The turning point....

[stavros]

For me it was when the scum went to spurs played shit and won! with games coming up that were harder for us We needed a bigger points gap! After that result for the scum I felt the title was slipping away!

I only hope we beat Arsenal and keep as closed to to the scum as possible because football is a funny game

No , just no.

So a scum win dictated our season?

We had it in our own hands for so long.

If we had got 7 points from swansea, stoke and sunderland at home we would be neck and neck now

 

[Johnsonontheleft]

The turning point was Napoli at home. It gave everyone hope, and a blueprint of how to beat us.

 

[brummie blue]

Reading this thread had me thinking about it and there are many, many reasons that have turned our season...

The ongoing Tevez debacle, which we still haven't really sorted.

The loss of Yaya and Kolo during ACON, we knew this was coming and we did nothing about it.

Compounded by the loss of Vinnie for 4 games after the derby sending off, cost us progression in both the cups, and Savic was not up to the job, we didn't add to the centre half spot when guys like Cahill and Samba were available, and that's caught us again over the last few games with Vinnie and Lescott being out.

Not correcting the away form since christmas, weather it be by adding players in January or changing the way we played and being more defensive.

Having absolutely no idea how to cope with teams putting 10 players behind the ball, Sunderland, WBA, Liverpool and Everton all did it in January, and that's when it all started to go wrong.

Not realising early enough that Silva, brilliant as he has been, may be playing with injury and was off form and actually dropping him for a few games, allowing Nasri to flourish in the free roll.

The consistent media circus around Mario, has never been dealt with, love him or not, and brilliant player as he can be, it clearly effects players and the club. He has been managed poorly and allowed to continue with the regular antic on and off the pitch.


And if I had more time I'm sure I could come up with a few more, we've been in 6 competitions this season, that's six chances of silverware, Charity Shield, Carling Cup, FA Cup
Champions League, Europa League and Premier League, it is very disappointing that we're not going to have anything at the end of the season.

And I'm afraid that only one man has been involved with all this and that's Mancini, I'm NOT looking to get rid of him, but I really hope he learns from this season.

 

[brian the blue]

For me, it was Chelsea away. The first 30 minutes of that game was the best we've played all season, we simply tore them apart and should have been 3 up (pen not given and Aguero miss) then suddenly we conceded from nothing and it all stopped. We went on to not only let them back into it, we got a man sent off and let them get a late(ish) winner.

From then on I lost a lot of confidence in the team as I couldn't understand how we can play so well in a game and get nothing from it.

Following that it was the 2 away games where we could've added an extra 6 points to our lead with United losing back to back, but instead, we added 1.

 

[city 'til i cry]

For me it was Sunderland away. That defeat left a lasting scar on Mancini, you could almost see his confidence ebb away to be replaced by a safety first default setting.

This 100%. United beaten the day before and we didn't take advantage. You have to win when your rivals lose, it left them thinking they got away with defeat to Blackburn.

 

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

Turning point for me was on the train back to Edinburgh with my son on the Sunday, after we'd been down for the Blackburn game and he was checking the scores on his mobile, Utd were drawing 1-1 at Norwich and I remember thinking...that's a bonus, puts us 4 points clear and plus they will get humped at Spurs away next week...bingo...we'll be 7 points clear, still playing well.
And then, about 5 minutes after the game should have finished he checks again says bad news Dad, Utd have scored in injury time.
At that point my heart sank and I just had this feeling that that was it..

 

[blueprint]

It was Christmas/New Year week - West Brom and Sunderland away.

United had lost two successive games in this period v Blackburn at home and Newcastle away, and we got one fucking point.

Five points tossed away.

No need to look anywhere else.

It would have broken the back of it with the existing lead we had.

The slide began at Sunderland. Our thoroughbreds got knackered from that match onwards trying to chase a winner. Because of the 'safety first' starting lineup which tired and placed more stress on our finesse players.
The absmal result & slide began when VK was turned inside out by the Korean player.

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

I think,in retrospect,that moving from West Goton was a mistake.
It's been all downhill ever since then.
And the Etihad is built on an old Indian reservation.
These are more valid reasons than some of the crackpot theories on this thread.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I think,in retrospect,that moving from West Goton was a mistake.
It's been all downhill ever since then.
And the Etihad is built on an old Indian reservation.
These are more valid reasons than some of the crackpot theories on this thread.

You should piss in all four corners next home game NF. That'll sort that little problem out.

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

I think,in retrospect,that moving from West Goton was a mistake.
It's been all downhill ever since then.
And the Etihad is built on an old Indian reservation.
These are more valid reasons than some of the crackpot theories on this thread.

You should piss in all four corners next home game NF. That'll sort that little problem out.

Natalie Pike doing it would guarantee a cracking atmosphere.
In that everyone would be cracking one off simultaneously.
We could call it the 'Pissnan'.
Although few would be turning their backs on this occasion.