It was all too little, too late from Fulham, though, and City deservedly held on for the victory that moves them to within three points and a place off the Londoners in the Premier League table. Micah Richards delivers the ball, Shot by Gareth Barry from deep inside the penalty area misses wide to the left of the target.

Damien Duff takes a inswinging corner from the right by-line played to the near post, clearance by Mamady Sidibe.Yet it appeared for long stretches that Mancini's words had fallen on deaf ears, a fact that will doubtless not go unnoticed on Merseyside. When you have played football all your life that’s the only thing I know, so sitting on your sofa doing nothing is strange, you don’t know what to do,” he said.

He dreamed of playing as a professional footballer but he grew up playing amateur clubs throughout Paris before signing for Red Star, the second oldest club in France. It had been set up by Jules Rimet in 1897 with an ideology not discriminate against others because of class. GOAL - Clinton Dempsey : Stoke 3 - 2 Fulham Clinton Dempsey grabs a goal from outside the penalty area high into the middle of the goal. Stoke 3-2 Fulham. We like the Britannia Stadium to be a bit of a fortress, so to win again at home will give the lads confidence." Cafe Melice has now closed after three years in business as he and his wife look to relocate to a busier part of the city.He is the son of Mamady Sidibe, who scored 26 goals in 186 games for the Potters from 2005 to 2013. The modern-day outlook could hardly be more different, for while no Stoke player has scored more than two league goals this season, Villa's sights are set firmly on the top four.