David Mooney

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David Mooney@davidmooney· Jul 4

Incredibly dangerous for the BBC to allow John Murray and Paul Robinson to do this hit without space suits and breathing apparatus

The BBC football correspondent John Murray and the former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson reporting from the Azteca Stadium.

David Mooney@davidmooney· Jun 26

Me every morning this week:

David Mooney@davidmooney· Jun 26

You know what will cool you down during this heatwave? A book about #MCFC's win over Gillingham at Wembley in 1999. Get it for the bargain price of £7 (+p&p) here. If you order in the next couple of hours I can also get it into today's post: davemooney.co.uk/book/

The City team celebrate winning the Division Two playoff final against Gillingham in 1999.

David Mooney@davidmooney· Jun 8

As the World Cup approaches, a reminder of one of my all-time favourite things: For some reason, freshly-relegated Manchester City hosted Jamaica at Maine Road for a France ‘98 warm-up game. And the Independent’s match report was BRUTAL on a terrible 0-0 draw.

THERE was one question that could not go away as Jamaica met Manchester City last night: why on earth would a team going to the World Cup risk the humiliation of losing to a football disaster story?

Drawing against Wales in Cardiff two months ago was bad enough, but could you imagine lining up against Argentina or Croatia with a defeat at Maine Road despoiling a current form guide.

Even Bury managed to avoid that and the closest they got to France this summer was when their manager, Stan Ternent, got an engaged tone when he phoned the World Cup ticket hot-line.

Give a country the scent of the finals, however, and rationale goes out of the window, as England's World Cup single testifies. The Reggae Boyz need match practice and the Cock-up Boys provided it last night, which if nothing else had the horns and whistles of the Caribbean pitted against the dropped clangers of Moss Side.

Jamaica managed to avoid the ultimate in red faces but they did little else to encourage the belief that they will do anything but make up the numbers in France. A turgid 0-0 draw is not the stuff to draw inspiration from.

This was the first match since City sank into the Second Division and the much-billed chance to say goodbye to Georgi Kinkladze proved to be false promise because the Georgian was in Amsterdam negotiating a transfer to Ajax. In normal circumstances the fans would have every right to feel short-changed, but then they are used to that at Maine Road.

Other than Kinkladze, Joe Royle, who signed a new three-year contract that will keep him at the club until the summer of 2001, had kept his promise and fielded a near full-strength side. In other words, a collection that any self- respecting World Cup team ought to wallop.

Instead all they offered was a chance for Nicky Weaver to impress Royle with his goalkeeping. The 18-year-old made good saves from Paul Hall, Ricardo Gardner and Stephen Malcolm, but to suggest he prevented a rout would be a gross over-statement. This was a pallid Jamaican display.

David Mooney@davidmooney· May 28

Getting into character by skipping through and just accepting. Bond wouldn’t read the terms of service.

The terms of service screen for 007 First Light.

David Mooney@davidmooney· May 28

It’s time.

David Mooney@davidmooney· May 26

Just home from tonight's live podcast recording and that's that for another season. It was another great evening and a lovely way to round off 10 years of Guardiola's City, reflecting on what's passed but also previewing what's to come.

Richard Burns (left), Brian Horton (middle) and Dom Farrell (right) speaking to David Mooney (far right) at Idle Hands cafe for this year's live Blue Moon Podcast.

David Mooney@davidmooney· May 23

It’s been all over anyway, but this was lovely yesterday.

The Manchester press pack standing in a group photo on a training pitch at the CFA, with Pep Guardiola in the centre.

David Mooney@davidmooney· Apr 10

Shadowing doing bulletins today, so I’m reading the news during the golf this evening.

A selfie of me in the Five Live studio, waiting to go on air and read the news.

David Mooney@davidmooney· Apr 9

Unrelated, but you reminded me of this screenshot I took of my opening move against a complete stranger when playing on the Scrabble app during lockdown. They immediately quit.

A Scrabble board with the opening move being “Wanker”.

David Mooney@davidmooney· Apr 5

Balatro joker of the day.

Balatro joker which is a picture of an egg.

David Mooney@davidmooney· Mar 23

Hey. It’s me.

I’m looking down at the camera in a green hoody, with ornate pictures on the wall and an ornate ceiling.

David Mooney@davidmooney· Mar 15

Here I am with our new blinds (which Sam fitted and I’m taking credit for).

Me, standing in front of a window with faux wood Venetian blinds, posing as if on a gameshow and pointing to the prize.

David Mooney@davidmooney· Mar 14

When you’ve not done the homework and you’re quickly copying your mate’s before class

Pep Lijnders, Kolo Toure and a third member of the City backroom staff frantically copying notes together at half time.

David Mooney@davidmooney· Mar 13

One for @secondmentions.bsky.social… The dowdy potato snack!

A screenshot of an Adrian Chiles comment piece on the Guardian about crisps. In the sub headline, crisps are referred to as “the dowdy potato snack”.

David Mooney@davidmooney· Feb 5

Questions really need to be asked.

A screenshot from BBC News with the headline “Quiz enters administration for the third time” and a photo of the inside of one Quiz store, captioned “Quiz has 40 shops in the UK”.

David Mooney@davidmooney· Jan 16

If I'm being perfectly honest, Marc Guehi is a brilliant signing for City on a football basis. However, the explanation he gave for writing "I <3 Jesus" on the rainbow armband left a lot to be desired.

"The message was just a message of truth and love and incluvsivity to be honest," said Guehi without expanding on the point further to explain specifically what he meant.

But he added: "I don't think the message was harmful in any way - that's all I can really say about that to be honest."

"I believe 100% in the words that I wrote, even what I've just said now - it's a message of truth and love, and I hope people can understand that my faith is my faith, and I'll stand by it for the rest of my life," he said.

David Mooney@davidmooney· Jan 15

I noticed that the game on Saturday finished with the same scoreline as the date... City 10-1 Exeter on the 10th of January. So I had a look through City's history to see when it had happened before and there are only 18 times in total: