Book In The Pipeline
Plans are in place for a book based on my articles from King Of The Kippax titled 'My City World', the book tentatively titled 'My City Years' will review my articles, comment, and update where appropriate. The plan is for completion by the end of 2018. Here is my article from 2014 to give you a flavour of what I'm about...
MY CITY WORLD
Thu
14th Aug 2014 – A few hundred fans marched on the headquarters of
the Premier League and Football League to highlight the cost of going to
matches.
Of
course nothing will change, as we are no longer fans, but customers…
UPDATE - £30 max for away fans has been introduced, but home fans at City can pay up to £56 for a similar seat as the away fans which doesn't seem right to me...
UPDATE (Mon 1st Jan 2024) - ticket prices continue to rise, now up to as much as £80 for a similar seat to the away fans on a one off basis.
Fri
15th Aug 2014 – Stop posting goals on Vine or the Premier League
will consider you very naughty indeed…
Sat
16th Aug 2014 - The league season gets underway and over in Trafford the
greatest manager the world has ever seen organizes the greatest group of players
we've ever seen at the world’s biggest club and somehow manages to lose at home
to Swansea, oh how i did laugh...
UPDATE - (30th Nov 2016) Over at the swamp little has changed, new manager, new expensive players, but still a bunch of mid-table scuffle merchants...
UPDATE - (Mon 1st Jan 2024) Old Nafford is falling down, they lost to the Trees of Nottingham two days ago, they've continued to out spend everyone, mind the gap.
Sun
17th Aug 2014 - Away we go, a comfortable win against Newcastle who we seem to
beat every time we play them, Silva got my vote for man of the match, but
Dzeko's inspired back heel deserves a mention, Sergio came off the bench and
showed us how good a finisher he is, all in all good start...
Mon
18th Aug 2014 - Half price tickets for the Arsenal game, nice one MCFC... Nasty
could be off to Arsenal if the story in the Metro has any truth in it...
Devante Cole is the latest City player to go out on loan, at this rate they'll
be no players left to play in the EDS games...
UPDATE - Devante Cole currently playing for Fleetwood, had a moan about young players not getting a chance at City, he's scoring at a prolific rate (currently 2 goals in 33 games)...
UPDATE - Devante Cole is now at Barnsley in League 1, he's had a ten year professional career so far, and has scored 87 goals in 342 games, a goal every four games is reasonable I suppose.
Wed
20th Aug 2014 - Negredo could be on his way back to Spain if reports in the
Evening News are to be believed...
UPDATE - He went to Spain because some naughty folk in Mancunia were trying to blackmail him, he is now back in England/Scotland plying his trade in the smog invested lands in the middle of the boro...
UPDATE - (1st Jan 2024) Currently playing in La Liga for Cadiz, so far acrross his careers he has played 739 games and scored 289 goals.
Thu
21st Aug 2014 - Dzeko signs a new four year deal... Malky Mackay has been up to
all sorts of shenanigans in the form of non-humorous text messages, suffice to
say, he is now in the Glenn Hoddle and Ron Atkinson box as far as I’m
concerned…
UPDATE - Dzeko is currently scoring goals for fun in Italy for Roma, took a lot of stick while at City...
Fri
22nd Aug 2014 - The Telegraph reports that Pellegrini saying that Ballotelli
will be a perfect match for the scousers. One nutter to replace another and it
looks like he won’t sign and in time to play against us... In the Express we
are told that Falcao would take a pay cut to join City, yeah cause we need a
couple more behind the bar in the South Stand... “He’s not murdered anyone;
he’s not a rapist or a paedophile. He’s made a big mistake”, Harry Redknapp on
Malky Mackay, yes Harry, but he’s still absolute knobhead… Former dirty Leeds
player Camel Gob says he wants to be England manager in the future; he’s just
got to get his badges first. I assume by ‘badges’, he means he’s going to
invest in a couple of black and white stripy mammals… Former City player
Georgios Samaras has signed for West Brom on a free transfer, and will now be
seen occasionally on Match of the Day loping down the wing only to fall over
the ball, or to shooting wildly over the bar…
UPDATE - Camel Gob can be seen regularly spouting bile in City's direction on BT Sport...
Sun
24th Aug 2014 - The Daily Mail reports that Di Maria has been offered to City
twice in the last year, he's now due to sign for the panic buying reds.
Meanwhile The Metro tells us that City will try and hijack the Di Maria deal...
UPDATE - I wish Di Maria had stayed longer at the swamp...
Mon
25th Aug 2014 - Looserpool at home and an early test for our championship
credentials, a funny game where we dictated the pace but let the scousers push
us back without them creating many clear-cut chances, then we got hold of the
ball and didn't let them have it finally cutting them to pieces for Jovetic to
grab a couple. All in all a comfortable win with the only downside being Dzeko
getting injured. Other things of note, new electronic adverts blinding and very
annoying, half time entertainment shocking, new big TV's excellent, Guinness in
Mary D's shocking, and someone has stolen half the roof... The panic buying
over at the swamp continues as they break the British transfer record, but in
no way are they ruining football... We all laughed at Balotelli hiding in his
coat after realising he should have stayed at City...
UPDATE - Balotelli is currently at Nice, after being a side show at Liverpool and Milan over the last couple of seasons... Fancy the rags breaking the Transfer record, they bring all their players through the youth system don't they... Jovetic at Inter Milan last season, after a move elsewhere at the moment...
Tue
26th Aug 2014 – Frank ‘will we ever see him in City shirt’ Lampard
has retired from international football, a relief for the might of Andorra and
Scotland, but for the rest of the World nothing to be bothered about… According
to Maunel we gained six points last night, the funny thing is the FA have only
added three to our total, bastards… Oh how we laughed at united’s opening two
games, but nothing could prepare us for the comedy gold that arrived in tonights
game at Stadium MK, and even Dzeko found hit hilarious with his tweet of
“hahahaha”…
Wed
27th Aug 2014 – Over in Italy Serie ‘B’ is set to kick off the
season this weekend with one of the teams listed as ‘Team X’. Bloody Simon
Cowell can’t keep his beak out of anything these days…
UPDATE - X factor, grr...
