Bitter And Blue: History Helps Manchester City Against Tricky Bolton
It’s the match of the weekend, so say us: Bolton visiting Manchester City. Beyond a clash of fourth (City) versus sixth, it’s a stylistic, philosophical, even financial battle. There may be no more important match in world football than ... this one I’m getting completely carried away about. Pull back my delusions and this is still the English Premier League’s most exciting match.
Danny Pugsley over at Bitter and Blue, SB Nation’s Manchester City blog, realizes the dangers, calling Saturday’s match “potentially tricky.” But for Pugsley, recent history is on City’s side:
Certainly Bolton have an attacking threat; both Kevin Davies and Johann Elmander are in a good patch of form, whilst Martin Petrov would surely love the opportunity to point at the name of his shirt through gloved thumbs at some stage given his comments upon leaving City.
The recent form book favours City though. Three successive wins have been posted in this fixture since Sam Allardyce left town and took his dominance over City with him.
Even with Allardyce at Blackburn, that statement rings true, with City having dropped points to Allardyce’s Army earlier this year. On Saturday, Big Sam will be nowhere near the City of Manchester Stadium, where Roberto Mancini will lead his charge against Owen Coyle’s Trotters.
For more on Saturday’s match, scheduled to kick-off at 10:00 a.m. Eastern, visit Bitter and Blue and their match preview.
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