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Uwe Rosler was lying in a hospital bed, barely able to move, when his phone rang. It was 2003. He had just been told he might not survive the week. A tumour had been found in his chest — non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 34. He had spent the previous months scoring goals for Lillestrøm in Norway, thinking his career was winding down quietly. Instead he was fighting for his life. The call came from an old friend in Manchester. The friend held the phone up, and Rosler heard something he would never forget: the City fans singing his name. It was a home game at the City of Manchester Stadium. The supporters had heard how ill he was, and they were letting him know they were with him. Rosler listened, ended the call, and smiled for the first time in weeks. “I had 46,000 Mancunians willing me back to health,” he later wrote. “With that kind of backing, how could I possibly fail?” Rosler was never the most naturally gifted player, but he became a cult hero at Manchester City during some of the club’s hardest years. He arrived on trial from Nuremberg in 1994 — a gangly East German with an unusual haircut and a relentless work rate. The fans took to him immediately. He scored 64 goals in 176 appearances, finished as the club’s top scorer three seasons running, and won the Player of the Year award in 1995. When City were relegated, he stayed. He didn’t leave. He fought with them. The supporters never forgot. So when they heard he was seriously ill, they sang his name. It helped. Rosler went through months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. There were days he could barely move and wondered if he would ever kick a ball again. He thought of his wife Cecilie, his two young sons, and the 46,000 people in Manchester willing him to live. He made it through. The cancer went into remission. He knew what he wanted to do next. He couldn’t play anymore, but he could coach. He took his badges, returned to Lillestrøm as manager in 2005, and worked his way through the English lower leagues at Brentford, Wigan and Leeds. He never managed in the Premier League, but he built a reputation as a thoughtful, principled coach. In 2014 he walked back into the Etihad as Wigan manager for an FA Cup quarter-final. The City fans sang his name again. This time he was the opposition, trying to knock his old club out. Wigan won 2-1. Rosler didn’t celebrate. He stayed on the bench, took a sip of water and remained quiet. “This club has been very respectful to me,” he said afterwards. “The reception I got was tremendous. I also felt I was very respectful in that I did not celebrate.” That is Uwe Rosler. A man who loves a club so much he refuses to disrespect it, even when he beats it. He was inducted into the Manchester City Hall of Fame in 2009. He named his sons after Colin Bell and Tony Book. He still has the T-shirt reading “Rosler’s granddad bombed Old Trafford” framed on his wall. He is German, a former East Germany international, but in every way that matters he is a Mancunian. And he is a survivor. The real story of Uwe Rosler is not the goals. It is the phone call, the chant, and the fight to live.

Im fuming even more today. Everything about yesterday : city sneaking in the back door, the bananas, the red card, the drop off, the police shambles. Everything is pissing me off now

THIS IS HOW IT FEELS TO BE CITY. 🍌🔵⚪️🔵⚪️🍌

I think Citeh are actually the most hated club on the planet right now.

🚨🚨BREAKING: The premier league FA is investigating Manchester City vs Aston Villa game that took place on the last day of the season back in 2022,it is believed that the results might have been fixed since Aston Villa blew away a Two zero lead in less than 10 minutes which lead to City premier league triumph According to an Insider a certain unclaimed amount of money was transferred to Aston Villas bank account at the same time, which has raised several questions since Liverpool lost the league on one point that season!