The Agenda (Merged)

[dennishasdoneit]

ITV News just mentioned the FA Cup draw, the Sky 4 teams draws were shown, but not who the currents Premier League Champions had drawn. Plus it mentioned about the Rags getting the lowest ranked team left in the competition.
Just thought I'd share for all you "Agenda" lovers.

Been listening to 5Live throughout the night and it's been exactly the same on there... sports news every half past the hour with a rundown of who all the 'big' sides have got in the next round but not one mention of who the current English Champions will be playing.

Still, no agenda though....

yep radio 5live are a fucking joke.they just ignore Manchester City Football Club, as if we dont exist, its incredibe...we are the champions, no team is playing better football anywhere in the uk, we have the top goal scorer in top class football, have eaten into a nine point gap at the top of the premier league without any strikers.......anyone who thinks there is no agenda needs to wake up and smell the coffee.

 

[Silva_Spell]

Ogden does his usual negative shit:

Manchester City will discover the true value of Yaya Touré over the next five weeks, with Manuel Pellegrini facing a key period of fixtures without the Ivory Coast midfielder.

Touré is due to fly to Africa on Monday to link up with his country ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations which kicks off in Equatorial Guinea on January 17 and, despite suggestions that the former Barcelona player has struggled for form this season, his departure will leave a big hole in the City team.


The 31-year-old may have struggled to scale the heights of last season, when only the brilliance of Luis Suárez denied the Footballer of the Year award, but Touré has nonetheless scored nine goals in twenty-six appearances this season for City.

His performances during the autumn raised doubt over his long-term future at the club, but in recent weeks, Touré has once again emerged as a crucial element of Pellegrini’s team.

And with City due to face Arsenal and Chelsea this month while Touré is away, his absence could yet prove costly.

Without Touré, City lack the power from midfield which has driven the club to two Premier League titles.

Frank Lampard’s goals have been an unexpected bonus, but at 36, he cannot perform the Touré role, while Fernandinho has struggled to perform as he did in his debut season last season.

Fernando, the holding midfielder signed from Porto last summer, has proven to be inconsistent, with high quality opponents capitalising on his limited ability with the ball.

Just when Touré is returning to his best, he could be missing until after the Cup of Nations final on February 8.

It will be interesting to see how City’s ambitions look when he returns. "

The rag **** is right about Yaya. Even when he wasn't playing as well as he can he still kept the ball moving. He makes a lot of intelligent passes, often seemingly without even looking, whereas, as we saw against Burnley, the 2 ferns don't.

Yaya is going to be a huge miss.

 

[Len Rum]

Premier league leaders Chelsea are at home to Millwall ( oh yeah it might be Bradford).
Agenda against City and Bradford!

 

[HalfwayUpTheKippax]

Premier league leaders Chelsea are at home to Millwall ( oh yeah it might be Bradford).
Agenda against City and Bradford!

Bradford City indeed!

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

Ogden does his usual negative shit:

Manchester City will discover the true value of Yaya Touré over the next five weeks, with Manuel Pellegrini facing a key period of fixtures without the Ivory Coast midfielder.

Touré is due to fly to Africa on Monday to link up with his country ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations which kicks off in Equatorial Guinea on January 17 and, despite suggestions that the former Barcelona player has struggled for form this season, his departure will leave a big hole in the City team.


The 31-year-old may have struggled to scale the heights of last season, when only the brilliance of Luis Suárez denied the Footballer of the Year award, but Touré has nonetheless scored nine goals in twenty-six appearances this season for City.

His performances during the autumn raised doubt over his long-term future at the club, but in recent weeks, Touré has once again emerged as a crucial element of Pellegrini’s team.

And with City due to face Arsenal and Chelsea this month while Touré is away, his absence could yet prove costly.

Without Touré, City lack the power from midfield which has driven the club to two Premier League titles.

Frank Lampard’s goals have been an unexpected bonus, but at 36, he cannot perform the Touré role, while Fernandinho has struggled to perform as he did in his debut season last season.

Fernando, the holding midfielder signed from Porto last summer, has proven to be inconsistent, with high quality opponents capitalising on his limited ability with the ball.

Just when Touré is returning to his best, he could be missing until after the Cup of Nations final on February 8.

It will be interesting to see how City’s ambitions look when he returns. "

The rag c**t is right about Yaya. Even when he wasn't playing as well as he can he still kept the ball moving. He makes a lot of intelligent passes, often seemingly without even looking, whereas, as we saw against Burnley, the 2 ferns don't.

Yaya is going to be a huge miss.

I think we would all prefer Ya Ya to be in the City team rather than away at ACON, but it is interesting to look back to 2012 - our first title winning season - to see how we coped without him then. The last match he played before leaving was at home to Liverpool on January 3, when he scored in a 3-0 win. City played 8 matches in his absence: 1 in the FA Cup (a 3-2 defeat at home to the rags), 2 in the league cup (0-1 at home to L'pool, 2-2 at Anfield) and 5 in the PL of which 4 were won and 1 (at Everton!) was lost.

This record is neither spectacularly glorious nor abject failure but analysis shows that City actually coped well in the circumstances - of which Ya Ya's absence was only one. It has to be pointed out that Vinnie Kompany also missed 5 of the matches. In addition he was sent off after only 12 minutes of the lost FA Cup match, which meant he missed the home defeat to Liverpool. The games he played were the defeat at Everton and the win at Villa, both in the league. Silva was injured in the firt half of the FA Cup match and missed the second half, as well as the home defeat to Liverpool.

In 2012 Ya Ya's absence didn't coincide with any match of quite the potential importance of Chelsea away this season, but we did beat Spurs at home in 2012 and this is at least roughly equivalent to the Arsenal game coming up. There are, of course, differences of playing staff, but I think we are stronger now than then, and the experience of 2012 confirms the experience of the past month or so - one absence does not stop City in their tracks. If we can get Vinnie, Merlin, Ferna and Sergio fit for all the games, and if they are in form, City can and will prosper. That's our agenda!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Joint?Premier league leaders Chelsea are at home to Millwall ( oh yeah it might be Bradford).
Agenda against City and Bradford!

 

[Len Rum]

After our negative headlines following victory against Championship side Sheff Wed, nice to see the Dippers getting support from the Mirror after they scraped through against Division 2 Wimbledon.
"Crazy for you Stevie" screams the headline!

 

[Len Rum]

Joint?Premier league leaders Chelsea are at home to Millwall ( oh yeah it might be Bradford).
Agenda against City and Bradford!

Yes it should have read that way.
We were never going to get "Premier League leaders Manchester City are at home to Middlesborough" were we?
In fact we didn't get a mention, but of course Chelsea did.
Drip,drip,drip.

 

[Bill]

Ogden does his usual negative shit:

Manchester City will discover the true value of Yaya Touré over the next five weeks, with Manuel Pellegrini facing a key period of fixtures without the Ivory Coast midfielder.

Touré is due to fly to Africa on Monday to link up with his country ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations which kicks off in Equatorial Guinea on January 17 and, despite suggestions that the former Barcelona player has struggled for form this season, his departure will leave a big hole in the City team.


The 31-year-old may have struggled to scale the heights of last season, when only the brilliance of Luis Suárez denied the Footballer of the Year award, but Touré has nonetheless scored nine goals in twenty-six appearances this season for City.

His performances during the autumn raised doubt over his long-term future at the club, but in recent weeks, Touré has once again emerged as a crucial element of Pellegrini’s team.

And with City due to face Arsenal and Chelsea this month while Touré is away, his absence could yet prove costly.

Without Touré, City lack the power from midfield which has driven the club to two Premier League titles.

Frank Lampard’s goals have been an unexpected bonus, but at 36, he cannot perform the Touré role, while Fernandinho has struggled to perform as he did in his debut season last season.

Fernando, the holding midfielder signed from Porto last summer, has proven to be inconsistent, with high quality opponents capitalising on his limited ability with the ball.

Just when Touré is returning to his best, he could be missing until after the Cup of Nations final on February 8.

It will be interesting to see how City’s ambitions look when he returns. "

It's astonishing how we've managed to claw back a nine point lead with all our midfielders playing so shit.

And no Aguero, for most of that time. We're that good we can play with no men ;-)

and we'd still someone sent off :)

 

[chesterguy]

This is how the BBC report the attendance at Goodison bear in mind it has a 37,000 capacity

Everton 0-1 West Ham

There's a few empty seats at Goodison tonight, but a crowd of 22,236 seems a decent effort for a cold midweek fixture.

Can you imagine the bile and scorn we would get if our attendance was 27,000 which is the equivalent non-attendance at the Etihad do you remember the red circle, do you remember the scorn from Ogden in the Telegraph when we had 35,000 to watch Blackburn