Purely Man City

Mancityfans
I like this place. On a good day there’s usually plenty of interesting threads (story here). On a bad day it’s like Iraq. It’s never dull though.

Bluemoon (registration required)
One of the biggest and busiest City talkboards.

Blue Vibe
Started in the 1990s, a lively place that gets more than 2,000 posts a day.

Citymancs
Launched in July 2005 and now growing at a decent rate.

Bluewatch (registration required)
Tried to register for this place but failed, so can’t comment.

Happyaxeman
Friendly place - so mind your manners.

Blueheaven (registration required)
Good range of topics.

Manchester Evening News
Allows you to post messages after each story, then censors them.

City stats & info

MCFCStats
Amazingly detailed site that includes career stats for every player in City’s history and manager stats from 1889 to the present. It will even tell you how many times we’ve won by a certain score, home and away, since we were founded.

Daily Telegraph
Has the most detailed player stats available online.
The interactive graphic breaks down passes and tackles for each game and shows who passed to whom, while the table at the bottom of the page has this season’s tackling and shooting stats for each player.

Statbunker
Excellent site with huge database of player and team stats.

Setanta Sports
More stats for each player here, including duels won and lost and pass accuracy.

ESPNsoccernet
Individual player stats going back to 2003/04, including total fouls committed and fouls suffered. Also has Actim stats for the top 100 Premiership players and average attendances and Fair Play stats since 2003-04.

Premiersoccerstats.com
Has detailed player stats for every Premiership campaign since 1993-4. It also breaks down how players have performed against different opponents and even tells you which foot goals are scored with.

Sky Stats Centre
Career details for each squad player.

Soccerbase
Another very useful site, with career stats for City players and managers and historic transfer info. I’ve checked some of the transfer figures against the details released in City’s accounts and they pretty much match up.

Football365
Has the official FA Premiership stats, which include goal time distribution and result patterns. Also has all-time historical tables.

BBC
Huge video and audio archive.

Wikipedia: Manchester City
The world’s biggest encyclopedia is still growing at a rapid rate. Contains current and historical information about the club.

Supporters clubs

MCFC Official Supporters Club
News and contact details for every branch.

Baguley & Brooklands
Excellent site with plenty of up-to-date news, a superb photo gallery and a message board.

1st Belfast
Message board, pics and event news.

Belfast Brantwood
News & features.

Bredbury Blues
Message board and photo gallery.

Cheadle Blues
Info, video clips and recordings of Pearce and Wardle from a fans forum in May.

County Wicklow
News and features.

Disley & High Lane Supporters Club
Detailed site with plenty of news and minutes of meetings.

Dukinfield Supporters Club
Lots of photos but no sure when info was last updated.

East Yorkshire Blues
Lots of info, but doesn’t look like it’s been updated for a while.

Failsworth Blues
Nicely put together site with a section for kids.

Greece Supporters Club
In Greek.

Hazel Grove Blues
Nice site with news, articles and galleries.

Heywood Blues
Message board and local links.

Huddersfield Branch
News and info

M40 Blues
Members are “mostly based around the M40 between London and Birmingham”.

Mossley Blues
Newsletters, minutes and pictures.

Northenden Supporters Club
News, pics and free downloads.

Prestwich & Whitefield Branch
Last updated Jul 2006.

Reddish Blues
Excellent site with latest news, features and pictures.

South West Branch
Another excellent site. Loads of info including a full break-down of the branch’s finances.

Stretford and Urmston
Message board.

Sussex Blues

Winchester Branch
News, photos & fantasy football.

MCFC Wythenshawe branch
This site is well worth checking out. Lots of original content, video clips and stuff that made me chuckle.

International sites

Official site in Chinese

Official site in Thai

Italian Bluemoon
In Italian

Mcfc4ever
In Norweigian

New York Supporters Club

mancity.pl
In Polish

Dutch MCFC site
In Dutch

Icelandic Manchester City site
In Icelandic

MCFC Finland
Under construction

MCFC France
In French. Last updated 2003

Supporters Club, Scandianavian Branch
In Danish

Supporters Club, Thailand branch
In Thai

Sites owned by fans that mention City

Blue Muse
Written by Myeral: City fan. Dad. Writer. Rager against the machine.

Blue Spice
The life of medical herbalist Anji Spicer. Includes her blog.

Keepy Ups
Written by Chrissy a ‘Plazzy Blue Manc’ in the US.

MCFC Mathews
The life and times of a young City fan.

City fans on Blogger

Sites no longer updated

Citizens Pain

Colin Bell’s Sweaty Jockstrap

Beneath the scoreboard
Match reports and features.

MCFC Supporters Trust
The site of the now-disbanded Official Supporters Trust. Feature archives still worth a read.

Fallen off t’internet

MCFC Forever
The Invisible Fan
The Citizen
Mancitynettalk
Belgium Blue
Planet City