View From A Blue

Four more goals, another home win, three more points in the Champions League and all that was achieved despite a largely sluggish performance. Recent displays at the Etihad Stadium have been magical but this was never going to be on a similar level. Having made seven changes to the side which so absorbingly brushed off [...]

At times, we defy logic. How can a side perform so limply and with such little passion one week and then produce a performance like yesterday’s – a display that was simply enthralling and a privilege to watch. It’s baffling. However, let’s briefly banish our away day concerns and focus, for the moment, on this breathtaking victory. It was [...]

This was as much of a demolition as the scoreline suggests. City were vibrant, purposeful and attacked with patient excellence. Norwich, on the other hand, were about as abysmal as any vistitors to the Etihad have been, lacking any sort of organisation and solidity. It was a one-way procession of goals, chances and total control. [...]

Soporific but successful. It may have been one of the most dire and instantly forgettable games of football in a long time, but that’s all secondary to the result and while City’s progression to the quarter-finals of the Capital One Cup wasn’t exactly the most pulsating of encounters, the objective was achieved. This competition is [...]

Sickening. The defeat itself wasn’t a particularly tough one to take, but the manner of it, with such a basic, avoidable mistake, was crushing. It wasn’t what we deserved but once again, an individual error was punished and we came away with nothing from our travels. Nothing but immediate deflation and despondency, yet knowledge that [...]