Author Profile: Howard Hockin

As Brad Pitt might say, it was “inevitable”. Manchester City have moved quickly (for once) and tied up the majority of their summer transfer business with six weeks of the window remaining, replacing two departed strikers with 2 new additions, whilst...read more »

There is a famous quote about football to which the title of this blog refers - so famous I don't even need to re-quote Bill Shankly. He may well have said it tongue-in-cheek of course but this weekend reiterated that...read more »

  There was a good article by Nick Miller last week on football365.com about the fevered sense of hope/anticipation/expectation from Manchester United fans over the possible signing of Thiago Alcantara from Barcelona. A footballer with relatively little top-level experience and thus...read more »

So on a seemingly random day in July, Manchester City’s new manager Manuel Pellegrini held his first press conference, an opportunity for the new man to sit through thirty minutes of bone-headed pea-brained questions that brought no insight into anything...read more »

Picture the scene: It’s a Monday afternoon, this Manchester City fan and his Wolves supporting friend are sitting down for a nice, gentle game or ten of FIFA. Now, to ask me to play as City and him as Wolves...read more »

As the 2012/13 season drew to a close, I sent a few questions out on a number of topics to a few journalists whose email addresses I had successfully guessed.  Thanks to Mark Ogden (Daily Telegraph Northern Football Correspondent), Oliver Kay...read more »

This week, the excellent InsideCity video series continued with a clip following Manuel Pellegrini around as he spent his first day at City, beginning with the moment he left the airport. Whilst very little of any note actually happened, it was...read more »

With the Isco transfer saga still fresh in many a disappointed City fan’s mind (alleviated slightly by a lively performance for Spain by Jesus Navas last week), the latest batch of transfer gossip in the national newspapers has caused wailing...read more »

And so the class of 2012 loses another pupil. The one who wouldn’t conform, was passionate about his beliefs, but a bit of a slow learner. The rebel and the truant. He stood up to the big boys across the...read more »