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Support Our Soldiers
Posted 17th, Nov 2007
My cousin is in the Marines, and each week some member of the family sends him over a food parcel, containing food, things to do, toothbrushes etc. However there are a lot of soldiers out there that receive nothing at all, and their morale does suffer. Luke appeared in our local paper this week, The Middleton Guardian, with his address etc. So if you CAN spare anything for some of the lads out there please do send something over, Luke has assured us anything he recieves from anyone will be handed our amongst them all, so as I say, if you can spare anthing at all do send it over and help them out a little.
As long as the parcel weighs less than 2KG then postage is free, so whatever you CAN send, please do.
Marine Luke Grant Morton PO64832Y,
C. Coy, 8 Troop,
OP.Herrick 7,
BFPO 792
Competition Time
Posted 16th Nov, 2007 - Discuss
Alright lads and lasses of BlueArmy (and lurkers) now is the time for you to win your very own 'Svens Revolution' DVD, released on the 19th November by Fremantle Media on behalf of Manchester City.
BlueArmy are lucky enough to have teamed up with Fremantle Media too offer you a chance to win your very own 'Svens Revolution' DVD. For more information on how to win please visit the forum, register and get cracking.
Good luck too all those that enter, and there will be more competitions to come...so watch this space!
Portsmouth 0-0 City
Posted 12th Nov, 2007 - Discuss
A fantastic defensive display saw our City take a point away from Fratton Park on Sunday evening. Portsmouth, a team who devoured Newcastle United a week earlier 4-1, couldn't get past our defensive wall at all. City had their chances too, with Vassell, Elano & Petrov all having good chances to steal the game. After the vastly dissapointing 6-0 drubbing from Chelsea at Stamford bridge, it was important for City to bounce back well, and with 3 clean sheets on the bounce I think we can safely say City have done that. We're now in the middle of November and we're still 3rd, stay in this position for January and this will be a very interesting season indeed!
City 1-0 Sunderland
Posted 6th Nov, 2007 - Discuss
City took all 3 points last night in a drab game at the City of Manchester Stadium. In all honesty it was a game no team should have won, and the referee should, by all accounts, ended the game in the 60th minute or so...just to save our souls a little.
However the little Irishman with the little Irish hairpiece popped up and grabbed the winner in the 67th minute, with a sublime finish, after good work from Vassell on the left.
I think a big all round *sigh* is appropriate here.
Sven hints at Anelka move
Posted 3rd Nov, 2007 - Discuss
Anelka left City just under three years ago but it now looks as though a return to the club could be on the cards in the New Year.
"Anelka is very good," Eriksson told the Sunday Mirror.
"His pace and ability are fantastic. He is a player who I almost bought for Lazio.
"When he left Arsenal, I was sitting in the home of David Dein with Arsene Wenger for a full day hoping to do a deal.
"I was also with Lazio's directors, but in the end it didn't happen because Real Madrid came in."
Sven: I only want quality in January
Posted Nov 1st, 2007 - Discuss
Sven Goran Eriksson stated today that he only wants to being in quality players in January, which is good news for all us blues!
“If we are going to do something in January, we are not going to buy eight or nine new players, maybe one or two. If we are going to buy anyone they must be really, really top quality." - Sven stated today.
After the 6-0 drubbing from Chelsea last weekend and the drab game last night against Bolton, this news will be certain to cheer a few blues up. Afonso Alves has been lined up for City according to Skysports.com, which coincides with Svens interview today. Let the Blue times role!
City line up Alves - Skysports.com
Posted Nov 1st, 2007 - Discuss
Manchester City have secured a deal for Brazilian international Afonso Alves, according to reports in Holland.
It is reported that City owner Thaksin Shinawatra flew to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on Wednesday to open talks with Heerenveen and he seemingly wasted little time in securing a deal in principle.
It is now claimed that a 20million euros (£13.85million) deal is in place for January, and that manager Sven Goran Eriksson reportedly joined Shinawatra in Holland on Thursday to talk with the player.
City dancing to a samba beat
Posted 25 Oct, 2007 - Discuss
This weekend saw us play Middlesbrough, a team notorious with beating Manchester City, only 3 years ago they stopped City entering Europe with a last minute penalty save by today's 'keeper, Schwarzer. Today though, is a very different Manchester City team. With Fowler, Macken, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Bosvelt et al having moved on we are now having to settle with the likes of Elano, Mpenza, Petrov, Richards and Johnson...oh life is hard sometimes.
I always wondered what it was like to be an Arsenal fan, or indeed a Brazilian watching a team with fluent football almost throughout the entire game, to be able to go into a game with full confidence that your team is far superior and the result is only a matter of time. I'm a Manchester City fan, so I've never had the pleasure of this feeling, in fact quite the opposite, City could be sitting pretty at the top of the league, we could be playing Accrington Stanley and I'd still have no idea what the result might be. However against Middlesbrough it was very different, I entered the stadium with absolute confidence, I was never worried and I never wavered from the fact that we would beat Middlesbrough, and quite comfortable too. It was oddly unsettling.
With an unchanged team (take note Benitez?) from that which slaughtered Newcastle a week earlier, we faced a Middlesbrough team riddled with injuries to some key players, and we dispatched them with ease without ever getting out of second gear. The team went out on that typically cloudy Manchester afternoon, did what needed to be done, got the points and went on their way - I doubt the likes of Petrov, Elano, Johnson or Ireland even broke a sweat out there. The game itself was entertaining, and the air around the stadium was full of confidence and expectation with the sounds of "City are Back" ringing around the stadium.
It's not easy being a City fan at the moment, with slick one touch passing, pace on the break, assurity at the back, young English players in the spine of the team, a proven manager and world-class players, its all so very unfamiliar...and long may it continue. We now have a 100% record at home, and with the likes of the Dark Side, Aston Villa & Newcastle all to have played at Eastlands this season, that is no mean feat, but with Sven in charge of our Samba-like stars, maybe we should be expecting these victories?
It is a pleasure to watch City at the moment, and after last seasons dire performances it was long needed. City are, indeed, Back!
Blue Army.