Man Utd 1, Reading 0 Fifteen points clear of Manchester City at the top of the Premier League, a better goal difference of 13 and 18 more goals scored….. surely Manchester United can’t blow it this time? Yet this was a performance lacking in conviction, bereft of ideas and barely enough to stagger across the […]
Premier League
Everton end City title hopes
EVERTON 2, MANCHESTER CITY 0 For the second time in two seasons a superb Everton performance seems to have put paid to the title hopes of a Manchester club. Goals by Leon Osman and Nikica Jelavic fatally ended City’s title dream in a game dominated by strange refereeing decisions by Lee Probert including a controversial […]
Tevez strike keeps City challenge alive
ASTON VILLA 0, MANCHESTER CITY 1 City reduced the gap at the top of the Premier League to 12 points behind United with 10 games to play as they eased past Aston Villa with a Carlos Tevez goal deep into added time at the end of the first half. “The Championship is not over.” insisted […]
Super Shinji’s scoring show
Man Utd 4, Norwich 0 Ryan Giggs was supposed to be top of the bill, but it was Shinji Kagawa who ended up stealing the show. Kagawa’s hat-trick was the first by an Asian player in the Premier League as it started with a fortunate flick, continued with a sublime stroke and was completed by […]
City display championship class
MAN CITY 2, CHELSEA 0. Manchester City produced a display worthy of champions to defeat Chelsea and keep alive their faint hopes of holding on to their Barclays Premier League title. Goals from Yaya Toure and Carlos Tevez reduced United’s advantage from 15 to 12 points on an afternoon when defeat would almost certainly […]