Blue Moon Podcast - A Manchester City Show

The Blue Moon Podcast is back for YET another season... On today's show, David Mooney is joined by City fan Ciaran Murray and by the Daily Mail's Jack Gaughan to look back over the pre-season tour of Asia for Manchester City and to discuss what's new about the Enzo Maresca era at the club.

The Athletic's Sam Lee has been speaking to the players on the tour, so he's here to look at what they've said about what's different tactically. Plus, we speak to Tifo's Jon Mackenzie, whose new book "The Spectre of Pep: How Guardiola Haunts Modern Football Tactics", looks at how much City's former manager has influenced how we all see the game.

We take a look ahead to the Community Shield tie with Arsenal on Sunday, plus (and we make no apologies for this) we're starting off as weirdly as we mean to go on by taking a look at all the times that City have played on the same day as a partial or total solar eclipse.

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With the sad news that the former City manager Kevin Keegan has died at the age of 75, David Mooney is joined by City fans Liam Wright and Andy MacNab to discuss his legacy at the club. After taking over in 2001, he led City to promotion from the second tier in style, setting a club record points total and equalling the record for the number of goals City had scored in a single season.

In the final season at Maine Road and City's first back in the Premier League, he led the club to a ninth-placed finish and brought European football back to the blue half of Manchester, via the UEFA Fair Play league, as he oversaw the move to what's now the Etihad Stadium.

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Ahead of the World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico, David Mooney is joined by guests from each of the countries that have Manchester City players in their squads to discuss what roles those players will have for their national teams and their chances of bringing home a winners medal at the end of the tournament.

The guests (in order of appearance) are:

🇫🇷 Jeremy Smith (on Cherki, France)

🇳🇴 Jens Friberg (on Haaland, Norway)

🇺🇿 Conor Bowers (on Khusanov, Uzbekistan)

🇵🇹 Tom Kundert (on Bernardo, Dias and Nunes, Portugal)

🇪🇸 Guillem Balague (on Rodri, Spain)

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jack Pitt-Brooke (on Stones, Guehi, O'Reilly and Trafford, England)

🇬🇭 Akosua Adjei (on Semenyo, Ghana)

🇭🇷 Lovre Nikolac (on Gvardiol and Kovacic, Croatia)

🇩🇿 Nadim (on Ait-Nouri, Algeria)

🇪🇬 Marwan Saeed (on Marmoush, Egypt)

🇧🇪 Sacha Tavolieri (on Doku, Belgium)

🇳🇱 Arthur Renard (on Reijnders and Ake, Netherlands)

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To close this season, David Mooney is joined by City fan Richard Burns, journalist and City fan Dom Farrell from Sporting News, and the former City manager Brian Horton to reflect on the 2025-26 season and the Pep Guardiola era as a whole.

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David Mooney is joined, at varying stages in this special episode, by City fans KC, Gaz, Chris Higginbottom, Sam Rosbottom, Adam Carter and Bob Toole, plus journalists Paul Hirst from The Times and Jack Gaughan from the Daily Mail, all to reflect on a remarkable 10 years of Pep Guardiola at the Etihad.

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