Tag: Manchester City
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Milner one of a nearly extinct breed
James Milner brought the curtain down on a highly commendable career in professional football today. One of almost two and a half decades. Modern football speak might term the 40-year-old a journeyman pro, but to box him off in that category would do him a great disservice. Therein belong media-driven spoofers like Gary Neville and…
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Help! I agree with Gary Neville
Do not adjust your sets. This is not a drill. But nor does it change the fact that he was one of the biggest imposters to ever milk a living out of Old Trafford. Just as he is currently doing with Sky Sports. In a playing sense, such were his underwhelming contributions, that my late…
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The oddities of football management in England
A New Year’s Day family gathering – at which there are three televisions on duty – spanning World Championship Darts, a Premier League match and one in the English Championship – is not where you’d expect one of the greatest legends ever to grace the GAA to enter your mind. Now read on… But here…
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Eze to forget about loyalty or is it common sense?
No matter how many straws one attempts to clutch at, sometimes you’ll never find the one you’re looking for. Or the one you’re hoping might be there somewhere, buried in a stockpile. Go back to a piece on these pages within the last week, and you will find reference to the fact that Dermot McCabe…
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Keeley keeps up Cup heroics
That momentum is often the biggest game changer in sport is surely indisputable at this stage. Just ask Josh Keeley. What doesn’t seem like all that long ago, the Dunboyne lad was on the bench with Leyton Orient and had, as a result of same, lost his berth between the posts with Jim Crawford’s Republic…
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Tuchel takes the poisoned chalice as United are cut further adrift
A Manchester City fan account on X posted a skit video on Tuesday night purporting to show Pep Guardiola celebrating Thomas Tuchel taking the England job. The inference being that the ex Chelsea boss now won’t be able to take the Manchester United job. Accompanied by a photo of Gareth Southgate, giving the current champions…
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Some class, some crass and some undone by the final pass
SIDELINE CUTS -35 Rep. Of Ireland…0 England…2 It had to happen, didn’t it? Not so much that England won, that much was a given before a ball was kicked. But, in another way, so too were the chances of Declan Rice and/or Jack Grealish – two Irishmen who jumped ship on a glory hunt which…
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Misfiring meddlers still the gift that keep on giving
Yours truly is old enough to remember a day when Bernard Flynn had the ball 90% over the bar in a Leinster SFC encounter with Wicklow when the referee decided to blow for full time and thus the ‘score’ was declared null and void. Luckily for Meath (and the referee) our lads negotiated the replay…
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Shadow boxing standoff at The Emirates
Holders Manchester City will begin the defence of their FA Cup crown at home to Huddersfield Town while the red half of the city will tangle with Wigan Athletic. There can be absolutely no doubt about the tie of the round however, with table toppers Arsenal taking on those in closest pursuance of their lead…
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Dyche’s men plunged into a ditch
Everton’s season – and potentially their Premier League future – has been tossed into turmoil by the revelation that the Toffees have been deducted 10 league points. The stunning development comes on foot an investigation having found the Goodison Park Club to be in breach of financial regulations. What’s bound to anger blues boss Sean…