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Norfstander: Villa now just as big a threat as Spurs
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Villa now just as big a threat as Spurs. As we head into the season's final lap, wounded by a late Paul Scholes header, the mood around the club is still generally upbeat. We now must win eight or nine points from a possible twelve. How we do so isn't important, just so long as reading the final table from north to south informs you that we've somehow gazumped a Spurs side who in all honesty have been better than us since August. Despite every man and his dog predicting that Villa would inevitably fall a...
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Norfstander: Preview: West Ham v City
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Preview: West Ham v City. An afternoon which looked set to end in either wild celebrations or glorious failure will most probably now simply be more a case of going through the motions for both sides, despite the two still having something. Green, Faubert, Spector, Upson, da Costa, Parker, Noble, Kovac, Cole, Ilan, Diamanti. Fulop, Zabaleta, Bridge, Toure, Kompany, de Jong, Wright-Phillips, Vieira, Tevez, Santa Cruz, A.Johnson. Prediction: West Ham 1. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). King of the Kippax.
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Norfstander: Santa Cruz gets an hour as reserves see off Wigan
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Santa Cruz gets an hour as reserves see off Wigan. Roberto Mancini was briefly in attendance tonight as the second string beat near-neighbours Wigan by two goals in their penultimate league game of the season. A goal each from David Ball and Alex Nimely, both included in senior match squads in recent months, settled the game. City move above Liverpool into second. The deadlock was broken just after the quarter-hour. Tripper powered forward down the right and had looked to be taken out. The offici...City ...
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Norfstander: Three points at Arsenal?
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Three points at Arsenal? Three wins in one season over them who until very recently had excelled in being our biggest bogey side would be too much to ask for, right? Pulling one out of the bag on a weekend in which both us and our greatest rivals for that elusive fourth Champions League position are expected to be beaten, well we'd be dreaming, no? Other than the usual suspects - Michael Johnson, Joleon. Might be lucky to make the final eighteen. Has a wrist injury so Lukasz. I think we might see a tacti...
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Norfstander: Give Gunnar a go!
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Give Gunnar a go! The only thing of note at all during ninety horrible minutes in London on the weekend was the unfortunate injury to our first-choice 'keeper Shay Given. An innocuous save to his left from a tame Abou. Shot saw the Irishman stretchered off, and being without three possible replacements for one reason or another means lumps in throats ahead of the visits of rivals Aston Villa and Tottenham. Respectively. Good goalkeepers will always want to play, even if it involves dropping down a le...
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Norfstander: Pressure no more on us than it is Villa or Tottenham
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Pressure no more on us than it is Villa or Tottenham. Former City captain Richard Dunne's words implying that the heat is all on his beloved Blues and not his current employers Villa ahead of Saturday's game has already proved the main soundbite ahead of a weekend which will not only play a big part in the fortunes of both clubs but prove an afternoon of heroes and villains (no pun intended), scores to be settled, good versus, well, you get the picture. Season at least and publicly stated by both Khaldoon.
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Norfstander: Friday mp3: The Clean
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Friday mp3: The Clean. The Clean formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1978, one of a number of exciting Kiwi bands who made up the 'Dunedin Sound' around the turn of the eighties, including the previously covered Verlaines. Stephen Malkmus of Pavement cites them as a major influence and the two bands are to play together next month in London. A sound heavily influenced by both The Ramones and sixties English bands, the Flying Nun group remain a cult favourite. Their 2002 Anthology. Mp3: Anything Could Happen.
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Norfstander: Preview: City v United
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Preview: City v United. The most important Derby since Dennis Law used the back of his boot to send his beloved United down in '74, allegedly. For the first time in God knows how long we've actually got something to play for at the top of the table (or there abouts! Post-Easter. The day-trippers are preparing their butties, the Snot and Custard scarved. Ones are on their way to Manchester. A number of faces return for City ahead of the most important derby in donkey's years. Pablo Zabaleta. May well earn...
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Norfstander: Friday mp3: The Postal Service
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Friday mp3: The Postal Service. The Postal Service were/are Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie (bit shit), and Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel (whose third record Life Is Full of Possibilities. Is decent enough). The band came about after Gibbard guest-vocalled on that record, with well-received remixes encouraging the pair to make a full record together. Released in 2003, Give Up. 1 May 2010 at 09:53. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Friday mp3: The Postal Service. Preview: City v Villa. Give Gunnar a go!
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Norfstander: Is relieving Liverpool of Gerrard and Torres really the answer?
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Is relieving Liverpool of Gerrard and Torres really the answer? Less than two years into Sheikh. Reign as City owner we're already well used to every man and his dog being linked with a big-money move to Eastlands. Torres, as good a centre-forward as there is in the world when fit, probably didn't aspire to pulling on the sky blue shirt of Manchester's premier club as a nipper whilst volleying oranges round the backstreets of Fuenlabrada. The main factor to consider would be the transfer fee. Even af...
