25/02/2008 - Eastlands - 8pm

In what seems like an eternity since the completion of the 'six easy points' at old trafford we finally get back to football and its a game im really looking forward too.

City will welcome back Elano, Corluka and hopefully Johnson to the squad, it will be interesting too see what changes Sven makes if any, especially given these quotes :

"To change a team that wins at Manchester United, I don't know. Maybe, maybe not.
"They are good decisions to have for everyone at the club, even the players as there should be competition.
"Many times in the year that has not been the case."

Benjani will certainly make his home debut, following on from scoring the winner against United on his first appearance for the club, and could well make himself an instant hero.

The blue scouse meanwhile will welcome back Yobo as they look to snatch back fourth place from their near rivals. City can go level on points with everton and stay in touch of a European spot with a win.

I expect an intense tactical battle in this one. I can't see there been many goals but im leaning towards a 1-0 city win.

.......and when we've won our derby day this is what we'll sing ...... Hark Now hear !!!

40 years since the last 'double' over united and they couldn't have picked a better day to repeat the feat. With the minutes silence impecabbly observed (though go see some of the self righteous whining on red issue) city put in a performance well above the standard of the last few weeks to firstly frustrate and then pick off united.

BBC match report

MCFC official site

Time to crack open another beer, and enjoy the day.

Viva la Sven

And on we go to face Sheff U.

Martin Petrov carries on his personal crusade to be personally involved via assists or goals in more attacking intent than a whole team showed last year.

In truth West Ham could have been 2/3 -o up before we decided to make a game of it in the last half hour. Petrov and Bianchi, who must have finally put down his marker for the centre forward spot along with a bubbly Micah Richards at the back finally started to hit the heights we know they can. Of course the goal was scored by the mercurial Elano who started way way to deep to effect the game.

And although West Ham may have cause to complain, they only have themselves to blame for poor finishing and its hard to feel sorry for any team that contains the likes of the ever horrible Boa Morte, Lucas Neill whose second bite at Castillo resulted in a dislocated shoulder and that absolute c**t Anton Ferdinand 'Elbow Elbow; he screams at the ref , replays prove otherwise. West Ham pride themselves on been an 'Academy' , probably of cheating nowadays.

3 points on Sunday would be nice to rub the drugs cheats little c**t of a brother's nose in it.

A quick chance for revenge following our recent 2-1 defeat at White Hart Lane, with Pascal Chimbonda's controversial goal proving the difference. City are looking for there 11th straight home win.

Spurs had a good win at Pompey on Saturday and will certainly be a different proposition from the confidence drained side of just a couple of weeks ago. Robbie Keane is still suspended whilst Darren Bent is also out injured. Michael Dawson is also out.

For City the Maestro Elano returns, whilst Sven clearly has access to texts from the bitter and blue think tank and brings Hart back in. Time to stick with young Hart in my opinion , Isakkson has had his chance and proved himself no better, the defence and Dunne in particular do not look happy at all with the swede.

Prediction : 3-1 , a tight first half opening up as both sets of players tire allowing Citys counter attacking to come into play.

A ninth straight home win for city in an entertaining game which saw the blues lose a lead and then come from behind to keep the fantastic home record intact and move back into 4th place.

City drew first blood through the impressive Rolando Bianchi, who gave the best performance from a centre forward for city season. A slip from Gardener let in Vassell who squared to the ever impressive Michael Johnson, who cleverly played in the Italian to finish from six yards.
City then backed off the pace and allowed Bolton to come into the game, and mistakes from both Dunne and Corluka resulted in well crafted and well finished goals from the ever despicable spit the dog and Kevin Nolan, who in my opinion was lucky to see the match out with at least three second half yellow card offences going unpunished.

2-1 down at half time with Bolton in the ascendancy and thoughts of Gareth Southgates damming verdict on svens half-time motivational speeches crept in.

Not to worry as it appears Sven did the 'fight them on the beaches' speech and we blew Bolton away with a second half performance that yielded 3 unanswered goals with and own goal (might be hammans?) Vassell and Kelvin Etuhu netting his first senior goal for the club. Add into that at least two late gilt edged chances as Bolton, to their credit, pushed right up.

Megson whined on the radio about mistakes and them matching us blow for blow, well his facts were sadly incorrect (see the sky report) whilst he managed to neglect to mention both their goals came from our mistakes. I really do hope Bolton go down.

Spurs in the cup on Tuesday and hopefully a tenth straight home win, Elano back fit with a bit of luck, the ink dried on the Nery Castillo loan deal and i think we can maybe say it's been a good week ??

No excuses, a call to arms for all blues get down and back the lads on tuesday night.

14/12/2007 - Eastlands - 3pm


In a reversal of the last couple of years it is City who sit in the top six and welcome a struggling Bolton side only just coming to terms with the loss of Fat Bastard Allardyce. Ginger Bulemic Gary Megson is carrying on the tradition of 'the beautiful game' at the reebok.

Bolton have held the upper hand for three years since an emphatic 6-2 win, bizarrely what sticks in my mind most about that win was Allardyces stinging criticism of his team for coming and 'playing football' , so glad we didn't get him.

Anyway onto tomorrow's game 2 of the players of the season so far return in Elano and Hamman, whilst Ireland misses out due to suspension. Bolton have no new injury worries.
With the League cup quarter final coming up quick on tuesday, im a little suprised that Elano is been risked against a team that has now added nasty tackles too its already impressive time wasting and persistent fouling routine's.

An early goal is the order of the day as Bolton will certainly come for the draw, I predict a 3-1 win with the players inspired and in some cases worried with the news that Castillo is too become the first of a few high profile January signings. Anelka with the late consolation !

3rd versus 6th in the premiership in a game that up until a couple of years ago could have quite easily been 3rd and 6 th bottom of the championship.

Both teams have wealthy backers of course these days and with that comes a demand for success which both are achieving at the moment. A win for city and a win for Blackburn could see us briefly go top ! whilst a win for Portsmouth could see them snatch the third place we currently hold.

On the injury front , Micah should return with Michael Johnson out for around 2/3 weeks.
Personally if Nedum Onohua is fit I would like to see him going into right back, Corluka into the middle and Micah pushed into the centre of midfield where he played most of his youth football. I just think his athleticism alongside Hamman's know how would give us a lot more presence in midfield, which is something we have lacked recently.

Prediction :

There has never been a goal less draw at Fratton Park between the two teams, and both sides have a 100% record when scoring first so it could be first goal wins !! Portsmouth have the superior firepower and are at home so ith should make for a good open game. Im going for a city defeat im afraid 2-1 to Harrys twitchers.

BBC Review

Manchester City 1 - 0 Birmingham City

Elano's first half strike was enough to make it six wins on the bounce at home for city, In truth our least fluent performance since Blackburn away, however, with a bit more ruthlessness both Samaras and Mpenza should have both bagged.

It was a resilient rather than sparkling perfomance from City, which is understandable given the amount of players on international duty. The character shown by the likes of Petrov and Elano to track back and tackle showed what a great team ethic and willingness to work for each other Sven has instilled in the squad.

BBC Report
MEN Report

The game did however end on a sour note. Earlier in the week reports had surfaced that surprisingly (given they normally bring about 600) had sold out their allocation due to a 25th Anniversary meeting of the Zulu Army. This was confirmed by a large police presence right from the start.
The flash point came as fans made there way out of the ground and it quickly escalated into an ugly brawl in the south stand which continued out of the ground.

Grow up you sad Brummie twats that scene died fifteen years ago. Hopefully their club will take direct action and we wont be seeing a lot of them for another 25 years.

Barton Article from MEN

"Were it not for myself, Micah Richards and Richard Dunne the club wouldn't have had Shinawatra, the Premier League and Sven.
"I think they could easily have gone down last season but for a couple of results."

Yep Joey if it hadn't been for a couple of results we would have gone down, those results if you remember correctly Joey were over Christmas, when you where suspended after one of your little petulant strops.

Now go practice trying to beat the first man on corners and stop making your self look a bigger twat than you are.

Forgot too mention this one in all that happened over the weekend.

Scheduled for w/c 29th October. It has also been confirmed that it is not a sky game.
Could be a good turnout of blues if Bolton price this right. Bolton will almost definitely play a full reserve team given their current league position and the fact that two of their three games beforehand are Chelsea and Arsenal I don't really see that improving.

I would like Sven to play enough of the big guns to see us safely through to the quarters.

For those that missed it, youtube link from a city fan to your on sky sports, responding with zest to Paul Merson's comments earlier in the week that he wouldn't have a season ticket given to Manchester City.

Why not Paul you could sell it for some more gear ?

Degenerate Crackhead

Newcastle become the latest club to feel the force of Sven Goran Eriksson's blue revoloution.

Despite taking a suprise lead through the impressive Obafemi Martins, Newcastle held the lead for just eight minutes. In reality they were lucky to get eight minutes as a city side clearly high on confidence and with lynchpins's Elano and Petrov, finally looking like they are approaching full fitness, pulling the strings that newcastle could clearly not live with.

Emile Mpenza was the first to trouble the geordies after Shaky Given fluffed a routine clearance.
Martins scored and to be fair the game was in the balance at this stage. Second half was a different matter all together with Elano pulling the strings in the middle and Petrov roasting the Newcastle right back when ever he wanted. Petrov Equalised with a tap in during the first half. Mpenza who had his best game of the season bagged the second straight after half time and Elano finally wound the game up with a goal that all i can say about is watch match of the day. In truth city should have sewn the game up much earlier with chance after chance from petrovs marauding runs down the left.

However that would be nit picking and city where simply too good for fat sams game but limited troops.

On the pitch Petrov and Elano are as close to genuine world class as we have seen in a long time, off the pitch Franks billions and Svens undoubted world class make these happy happy days to be a blue.

mcfc

bbc

Back to it in the league after an eventful international break, which included Micah Richards first international goal, Elano scoring and been sent off and Stephen Ireland deciding that honesty is never the best policy, for full details of that bizarre story click here.

Sven and Micah have also been named Manager and Player of the month for August.

Man City V Villa

Richard Dunne serves his 1 match suspension, which may even out if John Carew misses out after suffering a groin injury on international duty in mid-week. Geovanni is fit again and Villa add loan signing Curtis Davies to their squad. Im interested in seeing him play as from what I have seen he is a decent if error prone centre half and the 8-10 million valuation seems a tad high to me.

Should be an interesting game, Villa come in off the back of a great result against Chelsea, and despite our defeats the performances away at Arsenal and Blackburn were encouraging.

Prediction

City 2 - Villa 1

Unless we play Darius .................

A couple of items not covered this week include Micah Richards apparently on the verge of signing a new long term contract. He's a busy lad as he has also found time to start a column on the BBC website, perhaps underlining his growing reputation in the game.

In other news Valeri Bojinov has returned to the club after having surgery abroad. He has stated he aims to be back much sooner than the expected 5 months and is aiming for just after Christmas.

Two stories resurfaced firstly Sven spoke on Mark Bresciano, stating he remains a target. The sun then ran a story stating we were looking at taking Juan Riquemele on loan, not sure about that one as good a player as he is, a midfield creator is not our main priority and secondly could he even be signed on loan ?

Finally a belated happy birthday to Malcolm Allison who turned 80 this week, and looking book through youtube i came across this page , i urge all fellow blues to take a peek your bound to find one of your favourite games , and to the author keep up the good work.

Some days your the statue some days your pigeon.

In today's Manchester Derby, City were undoubtedly the pigeon ! Dominated for a good 80% of the match a deflected goal from Geovanni saw the blues extend their 100% winning start to season and also keep the clean sheet record intact.

I'm torn between two minds as to whether we were lucky, to just say 'lucky' would disrespect the efforts of the likes of Richards and Dunne, we will leave the disrespect to Surly Alex who plunged new depths with his pre-match 'mind games' including a few swipes at Sven, Claiming not to know the name of several players we have signed, accusing city of been cloggers (before sending his team out with an obvious 'hit list') and generally acting like the cunt we all know him to be.

They do seem to take their lead from the purple nosed whisky soaked liar though, note the distinct lack of class from Mr Ferdinand on more than occasion and yet another display of the hypocrisy from the reds support as they wave their Argentina Flags. I don't know if they think it makes them look like 'cool rebels' or 'ironic' but I have other words for it. They took defeat with the class you would expect though as the scenes near the stewards confirmed.

Two really tough games coming up with Arsenal and Blackburn away sandwiching the Bristol City Carling Cup tie.

So for today enjoy these two : oooooooohhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

And raise a glass for Frank and Sven.

Triple signing news !!!! (how long have i waited to say that)

In Chronological order :

Javi Garrido - 22 yr old left back from Real Sociedads

Verdan Corluka - Centre/Right Back from Dinamo Zagreb

Elano - Midfielder 8million from Skaktar Dontesk - hailed by Dunga 'the symbol of the new brazil'

Official Site keep pressing refresh Valeri Bojinov is bound to pop up in a minute or two.

Strange feeling of excitement a bit of giddyness , this is all very un-city like. Fortunately im on holiday next week and will come back to Warnock in charge or something like that and feel a bit more normal ??

Viva La Sven !

Update:

Valeri Bojinov talks about his move here ("I'm disappointed but life goes on") and here ("I'd like to thank Mr Eriksson for this transfer"), and the official City site rounds up what was surely the busiest day news wise we have had for sometime.

Profiles of the new arrivals are over at purelymancity.com

The 28yr old LEFT WINGER !!! has signed for City on a three year deal for 4.7 million.

City have beaten off stiff competion from amongst others Spurs to land the Bulgarian International.

Alistair Mackintosh put it down to the sven factor !

A youtube taster

With a couple of Italians, plus a striker possibly still to come in im buzzing like an ann summers party for the start of the new season.

Taken from an italian site - states that we have signed Emerse Fae from french club Nantes.

http://www.tuttomercatoweb.com/index.php?action=read&id=69013

Anbody who is fluent in italian is welcome to translate !! A fee of around 4 million Euro's ?

See if its confirmed in the next couple of days.

I have created a new blog today and will updating daily starting tomorrow.

You can find the new blog @ http://todaysmortgagenews.blogspot.com/

As you can see from the title it will deal with the whole mortgage process. Should anybody want to contribute, or anybody who links to this site who would like to exchnage links to the new site you can email on :

uk.mortgage.news@googlemail.com.

Thanks

Hans Backe is the latest City capture, the third in 24 hrs !

Backe will join as assistant manager, having previously been a manager himself in Denmark, Austria and Turkey.

Sven hailed his new number two as having great experience and knowledge of players.

Sven has moved quickly after the signing of Rolando Bianchi by adding 20 year old Switzerland U21 captain Gelson Fernandes.

The midfielder has joined from swiss club FC Sion, again the fee is undisclosed.

Despite been linked with over 50 players by the press, they appear to have missed both signings until confirmed by one of the clubs. Tossers.

Anybody got any footage or know about this guy ? Leave it in the comments section.

Sven starts his Manchester City spending spree with the signing of Rolando Bianchi , the fee has been left undisclosed but is believed to be about 8.8 million.

The striker who scored an impressive 18 times for Reggina in Serie A last season stated that it was the involvement of Sven and his exciting plans for Manchester City that swung him towards Eastlands.

Meanwhile city are understood to have joined the race for Porto skipper Lucho Gonzalez. Gonzalez is currently playing for Argentina in the Copa America will command a fee of no less than 13.5 million.

And too think not so long ago we couldn't raise the 300k to get Craig Hignett !!

You wait for one announcement and along come two.

The club have announced Sven as the new manager on their website, pre-empting the press conference by twenty minutes in the process.

Sven (from mcfc.co.uk)

Welcome to Frankie and Svennies !

UPDATE- Some audio of Sven's press conference can be found here and here, whilst the official club site presents us with Sven's 'top ten facts'.

About time.

An announcement through plus markets, making Franks offer unconditional has been posted at around 13.37 today.

It would appear that he has not yet hit the 75% mark but has waived that part of the deal.

Let the signings begin.

Plusmarkets

The club have also announced a 3pm press confrence to announce the new manager (Sven).

The good doctor has finally completed his due diligence and has made an offer of £81.6 million pounds for what appears to be 55% of mcfc and clears the debt. I say appears as the official announcement from the club is really too long and complicated for the likes of me !

Here are some of the key points :

The shares to be sold :

Walbrook Trustees (Guernsey) Limited 10,140,461 18.75
John Carruthers Wardle/ John Stephen Riches 5,431,681 10.04
Dawn Elizabeth Makin/ David Martin Makin 5,431,680 10.04
Francis H Lee 3,857,044 7.13
John Carruthers Wardle 3,275,233 6.06
David Martin Makin 2,061,406 3.81
Dennis Tueart 36,258 0.07
Bryan Bodek 10,000 0.02
Alistair Mackintosh 9,100 0.02

The walbrook trustees is The Boler estate (probably!)

Board Changes

· Dr. Thaksin Shinawatra will assume the position of Chairman of the Board of Manchester City and Manchester City Football Club;
· John Wardle will resign as non-executive Chairman of Manchester City and will be appointed non-executive Deputy Chairman of Manchester City;
· Alistair Mackintosh will remain as Chief Executive of Manchester City and a director of Manchester City Group;
· Bryan Bodek will remain on the boards of Manchester City and Manchester City Group as a non-executive director;
· Panthongtae and Pintongta Shinawatra, together with Sasin Monvoisin, will be appointed to the boards of both Manchester City and Manchester City Football Club as non-executive directors;
· Dennis Tueart has agreed to resign from the boards of both Manchester City and Manchester City Football Club;
· Mark Boler has agreed to resign from the Board of Manchester City; and
· David Makin has agreed to resign from the board of Manchester City Football Club.

So surprisingly Wardle stays as deputy whilst Mackintosh and Bodek also remain Makin, Tueart, Boler all go.

Obviously Dannys criticism and calls for the club to terminate talks with Mr Shinawatra stung him into action.

As a voice of the fans I can state as a fact that 71.24536% of City fans are behind this bid.

Well there's a surprise eh ?

Stevens also confirmed the pope is catholic and bears do indeed shit in the woods.

Nice to good old Willie McKay up to his eyes in it as well, particularly interesting that he registered a race horse in the name of a certain Harry Redknapp. Allthough the real Mr Redknapp never benefitted from it, he said so himself, and you know how the cockney press love the spiv.

Newcastle, Bolton and Chelsea seem to be heart of the enquiry along with Pini Zahavi and the much loved Willie McKay.

From what I have read so far at lot of clubs supporters (particularly) those named and shamed think there clubs will escape punishment. It will be interesting to see what happens and the thing to remember is that clubs that have allowed payments to be made to unlicensed agents have had an advantage over the more scrupulous clubs in the transfer market. Allowing the cheats to potentially prosper.

So expect the FA to do nothing, just ask Sheffield United.

* or have at least been named into an enquiry into corruption.

Well here we go ! God knows who will be managing, owning, or even playing for us !

Hmm , im a tad worried now !!

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Well you have to hand it too Fat Sam, his teams might not entertain but he certainly does ! In what can only be described as a joke interview , Allardyce has dragged his huge head into the row between City and Barton stating City are out of order.

Interview in Full

Just a few points Sam :

"They are out of order. This is a private matter, a confidential issue that should not have been made public,"

Your right Sam it is a private matter, so dont go shooting your mouth off to the Manchester Evening News.

"I'm flabbergasted and want the situation resolved"

Not as flabbergasted as I was that the so principled NUFC that sacked Kevin bond for been involved in the bung scandal then appointed who a TV show perpetrated to be the main protagonist.

"I am just trying as Newcastle manager to secure a player of this kind and quality and the deal has been held up"

Fair Point Sam, should have been your only statement on the issue.

"I cannot understand it because City didn't pay anything for this player as he came through the youth system and are selling him for over £5million"

What ? So City believe they are in the right (as does Barton) but they should give him the money because he came through the Youth Team ? Ok Sam.

"It's not really for me to comment. All I know is that this is a matter for Joey to sort out and I hope it is resolved as it has stopped him putting pen to paper."

Your fucking right you alleged bung taking Fat Twat 'ITS NOT FOR YOU TO COMMENT' first bit of sense you have made.

For it what its worth I think Barton will end up with the money, and whilst I was originally a bit disappointed that Barton was leaving, Though he had made his position at the club untenable, Im now glad to see the back of the Chav Scum.

The club and supporters have stood by him through THREE Assaults one on a minor, a couple of FA charges and asking for a transfer on deadline day. In Joeys world we 'owe him' the world 'owes him'

So well done to club for showing Joey Barton up for all that he is. When the PFA / FA or whoever finally make us pay up send the money in a big brown envelope to St James Park FAO Sam Allardyce asking when the hypocrite is going to take legal action against Panorama like he promised and ask him to pass it on too the other hypocrite.

So 7 weeks on from the initial announcement that the board were in 'preliminary discussions' regarding investment, and 5 weeks since they announced they were in 'advanced discussions' the plug may or may not have been pulled on Dr Shinawatra's potential buy out following the Thai authorities unsurprising move to 'Freeze' his assets held in Thailand.

The Nation - Thai governments 'propaganda' paper

The BBC

According to who you are speaking to this is a 'deal breaker' as he was using city to remove funds from Thailand - was expected and he has already got 1.5 billion out of the country - forces Wardles hand as the 60 day appeal period would take us into the new season.

Add in to the mix the Mysterons , sorry mystery Americans who are reputed to only be bidding for part of the club (Wardle and Makins Share) and the fact that no 'real' reasons were given for Ray Ransons bid getting short thrift and it all becomes clear.

Sorry no it doesn't ! I really don't have a clue whats going and neither do 99.99% of message board users / amateur journo's / bloggers. See the Koeman betting 'spree; from this week as conclusive proof.

What I do know is that Messers Warnock and Souness don't have clubs at the moment.......