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Bert Trautmann Dies

If you are going to be remembered for anything it might as well be something approaching super human. Bert Trautmann will be forever remembered for playing football while sustaining a broken neck!  Bert Trautmann day with destiny came about during the 1956 Cup Final between Manchester City and Birmingham City. Manchester City with the recalled Don Revie was […]

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Lets Buy A Football Club

With Roberto Mancini now history in a ”typical City” manner – with the press saying it was a done deal, the bookmakers not taking bets on Roberto Mancini getting the sack and with Manchester United parading through the street with the cup they have just won – it is worth taking stock of what it is like […]

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Fergie Must Go!

For the greater good of football Ferguson must retire. Yes he is brilliant and yes he is very successful, but it must be disheartening when two of the richest football teams in the World – Chelsea and Manchester City, chuck amazing amount of money at their clubs and they still cannot beat Manchester United! No […]

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