View From A Blue

First of all, thanks for all the entries. I certainly had a great laugh reading through them and I’m sure you did too! Many thanks once again to Savile Rogue for their generous sponsorship of this competition and for providing their new cashmere King scarf in City colours as the winning prize. In third place was Carl Wood: “Carlos, please [...]

Savile Rogue, purveyors of the world’s finest football scarves, have just launched their new King scarf. And they’re marking the occasion by giving View From A Blue readers the chance to win one in City colours. If you’re not familiar with them, Savile Rogue scarves give a nod to football terraces of yesteryear, shunning in-your-face logos and [...]

On the 13th May 2012, Manchester City scored two very late goals to secure their first league title since 1968. But not everybody who took their seat inside the Etihad just over ninety minutes before bore witness to this now iconic five minutes of football. Because, stupidly, they had left the stadium. These were probably the [...]

We looked at the outs here, so let’s consider for a few minutes what has been added to the squad this summer. This might be a bit more straightforward and matter-of-fact than the “outs”, because (1) there are a couple of lads here who I genuinely know very little about, and (2) there’s not much [...]

So now the dust has settled a little bit and we have an international break to reflect on things, how was it for you? Did the earth move? Did your headboard withstand the melee? At around 10pm on 30 August with 24 hours to go, there wasn’t a right lot to show except a frothing, [...]