The Final Say

The last word on all the action and happenings over the last seven days.

Blue Review – Salzburg, Bolton and Carlos

It’s Sunday, it’s freezing outside and it’s time to look back at the last seven days as a blue. Euro Qualification City cruised past Salzburg on Wednesday and in doing so booked their place in the knock-out stages of the Europa League.  But we could do with winning the group if we want to make [...]

And We’re Off – Sort Of

Well finally, after a long summer of speculation and accusation, City got their Premiership season under way but not without making an additional signing and, as usual, not without a bit of controversy. Bellers On His Way? After the blues were drawn against Romanian opposition in the Europa League, Roberto Mancini drew up his 25 [...]

Week in Review: Johnson Misses Out But Defensive Boat Comes In

Considering all the names we have been linked with since the end of the football season and earlier, I expected to come back from holiday to see a glut full of new names to the squad as well as four England players travelling to South Africa. Three was okay but you have to feel a [...]

Review of the Week

Last week couldn’t have got off to a worse start. Shay Given ruled out for the remainder of the season, understudy Stuart Taylor also out injured and Joe Hart on a season long loan with Birmingham. So we found ourselves with an inexperienced goalkeeper going into three final critical games of a long, hard season, [...]

Review Of the Week: Could It Have Gone Much Worse?

After the euphoria of last Sunday’s action, the blues were brought back down to earth as the week ended in the worst possible fashion. Thanks For Nothing Arsenal After thumping Birmingham 5-1 at Eastlands, City fans were eagerly looking forward to a week that could have seen us take a step closer to fourth place. [...]