Recent content by mad4city

"Do Man City Need Sememyo?" is a strange way to headline what was ultimately a discussion about Liverpool's incompetence in the transfer market.

Silva, that day at Old Trafford, was sublime. I'd go so far as to say it was the greatest individual performance of the Premier League era. So were Dzeko, Balotelli, Aguero and a few others great that day, in fairness.. Therefore, slapped arse twat Gary Neville gave Man of the Match - after a...

That's all well and good but you can't expect praise as we haven't "turned a corner".

Cherki, Khusanov Savinho all did well. Nico Gonzalez is my choice though. He has a long way to go before he can fill Rodri's boots but he's definitely starting to look like he properly feels at home in the role now.

The 2-1 at the Etihad v Klopp's Liverpool was the greatest game in the PL era - and probably in English league history (alrhough, I havem't been arpund for all of that). Credit where it's due, Liverpool were superb that year. Unfortunately for them and their meedja sychophants, City were...

I put this very question to a friend of mine recently. She's a retired barrister, herself (albeit, she worked on criminal cases and and very quick to point out this sort of case wasn't her thing). Her take on it was that the length of time taken in deliberation wasn't indicative of any...

Anybody any idea how many touches Isak has been averaging per Liverppol game..? Or Wirtz, cone to that...? Funny how the meedja aren't all over those figures.

It's perfectly possible to be outraged by both the genocide/quasi-genocidal war crimes in Palestine and the outrageous attacks perpetrated upon the Jewish community. Condemnation of one of these inhumane activities is not a tacit insult to the victims of the other(s). Neither is it support of...

Waterford Bohemians are a junior club. (There is a senior club in Waterford called, apprpriately enough, Waterford and also a senior club in Dublin, called Bohemians). That said, there are games where United claim one Wayne Rooney as their Academy representatove. To he fair to the media, he's...

I had a chat about this with a Liverpool-supporting friend yesterday. He made the comparison that his own brother died suddenly and he had to go back to work a few days after the funeral. Equally, my own sister died unexpectedly and I too had to put my shoulder to the wheel. Jota's death was...

Maybe there will never be a decision? Perhaps we are all only characters in a lost novel, written and discarded by Kafka or Flann O'Brien?

He has a clear problem with an anti-City bias. I'd argue that gven his startling omission of the Revie Plan from a book (written and published in England, remember) about the history of football tactics, it's a bias that possibly even predates the takeover. Whatever its origins, it's so obvious...

A clear case of that spoofer, Roberto Martinez, working his magic again. I watched the game. You're right that it's far from a good, let alone great Irish team but the win was certainly no fluke. Put simply, Ireland wanted it more and what had a clear strategy ( however limited - defend in a...

Well said.

Wilson wrote a (decent to be fair) history of football tactics called, Inverting the W (I think) about ten or 15vyears ago. It was very well received. Even though it offered no particularly great insights (again, to be fair, why should it? He's a journalist not a coach) and the book was mostly a...