News around the creation of a European Super League (ESL) surfaced late on Sunday 18th April. Initial murmurings suggested that it would be a competition that ran alongside the domestic season, giving a more lucrative competition for Europe’s ‘elite’ clubs to play in and earn from. However, in a week that saw George Floyd’s murderer found guilty, the ESL went from creation to destruction in just over 48 hours.
UEFA Ban Threatens to Sheik up Man City’s Champions League Dream
Image Credit: UEFA.com Manchester City this week were banned from all UEFA competitions and fined £25million for a range of charges levelled at them by European football’s top governing body. Uefa found Manchester City to […]
Return of the Pep
Two sides playing back to back, like Spurs and Manchester City have, is the footballing equivalent saying goodbye to a friend, that you end up going the same way as; both have run out of […]
Don’t Mention the VAR
Image Credit [Sporting Life] Manchester City’s comeback against Swansea was mired in controversy – with VAR at the centre of it. Swansea’s best first-half performance of the season, and in several years, saw the Welsh […]
Manchester City clinch title with ease
It seems rather ironic that the most worthy of Premier League champions clinched their title in such an unexciting fashion, as strugglers West Brom managed a 1-0 win against Manchester City’s closest challengers Manchester United […]
Gunners lack firepower in League Cup Final
Both teams came into this game with not the best run of form. Manchester City’s dreams of becoming the first ever English team to win a quadruple were over having lost to Wigan in the […]
Chelsea and Man City in battle for WSL Title
THIS weekend sees the end of the FA Women’s Super League 2014/15, and for the third year running it has come down to the final set of fixtures to see who will be crowned champion. […]
English clubs fail to impress in latest Champions League action
On Tuesday night, Liverpool visited Spain to take on the might of Real Madrid. Despite Brendan Rodgers surprising and alarming fans in equal measure by naming what was definitely not his strongest side for this titanic […]
Sport | City take first step to quadruple with Capital One Cup win
Wembley was host to the Capital One Cup this weekend, seeing Manchester City aim to secure their first trophy under new manager Manuel Pellegrini. Despite what was a strong performance from Sunderland, City proved too much after […]
Sport | Comment – Sin bins to replace red cards in football?
This week saw the return of the Champions league with much anticipated games as Manchester City and Arsenal hosted Barcelona and Bayern Munich, arguably the two best teams in the world. Both games were set to be […]
Sport | Champions League – City and Arsenal see red
England’s teams made a disastrous start to the knockout phase of the Champions League as the first round of last 16 games were contested this week. Both Manchester City and Arsenal face mountains to climb […]
Sport | FA Cup – City take wind out of Mourinho's sails
The fifth round of the FA Cup came around again this weekend and the interesting matchups once again failed to disappoint, bringing some intriguing quarter final prospects. The standout match of the round on Saturday came with […]