How much of a twat is Samuel Lockhurst.
The writer has got the numbers the wrong way round. What he meant to say was that City's lead was about to shrink from 8 points to 6 points when Sterling scored.How does a lead shrink from 6 points to 8 points or am I misreading it ?
I think most people in and around football don't actually understand"Pep the football man". The man has a passion for how the game should be played. It's not about gaining an advantage for his team, its not about telling other teams how they should play to suit us, it's not even about winning or losing. It's about how the game should be played, in spirit, as an art, as a discipline as a spectacle the paying fans can appreciate and enjoy, win or lose.
Last night's "conversation" with Redmond wasn't about telling them how to set up so to make it easier for us to play against them, it was about saying " you're better than this". Pep probably lost it a little last night, but it wasn't because Southampton made it difficult for us to win, it was because he can see that the game that we all love is being transformed and mutilated in front of our very eyes from the beautiful game that it can be into a hideous borefest that has to be endured by millions of fans up and down the country.
I often wonder how the ref would react if City adopted a defensive strategy against a very defensive opponent. Would the ref ask for more action or would the PL have something to say about so called selling their product around the world.
well just had a look at the MUEN website at Lunch, and will never read again.
1st page article on opinion of peps heated??? exchange with redmond,
would all be different if was moaning twat etc,
its like an effing fanzine article
That's how Mourinho plays his football. He hoofs the ball up while most of the team sit back, if the attack fails he invites them on, and then counters their counter attack. Can be effective but not as exciting to watch.Most teams are unwilling to try to beat City conventionally.
They see a draw as the easiest way to compete and nullify our style accordingly. In fairness how else can they stay in the game because open football invites heavy defeats.
City must find a way to prise open a defensively formed opponent rather than complain that they are solely on the defensive. Surely Pep´s experience at Bayern and Barce met this virtually every game.
I often wonder how the ref would react if City adopted a defensive strategy against a very defensive opponent. Would the ref ask for more action or would the PL have something to say about so called selling their product around the world.
And this, for me, is why the Premier League should stop this outdated fixation with a couple of brand clubs, recognise that the marketability of the Premier League is under threat from bus parking and instruct the referees to deal with time-wasting and all the other "dark arts" of which Mourinho is such a disciple.
what a statementFrom football365's midweek winners & losers - http://www.football365.com/news/premier-league-winners-and-losers-81
Raheem Sterling, Manchester City’s difference maker
Raheem Sterling has always battled against a wave of opinion. It started when he dared to leave Liverpool for Manchester City in 2015, and was told by Jamie Redknapp, Phil Neville, Phil Thompson and others that he wasn’t good enough to make the move, and was demonstrating a misguided arrogance by wanting to leave Anfield.
Never mind that at the age of 20 he might improve. Never mind that Liverpool had just finished sixth, and Manchester City second. Never mind that were any of would do the same as Sterling in our industry, and not expect criticism for making that choice.
It continued thanks to that great sage Joey Barton, who stated the following year that without his pace Sterling would not even be a professional footballer. Barton used the same tropes as others: ‘Imprecise’, ‘clumsy’, ‘limited technically’ and ‘very weak’.
As England crashed out of Euro 2016, it was decreed that Sterling must be made the country’s official scapegoat. The Sun’s campaign against a ‘footie idiot’ who bought his mum a house, spent too much money, spent too little money and once ate at Greggs was laughable, but that isn’t the appropriate reaction to such vitriol. This sh*t stick in the minds of the paper’s readers. By splashing most of it on the front page, disappointment in the team became vitriol against the individual.
Since then, the accusation is that Sterling crumbles under pressure. When the going gets tough, he collapses. So when Manchester City signed Bernardo Silva and chased Alexis Sanchez last summer when already in possession of Leroy Sane, David Silva and Kevin de Bruyne as well as two excellent strikers, many jumped to the obvious conclusion as to who would drop meekly from the first-team picture.
As we enter December, De Bruyne has been Manchester City’s best player during this astonishing early-season run but Sterling has been their difference-maker. He has scored late winners against Bournemouth, Southampton, Huddersfield and Feyenoord and a late equaliser against Everton. Without those points, City’s lead would be slight.
In the crunch moments of crunch matches in a crunch season for Sterling, he has not shied away from the pressure but excelled because of it. He is currently the highest-performing English player.
Pep Guardiola obviously deserves huge credit for this transformation, but nobody merits more credit than the player himself. Sterling has achieved this success without goodwill and to a backdrop of people (who are hardly flourishing in their own industry) telling him that he wouldn’t amount to anything. Rather than asking ‘how good is he?’, that question has now been altered: How good can Sterling be?
Yet there is something more than just football at play here. When first Sterling was questioned, he was 20. When he was vilified by a section of the national media, he was 21. When he was doubted before this season, he was 22. To cope with that pressure and to overcome it at such a young age demonstrates a strength of character and maturity far beyond many of us (me included) at that age. It is that strength that has underpinned his rise at Manchester City more than his ability.
Sorry mate i am useless at that stuff .if you just google it on MEN you will see it good luckCan you link?
There are two articles one highlighting from the ‘United side’ the injustice in comparison to how Mourinho is treated and an article countering this view point stating in comparison to the Lukaku incident and Mourinho kicking the water bottle very little happened. Fair reporting for me.