Here are your Manchester City evening headlines on Tuesday, March 22.
FA Cup venue issues
Manchester City and Liverpool supporters have united in a bid to get the FA Cup semi-final between the two clubs moved away from Wembley due to travel difficulties facing fans.
The showpiece fixture - scheduled for April 16 or 17 - should be a highlight of the season, but supporters of both clubs are faced with an Easter weekend travel nightmare. National Rail are conducting engineering works between London Euston and Milton Keynes Central that weekend - as is often the case over the Easter period - meaning that there will be no direct trains running between Manchester or Liverpool and the capital.
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While it will be possible to reach London by travelling across to Sheffield and then south to London St Pancras, the last of these services that would get City supporters back to Manchester the same night of the game (if the match is on the Saturday) leaves London at 19:37. If the game kicks off at 17:30, as has been the case with recent semi-finals, then supporters would have no chance of catching the last train home.
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Duo right to join Barca
Eyebrows may have been raised when two Manchester City youngsters ran down their contracts in the space of six months to join Barcelona. Not anymore.
Eric Garcia was the first to tell City he wanted to leave, with the club deciding not to accept a bid for the centre-back in 2020 from Barcelona and instead deciding that he could leave on a free the following year. This January, after Ferran Torres made the same decision about his City future, the Blues cashed in and tripled their money on the Spain international.
It was disappointing to lose both bright talents, but City haven't exactly missed them in the last season. Now, both Garcia and Torres are at the forefront of Barcelona's revival under Xavi and showing they were right to leave City's all-conquering side under Pep Guardiola for a rebuild project in Spain.
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