This week
Well, just when you thought that the manumirror couldn’t sink any lower, Friday's back page had Fabregas claiming that he had a lucky escape from an Adebayor horror tackle, another one that no-one at the ground saw. They’ve managed to find a new journalist to have a pop at out lovely Blues, his name is John Cross. And listen to this “if Ade had worn studs instead of blades Van Persie – wait for it- could have – still waiting - lost an eye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey and that fan at Palace could have – had a knife!!!!!!!!!!!! ) I just threw that one in!
So a three match ban for Ade, nothing for Rip Van Persie but they daren’t do anything about either 'celebration' I wouldn’t have thought? maybe a yellow for VP?
David Conn in Friday, Saturday and Sunday’ s Guardian/Observer has articles on the Blues and the Abu Dhabi influence. I was astounded to read that Hughes and Cook hadn’t checked out the situation thoroughly before signing up and were a bit relieved, to say the least, that the Arabs came in. More tomorrow.
Off to the swamp/cesspit/Liverpool warehouse tomorrow. Here’s the It’s A Fix extract :
Last promotion was in 1975, after City put them down in 1974, remember!? Most recent connections : Mark Hughes and Carlos Tevez. Big name glory seekers/bandwagon jumpers : Thousands of them! :
Fergie’s squad (boo) has been weakened with the loss of Eckersley, Campbell, Tevez and Ronaldo (Total £83.5M), but they’ve added Oberton, Valencia, and Owen (Total 19M) to the existing lot of granny shaggers, drug test dodgers, kung fu kickers, too disgusting to mention..
One of the big four doing it the right way? : Persuaded the F. A to ban some of our players in 1906 so they could sign four of them to give them a modicum of success which eluded them for the next 37 years, during which time their bitter fans burned down the main stand at Hyde Road (Uwe’s granddad later got revenge!).
Appointed an ex Blue to manage them, played at Maine Road post war before big crowds for the first time then under the City lights in European games. Had a stand built for them by the Government. Nicked the ground name from Lancs CC, Red Devils from Salford RL, Glory, glory song from Spurs. Milked the Munich Air crash, originators of modern hooliganism in the 60’s, first with fences in the 70’s, went 26 years without a title win until a game carried on after dark allowing them to win it and their first title. Finished the careers of three City players, Bell, Pardoe, Haaland with filthy tackles. Since then it’s been a case of marketing the club in far out places to increase their support and piss off their traditional Salford and Stretford support, and they’ve dominated due to dubious penalties, off side goals, intimidation of officials, wind ups, media bias, tapping up of players, Fergie time, sulks, tantrums, spitting and bullying opposition fans’ women and children. In fact every dirty snidey trick in the book to gain an advantage. and have now got American owners. They really are despicable, which hasn’t been pointed out to their Malaysian hordes….YET.
Last season : They lost to Zenith St Petersburg in the Euro Super Cup but in traditional rag manner still claimed themselves as World Champions. They won the League Cup on penalties and the Title for the third consecutive time with 90 points, 4 more than Liverpool in second, with 16 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss at home. But they lost the one they really wanted, humiliated 2-0 by Barcelona in Rome, who City later beat 1-0 in a friendly.
At COMS it was a November 1-0 loss for City, 47,320 (2,846 Malaysians) and at O/T in May it was another loss, 2-0 this time 75,464, (3,050 Blues)
This season so far: They’re 3rd with 12 points from 5 games, after a home win over Birmingham, loss at Burnley, win in the second half at Wigan and scraped past Arsenal at home who had a penalty and goal denied. Equalised with a penalty after an ‘honest’ Rooney dive, won with an own goal with despicable chants and treatment aimed at that gentleman of football Arsene Wenger. Bastards. They also won at Spurs.
Our form at the Liverpool Warehouse in Trafford : In our last 8 Prem visits we’ve won 1 drawn 4 lost 3.
Comment : We go there with our strongest team in years but without Robinho, Adebayor - “united feel firmly that he should be banned from the derby” and possibly Tevez.
But it should still be one of the best derbies with the atmosphere cranked up further to City’s superior marketing campaign. That banner of theirs should act as an inspiration. We can do it, c’mon City/
Wind Ups : If Tevez comes on and gets the ball it’ll be “Fergie, Fergie sign him up. He once said that united don’t boo the players they’ve sold on so we’ll see what class the rags fans have. He’s already come out with “Tevez will get a hostile reception” so the ‘King Of Hypocrites’ has done it again. He also reckons that City won’t be top dogs (again) in his lifetime asking for trouble, as Tony P's sussed. Check out the history and see how true ‘Only here cos of City’ really is.
Groundwise : Record attendance is still 76,962 for the Wolves v Grimsby semi-final in 1939, still 7,602 below City’s 84,569. It’s uglyville, but we make it beautiful in our corner between the main and north stand with the sky blue so long may it continue!
Stats : 44 pre-war, and 96 post make it our 141st league meeting,
Last pot : Do we care? Are we bovvered?
Their current home average att : 75, 304
WwtwtwShite : Averaged 11, 685 in 1930/31
Away Day Zines ; united We Stand, Red Issue, Red News
Pubs/parking/route : You know the drill by now?!
Well, just when you thought that the manumirror couldn’t sink any lower, Friday's back page had Fabregas claiming that he had a lucky escape from an Adebayor horror tackle, another one that no-one at the ground saw. They’ve managed to find a new journalist to have a pop at out lovely Blues, his name is John Cross. And listen to this “if Ade had worn studs instead of blades Van Persie – wait for it- could have – still waiting - lost an eye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey and that fan at Palace could have – had a knife!!!!!!!!!!!! ) I just threw that one in!
So a three match ban for Ade, nothing for Rip Van Persie but they daren’t do anything about either 'celebration' I wouldn’t have thought? maybe a yellow for VP?
David Conn in Friday, Saturday and Sunday’ s Guardian/Observer has articles on the Blues and the Abu Dhabi influence. I was astounded to read that Hughes and Cook hadn’t checked out the situation thoroughly before signing up and were a bit relieved, to say the least, that the Arabs came in. More tomorrow.
Off to the swamp/cesspit/Liverpool warehouse tomorrow. Here’s the It’s A Fix extract :
Last promotion was in 1975, after City put them down in 1974, remember!? Most recent connections : Mark Hughes and Carlos Tevez. Big name glory seekers/bandwagon jumpers : Thousands of them! :
Fergie’s squad (boo) has been weakened with the loss of Eckersley, Campbell, Tevez and Ronaldo (Total £83.5M), but they’ve added Oberton, Valencia, and Owen (Total 19M) to the existing lot of granny shaggers, drug test dodgers, kung fu kickers, too disgusting to mention..
One of the big four doing it the right way? : Persuaded the F. A to ban some of our players in 1906 so they could sign four of them to give them a modicum of success which eluded them for the next 37 years, during which time their bitter fans burned down the main stand at Hyde Road (Uwe’s granddad later got revenge!).
Appointed an ex Blue to manage them, played at Maine Road post war before big crowds for the first time then under the City lights in European games. Had a stand built for them by the Government. Nicked the ground name from Lancs CC, Red Devils from Salford RL, Glory, glory song from Spurs. Milked the Munich Air crash, originators of modern hooliganism in the 60’s, first with fences in the 70’s, went 26 years without a title win until a game carried on after dark allowing them to win it and their first title. Finished the careers of three City players, Bell, Pardoe, Haaland with filthy tackles. Since then it’s been a case of marketing the club in far out places to increase their support and piss off their traditional Salford and Stretford support, and they’ve dominated due to dubious penalties, off side goals, intimidation of officials, wind ups, media bias, tapping up of players, Fergie time, sulks, tantrums, spitting and bullying opposition fans’ women and children. In fact every dirty snidey trick in the book to gain an advantage. and have now got American owners. They really are despicable, which hasn’t been pointed out to their Malaysian hordes….YET.
Last season : They lost to Zenith St Petersburg in the Euro Super Cup but in traditional rag manner still claimed themselves as World Champions. They won the League Cup on penalties and the Title for the third consecutive time with 90 points, 4 more than Liverpool in second, with 16 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss at home. But they lost the one they really wanted, humiliated 2-0 by Barcelona in Rome, who City later beat 1-0 in a friendly.
At COMS it was a November 1-0 loss for City, 47,320 (2,846 Malaysians) and at O/T in May it was another loss, 2-0 this time 75,464, (3,050 Blues)
This season so far: They’re 3rd with 12 points from 5 games, after a home win over Birmingham, loss at Burnley, win in the second half at Wigan and scraped past Arsenal at home who had a penalty and goal denied. Equalised with a penalty after an ‘honest’ Rooney dive, won with an own goal with despicable chants and treatment aimed at that gentleman of football Arsene Wenger. Bastards. They also won at Spurs.
Our form at the Liverpool Warehouse in Trafford : In our last 8 Prem visits we’ve won 1 drawn 4 lost 3.
Comment : We go there with our strongest team in years but without Robinho, Adebayor - “united feel firmly that he should be banned from the derby” and possibly Tevez.
But it should still be one of the best derbies with the atmosphere cranked up further to City’s superior marketing campaign. That banner of theirs should act as an inspiration. We can do it, c’mon City/
Wind Ups : If Tevez comes on and gets the ball it’ll be “Fergie, Fergie sign him up. He once said that united don’t boo the players they’ve sold on so we’ll see what class the rags fans have. He’s already come out with “Tevez will get a hostile reception” so the ‘King Of Hypocrites’ has done it again. He also reckons that City won’t be top dogs (again) in his lifetime asking for trouble, as Tony P's sussed. Check out the history and see how true ‘Only here cos of City’ really is.
Groundwise : Record attendance is still 76,962 for the Wolves v Grimsby semi-final in 1939, still 7,602 below City’s 84,569. It’s uglyville, but we make it beautiful in our corner between the main and north stand with the sky blue so long may it continue!
Stats : 44 pre-war, and 96 post make it our 141st league meeting,
Last pot : Do we care? Are we bovvered?
Their current home average att : 75, 304
WwtwtwShite : Averaged 11, 685 in 1930/31
Away Day Zines ; united We Stand, Red Issue, Red News
Pubs/parking/route : You know the drill by now?!
Oh maybe we shouldn't turn up as we can't compete with the world class players in United's team. This according to the Sun's Ian McGarry on this morning's 'Sunday Supplement'.
ReplyDeleteIf it's possible, this moron made me even angrier than he when he said last year that Robinho has a hotline to the owners and the only reason he was still at City was that he'd been promised Hughes would be sacked in the Summer.
Today he says Hughes has no right to goad Ferguson as only a matter of months ago he was having to convince people he would still be in a job. (Why on earth didn't Woolnough take rthis opportunity to ask him where he got last season's duff information from?). He then said although we've won 4-games we haven't beaten anyone (he doesn't regard Arsenal as 'anyone'). Cheslea and United are littered with world class players and we have none.
Then when the debate turned to Spurs (praised all round) he chipped in that you don't regard Spurs in the same way as Man City - an emerging club. They are an established club.
Oh my God, I'd love to be there if Hughes met this arrogant t**t.
No doubt you are all feeling exactly the way I am just at the momment, but despite feeling like shit, we should try and look at the many positives that we take from this game. We dominated the first half and had Tevez not hit the post and Lescott made more of his chance from 15 yards, we could have gone in 3-1 up. Few teams will show such battling qualities as to come from behind three times at Old Trafford. We were not at full strength and even though Tevez was playing he was far from 100% fit. Perhaps MH regrets changing the formation when Valencia came on, but he will learn from his error. Also, I hope that cheating bastard Martin Atkinson buys himself a new watch with the payola he will get from Manchester United PLC. I was proud to be a Blue today and in another couple of years we will be going back to Old Trafford and winning regularly, just like the old days.
ReplyDeleteHad a strange experience yesterday when a City supporter asked if I would swap my ticket for one in the United end, plus a hundred pounds.
ReplyDeleteSadly, greed overcame sanity and after fastening my jacket to hide my City retro 69 FA Cup Final kit, I found myself sat on the back row of the North Stand on the hslf way line.
Not since Leeds 83 Cardiff 94 and Milwall 99 have I witnessed such raw racism, most of it aimed at Adebayor, who wasn't even playing.
Fair play to the United fans around me. I went up for Barry's eqalizer and none of them reacted. I left at 3-2 and nobody goaded me.
I was more annoyed when I watched it on Match Of The Day. Ferguson and Neville both abused the City supporters and Garrido was hit by a coin. Bellamy's reaction to the pitch invasion was understandable, but stupid.
United won their Cup Final, but the wheel is slowly turning.
On a different subject:
ReplyDeleteThere were three goals in the Second half yesterday, plus two in added time.
Last Saturday there were five goals in the Second Half, plus five substitutions and a lengthy delay for the Van Persie injuty.
Adebayor's goal celebration and subsequent yellow card took two minutes.
Using the Jeff Winter slide rule measurement for added time, can anyone explain why there was only three minutes of added time against Arsenal?
Scandalous as the time keeping fiasco was, we need to look at our own deficiencies.
ReplyDeleteThe way we repeatedly gave the ball away in injury time was amateurish. You could just see what was going to happen. How on earth was Owen left in such space though? Quite unforgivable.
Richards played like a clown from start to finish and must now be replaced by Zab (hardly world class but surely an improvement).
Ireland's poor form continued and I thought he was a complete passenger, both offensively and defensively. He can't be allowed to survive just because of last seasons achievements.
SWP had a hot spell where he had United rattled, but it was all too brief. To me, he seems to have become far too casual - cocky even.
I couldn't believe the Sky MOM award went to Fletcher. Much as I hate to say it, I thought Giggs was the best player on display. If the award was founded on his two goals then surely Bellamy was more deserving.
Glyn:
ReplyDeleteAgree completely with your assessment of Richards, Ireland and SWP.
Richards has lost his agility and gives away far too many cheap free kicks. Ireland might be the fittest player in the team, but his lack of pace will always restrict his contribution. SWP has never been the same player since his return from Chelsea.
I suspect that as the Team evolves these players will slowly be discarded and replaced by Top Quality signings.
This was sent to me by my mate Graham, a United fan who is working in Brazil at the moment and listened to the game on the radio.
ReplyDeleteThat late winner and why Hughes was wrong to question officials' timekeeping.
1. Fourth official Alan Wiley indicates a minimum four minutes added time.
2. Under Premier League rules, the referee can play four minutes plus 59 seconds.
3. City score an equaliser – the referee, Martin Atkinson, can add 60 seconds for celebration and restart (Hughes admits it took 45 seconds for play to resume).
4. United's Anderson is replaced by Michael Carrick – the referee can add 30 seconds for a substitution.
In these circumstances, Atkinson is entitled to add two minutes, 29 seconds to the original four minutes. Substitute Michael Owen scores for United to win the game on 95 minutes, 25 seconds – well within the allotted time.
In today's Daily Mail the arseholl, Graham Poll said that the maximum HE would have allowed would have been one minute to allow for the goal and the substitution. Perhaps he isn't such an arseholl after all.
I accept Glynn's comments though on the performance of some of the players. Richards was also slightly at fault for the first goal as he was too busy telling off a team mate that he wasn't aware that United had taken the corner. Nevertheless, had we not been cheated out of that draw, we may have looked upon things differently. I would rather concentrate on the first half where we murdered them. We need to display that level of play and concentration for the full 97 minutes in future if we are to genuinely become a top team.