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Brilliance and balloon-bashing - all part of Manchester City's tragi-comic season
The Blue side of Manchester had their usual ups and downs in a campaign that promised so much. But will Sven-Goran Eriksson's successor fare any better?
by 101greatgoals.com on 15 May 2008
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Only Manchester City could finish their best season in many years in such disarray.
After such an excellent start to the season, City faded but the final day of the campaign was a nightmare of epic proportions. Stuffed 8-1 by a Middlesbrough side that had not scored more than three in a game all season, whilst great rivals Manchester United won the Premier League title; it was totally in keeping with City’s recent tragi-comic history.
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by Stewart 1.618034 on May 15, 2008
At last a decent well-balanced article from sportingo... This season really has gone from the sublime to the downright ridiculous! Only at Man City...
by roger . on May 15, 2008
Bianchi scored loads of goals last year playing off a big target man. Sven only ever played him as a lone striker and he didn't score too many goals in that role. Who's to blame for his lack of success, Bianchi or Sven? None of City's strikers have handled the lone-striker role. Sven didn't appear to have a plan B (no surprise there, then) so: as so often happens, once the opposition cotton on to the way the team plays they set themselves up to counter it. Very successfully in too many cases in the second half of the season. One up front away to Derby? or at home to Wigan, Fulham etc? There has to be a manager somewhere with some alternatives if plan-A doesn't work.
by archie on May 15, 2008
seems a good account of whats happened at eastlands this year
by Sir Ron Manager on May 15, 2008
"When it was announced a few weeks ago that Shinawatra would be looking to get rid of Eriksson in the summer". When did he say that then?
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