Given happy to play the quiet revolutionary
However, one thing is clear: whatever direction it goes in, Shay Given will be leading it from the front. Albeit quietly.
City’s current unbeaten run of eight Premier League matches – and certainly their 2-1 victory over Chelsea on Saturday – is not down to one of their ludicrously inflated summer signings but the Lifford-born goalkeeper who continually shuns the spotlight, apart from the odd star turn here and there.
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