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The Manchester City Football Club has won the latest six home games that they have played. They have players like Richard Dunne, Michael Jonson, Micah and Robinho. All the players have come together as a team, which has resulted in the team experiencing some wins. The Manchester City Football Club is looking forward to reclaiming all its lost glory and is steadily working towards it with the help of their coach Hughes.

The players of the Manchester City Football Club are in excellent form and they are playing the game as a team and not as individuals, as only a team can win and not the individuals. They have really gotten together to play as a great team and are playing some great football too. They are becoming adept at scoring goals. At present they are occupying the tenth position in the premier league. They have played thirty games and have earned thirty eight points. And with the steady increase in the form of the players and their coming together as a team the blues could easily score more and progress in the premier league in the following season and reclaim the lost glory. Just wait and watch this team score goals like never before.

At the young age of 17 he was lucky enough to sign his first contract with Santos in Brazil. After that there was no looking back for him. He went ahead to sign 24 more contracts. His form is so superb that many have paid attention to him in the European clubs. However, this was not to continue when his mother was kidnapped by armed gunman and released later unharmed after a huge ransom was extracted from the family. This affected Robinho badly, and he managed only four goals in eight league games. Finally in July 2005 he signed a deal with Spanish giants Real Madrid, which was a contract that was quite lucrative.

His career graph reached a zenith when he signed a contract with the Premier League in September 2008. Robinho had to move to Manchester City with wages that he had never dreamt of. He has braved many an allegation in his career but has come out unscathed due to the support of his fans.

Though they have not won any honours since 1976, they started to regain their top-flight status in the 1990s. They used sky blue and white as their home colours but wore brown or red and black as their traditional away. Their current club crest was adopted in 1997, which consists of a shield in front of a golden eagle. The Manchester ship canal had been represented in the upper half of the shield and the city’s three rivers as diagonal stripes in the lower half. The club had a well-equipped managing team who bear credits to their victory. They have had notable managers working with who have won at least a major trophy with Manchester city.

It has large fan base of 886,000 in the United Kingdom and an additional of 2 million fans worldwide. Their fan’s choice of song was “Blue Moon”, which they considered it to be a heroic anthem. Owned by Manchester City Limited, the club has an approximate of 54 million shares. Most of their games played at City of Manchester Stadium their foremost rivalry were Manchester United. It’s always edge of the seat action when it comes to these teams playing.

* Founders: Connell, churchwardens William Beastow and Thomas Goodbehere.
* First name: ST. Mark’s (West Gorton) as a small church football team.
* Year: 13th November 1880
* Place: Gorton a district in East Manchester.
* Renamed: as Ardwick A.F.C in 1887 and moved to Hyde Road in Ardwick.
* Reformed: as Manchester City FC in the 1893-94 season due to financial troubles leading to reorganization among the club.
* First honour: winning second division in 1889 and promoted to first division.
* Fist major honour: winning FA Cup in 1904.
* Next move: a fire at Hyde Road forced them to move to Maine Road in Moss Side
* Glory era: 1965 to 1977 they had won FA Cup, European Cup Winners Cup, League cup.
* 1977 to1985: long period of decline followed and demanded a lot of fight back.
* 1987 to 1983: winning promotion back to the first division, Manchester city started to make a good progress.
* Recovery: after a decline during 1993 to 1998, the club underwent some of the field upheaval under the takeover of a new chairman.
They qualified for UEFA Cup after winning the Fair Play award in 2002. After a relegation in-between they gained better league results in 2009.

It finally changed its name to Manchester City Football Club in the year 1894 and this name has remained since then. The club has gone ahead to win several prestigious cups and has maintained its count of many a trophy. However, after 1976 the club run out of luck and did not win many honors. The club has been on the decline and was able to bounce back to its former glory. The home colors of the team are a light blue jersey and white shorts. The other colors are a striped torso of black and red with black sleeves and black shorts. They also have a third color of a red and black jersey with black shorts.

The Manchester city football club academy is considered to be an extremely prestigious academy and many a youngster’s dreams are to be a part of it.

The venue is decked out to meet your requirements, be it a small get together for three people or a banquet fit for the queen.

Every season has a special range of offers on for its patrons. If you go ahead and book your City of Manchester stadium beforehand, you will get a discount of up to 50% on room hire. They have several amazing suites to choose from, such as the Mancunian Suite, which overlooks the pitch, or the Commonwealth Suite, which will help you to relive the power of the game played here.