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Unless you have been sleeping under a bush for the past 24 hours, you are well aware that Manchester City have expanded their activities into the U.S. by acquiring a majority stake in New York City FC, the newest franchise in MLS. The team with t...

The rich tradition of slapstick last-day-of-the-season performances that the supporters of Manchester City have been brought up on over the years was held in high respect again on Sunday as Norwich City, a side that has won at City only twice in its ...

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With the 2012-13 Premier League season all but at an end, we at The Toe Poke thought it high time to shine a light on those players who have really impressed us this campaign. - Toe Poke's 10 most disappointing players 2012/13 It's perhaps wort...

As the rains came tumbling down Tuesday on this neat little patch of green in Berkshire, it was difficult not to think the Football Gods had sent at least some of the downpour to wash away the grief of another Manchester City managerial tragi-theatre...

It is not exactly anything new for football clubs -- any football club, and especially our own spotlessly shiny Manchester City -- to be accused of shabby manoeuvring and low-hand skullduggery with its managers, so FA Cup final weekend's inglorious t...

The near horizontal wind-driven rain stinging the faces of the faithful as we escaped as swiftly as was humanly possible from Wembley's suffocating embrace, acted as the final indignity to those who had arrived in good voice and light heart in this d...

It gives me some pleasure to announce that my 100th article of the season should be a preparation piece for the grand old Football Association Cup Final featuring Manchester City, and that it should refer us back to the 100th FA Cup Final, which Manc...

Beauty, it is said, is in the eye of the beholder, and there was something for every artistic bent during the 1-0 win at the Etihad on Tuesday. Like a ripe apple, this was a match that could be divided into three distinct parts: 20 minutes of slum...

Roberto Mancini rides uncomfortably on the horns of a dilemma that may well prick a decent-sized hole in his Giorgio Armani suit if he doesn't get his decisions just right for the suddenly vital match with West Brom on Tuesday. Without warning, fr...

With one side basking in that Wembley afterglow of success that sometimes strikes League Cup winners down with a rare sort of paralysis more often accredited to striped Australian bugs, and the other in a typically pre-Wembley Cup final tip-toe of se...

Those happy folk busy eulogising about the Neue Welle of German power football flattening all before it this spring, have helped put another power surge firmly in the dark; that of South Wales. With the arrival of Cardiff City in the top flight next ...

It wasn't clear whether it was the bright spring sunshine or the discomfort at watching his midfield constantly give the ball away, but Sam Allardyce spent much of Saturday's game slumped in his expensively molded touchline seat, grimacing and wincin...

When the ball hit the back of the net after 80 minutes of the Premier League match between Manchester City and Sunderland at Maine Road April 21, 2003, few of us applauding the piece of skill that delivered it there could have imagined that it would ...

It is said that divorce and moving to a new house are two of the most distressing processes for the human species to go through. They both cause a combination of the following feelings in many of us: Despair. Relief. Disorientation Frustration. Elati...

School's about to break up for the summer. To be frank, lessons have become a bit of a drag. You're not going to finish top of the class but you have secured your place in the high grade for next term. You will once again be spouting poetry and firin...