The Lightbowne Cowboy
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Robert Hopkin, now he was a c**t.
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Biggest Cult Hero?
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Stoned Rose
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If he was bobbins, he wouldn’t have had 250 appearances across 3 different managers for a team and club as good as ours. Nor would he have captained his country. As others have said, he left City because he wanted to play left-back not centre-back. If you didn’t rate him fair enough but let’s not rewrite history by claiming Pep didn’t when he played him 40 times the season before he left.
If he was any good he’d still be here. It’s as simple as that.
He played because we had fuck all else option. It was him or a derelict Gael Clichy for the last couple of years he was here. I’d have got in the team at that point.
Kolarov was a great crosser of the ball, had the odd worldy free kick in him and absolutely fuck all else.
Defend? I doubt he could even spell the word. Absolutely no football brain and would get nowhere near this current squad.
Captain of Serbia? That’s the equivalent of bring the captain of a Hull or a Fulham. The definition of bog standard. Doesn’t mean he was a top player by any stretch. He was chosen for that role more for his ‘fight’ than his ability.
You think Pep Guardiola, the greatest coach and football brain on the planet, wanted to play Kolarov at centre back? A man at centre back who had no defensive ability and couldn’t head a ball to save his life?
You worry me pal.
City Raider
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Gow, Rosler, Hendry, Morrison, Moulden
Fame Monster
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If he was any good he’d still be here. It’s as simple as that.
He played because we had fuck all else option. It was him or a derelict Gael Clichy for the last couple of years he was here. I’d have got in the team at that point.
Kolarov was a great crosser of the ball, had the odd worldy free kick in him and absolutely fuck all else.
Defend? I doubt he could even spell the word. Absolutely no football brain and would get nowhere near this current squad.
Captain of Serbia? That’s the equivalent of bring the captain of a Hull or a Fulham. The definition of bog standard. Doesn’t mean he was a top player by any stretch. He was chosen for that role more for his ‘fight’ than his ability.
You think Pep Guardiola, the greatest coach and football brain on the planet, wanted to play Kolarov at centre back? A man at centre back who had no defensive ability and couldn’t head a ball to save his life?
You worry me pal.
You don’t have to worry mate. I think it’s me who should be worried. Pep didn’t wanna play him but somehow picked him 40 times? That’s not the kind of logic that makes me think I’m making a mistake in siding with the greatest football brain on the planet rather than ‘Stoned Rose’ from the Internet. It’s probably what makes Kolarov a bit of a cult hero actually, unappreciated by your average joe but when it comes to world-class football coaches who’ve played and coached football at the very highest level all their lives and know what they’re talking about, they consistently choose him as one of the first names on the teamsheet. It kinda makes me think he’s actually a good player and was actually an important part of all the trophies we won while he was here.
Nightmare Walking
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The Goat and quite easily. We would have been fucked without him.
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That's a decent call actually.Caballero
jimharri
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Not a fan then? @karen7 will be along and she'll have your bollocks for paperweights.If he was any good he’d still be here. It’s as simple as that.
He played because we had fuck all else option. It was him or a derelict Gael Clichy for the last couple of years he was here. I’d have got in the team at that point.
Kolarov was a great crosser of the ball, had the odd worldy free kick in him and absolutely fuck all else.
Defend? I doubt he could even spell the word. Absolutely no football brain and would get nowhere near this current squad.
Captain of Serbia? That’s the equivalent of bring the captain of a Hull or a Fulham. The definition of bog standard. Doesn’t mean he was a top player by any stretch. He was chosen for that role more for his ‘fight’ than his ability.
You think Pep Guardiola, the greatest coach and football brain on the planet, wanted to play Kolarov at centre back? A man at centre back who had no defensive ability and couldn’t head a ball to save his life?
You worry me pal.
Stoned Rose
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Not a fan then? @karen7 will be along and she'll have your bollocks for paperweights.
Mate, Karen thinks Mahrez is good. She doesn’t really get an opinion ;)