View From A Blue

For most sides, the number one goalkeeper is an obvious choice. Teams are built around this individual, the safe pair of hands who can be called upon to rescue points and provide a calm head to an otherwise frenetic moment. But for Manchester City, it is in this crucial position where most talk and column [...]

First of all, many thanks to all of my readers who so kindly visited the blog despite no new articles being published for the past two weeks. I’ve now returned from a stunning trip to New York, Washington and Philadelphia and, hopefully just like the City team, am raring for the Premier League season to [...]

View From A Blue is off to New York for a couple of weeks to recharge batteries before the season starts. Therefore, there will be no more articles published for a short while, but thanks for all your support as I dipped my toes into the blogging waters.

Apologies to a well known mobile telephone and telecommunications  company for borrowing their catchphrase as a title for this blog, but it seemed apt to consider the future of Manchester City at a time when transfer gossip and endless speculation consumes every column inch. Clearly, Sheikh Mansour is content to keep on ploughing money into the [...]

Inspiring, motivational and stimulating: three words that cannot be used to describe Kolo Touré’s captaincy last season. Perhaps that opening is a tad harsh, as the former Arsenal defender did improve in his playing capacity as the season progressed, but I, just like the vast majority of Blues around the world, remain unconvinced that Touré should be the [...]