Originally posted by Duke of Wellington:
There is talk of a few followers, have you heard anything?

Originally posted by Yojimbo:

followers??

Originally posted by Yojimbo:
I`m looking forward to see how he handles the City `project`.

I wasn`t following Serie A during the years when he was in management there but I remember him as a quality footballer.

No doubt he`ll have a honeymoon period and the likes of Adebayor might shift themselves sufficiently purely to impress the new man and their shocking form of the past couple of months was more down to Mark Hughes than them.
But what will be the making, or breaking, of him is whether he can sort our shambolic defence, not least prevent our penalty area at dead ball situations being like a pinball machine, and also combining the exciting attacking play of the Hughes era with the necessary defensive solidity

Originally posted by Rebelcounty30:


The english top flight is a ticking timebomb..too many clubs are caught up in the frenzie of the tv rights and money.
If ambramvoich left in the morning..chelsea would revert to their 25K type crowds, they wouldnt have the worldwide interest or commerical clout of a liverpool, manutd or arsenal or celtic with their proud histories.
Mancity are another living on inflated and unrealistic means. What happens with the arabs get bored? they are all at it. Even the bastions of the english game, liverpool and utd have sold out to the financing world because the likes of chelsea and city left them with no choice though in liverpools case they got fellas without a nickle to rub between themselves!!
Looking forward to the day real football comes back again. You know, white balls all year round except the orange one in the snow, no more generic grounds with s**ty names...KC stadium etc. The money has destroyed the game. People like COOK at city with no football pedigree or class treating fellas like hughes who gave more to the game than he will ever. Similarly a legend like keegan being treated by lads who know nothing about football. Football is the current must have trophy for these idots with lots of money but no class.

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Originally posted by Rock Solid Reiver:

Talk??

Originally posted by T_de_B:
Pardon my ignorance, but who or whart is a Roberto Mancini?

Is he anything to that pearl of Gaeldom, Terry, who got hos foot in the door back in the 70`s and allowed an infestation of plastic paddies to pollute the hitherto clear waters of Irish soccer?

For those of you who wont be aware of this, Terry`s specialist subject when playing with the Irish team was our national anthem.

Originally posted by dolfos:
Hope he falls flat on his arse.
Fair play to City though they are sure to win one title this year. "Most hated team in England".
Considering the competition   (Manure,Chelski and Leeds  )  , thats good going.

Originally posted by beauty:

I`m no fan of any Manu    (ex   )   players, but as a footballer, he was excellent and gave his all both on and off field. Its dissapointing a bunch of suits can treat him in such a fashion, but you get the feeling it was always a poison chalice from the outset and the nature of the game has been spoiled by it`s leaders, media and greed

Originally posted by Arraref!:
Just as an aside, took the 13/2 about Stoke for the Stephens Day game today, think that`s a massive price against a City side that are brutal on set-pieces and are missing their first choice left-back and centre-half. 16/5 the draw also tempting

Originally posted by Yojimbo:

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Originally posted by Duke of Wellington:


Bellamy, Given and Barry out the gap

Originally posted by Jack Donaghy GE:


Thats media spun bulls** - theyre going nowhere.

First of all, who could afford their wages?

Originally posted by Yojimbo:

followers??

Originally posted by The Horse McCool:

Craig Bellamy was greeted by a standing ovation when he replaced Robinho with 20 minutes left.