View From A Blue

Another visit to Wembley is in store! This was a comfortable progression, complete with signs of fluency in the first half and a relaxed enjoyment in the second. Barnsley were feeble, desperately limited opponents but the FA Cup has been a pleasant distraction from City’s relatively frustrating campaign domestically. The signs recently have been of [...]

The title race may be over but the fighting spirit still burns brightly. This was a performance of an impressive nature from City, the desire and togetherness that characterised last season interspersed with moments of genuine quality. It was a display that has been seen all too infrequently during this campaign but it highlighted what [...]

Fully of intensity, purpose and a collective desire, this was the perfect response to last weekend’s humiliating capitulation. Whilst that was embarrassing, this was entertaining: a return to the fluid football of last season that we’ve rarely seen during this campaign. Clinical in front of goal against a desperately poor visiting Leeds team, a place [...]

An embarrassing, spineless and inept performance. The title race is over: our hopes of following up last season’s joyous success have been ended, not by yesterday’s alarmingly abject display, but by a season of underwhelming showings. This humiliation, a woeful all-round team performance that suggested the players had already given up, may be the nadir [...]

A pulsating encounter, four excellent goals and a bizarre post-match mix of emotions. On the basis of City’s laboured performance in contrast to Liverpool’s vibrancy, this was a point gained but in the wider context of the race for the Premier League, there was huge disappointment and frustration. It may not quite be time to [...]