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Focus on Georgi Kinkladze: Manchester City’s jinking Georgian genius

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He spent seven seasons in English football and was relegated three times, but it was the playmaker’s flashes of brilliance that stood him apart from the rest

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WSC 384 out now

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March issue available now online and in store

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Alan Ball: The man in the white boots by David Tossell

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Hodder & Stoughton, £20
Reviewed by Mark O’Brien
From WSC 374, March 2018
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Manchester City’s great turning point: beating Gillingham on penalties

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The week after their neighbours had become champions of Europe, Manchester City finally won back the respect of their fans – though they made it difficult, as Ian Farrell recalled in WSC 212, October 2012

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Georgi Kinkladze

Once upon a time, Manchester City fans sang that every run that Kinky made was blinding but, as Dan Brennan reports, the Georgian now just heads for dead ends

When Gio Kinkladze rejected Derby County’s of­fer of a new contract and a 50 per cent wage cut in the summer of 2003, there was little doubt in his mind that a return to the Premiership was just around the corner. What followed instead was an increasingly forlorn and humiliating attempt to secure employment in Britain and abroad. Plagued by injury and fitness problems at Derby, he only showed glimpses of the skills that had made him the darling of the Kippax at Manchester City, but he was only 30 and still possessed the dancing feet and quick brain to compensate for any decline in speed and increased girth.

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