London: As blue-and-white confetti exploded under the Wembley arch, Wigan players lifted a trophy for the first time in the club's 81-year history.
In one of the biggest FA Cup final upsets, a team playing non-league football 35 years ago and assembled for barely $30 million beat big-spending Manchester City 1-0 on Saturday.
Winning English football's showpiece match was not only a reward for Wigan owner Dave Whelan's investment in the small northern club, but completed his unfinished business from the 1960 final.
After breaking a leg playing for Blackburn at the old Wembley, Whelan's career ended at the age of 23 and he started amassing the wealth that enabled him to ultimately finance Wigan....
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11:48 PM, May 11, 2013
Manchester: Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has apologised to David Luiz for his ugly two-footed stamp on the back of the Chelsea defender's thighs during Sunday's FA Cup semi-final at Wembley Stadium. Aguero says in a Twitter post that he has contacted Luiz to say sorry for the 85th-minute tackle in City's 2-1 win, adding that it was an "impulse reaction that shouldn't have happened." Luiz used Twitter to thank...
07:04 PM, Apr 17, 2013
London: Manchester City reached the FA Cup final by beating defending champions Chelsea 2-1 in a free-flowing game at Wembley on Sunday to maintain their only remaining hope for a trophy this season. City dominated much of the first hour and went 2-0 up through goals by Samir Nasri and Sergio Aguero, before Demba Ba pulled Chelsea back into the game with an acrobatic finish in the 66th. That led...
10:41 PM, Apr 14, 2013
London: Substitute Sergio Aguero scored a superb late winner as Manchester City slowed Manchester United's charge to the Premier League title by beating the leaders 2-1 in a frenetic derby on Monday. The Argentina striker slalomed through United's defense and arrowed a finish high into the net in the 78th minute, cutting second-place City's deficit to their fierce rival to 12 points with seven games remaining. James Milner gave the...
02:34 AM, Apr 09, 2013
"There have been plenty of times in the past when gaps like this have been made up," said a defiant Roberto Mancini. ...
05:14 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Sergio Aguero rescued Manchester City with a late goal in a 2-2 draw with Liverpool, as they dropped two more points in the title race. ...
11:47 PM, Feb 03, 2013
Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero will miss Sunday's match against Arsenal and faces another week on the sidelines with a hamstring injury. ...
07:18 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Manchester City started the New Year in perfect fashion as they strolled past a resolute Stoke side with a comfortable 3-0 victory. ...
11:24 PM, Jan 01, 2013
London: Manchester City's Sergio Aguero sets his sights on Chelsea on Sunday bolstered by statistics proving his strike rate since joining the club is the best in Premier League history. The Premier League's Opta number crunchers have worked out that the Argentine's 28 goals have come at a rate of one every 111 minutes - better than the likes of Robin van Persie, Thierry Henry and Alan Shearer. Manchester United's...
09:12 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Manchester: As Real Madrid marked Jose Mourinho's 100th Champions League game by reaching the knockout phase with a game to spare, Manchester City again fell short competing with Europe's elite. A 1-1 draw with the Spanish champions on Wednesday ended City's campaign in the group stage for the second successive season despite more than $1 billion spent on the team in the last four years. "With the array of players...
02:38 AM, Nov 22, 2012
Sergio Aguero and Carlos Tevez scored two goals each in the second half as Manchester City rout Aston Villa 5-0 to go top of the table in Premier League. Manchester City made two changes to the side that beat Tottenham with Samir Nasri and Maicon returning to the starting line-up in place of Pablo Zabaleta and Aleksandar Kolarov. Villa named an unchanged from the side that performed so well in...
11:32 PM, Nov 17, 2012
Manchester: Manchester City live to fight another day in the Champions League " just. In reality, the big-spending English champions are unlikely to advance from the group stage for the second successive season after being held to a 2-2 draw by Ajax on Tuesday. "It's not the case that we're not good enough for the Champions League," City captain Vincent Kompany said. City conceded twice in the opening 17 minutes...
03:43 AM, Nov 07, 2012
London: Premier League champions Manchester City maintained their unbeaten start to the season and consigned Sunderland to a first defeat with a 3-0 win at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. City, with seven changes from the side outplayed by Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League on Wednesday, took an early lead with a blistering free-kick from Aleksandar Kolarov after five minutes. Substitute Sergio Aguero doubled the lead after an hour,...
07:19 PM, Oct 06, 2012
London: Striker Sergio Aguero could be back for Premier League champions Manchester City in mid September after suffering a knee injury on the opening day of the season against Southampton on Sunday. "I don't think Sergio will be out for long and we are hoping he will be back after the international break which is obviously fantastic news for him and for us," manager Roberto Mancini told the club's website...
10:16 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Manchester: Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero will know in a couple of days whether the knee injury sustained in the opening 3-2 Premier League win at home to Southampton on Sunday is serious. The Argentine striker, whose last-gasp goal against Queens Park Rangers sealed the title for City in dramatic fashion back in May, was carried off on a stretcher after 13 minutes. City's top goalscorer last season looked in...
10:02 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Manchester: Manchester City fought back after a second-half collapse against Southampton to open their title defence with a 3-2 victory against the Premier League newcomers on Sunday. Substitutes Rickie Lambert and Steven Davis put a dogged Southampton side 2-1 in front and wipe out Carlos Tevez's opener for City. But Samir Nasri spared City from an opening weekend upset by scoring an 80th-minute winner following Edin Dzeko's equaliser. "We showed...
11:02 PM, Aug 19, 2012
Manchester: Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has committed his future to the club, dismissing speculation that he is set to leave this summer after just one season in the Premier League. The 23-year-old enjoyed a successful debut season at City, scoring 23 league goals, including the crucial last-gasp winner against QPR which secured the Premier League title on the final day. The Argentina international has been linked with a move...
03:32 PM, May 29, 2012
Manchester: Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero is battling to be fit for this weekend's Premier League clash at Arsenal after suffering a "stupid" foot injury last week, the club website said on Wednesday. The Argentine missed last Saturday's 3-3 home draw with Sunderland and the previous game against Stoke City, which helped Manchester United stretch their lead over their local rivals to five points with seven games left. "It's hard...
09:32 AM, Apr 05, 2012
