'Flinterdun' as City lights go out
The Dutch have a number of marvellous words that sound like they should either be in a Cocteau Twins song or spoken by hobbits. Flinterdun, I would s…
Backwards, forwards or sideways?
Owen Coyle was famous at Bolton Wanderers for introducing something approaching subtlety after the Reign of 'Bash and Blunder' under Mr Samuel Allardy…
'Las grandes noches Europeas' for Man City
What a night we had in Madrid. With the Plaza Mayor doing a brisk trade in canas and eight euro-a-throw side plates of patatas bravas, not one of us h…
Gruel Before The Feast
If this was our bread and butter, somebody served it stale with only minimum lubrication at the Britannia this afternoon. Just as old dry bread was be…