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Spurs quarter 69 said:
Every club has nob heads including City. Looking on the Bee Hole End, Burnleys forum after Ricky Hattons death it was full of respect you'd have thought it was Blue Moon. Lived in Burnley for two years back in the day good Lancashire folk just. Like Mancs. In Burnley if your a football fan your a Claret unlike most small Lancy towns were nearly everyone follows the gruesome twosome. Moreover they usually give 6 points a season whats not to like
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They'd be my second team if I had one.
 
TonyBookEnd said:
Unfortunately I wasted 10 minutes of my life listening to this Talkshite drivel.

Not sure who the moron is who was 'I'm not disrespecting Pep..' and then persistently goes on disrespecting Pep? Comparing Pep to the decline of Messi and Ronaldo..what?
Another z-list pundit with a myopic opinion, who is desperate to be the first to say 'see I told you I was right about Pep...'. Unfortunately there are some of our fans who take this approach

'Ferguson's genius was to adapt over so many years... blah blah'. His 'genius' was that he was an overbearing bully, who also had an unbelievable advantage in the transfer market. Admittedly he was an excellent motivator and he was wise enough to know he was an awful coach, therefore he had to replenish his backroom staff regularly. But his record in Europe was very poor considering
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What sort of competition did Ferguson have to face each week ? Also, the protection by the match officials and fergie time, the Premier League was a 1 horse race for 20 years with 3 or 4 years from Arsenal in between.

Pep and Manchester City have had to so many stumbling blocks put in place to try and stop us with FFP PSR, then the media witch hunts and a system of bent match officials,
 
Spurs quarter 69 said:
Every club has nob heads including City. Looking on the Bee Hole End, Burnleys forum after Ricky Hattons death it was full of respect you'd have thought it was Blue Moon. Lived in Burnley for two years back in the day good Lancashire folk just. Like Mancs. In Burnley if your a football fan your a Claret unlike most small Lancy towns were nearly everyone follows the gruesome twosome. Moreover they usually give 6 points a season whats not to like
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Spurs quarter 69 said:
Every club has nob heads including City. Looking on the Bee Hole End, Burnleys forum after Ricky Hattons death it was full of respect you'd have thought it was Blue Moon. Lived in Burnley for two years back in the day good Lancashire folk just. Like Mancs. In Burnley if your a football fan your a Claret unlike most small Lancy towns were nearly everyone follows the gruesome twosome. Moreover they usually give 6 points a season whats not to like
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I’ll always have a soft spot for my home town club, they were my late dads team
 
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Another step toward progression...​

A win was what most people expected, but, considering our implosion last season, those expectations have dimmed somewhat.

Firstly, I thought Burnley played very well. Based on what I saw, I think they'll avoid relegation this season & will give a few teams a run for their money.

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The early own goal was deserved for the pressure we applied & it allowed the game to settle into a pattern of control by City. However, from around 25 minutes onwards we seemed to go off the boil & started making a few silly errors which allowed Burnley to gain a foothold in the game.

They continued to grow in influence, which led to their equaliser with 10 minutes of the first half remaining. We stepped up our response, but so did Burnley & surprisingly the game turned into a basketball match as Burnley also moved up a gear to match us.

We seemed to be running out of ideas & I felt it was City who needed the halftime team talk more.

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After the break we came out with more purpose, but again Burnley stepped up their pace to match us. BUT as opposed to last season, this current transitional iteration of Manchester City seem to have rediscovered their lost gears!

Not only did we match Burnley's gear ratio, we moved into overdrive mode which they couldn't match, & more importantly, we looked like we had more overdrive gears to select if needed. I honestly can't remember the last time I was able to say that!

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A Haaland layoff & a Nunes 6 yard box volley gave us a deserved lead against tiring opposition. ANOTHER own goal put clear Sky Blue water between the two teams, albeit Burnley still looked dangerous on the break.

Haaland added two late goals to seal the points & give us a 5-1 victory, albeit he should've had 5 in truth. To be honest, this didn't feel like a dominant 5-1 victory of old. We used to score that many against teams who never left their own half.

Our defence looked solid with good performances throughout. Donnarumma made a couple of exceptional saves at crucial points in the game to limit Burnley to the one deflected goal, but his command of our area has evidently lifted the confidence of the whole team.

Nico G had a brainfart 5 minutes during which Burnley scored, but the more I see of him & his developing style of play, the more he (dare I say it) reminds me of Rodri in his early City career, which bodes well.

Reijnders was steady. He was better than his poor performances against Spuds & Brighton, but he's still nowhere near the player we saw at the CWC & against Wolves. It's early days, so he has time to improve. Perhaps a couple of games coming on from the bench might be best for him.

Foden was giving the ball away left right & centre during the early exchanges, but from midway in the first half until the whistle blew, he dominated the game from the centre & kept popping up in both boxes. He's taking responsibility & beginning to show true leadership qualities.

Haaland had 5 clear goal-scoring opportunities & took two. The fear factor we once held over other teams has evaporated to be replaced by a respect for what we're capable of.

This means teams are more willing to attack us, which means we can play to Haaland's strength of latching onto through-balls & running in behind defences when we counter-attack.

It was good to see Savinho get some minutes & showing flashes of him getting back to form.

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However, the star of the show was again Jeremy Doku! With teams being more willing to attack us, it gives Doku more space to attack the defence at pace on the counter. Toward the end of the first half he was becoming isolated again, facing 3-4 defenders.

In the second half, it was noticeable that O'Reilly moved out to the left in support of Doku, which meant Burnley couldn't predict whether we'd attack down the wing or come inside, & this is what ultimately undid the opposition.

It was a good, solid win & gives us further confidence that we're evolving nicely & progressing as a result. Are City back? I'd say there are signs we're on our way back, but that we've still got a distance to go yet.

Roll on Monaco & Brentford!
 
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I watched the game again on City+. I liked Nico Gonzales performance. Not perfect but neat and tidy and he shields the ball well. Quite disciplined positionally too. Not every one of his forward passes paid off but most did. I can see him becoming a very good player.
 
Surprised these cunts weren't going round sloppily painting St George's crosses all over the ground.

Burnley fans were ahead of their time it seems with that 'White Lives Matter' banner they flew over our ground a couple of year ago.

Inbred backwards cunts. Always a delight to give those plebs a twatting.
 
Brunswick Blue said:
Feel sorry for those so called fans that left 15 minutes from the end !!
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There are people who leave on 80minutes every single week.

I’ve just reckoned up the amount of City goals they’ve missed since the takeover; it comes to a staggering 346!
 
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