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Manchester City’s Micah Richards Chooses Style And Substance Over Cash

MICHA Ricahrds earsn £27,000 a week at Fiorentina. He was earning £65,000 (Telegrpah) / £75,000 (Mail) / £80,000 (Guardian) a week at Manchester City. City offered him a five year deal. He turned it down, opting for a year-long loan deal to live and work in a beautiful part of Italy.

Whilst not exactly struggling to make ends meeet, Richards shows us that it’s not all about the money…

Posted: 8th, September 2014 | In: Manchester City, Sports | Comment (1)


Transfer Balls: Mehdi Benatia Agrees Manchester City Deal But Joins Manchester United For £6m Less Than Chelsea Bid

TRANSFER Balls: A look at reporting on Roma’s Mehdi Benatia and his move to Cheslea, Manchester United, Manchester City and, well, anyone…

 

Today, Sky Sports Jim White tweets:

 

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Posted: 16th, August 2014 | In: Chelsea, manchester united, Sports | Comments (3)


Liverpool Balls: The Manchester City Double Winner Who Also Got The Reds Tattoo

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ON the list of modern football stuff that annoys Anorak is ‘The Double’. The Double used to mean the FA Cup and League title.

But to this Manchester City fan it means something else.

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Posted: 12th, August 2014 | In: Liverpool, Manchester City, Sports | Comment


Manchester City Balls: Daily Mail Only Counts English Players As Worthy Premier League Winners

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WHEN Noel Gallagher confronted the allegation that Manchester City bought the Premier League, we enjoyed his unravelling of those Financial Fair Play rules:

“People have slagged us off with the money and all that. But some of the players who walked past here today are some of the best players in Europe.”

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Posted: 14th, May 2014 | In: Manchester City, Sports | Comment


Manchester City And Arsenal Balls: Richard Wright Is The Luckiest Man In Football

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Arsenal’s 3 goalkeepers Richard Wright, David Seaman and Stuart Taylor celebrate with the FA Barclaycard Premiership Trophy
Date: 11/05/2002

 

RICHARD Wright has won two more Premier League winners’ medals than Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard. Surely a future career as media pundit sat by illuminated coffee tables is on the horizon for an English champion.

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Posted: 12th, May 2014 | In: Arsenal, Manchester City, Sports | Comment


Manchester City Balls: How Yaya Toure Beat Luis Suarez In Two Weeks

HOW tabloid reporting work with the Daily Mirror’s John Cross:

April 18:

 

 

Later that day, The Daily Mirror wrote:

Manchester City’s Yaya Toure says being African denies him individual recognition he deserves

 

On May 5, Cross tweeted:

 

It’s all about consistency…

Posted: 8th, May 2014 | In: Manchester City, Sports | Comment


Manchester City Balls: Two City Ghosts Help Yaya Toure Score With The Wrong Foot

LAST night Yaya Toure scored a terrific goal to put the tin lid on Manchester City’s 4-0 win over Aston Villa. But how did the Daily Mail present the strike?

Like this:

 

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Note:

* The Villa player facing the wrong way

* Toure hitting the ball with his left foot

* The banana shot that bends to the right but ends up in the goal’s left-most corner

* The two other City players in close support

 

The picture is just like the actual goal, then. For all those football fans unable to see the goal on the telly or the web, the Mail’s illustration is an invaluable resource.

Or not:

 

 

And from another angle:

 

Posted: 8th, May 2014 | In: Manchester City, Sports | Comment


Manchester City Balls: Time To Sack Pelligrini

HOW tabloid journalism, works, with the Sun’s Neil Curtis:

The Sun, March 14, 2014:

“If City could axe Mancini, surely Manuel faces chop now.”

THE betrayal of Roberto Mancini might just be coming back to haunt Manchester City.

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Posted: 6th, May 2014 | In: Manchester City, Sports | Comment


Manchester City Balls: £200,000 A Week Yaya Toure Says He Is Undervalued Because He’s A Black African

YAYA Toure, Manchester City’s midfield force of nature, tells the BBC’s Football Focus on BBC World News, that he would be held in higher regard were he not African:

“To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don’t want to be hard and I don’t want to be negative, but I want to be honest.”

In 2013, Toure signed a £45m four-year deal at City. He earns well in excess of £200,000 a week. He said at the time:

“I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player.”

 

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Posted: 18th, April 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Manchester City Balls: In the Rush To Bury The Citizens An Error Occurs

THE Manchester Evening News was as one with the mainstream press in lamenting City’s 2-2 home draw with Sunderland last night.

But something got lost in the rush for hyperbole:

 

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Posted: 17th, April 2014 | In: Sports | Comment


BackPages: Manchester City Lose 2-2 And Sunderland Are Invisible

BACKPAGES: Manchester City draw 2-2 with Sunderland at the Etihad and the talk is of City’s crisis. What about’s Sunderland’s inability to hang on and win at the ground where not to long ago the talk was of a 100% home record?

Didn’t Sunderland blow it? Just seven minutes from time, the league’s bottom side were 2-1 up.

 

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Posted: 16th, April 2014 | In: Sports | Comment


Manchester City Balls: Daily Mail Creates The Weakest Back Page Story Ever

IN the race to produce a new story on every leading club every day of the week, the Daily Mail does not flinch. Today, the paper of record leads with news that Manuel Pellegrini has visited a cashpoint machine.

The Mail bought and published a picture of a grown man using his bank account.

This from the “Sports Newspaper of the Year’. And that’s this year.

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Posted: 15th, April 2014 | In: Sports | Comment


Manchester City Balls: Southampton’s Luke Shaw Plays ‘You Are The Ref’ On Instagram

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AT the Manchester City v Southampton match on Saturday, the officials made a howler. With the scores 1-1 and City struggling to click into gear, Samir Nasri scored after being set up by David Silva. But when Silva received the ball from Edin Dzeko he was yards offside.

Southampton’s teenage full-back Luke Shaw decided to play a game of You Are The Ref*. He posted a picture on Instagram showing a screen-shot of the decision with helpful line drawn to highlight the awful decision.

* NOTE:

You Are The Ref was the work of Spurs fan Paul Trevillion. Originally written for Spurs magazine The Lillywhite in 1957, the drawn feature invited readers to solve one referee puzzler.

* In 1957 we started and 2,500 weeks later, we’re still going. Now that ain’t too bad, is it? Not many West End shows go for 2,500 weeks. I started doing it for The People and it was called ‘Hey Ref’ and in them days I got Bill Nicholson to help me with the answers – he was a qualified referee you see and that’s why he would never let any of his players argue with the ref.”

Spotter: Pies

Posted: 7th, April 2014 | In: Sports | Comment


Liverpool Balls: Manchester City To Buy Luis Suarez, Who Hates Brendan Rodgers

ARE MANCHESTER CITY preparing a “huge investment” to buy Luis Suarez from Liverpool?

Txiki Begiristain, City’s director of football, says he knows the contents of Suarez’s Liverpool contract. He “believes” the contract Suarez signed in December 2013 contains a release clause making a transfer viable if the player wants to move.

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Posted: 6th, April 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comments (2)


Manchester City Balls: Moyes Falls For Tabloid Tactics As Pellegrini Makes His Points

THE Manuel Pellegrini story is getting to be a bit like George Bush’s plastic turkey. You know that story.? It’s the one about the then President George ‘Dubya’ Bush feeding the US troops a Thanksgiving dinner of plastic turkey. It was utter balls. But the media had a fact they would not let go of. So. Dubya’s plastic turkey became true. Though palpably false, the story lives on.

And so we get to the affable Manchester City manager, Pelligrini. In February 2013, he said:

 “If we only consider this season, there is just one club in Manchester and it’s ours.But you cannot forget what United has done in the previous years.”

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Posted: 25th, March 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment


Chelsea Balls: Jose Mourinho Fails To Add Up To Manchester City

THE wisdom of Chelsea’s chatty manager Jose Mourinho:

On February 10 2014, Mourinho snipes at Manchester City’s Manuel Pellegrini:

“Everybody knows what Manchester City are. Pellegrini was talking about the money we’ve spent. He’s a fantastic coach, and I respect that, and he’s a qualified engineer. I don’t think an engineer should need a calculator to see that we sold Juan Mata for £37 million and Kevin De Bruyne for £18m – so that’s £55m brought in. Then we bought Nemanja Matic for £21m and Mohamed Salah cost £11m. That’s £32m spent.”

On February 26 2014, Jose Mourinho snipes about Galatasaray manager Roberto Mancini:

“I’m not good at maths. And football is not maths. If football was maths, I’d be coaching in the Third Division. Because football is not maths, I coach Chelsea.”

Such is the consistency…

Posted: 7th, March 2014 | In: Sports | Comment


Manchester United Fans Not Buying Seats For Olympiacos Banned From Watching Manchester City Derby

MANCHESTER United have sent this letter to their fans. It states:

 

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Transcript:

Dear…

The deadline to buy your seat for Olympiacos FC is Wednesday 26th February 2014 at 8pm. Please note that not buying this ticket will result in your Season Ticket being suspended for the Manchester City game. We look forward to hearing from your shortly.

You’ve got to like the menace of that last line.

Modern football really is all about greed.

Posted: 27th, February 2014 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comments (3)


Manchester City Balls: One Minute After This Was Tweeted, Demichelis Was Sent Off

MANCHESTER City Balls: 51 minutes into City’s Champions’ League match against Barcelona, the team’s official twitter feed tweeted:

 

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On 52 minutes, Demichelis was sent off for a foul that also led to a penalty, which Messi scored.

Oh, dear.

 

Posted: 18th, February 2014 | In: Sports | Comment


1967: Manchester City’s Mike Summerbee Demonstrates His Car’s Built-In Record Player

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FLASHBACK: Manchester City’s Mike Summerbee demonstrating the built in record player in his new Swedish sports car on 17/03/1967.

 

Posted: 18th, February 2014 | In: Flashback, Photojournalism, Sports | Comment


How Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea Outsmarted The Sun’s Manchester City Fans

WHEN Chelsea beat Manchester City 1-0 at the Etihad, they were deserved winners. City’s 100% home record was gone. And a few experts in the media realised that football at the top level is often about tactics. It’s how the manager earns his corn. Chelsea’s manger Jose Mourinho got it right. But what about those nodding heads who earn their money giving players cores out of 10?

This is what the Sun’s crack team had to say before the game:

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Such are the facts.

Spotter.

Posted: 5th, February 2014 | In: Sports | Comment


Manchester City’s Pelligrini And Arsenal’s Wenger Are No Alexis Fergusoni

JOHN Dillon says Manchester City’s Manuel Pellegrini “realises being cool doesn’t count if you can’t add up”. Had City scored more they would have topped their Champions League group. This, it turns out, is a sign of foreign stupidity.

Here’s something that English coaches can do which apparently not all of their highly exalted foreign rivals can manage. They can count.

If Pellegrini’s oversight is a sign of foreign idiocy are Alan “exciting” Shearer’s bon mots symbols of English brain power?

Pelligrini might look like an accountant, but it turns out he’s not all that good with numbers.

Pellegrini, however, belied his suave, refined image and miscalculated… The fashion during the last decade or so has been for imported bosses. They are seen as more sophisticated, cooler, more advanced and more tactically inventive and flexible than their British counterparts.

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Posted: 12th, December 2013 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment


Football Photos: Mancheater City Fans Do The Gareth Bale Heart To The Spurs End

FOOTBALL fans can be funny bunch. Today, Manchester City fans enjoyed their team thrashing Spurs 6-0. They rubbed salt into the open sore by doing  Gareth Bale hearts to the Spurs fans.

City fans doing the Gareth Bale heart to the Spurs end

 

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Posted: 24th, November 2013 | In: Sports, Spurs | Comment


Manchester City: Alan Shearer Says Rusty Joe Hart Will Force His Way |nto Team By Not Playing For England

ALAN Shearer says Manchester City’s Joe Hart is on a “hiding to nothing” for being in the England goal as Roy’s wonders play Germany’s B-team. Why? Well, he tells Sun readers:

YOU have to question the wisdom of using Joe Hart against Germany tomorrow, because I reckon he will be on a hiding to nothing. The pressure on England to play well and get a result has increased massively after the loss to Chile.

And can you imagine the outcry if Joe was to make a costly mistake?

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Posted: 18th, November 2013 | In: Sports | Comment