As Manchester City enter the final stages of their challenge for the Premier League JAMES LAWTON looks back at the great era of the club’s dominance between 1968-70

If a picture says a thousand words, the one depicting the great football man Joe Mercer on the stamp commemorating the centenary of his birth is, it has to be said, rather less than comprehensive.It’s a fine study, let’s be sure about this, but it portrays most strikingly an ageing, distinguished player who seems to be contemplating the uncertainties that will surely come when the roar of the crowd an...