stunning victory should silence the critics for a short while at least! After the endless vitriol and negative press spurted in our direction in recent weeks, City produced a battling, exciting and, most importantly, team performance to defeat Liverpool, courtesy of a goal from the superb Gareth Barry and a brace from captain [...]

Solid and professional. Three words that succinctly, yet accurately, reflect the match last night. But why use three words when 300 will suffice! Anyway, those three words don’t quite sum up the entertaining first impression we received of ‘Super’ Mario Balotelli. Looking at the game, it was, truth be told, a fairly drab affair. Our Romanian hosts started [...]