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For those who don't know too much about the city players. I thought i would post a profile of the players. I'll try and do one every day
Nicky Weaver
Squad no: 12
Date of birth: 02/03/1979
Place of Birth: Sheffield
Position: Goalkeeper
Height (ft): 6.04
Weight (st): 14.12
International Caps: 0
International Goals: 0
The imposing figure of Nicky Weaver arrived at Maine Road towards the end of the 95/96 season to strengthen the club's goalkeeping staff.
He came from Mansfield Town though he had made very few appearances for the reserve side. The young keeper had joined Mansfield on trainee forms and his prowess had came to the notice of Alex Stepney who realised he would be a worthwhile City investment.
A Wembley hero and will forever be remembered for his run around the stadium on the final whistle in the famous Play-Off Final win over Gillingham.
Injuries have blighted much of Nicky's City career but even after all his setbacks 'Weavs' remained a valued member of Stuart Pearce's squad and after missing most of the 2005 pre-season, some solid performances for the reserves reminded everyone of his capabilities.
Nicky returned to his hometown of Sheffield in November 2005, joining Sheffield Wednesday on a six-week loan deal, acting as cover for the injured David Lucas and playing 14 times.
His comeback was completed when he started a Premier League match for City for the first time since April 2001 at Chelsea on the opening day of the 2006-07 season. He followed that up with some outstanding performances in the early part of the season, delighting the City fans and giving them the chance to chant his name after too long a break.
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it didn't stop me thinking that probably all of the aforementioned teams would beat England at the moment though....!
At what? Fighting or football
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City make the short journey down the M62 today Stuart Pearce fully expecting a tough contest.
"At any one given time, Liverpool can hurt you," said the Manager.
"That showed in the PSV game, it had gone very stale when all of a sudden there was a move involving four players which cut PSV in half, and the first goal came from it. It just reiterated that if you don't concentrate against Liverpool for 90 minutes, you'll be in trouble, simple as that."
Having watched the Reds first hand on Wednesday evening, the Blues boss went on to pick out the main threats his side need to combat in the search for a vital away win.
He added: "They have a lot of quality. Kuyt is a very good player who I have liked for a while before he joined Liverpool. Gerrard's a world class performer, so couple that with their other players it means that they will be a good outfit whoever they will have available.
"They can lose a winger but then Luis Garcia, Spanish international, can come on or they can bring on Zenden, a Dutch international. Bellamy or Fowler can come on, everyone's an international in the squad and that's the mark of playing the likes of Liverpool and Arsenal.
"We know they'll be strong, you try to do your homework as best you can from a preparation point of view. We have watched them enough times, we know what they are about and seeing them play PSV was an ideal last look at them for me ahead of Saturday."
Leon Collins
http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?pagegid=...p;newsid=381992
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It's funny how England always gets the bad press for footie violence. In reality it's much worse in many other countries. But that doesn't give the British media anything to slag us off about.
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It has been reported that Shaun Wright Phillips may be going to West Ham for 10 million quid.
My question is do you think City should put a bid in for him?
If they can get funds available, I think it is a good business deal, having sold him for twice that amount!!
It was more to do with his agent, that he left in the first place, he loves City, the only reason his form has dipped is that he isnt playing regularly. What do you guys think?
I say, get him at ANY cost. He's the sort of player we need at the moment and we'd have made a packet out of the deal
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Nobody in his right mind advocates a radical opening of the real estate market to foreign investment, but a continued almost complete closure is as idiotic.
Good post, ColPyat and an excellent summary
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Stuart Pearce admits he was delighted with Italian striker Bernardo Corradi's return in Saturday's Premiership win over Fulham.
After 12 matches without a goal following his summer move from Valencia, Corradi finally answered some of his critics with a first half double in the 3-1 win - a result which pushes City up to 12th in the table.
The Manchester City boss was always confident Corradi would come good and believes players moving to the Premiership from foreign shores are not given enough time to complete the settling-in process.
"There is an arrogance with the British way that `the rest of the world fits in with us' and whenever the rest of the world come to our shores they've got to fit in straight away," Pearce told the club's website.
"It doesn't always work like that on a cultural or a football basis.
"Let's be honest, how many English players do you see playing abroad? Historically, how many have gone abroad and not made it? That is something you've got to look at."
Pearce said had to convince Corradi to leave Italy a second time after his year in Spain backfired.
"From my point of view, if I have a bad day at the office, it is very comforting to go home and see my wife and family who don't judge me for being a football manager or a football player," he continued.
"It is nice to go back to reality in this mad world that we call football.
"But Bernardo is over here, he has no wife at home. Football is his life.
"If his family come over to help and give support - brilliant - but things like that do get lost at times."
Corradi is expected to keep his place for Saturday's trip to Liverpool as City look to build on successive home wins by ending their miserable run of away results which has seen them pick up just a single point from six outings.
"A few Italians players have come to England and been good, other's haven't. It would give him great pleasure to be one of the better ones," added Pearce.
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Manchester City boss Stuart Pearce is hoping Dietmar Hamann can ease his team's injury worries by making a return for this weekend's clash against his former club Liverpool.
Pearce's men travel to Anfield on Saturday with a number of players expected to miss the game, including Trevor Sinclair and DaMarcus Beasley.
But Pearce believes the 33-year-old ex-Germany international, who has been out with a hamstring problem since his side's 4-0 defeat to Wigan in October, will be ready to face his former team-mates.
"He has been back in training since last Thursday and looks very good," Pearce told the official Manchester City website.
"He's looked after himself while he's been out and it's a case of getting some fitness for him and the more days the better."
Meanwhile, long-term hamstring victim Sun Jihai is set to head to Germany in search of a solution.
The 29-year-old China international's injury has not healed as fast as the club hoped and Pearce wants a specialist in Munich to look into the issue.
"Every time Sun tried to come back, something happened which set him back a bit more," he said.
"At the moment he is having a course of injections in Germany which we are hoping will solve the problem.
"There have been so many false dawns we don't want to put a timescale on his recovery, we just hope it works."
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I think there is a Man City fan on the panel and he re-adjusted the rules for fairness
Come on Benfica
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Why the **** have Celtic gone through....?
As in my post above, i know why they have gone through. Cos no matter what happens in the next game, they can't finish any worse than 2nd. But why are they above United?
If Copenhagen beat Celtic and, if Benfica beat us, Celtic drop to third, depending on goal difference.....!
No-one should have gone through yet....!
Factually wrong there, Red. All the punters and Strachan have said that Celtic are through already and they are actually above Utd in the table. The only thing i can think of, is that it is something to do with the game you played against Celtic and maybe (even though away goals don't count perse) the 2 goals they scored against you at OT, may have a bearing
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Why the **** have Celtic gone through....?
As in my post above, i know why they have gone through. Cos no matter what happens in the next game, they can't finish any worse than 2nd. But why are they above United?
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I will be there watching the mighty blues in action, taking my TGF to her 1st game, I hope she doesn't get too scared with all the singing and swearing!! haha
My mrs loved the atmosphere the first time i took her to see city. In fact, she spent most of the game just watching the crowd.
And before redrus and the crowd say anything, yes, it was probably more exciting than watching city
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Celtic do not have the superior GD, I'd hazard a guess they had a better result in Copenhagen than us....!
I've got an excuse, as City have never been (and may never be
) in the champions league. But come on Red, you lot have been in it for years and you still have to HAZARD a guess as to the rules -
Is this Scouse git havin a laugh....!
In fairness Red, Joey has been playing out of his skin lately. For me, probably man of the match in the last 2 or 3 games
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Why are Celtic through and Man U not?
They have the same points but Man U a better goal difference.
I'm not sure as to the reasons why Celtic are top (being a Man City fan, i don't need to know how the Champs League works
) but Celtic are through because which ever way the game between Benfica and United goes, Celtic will still be either top or second, even if they lose their own final game.Red, muckypups or nev. Can you answer this question or not
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Why are Celtic through and Man U not?
They have the same points but Man U a better goal difference.
I'm not sure as to the reasons why Celtic are top (being a Man City fan, i don't need to know how the Champs League works
) but Celtic are through because which ever way the game between Benfica and United goes, Celtic will still be either top or second, even if they lose their own final game.Come on Benfica
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Womble, don't listen to the guys who say "if your thinking about divorce already, don't get married blah, blah, blah". You have every right to know and to ask what you are letting yourself into.
I got married to a girl i was going to spend the rest of my life with and never thought about, if it all went wrong. Well guess what, it did go wrong and it cost me. Once bitten and all that
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Me; I was looking for something about a UK visa (I think) and found it on a Google search.
Same here
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I am led to believe (although not gone through it myself) that Thai divorce is pretty fair. Anything you had before the marriage would stay yours. Anything that you gained during the marriage would be subject to 50/50 split. Anything that was left by relatives, i.e. inheritance would stay with the person who inherited it.
The above is very brief but in a nut shell, is what i have been told. If it isn't the case, i would like to know what the actual case is.
Also, as stated above, it is where you get divorced that matters. The points i am led to believe are if you get divorced in Thailand.
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Sometimes, just sometimes, i love this game
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Just to let you know, I edited the title to include the full name as it makes it a bit clearer that it isn't a 'nationwide laptop theft' but a laptop theft from Nationwide
Cheers sbk
Hope the thief is caught quickly. Also, here's hoping that the thief's only interested in the monetary value of the actual machine rather than the data inside and does something stupid like erasing the datas securely before trying to resell it.With the theft happening in august, i fear they have got away Scott free
I know they don't have access to pin numbers etc but i always shred my statements etc, as identity theft can be easily attained from looking in your rubbish/garbage. It took a mate of mine, 2 years to clean up the mess after his identity was stolen and that is what makes this very worrying. I just hope the thiefs didn't know what they had stolen
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Excellent goal line clearance by that diving, step over, Portugese tw4t, yesterday.
Oh, wait a minute, he should have been trying to put it in the net, not clear it
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3-1 that'll do for me
and only the first goal we have let in this season.
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Kasper Schmeichel
Squad no: 19
Date of birth: 05/11/1986
Place of Birth: Denmark
Position: Goalkeeper
Height (ft): 6.01
Weight (st): 14.04
International Caps: 0
International Goals: 0
Signed his first professional contract with the Blues at the start of November 2004 when he turned eighteen.
Kasper continued to push for a first team squad place under Stuart Pearce and after some steady pre-season action Schmeichel flourished in the reserve team.
Enjoyed a short but productive loan spell at Darlington in January 2006, returning to City after only conceding one goal in four games.
Loaned out once more for a month with Bury in late February 2006 some fine performances at Gigg Lane kept Kasper with Bury until the end of the season.
After a good pre-season with City, Chris Casper at Bury came calling once more and in August 2006 the young keeper rejoined the Shakers on loan for three months.