Manchester City drawn at home in Carabao Cup!

Well it finally happened. I wasn’t sure that it would to be fair, but it did, Manchester City got drawn at home in a Cup competition.

I had written before about the amount of away fixtures City had, in succession, in cup fixtures.

A Leroy Sane brace saw a much changed City side scrape through against West Brom, at the Hawthorns. I believe we were irresistible in the first half with another Bravo howler making it a much less comfortable finish.

Taking place on the week commencing October 23rd, City will host Wolverhampton Wanderers. It comes a week after a home Champions League tie against Napoli, and a home game against Burnley in the Premier League a few days before.

The game following that Carabao Cup visit of Wolves to the Etihad, is a trip back to the Hawthorns. It’s funny how football works sometimes, but I digress.

To get this far, Wolves beat Yeovil, Southampton and Bristol Rovers in order to get this far. Currently second in the Championship, they certainly shouldn’t be a side to take lightly. That is something the hostorical statistics back up.

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Fourty six wins for each clubs in 116 since the first meeting in 1899. Although you have to go back to 2010 for the last time City lost to Wolves. Back to 1999 for the last time they won on City’s ground.

Remember, this past round we played West Brom. A replay of the 1970 Final of this very competition, a game we won 2-1. Next up is a replay of our Final of this competition from 1974. That time, despite a Colin Bell strike, we lost 2-1.

We haven’t both been managed by the same managers but their gaffer from 2006 until 2012 was Mick McCarthy. Now at Ipswich he was the last manager to lead them to the top flight. In the mid 1980’s he turned out 140 times for the Blues.

Player wise you have the two defenders, Joleon Lescott and Keith Curle. The latter played for City in the early 1990’s and into the start of the Premier League. Eventually leaving in 1996, as City started their downward spiral. Curle went to Wolves, where he stayed until 2000. As it would happen, that’s the time Lescott was starting out. In the youth squad prior, he made his Wolves debut in 2000.

Dave Wagstaffe, like Joleon started one of the clubs youth levels. Dave started at City before leaving for Wolves in 1964. A decade later and he was in the Wolves side to beat us in that League Cup Final I told you about earlier. A Wolves legend for sure, his funeral in 2013 showed that, but he was a Mancunian by birth.

John Burridge and Eric Nixon both played for the two of us. Nixon was on our books for most of the 1980’s, although he spent most of that time on loan. One of those loan spells was at Molineux, although he only made a dozen or so starts.

Burridge made Premier history when he became the oldest player to take the field. Signed by City as cover, he was almost 43 and a half years old when between the sticks for us (#stillbetterthanBravo).

Who remembers Mikkel Bischoff? Played just the once for us I believe and loaned to Wolves for a less than impressive spell. Moved to Coventry before eventually heading to Brondby.

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Finally you have Alan Oakes, the Manchester City legend. He never played for Wolves, but his son did. Keeping goal for them for the best part of a decade he can now be found coaching at Wrexham.

So what are your thoughts about the fixture? I personally am excited to be at home finally.

Do you remember any of these players or maybe remember a particular fixture featuring the two sides?

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