He may be forced to sell another striker to balance the club’s bulging wage bill. Beijing: Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini said on Thursday he was not in charge of transfers, after British media reported club officials were blocking his attempts to sign Arsenal’s Robin van Persie. Asked at a press conference in Beijing whether [...]
MANCHESTER: Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has agreed terms on a new deal that will keep the Italian at Eastlands for another five years, the English Premier League champions said Monday. “Manchester City Football Club today are pleased to announce that a new contract has been agreed with manager Roberto Mancini,” said a club statement.
MANCHESTER, England: Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said on Monday he wasn’t concerned by rivals and newly-crowned Premier League champions Manchester City’s ability to out bid them in the transfer market. However, Ferguson said that he was not going to be forced into a change of transfer policy because of losing out to their [...]
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom: Carlos Tevez landed himself in fresh controversy on Monday when he was pictured waving a mocked-up tombstone for Sir Alex Ferguson during Manchester City’s Premier League title celebrations. The 28-year-old Argentina striker held up a banner designed to look like a gravestone and bearing the words ‘RIP Fergie’ as City celebrated their [...]
MANCHESTER: Joey Barton apologised for his red card at Manchester City but the controversial QPR midfielder insisted he was only reacting to provocation from Carlos Tevez. Barton was dismissed in the 55th minute after an off-the-ball incident in which he elbowed Tevez in the face after the City striker had hit out at him. He [...]
Ian Whittell MANCHESTER: Roberto Mancini celebrated Manchester City’s first English league title in 44 years with a succinct summary of his team’s 3-2 victory over QPR at Eastlands — “a crazy finish for a crazy season”. “That was a crazy finish for a crazy season,” said Mancini after City won the title on goal difference. [...]
Julian Guyer LONDON: Manchester City will be bidding to be crowned champions of England for the first time in 44 years when they face relegation-threatened Queens Park Rangers at Eastlands later Sunday. But with second-placed champions Manchester United behind on goal difference alone, Roberto Mancini’s expensively-assembled City side will be aware any slip-ups could see [...]
Rob Woollard LONDON: As Manchester City’s players trudged off the pitch on April 8 following a 1-0 defeat to Arsenal, only the most wildly optimistic of their supporters would have believed that barely a month later they would be on the brink of a historic league title triumph. Manchester United (right) were the masters of [...]
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom: Former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher celebrated Manchester City’s derby victory over Manchester United on Monday with an impromptu post-match press conference. The 39-year-old wild man startled journalists in Manchester’s press room by emerging from a side door and settling down to take lighthearted questions from reporters following City’s 1-0 win. “What do [...]
Rob Woollard MANCHESTER: The defining plot twist of the most enthralling title race in years could be written on Monday as Manchester City attempt to seize control of their Premier League destiny against leaders Manchester United. Three weeks ago, United already had one hand on a record 20th title after City’s defeat at Arsenal left [...]
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Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
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