Sorry Frank you are correct. I am still anchored in the 1950's and my machine runs on gas.
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Some Dave Kidd wanker in the scum sun.
They had gone for the jugular, yet ended up losing patience and energy too soon. So City must remain outside the European elite, looking in, for another year.
Liverpool have been restored to the aristocracy to which they belong.
They had gone for the jugular, yet ended up losing patience and energy too soon. So City must remain outside the European elite, looking in, for another year.
Liverpool have been restored to the aristocracy to which they belong.
Nice to see a positive article from BBC Sport. Linked.
BBC Chief football writer Phil McNulty
Manchester City's week of misery has led to suggestions that the champagne football Pep Guardiola's team have produced this season might actually end up going flat.
There is no escaping the sense of disappointment that accompanies what was eventually a convincing loss over two legs to Liverpool in the Champions League quarter-final, and the concession of a two-goal lead at home to derby rivals Manchester United on a day when they could have won the Premier League title.
City's loss to Liverpool will be particularly painful given that the Champions League is the ultimate goal for the club's ambitious Abu Dhabi-based owners - but the idea that their season could now be viewed as some sort of anti-climax is nonsensical.
Is the season of the 'Invincibles' at Arsenal in 2003-04, when they went 38 games unbeaten and won the title by 11 points, viewed as a relative failure because they lost over two legs to Claudio Ranieri's Chelsea in the Champions League quarter-finals? No.
Pep Guardiola and his team are currently the victims of the modern trend to jump to instant judgement. They are actually the victims of their own success in making the Premier League title race seem over since they went top in September.
City have taken the excitement out of the title race by their vast superiority. If their season is an anti-climax, how every other club in the Premier League would love one just like it.
Guardiola was brought to City with the intention of eventually bringing the Champions League to Etihad Stadium - and even though it has not happened this season there is enough promise in the team and ambition in the boardroom to offer serious hope this will happen in the not too distant future.
Plenty of City fans - and it is worth pointing out that the team were warmly applauded off by the home supporters even in defeat by Liverpool - are only too happy to point out that they are about to "celebrate" the 20th anniversary of dropping into English football's third tier.
As for this season, City have been spectacularly exciting to watch, have lost only two league games (to Liverpool and Manchester United), drawn just three, scored 15 more goals than any other team and currently lead the table by 13 points. Their coronation as champions is a formality.
The fact that the title has effectively been wrapped up for so long has almost led to some forgetting their brilliance in putting themselves in this position. Has the fact Manchester City have been so good for so much of the season, and been champions elect for months, almost led to them being taken slightly for granted?
This season, in the final reckoning, can be classed as a great success - with Champions League disappointment admittedly - for a team that has graced the top flight and drew comparisons with the greatest the Premier League has had to offer not so long ago.
The comparison was always a little far-fetched given Manchester United's unique treble of title, FA Cup and Champions League in 1999, as well as Arsene Wenger's "Invincibles" five years later - but this season Manchester City have unquestionably produced some of the finest football the Premier League has seen.
Manchester City will be bitterly disappointed this morning but if anyone is tempted to suggest this season is a failure or an under-achievement, it is the sort of failure and under-achievement every other club in the Premier League and plenty throughout Europe would grasp at in an instant.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43720157
BBC Chief football writer Phil McNulty
Manchester City's week of misery has led to suggestions that the champagne football Pep Guardiola's team have produced this season might actually end up going flat.
There is no escaping the sense of disappointment that accompanies what was eventually a convincing loss over two legs to Liverpool in the Champions League quarter-final, and the concession of a two-goal lead at home to derby rivals Manchester United on a day when they could have won the Premier League title.
City's loss to Liverpool will be particularly painful given that the Champions League is the ultimate goal for the club's ambitious Abu Dhabi-based owners - but the idea that their season could now be viewed as some sort of anti-climax is nonsensical.
Is the season of the 'Invincibles' at Arsenal in 2003-04, when they went 38 games unbeaten and won the title by 11 points, viewed as a relative failure because they lost over two legs to Claudio Ranieri's Chelsea in the Champions League quarter-finals? No.
Pep Guardiola and his team are currently the victims of the modern trend to jump to instant judgement. They are actually the victims of their own success in making the Premier League title race seem over since they went top in September.
City have taken the excitement out of the title race by their vast superiority. If their season is an anti-climax, how every other club in the Premier League would love one just like it.
Guardiola was brought to City with the intention of eventually bringing the Champions League to Etihad Stadium - and even though it has not happened this season there is enough promise in the team and ambition in the boardroom to offer serious hope this will happen in the not too distant future.
Plenty of City fans - and it is worth pointing out that the team were warmly applauded off by the home supporters even in defeat by Liverpool - are only too happy to point out that they are about to "celebrate" the 20th anniversary of dropping into English football's third tier.
As for this season, City have been spectacularly exciting to watch, have lost only two league games (to Liverpool and Manchester United), drawn just three, scored 15 more goals than any other team and currently lead the table by 13 points. Their coronation as champions is a formality.
The fact that the title has effectively been wrapped up for so long has almost led to some forgetting their brilliance in putting themselves in this position. Has the fact Manchester City have been so good for so much of the season, and been champions elect for months, almost led to them being taken slightly for granted?
This season, in the final reckoning, can be classed as a great success - with Champions League disappointment admittedly - for a team that has graced the top flight and drew comparisons with the greatest the Premier League has had to offer not so long ago.
The comparison was always a little far-fetched given Manchester United's unique treble of title, FA Cup and Champions League in 1999, as well as Arsene Wenger's "Invincibles" five years later - but this season Manchester City have unquestionably produced some of the finest football the Premier League has seen.
Manchester City will be bitterly disappointed this morning but if anyone is tempted to suggest this season is a failure or an under-achievement, it is the sort of failure and under-achievement every other club in the Premier League and plenty throughout Europe would grasp at in an instant.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43720157
I had the misfortune of having to listen to the 1st half on 5 Live. Is it me or has Alan Green become a parody of himself? I mean he's always been pro-Liverpool but last night was pretty difficult to listen to, his hate of Sterling was contemptible and he basically brushed away the offside as "something that happens" with absolutely no further analysis or comment.
Tbf to Alan Green, it is something that happens ......... every fucking week to us!
This is the main headline today from the MEN, copied from the mirror of course who copied it from twitter.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.c.../etihad-stadium-fight-city-liverpool-14516355
https://www.manchestereveningnews.c.../etihad-stadium-fight-city-liverpool-14516355
Newman Noggs
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Crikey. That looks heinous. Close the stadium.
5live were trying to make out there had been loads of trouble in the ground, clearly deflecting from the anfield shit.
Claimed we shouldn't have a neutral section If we can't control ourselves. (UEFA enforced no?)
To be fair one of them then said he sympathized with the city fans as they just wanted to support the team not be goaded by opposition
Claimed we shouldn't have a neutral section If we can't control ourselves. (UEFA enforced no?)
To be fair one of them then said he sympathized with the city fans as they just wanted to support the team not be goaded by opposition
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