Did I say I was confused? Two fullbacks playing as central midfielders, goalie as sweeper, sweeper as pivotal defender, wingers playing as wingers. Looks like Pep has never heard of Brexit. In Europe the keeper acts as sweeper when they are down to ten men so with the full complement it should feel like we […]

2016 and all that. As a City fan I have more words for ‘confused’ than Eskimos have for ‘snow’. Bewildered, baffled, mystified, bemused, perplexed, confounded, befogged, disconcerted, nonplussed, thrown, flummoxed, discombobulated, fazed, stumped,  foxed (oh no, no foxes). There’s no way I can expect a particular team to turn out because I can’t keep track […]

Like many of the City team I’ve been on vacation, well in Madrid at least the fans turned up but officially unlike the team we were on our jollies not supposed to be working and thanks to City’s European exploits I’ve had some cracking trips abroad. I know the fans will feel like they work […]

There was I about to declare our power in dispensing with little teams like Bournemouth, PSG and Chelsea when Newcastle sticks out a foot and trips us up. Back to basics v Stoke with a 4-nil victory, as per usual we don’t know what to expect and results difficult to predict. Typical City really. It’s […]

Well indeed his nose was offside for their second goal and if Fernando hadn’t gone on his holidays just at the wrong moment we’d be returning with a victory but is everybody happy? You bet your life we are. Can’t wait for next Tuesday, just the little matter of the Baggies first. Our first game […]