Thomas Fairclough🇧🇧

.You Can Always Do Better.

[Thomas Fairclough🇧🇧 @FaircyMagic]

Actually can't wait to get to Whitely Bay next week. Nice beach and incredible fish and chips 😍

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

"People remember me for my hair, the perm, falling off a bike and 'I'd love it if we beat them!'"

Kevin Keegan reflected on some of things he thought people would remember him most by ❤️

[Manchester City @ManCity]

Everyone at Manchester City is devastated to learn our former manager Kevin Keegan has passed away, aged 75.

Kevin was a transformative manager who brought optimism and vibrancy to City during his four-year spell in charge.

The promotion campaign in 2001/02 will never be forgotten, and Kevin then established us once again as a top Premier League side in the years that followed.

Our thoughts are with Kevin’s family and friends at this very difficult time.

[Thomas Fairclough🇧🇧 @FaircyMagic]

Kevin Keegan was the first manager I saw bring exciting football to Manchester City. #Legend

[Thomas Fairclough🇧🇧 @FaircyMagic]

@AshhJane Be mint!

[Thomas Fairclough🇧🇧 @FaircyMagic]

The world needs significantly less politics and war, and a lot more sport days and food festivals.

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

How to find Kentucky on the map

[Thomas Fairclough🇧🇧 @FaircyMagic]

And Spence shouldn't even be near the squad. Awful player. #England

[Thomas Fairclough🇧🇧 @FaircyMagic]

I think Kane should play upfront more often, he's wasted in midfield. #England

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

Bernardo Silva on British drinking culture: "In Lisbon, you start drinking at 7pm, go for dinner, and the night ends at 7am - ridiculous. If you guys go out on Saturday, you start at midday and people are already enjoying themselves, then at 11pm or midnight, people are home and the next day isn't ruined. I think I prefer the English way..." [via @hellomag]

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

“People go to point scoring before they go to problem solving, it’s party first rather than place first”

Andy Burnham says Westminster requires “fundamental change” and a “more long-term approach” to “restore the public’s trust”

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Nigel Farage and Reform UK want to

- leave the European Convention on Human Rights which protects our right to protest, our right to privacy, our right to fair trials and so much more

- repeal the Equality Act - a key piece of legislation that prevents against discrimination in Britain

- Strip back workers rights

- Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts and Legalize "fire and rehire" tactics

- repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes “no fault evictions” that allow landlords to remove tenants without giving a reason and introduces new duties over health hazards

and to sell all this to the country Farage offers nothing in return but grievance and division. PLEASE DON’T FALL FOR IT.

That anyone could be supporting Farage and Reform with these policies must surely be a damning indictment of UK media in failing to explain all this to the public

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

Rayan Cherki... 😭😭

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

A decade we will NEVER forget. 🥹🩵🏆

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

It all still feels like a dream. 🥺🩵

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

In a debrief with journalists at #ManCity's training ground after his final pre-match press conference, Pep Guardiola said he was glad he was not getting a statue because the birds would poo on it.

He was then told he actually is getting one.

[via @SamLee]

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

The Pep Guardiola era is over.

A message from our manager. ⤵️

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

The Pep Guardiola x Kevin De Bruyne moment we NEEDED to see! 😭😂

🤳 IG: maria.guardiola

[talkSPORT @talkSPORT]

The three clubs Emery has won the Europa League with all also have ‘Villa’ in their name… 😅

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

A couple of years ago during a lean time on and off the field, Phil Foden answered a knock on his door to find Guardiola standing there unannounced. The men hugged and went inside where just about everything apart from football was discussed for an hour.

This instinctive but deep emotional intelligence extends to club staff, too. Guardiola sends notes of support to the women’s team staff while in his office hangs a list of birthdays of all first-team employees. The rule is they bring the cake for celebration but a fuss is then made. Birthday wishes are beamed on screens around the CFA and a bottle of champagne may be presented.

At least two wider City staff members have been given extended compassionate leave for family reasons, at Guardiola’s request, while he took it upon himself to persuade club bosses all staff should be paid in full during the Covid pandemic, as many Premier League rivals leant into the Government’s furlough scheme. On another occasion Guardiola went to war with Omar Berrada over employee bonuses.

Guardiola walked into one tense meeting and told Berrada he was paying employees £10,000 each from his own bonus as a Premier League title win pot. In no uncertain terms, Berrada was urged by his manager to sort out the rest – and quickly. Staff in that exchange gawped in amazement. Berrada, in his defence, had rightly been worried about tax implications of gifts.

Source: "The truth is he will do anything for anybody on the [team] plane. There are those who leave the club and make sure they say they owe him everything."

This is an extract from Part One of @Jack_Gaughan's 'PEP AND MAN CITY, THE UNTOLD DECADE'. Read in full on @MailSport. ⤵️

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