View From A Blue

A disappointing end to a disappointing season. With no pressure on either side, the opportunity was there for this to be an enthralling encounter, released from the shackles of fighting for positions, sweeping forward time after time in a show of attacking intent. Instead, it was a pitiful defensive showing from City and Norwich’s effervescence secured [...]

This was everything Wembley wasn’t. There was intensity, pace, width, creativity and passion from City, and defensive ineptitude and a total lack of quality from the opposition. The contrast could not have been more marked. Just three days after thousands of Blues splashed a mini-fortune on watching the team perform so desperately against Wigan, here was [...]

It’s hard to know where to begin. How much praise should be directed towards Wigan for their enterprising, tactically-perfect and purposeful display and how much of the post-match emotion should be anger at City’s pathetically spineless performance? The winners deserve all the plaudits that are being sent in their direction but from a City perspective, [...]

Three points, a clean sheet and no injuries; this was just the type of encounter Roberto Mancini would have desired before the FA Cup final at the weekend. While that competition offers the Blues the last chance of claiming silverware this season, this was still an entertaining affair, far removed from the soporific nature that [...]

A hugely impressive first 45 minutes, some scintillating flashes of technically intricate football, a lackadaisical approach to the second half and a spell of opposition pressure towards the end. This was, in many ways, a re-run of last week’s disappointing defeat at the hands of Spurs but fortunately for the Blues, West Ham lacked the [...]