The PA Manc

Monday night will see Mancini’s men travel to the DW Stadium for their Premiership match against Wigan. The first time these two sides met in a League match was only back in 1998 when City had fallen to their lowest position of their history. Both teams have made great strides since that time and, although the gap is vast with City currently top of the table and Wigan second from bottom, both teams have struggled in recent weeks. 

After a great start to the season and an all round phenomenal 2011 City now have to start 2012 with the same determination and intensity and that will be no easy task away to a revitalised Sunderland. Since the arrival of Irishman Martin O’Neill the Black Cats have won twice, drawn once and their only loss was away to a high flying Spurs side. 

After gunning down the Gunners on Sunday City will now look to smash up the potters as Stoke are welcomed to the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday.

If you’d have asked a City fan at the beginning of the season that they wouldn’t get their first league defeat until December I think that few wouldn’t have ripped your arm off at that point for that kind of deal. Now the important thing for City when Arsenal come to Manchester on Sunday is that it is important to get back to winning ways. 

Monday Roberto Mancini and Manchester City travel back to London to play the other multi millionaires Chelsea FC. Formed in 1905, a good twenty five years after the blues, the first League meeting between these two was almost exactly one hundred and four years ago to the day. 

On this day in 1961 Manchester City were beaten 4-1 by Blackburn Rovers in their Division One game in the penultimate season of Les McDowalls reign as City boss.

‘We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight on the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender’.

February 1954, in the Capital and largest City of the state of Para, Brazil, the world welcomed a footballing legend. On December 4^th 2011, in Brazil’s largest City, Sao Paulo we said goodbye.