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What They're Saying: Pep Guardiola
“Football does not exist as a long project. You have to win immediately and if you don’t win, you are in trouble.” — Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, admitting that hecould be fired if City doesn’t start winning. It has won four of its last 15 games after starting the season with 10 wins in […]
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Chelsea and Man City fined after EPL clashes
Chelsea was fined 100,000 pounds ($127,000) and Manchester City 35,000 pounds ($44,320) for clashes during their Premier League match at Etihad Stadium won by Chelsea, 3-1. The Blues have beenfined six times for player conduct in less than two years.
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What They're Saying: Pep Guardiola
“I have tried to control games so we concede few goals in my career as a coach, and here I cannot do that, and I have to analyze why. I have to improve to solve that, yeah, that’s true.” –Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola after his team’s 4-2 loss to Leicester City left Man City […]
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English soccer wracked by cases of child abuse on scale of Savile scandal
Since the public revelations last month by former pro Andy Woodward of suffering sexual abuse a young player, dozens of suspects and clubs have been named and the English Football Associationplans to conduct an internal review. Police officials say 83 suspects have been implicated and 98 clubs through all levels of the English game have […]
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Manchester City's Aguero handed four-game ban
Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero‘s studs-up challenge on Chelsea defender David Luiz in Saturday’s 3-1 home loss cost the Argentine a four-game suspension. It was hissecond dismissal for violent conduct this season. Manchester City’s Fernandinho will serve a three-match ban after being sent off after he grabbed and shoved CescFabregas in the scuffle that followed Aguero’s lunge.
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Joe Hart admits Manchester City's days are over
Joe Hart has retained his position as England’s first-choice goalkeeper since his loan move from Manchester City to Italian club Torino, but he admitted his days at City are over as longas Pep Guardiola is the manager. “I don’t think City are going to be standing in the way — if somebody really wants me, […]
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Hazard: EPL race will involve Chelsea, Liverpool and Man City
Chelsea star Eden Hazard thinks the EPL title race will be a contest between the Blues, currently on top, and Liverpool and Manchester City, both a point behind. “They’re bothgood,” Hazard said of Liverpool and City, which Chelsea faces on Sunday. “If we want to be there at the end, we have to finish above […]
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UCL: Twelve of 16 berths in knockout stage are secure
Manchester City and Barcelona booked spots in the Champions League knockout stage, joining 10 other teams in the second round. City drew 1-1, at Fabian Johnson‘s Borussia Moenchengladbach in amatch that saw both teams have a player sent off. Barca won at Celtic, 2-0, on a pair of Lionel Messi goals. Other teams already through […]
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Manchester City's Vincent Kompany out for weeks
Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany, who was rammed into by his own goalkeeper, Claudio Bravo, in a 2-1 victory at Crystal Palace on Saturday, will be out forseveral weeks with a knee ligament injury. Kompany was making his first EPL start for seven months but lasted just 37 minutes. “He has a problem with his […]