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LAST TIME OUT
Birmingham City 0 Preston North End 1

MANCHESTER CITY 8(EIGHT) WATFORD 0


In the 50 plus years that I have been watching North End this is only if I am right the third competitive meetings between the sides at Deepdale although given the demolition City carried out on Watford on Saturday by 10pm tomorrow night the phrase competitive may not be required. Previous two visits ended 2-1 PNE with Macken tapping one in from 45 yards City later bought him and a 1 all draw.

CITY'S TRANSFERS IN
RODRI 63 MILLION
CANCELO 58 MILLION

Both of these slightly dwarf our record fee for Tom Bayliss.

Until the arrival of Pep, City had started to collect titles but the Spaniard now seems to be on the way to trying to win them all however he comes up against the best other bald manager in the league Alex Neil. Who when interviewed after Saturday's win did seem to have a wry smile when asked about the City score.


Always though City must have had an irrational hatred of us based on two players they sold to us, neil Young, we thought we were getting the man who scored in the Cup Final in 1969 instead we got this man,


we also got Dave Connor who had the nickname of Boils given he missed a couple of matches due to the fact he had boils.

Given Pep will not want to lose tomorrow he will no doubt put out a side that will be strong and contain several youngsters, already said he is playing Garcia, no doubt Foden wil play might even see the Nmecha brothers but given ther schedule having played Shakatak in Ukraine last week were they beat the English Jazz funk band 3-0 then the walkover against Watford with them playing Everton on Saturday and another European game next week the main players will not be at Deepdale.
Lee Mason is the referee so we will get sod all then