Silva Antics, Mancini Tactics and Platty Schematics all needed Monday

Monday night will see Mancini's men travel to the DW Stadium for their Premiership match against Wigan. The first time these two sides met in a League match was only back in 1998 when City had fallen to their lowest position of their history. Both teams have made great strides since that time and, although the gap is vast with City currently top of the table and Wigan second from bottom, both teams have struggled in recent weeks. 

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Black Cats to cross Mancinis path. Lucky or not?

After a great start to the season and an all round phenomenal 2011 City now have to start 2012 with the same determination and intensity and that will be no easy task away to a revitalised Sunderland. Since the arrival of Irishman Martin O'Neill the Black Cats have won twice, drawn once and their only loss was away to a high flying Spurs side. 

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Why Manchester City need Stoke to stay in top flight

After gunning down the Gunners on Sunday City will now look to smash up the potters as Stoke are welcomed to the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday.

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Can City disarm Gunners title charge

If you'd have asked a City fan at the beginning of the season that they wouldn't get their first league defeat until December I think that few wouldn't have ripped your arm off at that point for that kind of deal. Now the important thing for City when Arsenal come to Manchester on Sunday is that it is important to get back to winning ways. 

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Mancini is Boas Constrictor

Monday Roberto Mancini and Manchester City travel back to London to play the other multi millionaires Chelsea FC. Formed in 1905, a good twenty five years after the blues, the first League meeting between these two was almost exactly one hundred and four years ago to the day. 

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50 years ago, Dowd stepped forth

On this day in 1961 Manchester City were beaten 4-1 by Blackburn Rovers in their Division One game in the penultimate season of Les McDowalls reign as City boss.

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City fan keeping the faith

'We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight on the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender'.

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The Brazlian legend

February 1954, in the Capital and largest City of the state of Para, Brazil, the world welcomed a footballing legend. On December 4^th 2011, in Brazil’s largest City, Sao Paulo we said goodbye.

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Balotelli shoulders no blame, it was a tale of two Cities

Manchester City continued their march in the Premier League with a 5-1 decimation of the lads from Norfolk.

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Handshakes, money and the UEFA way

When you use a search engine on the world wide web and type in 'soccer hooligans' unsurprisingly the sites that instantly pop up are the ones dealing with the British aspect, referring to hooliganism as 'The English Disease'. But is it solely an English problem? Events in Napoli last night and on other European nights would beg to differ. 

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When blue moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's amore

When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool, That's Man City!

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Beckham, Donovan and Keane - Galaxy Stars win MLS Cup

The Major League Soccer season came to a close on Sunday night in the showpiece of the season, the MLS Final between the LA Galaxy and the Houston Dynamo. With talk before the kickoff of this potentially being David Beckhams last game in the MLS and the high profile stars in the Galaxy side of Donovan and Keane it was easy to forget that there was another team playing.

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There are no more undefeated's'. There's only City!

Manchester City returned to Premiership action Saturday after having the last couple of weeks off thanks to the International breaks.

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The Scottish Premier League - What's that all about then?

It is widely expressed by professional players, managers as well as the man on the street that the English Premier League is by far the most exciting League in the world, where on their day any team can beat any other team. North of the border though and you will be introduced to the complete opposite.

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Barcode battlers

Manchester City return to Premiership action on Saturday with the visit of the Premierships other undefeated team, Newcastle United.

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