Today's Rich Man, Poor Man FA Cup Final tilt between Man City and Wigan could be historic -or anticlimactic snooze. I hope it's the former and not the latter, #facup, #MCFC, #wigan

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FA Cup Final on Saturday is a Rich Man, Poor Man tilt between  Man City and Wigan -airing on Fox at Noon Eastern- and could prove interesting trivia answer if Wigan wins but then is relegated to the Championship League. 
(With Roberto Martinez going to Everton to replace David Moyes?)

I sincerely hope it's a hoot instead of a snooze, since to be honest, 95% of the matches I've seen on TV the past 4-5 months have been pretty much on the blah side, leading to lots of involuntary naps on Saturdays.




thefacup YouTube Channel video: Dave Whelan and Matt Jackson preview Wigan's first ever FA Cup Final, Uploaded May 9, 2013. http://youtu.be/78j3tTRJD80

mcfcofficial YouTube Channel video: Kit man Les Chapman has a unique kit list for the FA Cup final. Uploaded May 10, 2013. http://youtu.be/wZcocgFt9kU

"Special underwear?"



mcfcofficial YouTube Channel video:FA CUP FINAL: Players depart for Wembley Stadium, Uploaded May 10, 2013. http://youtu.be/NBM-Rz-_gbw

Depending on their ages, ebullient Manchester City fans agree that new home kit from Umbro is smexy, boss, gear, cool beans - great new video shows it flying high over Manchester. Meanwhile, Dolphins fans are justifiably nervous at what owner Stephen Ross may do to uniforms and classic logo next year.

Manchester City Football Club video: NEW CITY KIT: Umbro "Show Your City" July 6, 2012. http://youtu.be/O8hqPd4m1RM  

Depending on their ages, ebullient Manchester City fans agree that new home kit from Umbro is smexy, boss, gear, cool beans - great new video shows it flying high over Manchester. Meanwhile, Dolphins fans are justifiably nervous at what owner Stephen Ross may do to uniforms and classic logo next year. 

Here's some photos from the Umbro blog of Man City's new maroon-colored away kit as worn by one of Man City's most famous fans, singer Noel Gallagher, and the captain of the Premier League champions, Vincent Kompany
http://www.umbro.com/en-us/blog/city-smart-noel-and-kompany-reveal-manchester-city-away-jersey-2012/
See also: http://www.umbro.com/en-gb/


My last (video-filled) entry on Man City was my May 1st post titled, Jubilant! Liam Gallagher's best day of the year! Watches his Man. City beat Man. United, take over top of Premier League in global telecast seen by 650 million, tweets about meeting Maradona, and then crashes press conference
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/jubilant-liam-gallaghers-best-day-of.html


I can't even conceive of the Miami Dolphins, as presently constituted under Stephen Ross and Mike Dee, ever doing a video this clever, since up 'til now, subtlety has not proven their strong suit. But a fan video featuring the Dolphins logo/helmet and a camera flying high above South Florida and the shoreline and then winding its way towards the stadium, showing how insignificant the Orange Carpet really is, from near or far, would be most appreciated, especially if they finished by using that ridiculous carpet as the landing strip, like a Space Shuttle landing, well, that I'd like to see.

Under no circumstances should the Dolphins' logo or uniforms be drastically changed.

What's scarier, what they might look like if Ross changes them based on his unproven track record and intuition, or, what some Dolfans might do to Ross if he messed with them?

It's a tie, but just so everyone outside of the south Florida area knows in advance, IF bumbling Dolphins owner Stephen Ross drastically messes with them, I honestly don't think there's enough law enforcement in Florida to protect him from the wrath of angry fans.

The Miami Dolphins logo of my youth, the look of champions, not cellar-dwellers.


The reader forums here tell the story -if there are to be any uniform changes, fans want it to be a return to the mid-1970's or early '80's: aqua, NOT teal! 
No orange jerseys!

ROOKIES ON THE RISE  Dan Marino: Miami's Hot Quarterback, November 14, 1983

The Business & Pleasure of Sports blog
South Florida Sun-Sentinel 
Miami Dolphins consider altering logo, look for 2013
By Craig Davis, April 4, 2012 11:00 AM
http://blogs.trb.com/sports/custom/business/blog/2012/04/miami_dolphins_consider_alteri.html

The Phinsider blog
Miami Dolphins Considering Logo Change for 2013?
by Kevin Nogle on Apr 5, 2012 2:00 PM EDT

http://www.thephinsider.com/2012/4/5/2925824/miami-dolphins-considering-logo-change-for-2013

The 1972 17-0, Undefeated Miami Dolphins, a team for the ages and my first year as a Dolphins season-ticket holder, where I missed not a minute of any home game: preseason, regular season or playoff at the Orange Bowl.
For over six years I had a copy of this photo resting in a simple black frame on top of my bedroom dresser at my home in North Miami Beach, south of the 163rd Street Shopping Center. There it stayed 'till that fateful day in August of 1979, when I began packing for my new life and the cream and crimson of Indiana University in Bloomington. 


The photo made the trip to Bloomington intact, where it remained on my desk in Briscoe Quad 427-A for two very eventful years at IU, the latter, '80-'81, the latter being the year we beat North Carolina for the NCAA title. I placed it right below my 8' x 11' b&w glossies of the Miami Herald's All-County Boys and Girls Gymnastics team. 
That was a tremendously-talented team that featured many friends of mine from all around Dade County, as well as my own friends and classmates at North Miami Beach Senior High School, home of the Chargers in case you forgot.
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Jubilant! Liam Gallagher's best day of the year! Watches his Man. City beat Man. United, take over top of Premier League in global telecast seen by 650 million, tweets about meeting Maradona, and then crashes press conference

Manchester City FC video: TUNNEL CAM: Man City 1-0 Man United Behind the scenes at the Etihad Stadium. April 30, 2012. http://youtu.be/90xoWo5Eah8
At 17:06, Diego Maradona and his daughter and grand-son arrive to see son-in-law Sergio Agüero...



City1 Utd 0 Liam Gallagher, Hey Jude. April 30, 2012.
http://youtu.be/mm8gLIS4ygA


My biggest fear when I woke up Monday morning was that the scheduled torrential downpours in South Florida would come during the broadcast of the Manchester Derby on ESPN at 3 p.m., and absolutely ruin things, since I have DirecTV and I lose reception during those sort of heavy end-of-the-world thunderstorms we get down here.
Or that Manchester would have similar weather during the match in this, the wettest April in recorded history.





Fortunately for me, everything happened before and after in my corner of South Florida and City won a fabulous game.
Well, at least one team I root for actually wins!



Liam Gallagher crashes the post-match press conference at Manchester City. 
"The league top, how about that?" April 30, 2012.
http://youtu.be/dGBbbwRpNzc


"Maradona shakes the hand of God!" 
Photo at: http://twitter.com/#!/liamgallagher/status/197082620566319104/photo/1
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Oasis - Wonderwall (Live at Jools Holland 2000)
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I'd have posted all this all sooner, as well as posts about the FA's Roy Hodgson vs. "people's choice" Harry Redknapp public debate over the manager of the English National Team, but the perpetual downpours we've had down here of late have played havoc with my access to the AT&T server, rendering me frustrated.
More on this very soon, though, as it's the burr under everyone's saddle there.


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BBC 5 live's Bryan Alexander's behind-the-scenes special from Eastlands on Manchester City FC from last Thursday

Football Daily podcast, 26/08/2010

Brian Alexander spent a day behind the scenes at Eastlands, speaking to Roberto Mancini and also Brian Marwood, Manchester City's chief football operations officer, who gives an intriguing insight into life at the richest club in the world.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/5lfd

Manchester City v Liverpool extended highlights - Video - Manchester City FC http://www.mcfc.co.uk/Video/Match-highlights/City-v-Liverpool-long-highlights

This was a beautifully played game, the best Man City has looked in ages! And the triangle passes were like a training video, with Liverpool channeling the Washington Generals, the perpetual opponents of the Harlem Globestrotters.

Official Manchester City FC website: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/
A lot more honest than the Dolphins website!

Official Barclay's Premier League website:
http://www.premierleague.com/page/Home/0,,12306,00.html

5 live Football Daily homepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070hx6