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Post image for The world’s fastest Man City report and Leeds United preview

You know how it goes by now: I apologise for being too busy to update the blog (who’d have thought flying and working would make you tired!), explain that things will soon be back to normal (Monday, people, Monday) and then rush off into the wilderness (in this case, Oscar Wilde’s for today’s FA Cup [...]

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Post image for Arsenal v Manchester City: Open Thread

I have arrived back in Berlin after a two-week break in Sweden and that means the usual blogging service will resume shortly. No time for a preview of the Manchester City clash tonight though, unfortunately, so I’ve opened up an open thread for any thoughts of comments on the game. Play nice. Well, at least [...]

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Post image for Nasri’s improvement, Fabianski’s redemption

It might be Tuesday, two days after the great win over Manchester City, but if you’re feeling anything like me then you will still be grinning like an idiot. The post-match comments have focused mostly on the players widely considered to have been out most impressive performers at City, goal-scoring extraordinaire Samir Nasri and goal-saving [...]

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Post image for Manchester City 0-3 Arsenal: Player Ratings

Adetuwo ‘Yemi Jr. is back again to rate the Arsenal performances at City… Fabianski: Had an amazing game. It so surprising what a good run of games can do to one’s confidence. Made saves you would normally not expect any keeper to make. His handling was assured, decision making superb and reflexes top notch. 8.5 [...]

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Post image for Manchester City 0-3 Arsenal: Shaky first half, superb second

Arsenal produced a professional second-half display to dispatch ten-man Manchester City 3-0 and move up to second place in the Premier League table. So often in the past the big moments have gone against us in the big games but after Mark Clattenburg showed tremendous bravery to send off Dedryck Boyata after four minutes for [...]

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Post image for Fancying Arsenal to nick it against City

Since the respective financial rise and fall of Manchester City and Liverpool, the fixture involving Arsenal and the blue half of Manchester has effectively replaced that of the red half of Liverpool. Much as we despise the manner in which their rise has come about the fact is that City are now title contenders and [...]

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Two big pieces of news to discuss today. The first is that we will be joined in the Champions League next season by Tottenham. Earlier today I posted an article with five reasons why I am happy it is Spurs, not Manchester City, in Europe next season. However, the result does have an immediate negative [...]

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