Mark Hughes
Mark Hughes is a former Manchester United, Barcelona and Chelsea player who managed Wales before coming to the Premier League to manage Blackburn Rovers.
Manchester City get the Tottenham and Newcastle treatment from the press
With Newcastle rumoured to be getting a new owner and Tottenham now winning their games, Manchester City are now in the spotlight and the media truly has their knives out.
Michael Johnson take up yoga to beat injuries
Serial sicknote Michael Johnson has turned to yoga in a bid to put his injury problems behind him. The Manchester City midfielder has never played more than ten consecutive games in one season for the club since making his debut two years ago. The 20-year-old has been plagued by a pelvic problem throughout his fledgling…
Can City’s players avoid the axe?
You can’t help but sympathise with (be jealous of) City fans at this point. Since last year, they’ve gone from despair (going nowhere fast) to joy (Shinawatra) to eventual despair (Shinawatra) and now, on the last day of the transfer window, sheer joy (Abu Dhabi United) again. It’s enough to drive you insane – and…
The phone conversation after City’s takeover
Mark. Garry. We sold the club. Finally that Thai cunt is gone. The only thing worse than a Thai cunt is an Arab cunt. Who’d you pawn us off to Garry? Mark, you’re on a conference call with Dr Suleiman Al Fahim, a representative of our new majority owners, Abu Dhabi United Group. He wants…
Safe or Not? The 08-09 Manager Sack Race
Last season the manager sack race got a bit ridiculous with many managers under severe pressure and some getting fired despite being backed in the transfer window and a few dismissed without being given a full season to show what they could do at the club. New owners and heightened expectations (both a product of…
Manchester City: Frantically weaving a larger basket case
Even Thaksin Shinawatra’s ego wouldn’t go so far as to proclaim himself the Messiah, yet for a brief period he was held in such regard at Eastlands. His takeover of the club last summer, coupled with a supposedly huge cash injection and the installation of Sven-Goran Eriksson as coach led many City fans to start…
Welsh look to wake up to their potential
England may be conspicuous by their absence in Euro 2008, Scotland and Northern Ireland may feel unlucky while Eire have retreated to lick their wounds but, out of all the home nations, the failure of Wales to travel to Austria and Switzerland hardly ranks on the shock scale. Indeed, bar a somewhat fortunate qualification to…
Shinawatra ends the chaos at Manchester City
After Manchester City’s catastrophic 8-1 reverse at Middlesbrough on the final day of the 2007-8 season, Sven Goran-Eriksson, and a substantial proportion of the club’s supporters, wanted a quick decision on the Swede’s future. Eriksson’s declaration that a decision should be made within hours of that match was the clearest indication that he wanted to…
Hughes swaps Blackburn for Manchester City, but can he swap Uefa Cup for the Champions League?
Manchester City have confirmed that Mark Hughes has signed a three year deal with the club and that the Eastlands outfit has also agreed to a compensation package with Blackburn Rovers. Thaksin Shinawatra on Hughes:
Transfer Rumors (03 June 08): Ronaldinho to Manchester City, Roque Santa Cruz to Manchester United, de la Red to Arsenal, and more
There’s still no news on what Cristiano Ronaldo plans to do, but that should be coming sometime today. So, thankfully for those who want a break from him, there’s no Ronaldo spec in today’s transfer roundup.
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