Kneel before Yaya - City's General Zod

[Mental_blue]

Shit article in The Gaurniad but great quote re Zabba

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/mar/22/yaya-toure-manchester-city#start-of-comments

Pablo Zabaleta, for example, a full-back of such huskily stoical determination you half expect to look down and notice he's played the entire second half with a rescued child under one arm or a sickly seal pup in a papoose around his neck.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

"Shit" is being kind. That could go straight into Private Eye's 'Pseuds Corner'.

 

[MSP]

Can't bother reading article but title of it is exactly what Yaya's agent expects based on his words the other day.

 

[johnbmcr]

Shit article in The Gaurniad but great quote re Zabba

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/mar/22/yaya-toure-manchester-city#start-of-comments

Pablo Zabaleta, for example, a full-back of such huskily stoical determination you half expect to look down and notice he's played the entire second half with a rescued child under one arm or a sickly seal pup in a papoose around his neck.

thought it was quite good myself dammed us with pretty unfaint praise

Against this it must be said that City's gentlemanly Sheikhs appear to have a different kind of club in mind in the long run. That high spec academy will, it is hoped, begin to bear blue-veined fruit in time.....Yaya! Stay awhile! – like it might even be worth sticking around for.

 

[blueyorkie]

Really don't think druggies should be allowed to write in the broadsheets.

 

[MCFCinUSA]

I quite like the Guardian's sports humour, and generally don't take offense at journalists' opinions unless they're very seriously factually out-of-line.

In this case I was logging in to share the same quote, which I thought was very funny and apt about PabZab.

The article isn't a bad one, and Barney Ronay's a writer I enjoy reading, although he might not be for everyone - especially if you lack a sense of humour and take football argument ever-so-seriously.

 

[Bald fraud]

Stopped reading the article after a few sentences, seems like all I read lately is constant city bashing so just couldn't be bothered. The zaba bit is class though!

 

[notreallyhere]

I didn't see this as a City bashing article particularly, hard to argue with the main points Ronay makes about the billionaire culture in English football. The last paragraph was even reasonably complimentary in setting us apart from some of the other cash-rich clubs.

I hope that our owners prove the naysayers wrong by putting a truly long term plan in place and aiming for stability by keeping managers around for longer than 2 minutes a la Abramovich.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Shit article in The Gaurniad but great quote re Zabba

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/mar/22/yaya-toure-manchester-city#start-of-comments

Pablo Zabaleta, for example, a full-back of such huskily stoical determination you half expect to look down and notice he's played the entire second half with a rescued child under one arm or a sickly seal pup in a papoose around his neck.

I have finally found someone who writes more pretentiously that I do, when I've had a skinful.

 

[johnbmcr]

Really don't think druggies should be allowed to write in the broadsheets.

why not we let enough into the ground