Growing up in the shadow of Ian Wright, Shaun and Bradley Wright-Phillips would experience a series of peaks and troughs across their careers
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From being a rock for the Invincibles to marauding runs in Manchester, few siblings have influenced the Premier League like the Tourés
Robinho’s career should, for many, have been so much moren given his remarkable talent. Nowhere more than at Manchester City
In spite of all the glory that has come City’s way recently, Kinkladze is still remembered as a hero of the 90s and one of their finest natural talents
He may never have won a major title with Manchester City but Uwe Rösler remains one of the great cult heroes in the history of the club
With a clear working philosophy and the “obsession” to dominate women’s football, Nick Cushing, who joined These Football Times, is a man on a mission
In a League Cup fourth-round reply on a cold December night in 1994 at St James’ Park, a short few days before Christmas, Kevin Keegan’s upwardly-mobile Newcastle United were up against Brian…
He’s been a mainstay in Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, solid and consistent, but Aymeric Laporte remains one of the game’s most underrated stars
Long before an Argentine waltzed into Manchester City and became their greatest goalscorer, there was a Bermudan winning the hearts of the City fans
There is no such thing as an English footballer playing abroad at the peak of his powers today. Scour the globe in search of an Englishman plying his trade on foreign soil…
Despite injuries wrecking the latter stages of his career, Kompany has overcome so much to stake a place as one of Manchester City’s greatest players
Currently residing on 99 caps, the first of which came against Russia in March 2007 as a 73rd-minute substitute, Stephanie Jayne Houghton is preparing to join an array of legends in reaching…
There is nothing glamorous about him. His body, hunched and taut, is soaked in a different kind of perspiration, a dirty, greasy sweat, not the type Cristiano Ronaldo is wetted by, and uses…
The story of most world-class footballers starts at a local park, where the future star would spend hours a day kicking a ball around with friends from an early age. The standard…
Long before Aguero, Silva and De Bruyne called the Etihad Stadium home, there was Maine Road. Far from the glory of Premier League titles and Middle Eastern riches, it was a beautiful…
Frank Clark’s playing career could not have ended any better. In his final competitive game, he and his Nottingham Forest teammates beat Malmö 1-0 to win the 1979 European Cup final. It…
Leonardo Da Vinci once said: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Life is full of complexities, yet success often derives from the simplest of acts. For Kevin De Bruyne, that simple act was scoring…
Like him or not, Pep Guardiola is one of the most successful managers in the modern era. Over the years, he’s acquired several assistants and footballing experts who have helped him achieve…