Monday, 24 October 2011

History Manchester City FC (2008-11)

In summer 2009, the club took transfer spending to an unprecedented level, with an outlay of over £100 million on players Gareth Barry, Roque Santa Cruz, Kolo Toure, Emmanuel Adebayor, Carlos Tevez and Joleon Lescott. On 19 December, it was announced that Mark Hughes had been replaced as manager by Roberto Mancini. City finished the season in fifth position in the Premier League, narrowly missing out on a place in the Champions League, and competes in the UEFA Europa League in season 2010–11.
Prior to the start of the 2010–11 season, City completed the transfers of Jerome Boateng, Yaya Toure, David Silva, Aleksandar Kolarov and Mario Balotelli. James Milner signed during the first week of the season. Edin Dzeko joined the club during the January 2011, City reached their first major 2011 FA Cup final in over thirty years, defeating derby rivals Manchester United in the semi-final to set up a meeting with Stoke City. They won the final 1–0, securing their fifth FA Cup (and first since 1969) and their first major trophy since winning the 1976 League Cup. On 10th May 2011, the club qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the first time with a 1–0 Premier League win over Tottenham Hotspur. On the last day of the 2010–11 season, City passed Arsenal for third place in the Premier League, thereby securing qualification directly into the Champions League group stage. For the 2011–12 season, City made a number of high profile signings, including Gael Clichy, Stefan Savic, Sergio Agüero and Samir Nasri.
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History: Manchester City FC (2001–2008)

After relegation, City underwent off-the-field upheaval, with new chairman David Bernstein introducing greater fiscal discipline. City were promoted at the first attempt, achieved in dramatic fashion in a play-off against Gillingham. City second successive promotion saw it’s return to the top level, but this proved to have been a step too far for the recovering club, and in 2001 City were relegated once more. Kevin Keegan, a new manager, arrived as in the close season, bringing a successful return to the top division as the club won the 2001–02 Division One championship, breaking club records for the number of points gained and goals scored in a season in the process.
The season 2002–03, was the last at Maine Road, and included a 3–1 derby triumphs over Manchester United, ending a run of 13 years without a derby win. City also qualified for European competition for the first time in 25 years after missing out in the 1990s with the European ban on English clubs entering European football. At the end of 2003 City moved to the new City of Manchester Stadium. The first four seasons at the stadium all resulted in mid-table finishes. Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson became the club's first manager from overseas when appointed in 2007. After a splendid start performances faded in the second half of the season, and Eriksson was sacked in June 2008. Eriksson was replaced by Mark Hughes two days later.
Just a year before,Thaksin Shinawatra’s dream of bringing back the glory era to City,now seemed doomed, , but what was about to unravel was something manager Hughes and the Manchester City supporters could never have possibly imagined, never mind anticipated, as within the coming months Hughes would find himself placed in a financial position which would become the envy of many a football manager and one which would hopefully change the course of Manchester City's inconsistent history for good.

In August 2008, the club was purchased by Abu Dhabi United Group. The takeover was immediately followed by a flurry of bids for high profile players. The club broke the British transfer record by signing Brazilian international Robinho from Real Madrid for £32.5 million. City finished tenth, and also reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup.

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History: Manchester City FC (1965–2001)

In 1963, After demotion to the Second Division, the future seemed to be dark with a record low home attendance of 8,015 against Swindon Town in January 1965. In 1965, it was summer, the management team of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison was appointed. In the first season under Mercer, City won the Second Division title and made important signings in Mike Summerbee and Colin Bell. Two seasons later, in 1967–68, Manchester City claimed the League Championship for the second time, clinching the title on the final day of the season with a 4–3 win at Newcastle United and getting victory over their close neighbours Manchester United into second place. Further victories comprises, FA Cup in 1969, the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1970, beating Górnik Zabrze 2–1 in Vienna. City also won the League Cup that season, becoming the second English team to win a European trophy and a domestic trophy in the same season.
Manchester continued to challenge for honours throughout the 1970s, finishing just one point behind the league champions on two occasions and reaching the final of the 1974 League Cup. One of the matches the most fondly remembered by supporters of Manchester City is the final match of the 1973–74 season against arch-rivals Manchester United, who needed to win to have any hope of avoiding relegation. Former United player Denis Law scored with a backheel to give City a 1–0 win at Old Trafford and confirm the relegation of their rivals. The final trophy of the club's most successful period was won in 1976, when Newcastle United were beaten 2–1 in the League Cup final.
After a long decline followed the success of the 1960s and 1970s. Malcolm Allison rejoined the club to become manager for the second time in 1979, wastage of a heavy amount on unsuccessful signings, such as Steve Daley. A succession of managers then followed – seven in the 1980s alone, the first being John Bond who succeeded Allison in October 1980. Under Bond, City reached the 1981 FA Cup final but lost in a replay to Tottenham Hotspur. They performed well in the following season and went at the top of the League but soon relegated a year later, and reclaimed their top flight status two years afterwards, only to lose it within another two years. They returned to the top flight again in 1989 and finished fifth in 1991 and 1992 under the management of Peter Reid. However, this was only a temporary respite, and following Reid's departure Manchester City's fortunes continued to fade. City the founders of the Premier League in 1992, finishing at the ninth in its first season they endured three seasons of struggle before being relegated in 1996. Two years later, they were relegated to Division Two – becoming the first former winners of a European trophy to be relegated to the third tier of their domestic league.
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Saturday, 22 October 2011

History: Manchester City FC (1928–1965)

In the 1930s, Manchester City qualified two consecutive FA Cup finals, losing to Everton in 1933, before claiming the Cup by beating Portsmouth in 1934. During the 1934 cup run, Manchester City broke the record for the highest home fans 84,569 attendance of any club in English football history,Maine Road for a sixth round FA Cup tie against Stoke City in 1934 – a record which still stands to this day. The club won the First Division title for the first time in 1937, but were relegated the following season, despite scoring more goals than any other team in the division.

Twenty years later, a City team inspired by a tactical system known as the Revie Plan reached consecutive FA Cup finals again, in 1955 and 1956, just as in the 1930s, they lost the first one, to Newcastle United, and won the second. The 1956 final, in which Manchester City beat Birmingham City 3–1, is one of the most famous finals of all-time, and is remembered for City goalkeeper Bert Trautmann continuing to play on after unknowingly breaking his neck.
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History: Manchester City FC (1880–1928)

in 1899, City gained their first esteem by winning the Second Division,with it came advancement to the highest level in English football, the First Division. They claim for their first major honor on 23 April 1904, beating Bolton Wanderers 1–0 at Crystal Palace to win the FA Cup. City barely missed out on a League and Cup double that season after finishing runners-up in the League but City became the first club in Manchester to win a major honors.

After the FA Cup victory, the club was dogged by accusations of financial irregularities, culminating in the suspension of seventeen players in 1906, including captain Billy Meredith, who subsequently moved across town to Manchester United. A fire at Hyde Road destroyed the main stand in 1920, and in 1923 the club moved to their new purpose-built stadium at Maine Road in Moss Side. The 100,000 capacity stadium would go one to have a remarkable history, and because of high capacity it was nicknamed Wembley of the North.
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Manchester City FC - Introduction


Manchester City Football Club is an English Premier League football club founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton) by Anna Connell and two churchwardens of St. Mark's Church, in Gorton, a district in east Manchester. Before this St. Mark's played cricket from 1875 and the side evolved out of that cricket team and Ardwick the key organizer joined the Football League as founding members of the Second Division in 1892they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894. Financial troubles in the 1893–94 season led to a reorganization within the club, and Ardwick were reformed as Manchester City Football Club. The club has played at the City of Manchester Stadium since 2003, having spent most of their existence at Maine Road.

Manchester’s most successful period was in the late 1960s and early 1970s when they won the League Championship, FA Cup, League Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup. After losing the 1981 FA Cup Final, the club went through a period of downfall in demotion to the third tier of English football in 1998. The club has since regained top flight status where they have spent the majority of their history. In 2011, Manchester City qualified for the Champions League and won the FA Cup.
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