Nine long years since we sat top of the Prem. Look forward to us fucking this up tonight
Would be nice though
Nine long years since we sat top of the Prem. Look forward to us fucking this up tonight
Would be nice though
Oxford v Swindon off due to four confirmed cases and three self-isolating in the playing staff at Town. Dramatically it was off/on/off over the course of the afternoon/evening.
Fucking relieved (providing everyone is ok) as we're shit at the moment and another loss to Oxford would be a weekend-ruiner.
Cracking start to this game
Bielsa somehow turning Patrick Bamford into a good player must be his one outstanding achievement in football.
Hopefully this means you give him a call up soon.
He's another one who will melt once a bit of atmosphere comes back. I wonder whether the various transfer committees are taking xBOTTLE into account
That's lovely.
This has been a great game.
Fucking hell
Mings
Everything I think about this shitty crowdless walking pace football tells me City should be winning every game 5-0, and yet...
Bottom half after 5 games
2nd place is Spurs' for the taking.
Didn't City have the two best teams in the country a couple of years ago? Looking at their line-up it seems a bit shallow if you factor in Raheem Sterling dropping right off.
They've lost at least one top player every summer (to age mainly) and replaced them with latin bumfluff, it really is a dogshit squad in comparison. Aguero may be gone too. Relying on Sterling
Pep's post-match interview
Gone by summer.
He needs time. It isn't his team.
City just don't look the same side with a right footer at left back and Mahrez out wide.
You need players like Mendy and Sane hugging the touchline, they look ponderous without this setup at the moment.
I thought Newcastle fine, he's just back from international break but given he's directly led to marked improvement in both his cameos since and the fact he's one of the world's best, Ole really needs to die in a fire for benching Pogba. DVB too when you're playing James and Mata instead ffs.
Harvey with a goal and assist. Great to see Blackburn back in Prem next season.
Ajax thirteen goals to the good this afternoon with all time great Huntelaar helping himself to two off the bench and Lassina Traoré (not that one), a 19 year old Burkina Faso player, notching five.
Genuinely fearing we wont make it past Derby's point total.
Hopefully Covid will buy you a few freebie games.
We beat PSG looking really good and we revert back to this fucking team?
I just want to play on a Saturday. Any time we don’t have a Europa League match we end up on fucking Monday.
They started badly (losing their first 2 league games) but have recovered since then.
We were playing some nice stuff too regardless of how good/shit PSG were.
Tuanzebe was donning their front line yet he's dropped, Shaw looked competent as a LCB, we didn't have James running as fast as he could into other players etc etc.
Daniel James really looks like a kid who won a Make-a-Wish Foundation appearance with United and who has been kept on to meet some domestic player squad minimum.
For fans of Kurt Zouma and Thiago Silva stabbing it sideways to each other, this has been a real treat so far.
If Mendy had managed to find the bottom corner that would have been a stunning own goal.
Mendy's positioning for that Rashford save was diabolical. He could have lobbed him ffs. Good boot though.
Reckon Sir Marcus would have scored going near post, actually. Mendy was practically falling over to his right.
Given United get penalties for people breathing on their players in the box, how on earth is that not a penalty?
That should have been a penalty for Chelsea.
So no VAR on Azpiliculeta but they use it on this? Fucking joke.
And lol at VAR actually looking at the one on Rashford, even more lol if they give it.
Did they even look at the Maguire/Azpi one? They can't have thought nah, no foul.
David Coote was probably checking for offside.
Lol at Lampard shitting it and going ultra defensive. Son, Pogba is gonna come on soon, you should have used this chance to put the game to bed not pass sideways and clap the black lad in goal.
Who am I to question the great man's goalkeeping expertise, or frankly any of his insightful and articulate punditry.
Embarrassing.
They've refused to quote numbers paid too haven't they?
That’s some peak late-90s/early-00s “YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A CAR” nonsense.
This picture makes it clear to me that what is in fact happening is Azpilicueta is hitting Maguire with the Stone Cold Stunner and should have been sent off.
Careful. They have TV-detecting supervans.
Fucking hell TWO substitutions before the 89th minute???? Calm down Ole you crazed maverick.