I really love the look of this website. The clean lines and blocky grid look just give it a nice feel. The way the text is overlayed on top of the main image is a pretty good and matching look. The home page is a nice “dashboard” look into the team’s news and events, surprisingly without too much noise in other elements like ads and such. I also really like how they’ve done the shopping cart drop-down in the header.
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I like the symmetrical grid layout and subtle lighting effects. The design is part of a welcome trend that I’ve noticed; more designs are featuring really large photos, square corners, minimal gradients/dropshadows, and occasional translucent elements.
http://inside.nike.com/blogs/nikefootball-en__EMEA/tags/bootcamp
http://www.mtv.com/?source=CTY_CA
http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/
http://smashingmagazine.com
Sites with this style tend to have hip content and cater to web-savvy people. Hopefully laypeople will start to favour this style over the (in my opinion) trite Apple-inspired round corners, gradients, and relfections.
The only complaint I have about the Man City site is that the Arabic-site link is at the bottom of the page. A user who can only read Arabic would want to change the language before doing anything else; so the option should be in the upper righthand corner.
Considering how bad most football websites are, this is a really nice and refreshing change. shame I don’t support man city.