This week’s ‘Greatest Goal’ comes from Manchester City’s Georgian play-maker Georgi Kinkladze.The Georgian had been one of Alan Ball’s first signings when he replaced Brian Horton in the summer of 1995. He joined City a couple of weeks after Dennis Bergkamp, another foreign forward had signed for Premier League side Arsenal. Ball decided to build […]
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On This Day – 6th July
Sven-Goran Eriksson was announced as the new Manchester City manager on this day back in 2007.The Swede took the reins after Stuart Pearce had been fired at the end of the 2006/07 season after a little more than two years in charge. It was his first job in football management after leaving the England job […]
Iconic Moments in Football No.42
Denis Law and team mate Mike Summerbee, immediately after Law’s goal The week’s ‘Iconic Moment’ comes from the penultimate weekend of the 1973/74 season in a Manchester Derby at Old Trafford.Yes, I am of course referring to the game where Denis Law, the man that the United fans called ‘The King’, backheeled a goal to […]
On This Day – 7th May
Manchester City fans run on to the pitch after securing promotion at Blackburn Rovers, 7th May 2000 Manchester City fans have always had a turbulent time. Life is never easy being a City fan although it has been much easier since they’ve had a billionaire take over the club!Even then, City made life very difficult […]
On This Day – 5th May
5th May 1956 was the date that made Bert Trautmann’s name known across the footballing world.The former prisoner-of-war had joined Manchester City from non-league St Helen’s Town. His signing was initially an unpopular decision with the City fans, as they didn’t want a former German soldier playing for their club. 20,000 people even attended a […]
Greatest Own Goals of All-Time No.4
Jamie Pollock after his famous own-goal in 1998 If you start typing ‘Jamie Pollock’ into Google, the search engine predictive text facility’s first guess is that you are looking up ‘Jamie Pollock Own Goal’!This must be particularly frustrating for Pollock as he had made 367 appearances in the Football League over the course of his […]
Michael Robinson – An obituary
Michael Robinson with team-mate Bruce Grobbelaar after the 1984 European Cup win Former Liverpool, Brighton and Hove Albion and Osasuna Michael Robinson died today at the age of 61.Robinson probably became more famous after his playing career, having spent 30 years in a variety of roles on Spanish television. It was at Second Division Preston […]