Arsenal (H) - Wed 26th April, 20:00 | Pre-Match Thread

[mcfcinprague]

Mine was showing Leicester still so I went on website and logged in then went to my ticket account on my profile. Click on season tickets and click your ticket and add to mobile wallet. It will remove the out of date one and add the new one with the correct game.

Thanks for that

 

[Kippax77]

I can see it being a very long night if we are only winning by 1 goal.
Probably a new record for injury time, I'm going for 18 minutes being put on the board.
But if we're 3 up probably 18 seconds

 

[TheThirdDeano]

Here we fucking go!!!!!!!!!

 

[blue aura]

Setting off from Brighton in a minute. More worried about the drive ,there and back than the game..... I'm on 9 points
..

 

[SebastianBlue]

I can see it being a very long night if we are only winning by 1 goal.
Probably a new record for injury time, I'm going for 18 minutes being put on the board.
But if we're 3 up probably 18 seconds

I can see it being a very long night in the match thread if we are only winning by 4 goals going in to the 70th minute.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

City v Arsenal April 10th 1937..

On this date City and Arsenal were fighting it out for the old Division 1 league championship and ,there are many similarities between their title fight as described by Philip Neale in his brilliant book " who says City Couldn't Play "
The story of Manchester city FC becoming league champions 1936/7.

Going into the game city had 17 succesiv6 games without defeat and had recently trounced Liverpool home and away with star striker Peter Doherty showing his class.
We were the only team in the division to have beaten Arsenal at Highbury ( a 3-1 victory..) and City had done the double against Arsenal the previous season..the omens were good.

Arsenal were top of the league and City ,2nd and a point behind..sought to beat them and overturn the points deficit,in what was descried,nationally, as the game of the season.It could not be described as a title decider,there were still too many games to go for that..

City's biggest crowd of the season assembled at Maine road,74,918 and Manchester police implemented emergency traffic laws to ease congestion around the stadium,dreaming up a one way system around the ground!

Arsenal started the better and for 30 mins sliced through the City defence like a hot knife through butter( gulp)..but Frank Swift kept them at bay and proved once again what a talented and dependable keeper he was.

After half an hour City supporters had grown nervous and restless,however a sliced clearance by an arsenal defender led to golden boy Peter Doherty ,who from an impossible tight angle ,opened the scoring..

As City took the lead the roar of the home crowd could be heard much further afield than the Moss Side district

The goal was a catalyst for a complete change in the pattern of play and the powerful Arsenal team,Inc the great Cliff Bastin,crumbled ..
Eric Brook came forward down the wing and found Toseland who struck the ball home and the murmurs of disquiet from the crowd were forgotten

City 2 Arsenal 0.

Come on you Blue boys tonight ,..a repeat of history from April 1937 is very much required..but without the opening 30 mins of nerves please!!

 

[Moss Side's Finest]

Setting off from Brighton in a minute. More worried about the drive ,there and back than the game..... I'm on 9 points
..

That's not many more points than Arsenal have dropped in the last 3 games

 

[TonyM]

I'm brickin it now. Sorry.

 

[Tony - MCFC]

Nervy but full faith the lads will get the job done. Think Laporte will start LB.

Bernardo energy a must.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Slightly nervous but still confident were going to Bayern Munich them tonight.