The battle for 4th place

[Indaparkside]

I'm confident west ham will get something out of the game my only concern is Swansea are now playing well and we will fuck it up there anyway what will be will be stranger things have happened

 

[jaiguruKun]

Utd only scrapped a win against Norwich in a dreadfully poor game. With arguably their best player Martial out i just don't see them winning.

It's the United way to win whilst playing shite. I fully expect West Ham to batter them, De Gea will make some great saves and them to win with a deflection. It's what they do.

 

[VOOMER]

Two goals, Villa and the Derby and we would be done.

 

[pavelsrnicek]

United will most likely beat West Ham tomorrow, van Gaal has created a horrible united side that are awful to watch but they have constantly produced results when needed. West Ham's season ended on Saturday, yes they could lose out to Liverpool on the Europa league spot but other than the last ever match at the Boleyn Ground there's nothing to play for.

Let's face it we wouldn't know anything about making the last ever home match at your traditional home a damp squib, would we?

 

[Barcon]

The scum will get twatted tomorrow and we will need one more point at the most.

 

[Healdplace]

Two goals, Villa and the Derby and we would be done.

A draw in the Derby alone would do. You could go back through loads of games and say that. That ludicrous 'hand ball' penalty, for instance.

But I guess all teams can.

What is unarguable are the points we have conspired to lose via inane team selections. Southampton being the most costly as it is the most recent.

A draw there and we could be safe tomorrow and even a United win and it is still up to us.

Yet we basically threw the match so near the end of the season. That was inexcusable.

 

[Lomas has a lob on]

United are capable of doing that thing we can't. Winning games whilst playing shite.
Absolute joke we are in this predicament and relying on favours from other teams. Like someone said on here, West Ham could well beat United, problem is I have little faith we can go to Swansea and get the point(s) we require.

 

[clarkie_ni]

im calling it now. west ham will batter the rags, double figures on target, saves, crossbar, post, you name it.
the rags will break away. the granny shagger will dive and get a penalty, score it with 10 mins to go.
west ham will continue to batter them but to no avail.
i can see the brown envelope being packed as we speak.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I disagree

Don't worry. We won't ban you.

We'll sacrifice you instead.

 

[Chippy_boy]

A draw in the Derby alone would do. You could go back through loads of games and say that. That ludicrous 'hand ball' penalty, for instance.

But I guess all teams can.

What is unarguable are the points we have conspired to lose via inane team selections. Southampton being the most costly as it is the most recent.

A draw there and we could be safe tomorrow and even a United win and it is still up to us.

Yet we basically threw the match so near the end of the season. That was inexcusable.

And yet 100% predictable. I and numerous others on here said for weeks that MP basically doesn't give a **** about whether we qualify for the CL and would play fast and loose with the team selections in order to give himself any possible advantage for the CL semi finals.

It was a car crash just waiting to happen.

 

[HolisticJim]

The scum will get twatted tomorrow and we will need one more point at the most.

Please let this be true. Ive had so much stick from Liverpool and UTD Fans and would Keving Keegan love it, if I could go back to them and say 'haha fuckers, you spoke to soon!'

 

[Barcon]

Please let this be true. Ive had so much stick from Liverpool and UTD Fans and would Keving Keegan love it, if I could go back to them and say 'haha fuckers, you spoke to soon!'

Imagine if they draw both games and we give them the old, "goal difference skullfuck" again.

 

[vmsuhail]

THAT pundit who predicted we finish outside the Top 4 must be a genius.

 

[prof-taf]

Having just spoken to a WHU player, they are going all out for 4th. Some hope for Tuesday!!!

 

[west didsblue]

What odds would I get for us to beat Swansea, rags to beat West Ham and Bournemouth and Arsenal to lose to Villa?

 

[Brett Sinclair]

Having just spoken to a WHU player, they are going all out for 4th. Some hope for Tuesday!!!

Errr did you tell him there's virtually no chance as our GD is miles better than theirs!

 

[Daz_Blue]

Swansea resting 5 or 6 players on Sunday......just the 2-0 loss then

 

[prof-taf]

Errr did you tell him there's virtually no chance as our GD is miles better than theirs!

I didn't, bugger, 5th it is then. For them I mean.

 

[halfcenturyup]

It's OK, it's all sorted. Desperate times call for desperate measures and, insprired by the tales of the Thai monks who have won the title for Leciester, I have today done two things: first, been round to my local temple where the monks prayed for City to finish in 4th place and for United to fall on their arses and, second, arranged for some "dark" monks in Burma to put a black magic spell on the United players. They now have no chance of winning their last two games and we are safe in fourth place. Cost me a few donations, but rest easy. You can thank me in the weekend :)

 

[Healdplace]

And yet 100% predictable. I and numerous others on here said for weeks that MP basically doesn't give a **** about whether we qualify for the CL and would play fast and loose with the team selections in order to give himself any possible advantage for the CL semi finals.

It was a car crash just waiting to happen.

I agree and like you have said so. He basically seems to have got the huff that he is being replaced and it was human nature he would prioritise his CV selling himself to another PL club (as the press say he seems to have turned down a job in South America with City creating our franchise there and wants to manage another PL team such as Everton).

A CL semi final helps sell that as he ticks all the boxes in his 3 years - title, cup, Champs League success up to SF. What mid table PL team would not think that was gold dust).

So in a personal sense you cannot blame him for doing this if he really feels he should be staying on.

What is much less easy to understand is how stupidly the management above him seem to have let this happen when the signs were there for weeks. They appear to have believed in their own omnipotence and that City could not be bad enough to lose top 4.

The look in the eyes of the big two towards the end of the match yesterday was one of someone who has just suddenly woke up weeks late and figured out what we all did long ago. And that is worrying for two men in their position who have presumably promised Pep something very different.

The media today are full of the awful City fans walking out on Pellegrini and yet I have not seen one yet suggest he has done any of the above things. Maybe like our top brass they think it inconceivable as well.

But I genuinely believe this is why many City fans did not say thank you. They distrust the way he has managed the team in recent months to the extent that some are suggesting sabotage. I really do not think it was that. But I do think that his priorities wandered at the expense of our league position and nobody at the club seems to have seen the risks that he was taking.