50 Years of Manchester City

The Best and Worst of Everything

Steve Mingle

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785313615
• Year: 2017

To celebrate 50 years of watching Manchester City, Steve Mingle presents an array of memories spanning the whole period. The Best and Worst of Everything includes heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters, moments of genius and heinous cock-ups. Here are Steve's most memorable games, players and incidents in a weird and wonderful range of categories. There's much to look back on with affection - the best wins at Old Trafford, the Goat's spawniest finishes, Bell's finest goals, the best wins with ten men - but also plenty of pain, as Steve looks back on the worst goalkeeping howlers, City's jinxes and the biggest villains ever to have darkened the club's doorways. Amongst all this, Steve selects his favourite hard men, pie-eaters and comedy moments as well as providing hard statistical input - who have really been City's penalty kings? Who do we wish we could have played every week? It's a fascinating book packed with memories good and bad, full of debating points for City fans of all ages.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Famous fives
• How the hell did he miss that?
• Yaya, Yaya Touré…
• Long-range screamers
• Cup shockers
• Score in a minute, we’re gonna score in a minute …
• Stand-in keepers
• Classics
• Great City nicknames
• Great debuts
• Dream volleys
• Cups for cock-ups
• Goal celebrations
• White and Quinn – the dream partnership
• Penalty kings
• How did we lose that one?
• All aboard the showboat …
• Great headers
• Goalkeeping blunders
• Ten great Colin Bell goals
• Inspired substitutions
• Individual goals
• Awaydays
• Comebacks
• Did they really play for City?
• Goal of the Month
• You’re a bastard, referee …
• Mario
• Throwing it all away
• Maine Road magic
• Great goalkeeping displays
• Agüeroooooooooo!
• Own goals
• Those who came back to haunt us
• The third match
• We’ve only got ten men …
• Jinxes
• The Goat’s spawniest goals
• How did we win?
• Who ate all the pies?
• You know when you’ve been Clattenburged …
• Have some of that
• Joe Hart saves
• Marauding defenders
• Great chants
• Crazy reds
• One match ball
• On the spot briefly
• Ten great wins at Old Trafford
• Playing away – at home
• Dead ball demons
• Typical City
• The magic of Merlin
• Sixes and sevens
• Photographs