Thought them commentators were total fucking knobs the whole game through, one of them spent 90 minutes jacking off every Mexican player and the manager and team, as well as his other favourite pastime......slating City and their players.
One of his best was "Weiss looks unsure of himself and out of his depth", this was said after 47 minutes, he came on at half time, so that means he was on for 2 minutes and this genius spotted he was unsure of himself, becuase he hadn't already claimed a hat-trick of assists, oh! and for being out of his depth at pre-season level.....was I mistaken then or did he actually go to the WORLD CUP!!.
They then got onto slating Vieira, but at least he was there to win the ball and keep possession ticking over for us, Ireland made a lot of misplaced passes.....AGAIN, and nowt said about him, Zabs was quiet, Weiss, didn't really do an awful lot and Lescott was useless.
It is only a pre-season and the way some on this site are going on at Vieira you want your bumps feeling on your heads, he is a "bit-part" player now, will play mainly when others are injured, suspended or need a rest, or as a late sub, at 35 years of age, what do you expect him to do, chase about the pitch like he did when he was 22?......that is the task of Ireland, Weiss, Zabaleta or whoever else in the middle with him to do that donkey work now, he will just pick up the scraps and distribute the ball to a team-mate...JOB FUCKING DONE.
First half was a better performance as it was a more of a "first team" outlook than the 2nd half, shape stayed the same throughout, we were never broken through against one of, if not, THE best team in Mexico, restricting them to long range efforts only, apart from the goal, which Lescott was too slow to react to.
Yaya bossed the middle of the park when he was on as an ATTACKING CREATIVE MIDFIELDER, Barry as the B-2-B midfielder and Kompany as the DM in the 1st half with full backs bombing on......Boyata was superb throughout, Richards played very well until he had to go off injured, and I was equally impressed with Johnson, SWP, Barry and Adebayor, not to mention Mr Given at the end, if there is anyplace where we have THE BEST keeper in World football on our team, it is in the Penalty shoot-out stakes, he is always good for 2-3 saves.
Bellamy never got on, because Mancini knows what he can do, and could only make 6 subs, we made a 7th due to a injury to Micah and approval off the C America manager and staff, maybe Bellamy has done enough to merit a place in the 25, and 1 more might be available for either Ireland or Jo.
All in all, far better team performance than the last two, things are starting to come into place, and it was really pleasing to see the side, not only keep the shape, but also pass and move as well as they did, throughout the game.
I get pretty pissed off with fans of the club getting on the players backs in a bleeding pre-season game and rubbishing a player like Vieira who has won more as an individual than we have as a club in 106 years!, it is bad enough the press having a vendetta, but if there is a vendetta like on this board next season in the stands on gameday, don't be surprised to see a team, scared of playing or points being thrown away against sides we should be beating, FFS your supposed to be supporters of this great club, if so do as the title suggests and fucking support them, the enemies are meant to be from the outside of the club walls, not inside the stadium.
