This month's Four Four Two

as for yellow cards etc.. refs were just throwing them at us because of who we are, i mean balotelli walks on the pitch first tackle heres a card, scholes trys to snap someone in half and oh i ve seen nothing, and what about everton away,a card for having the cheek to complain about a dirty tackle
 
gaudinho's stolen car said:
Oh shit. We're going to win the league aren't we. I feel weird, like I'm getting married or something.
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The difference being the bridesmaids could be Bo Derrick Kelly Brooke Elle Mcpherson and all of the pussy cat dolls....and you would still only have eyes for the Bride
 
Four Four Two said we were going to be champions in their summer mag last season too. The front cover had a picture of Mancini, Tevez, Given, AJohnson and Adebayor with the caption "THE NEW CHAMPIONS?" and the article inside talked about how we could win the league title. I didn't think we could...we didn't!

Our faults last season were at left back; pace in midfield; creativity other than Silva (in fact we looked lost when he wasn't in the pitch!); lack of ambition to score goals (scored 18 fewer than United who had an average scoring season for them!); we didn't even try to score away against the top teams (P5 W0 D2 L3 F1 A7 Pts2/15 with quite literally about 5 shots on target from all five games); our centre forward dropped too deep to get the ball leaving nobody upfront; our centre forward was too greedy and didn't pass to players in better positions; nobody can cross a ball; we give far too many free kicks away around the box; we were average a hell of a lot of the time (rarely shite, but also rarely brillaint!); a little too often we were disjointed and lacked understanding of each other (this improved in the last 6 or 7 games!).

All this and we won the FA Cup and finsihed joint second in the league. This was because we had as many positives as I've listed faults above, I'm just concentrating on them for now.

We haven't, however, addressed all of the above points. We still haven't got pace in midfield or got another creative, forward thinking midfielder (GET NASRI SIGNED, CITY!!!). Will we have any more ambition to score more goals or to go for the top teams away from home? Well not one of us know the answer to that but at a guess I'd say yes, but not enough to score more than the average 78.4 goals the champions have scored in the Premier League since it became 20 teams (16 seasons) (we scored 60 last season) nor to come home with more wins than defeats at the other top teams. Will we stop giving free kicks away in dangerous positions? Will someone miraculously come up with the skill of being able to cross the ball into the box?

We will be better this season than last. I think we will win more games, draw and lose fewer and score more. We will have a lot more fluidity and understanding as for once we've not signed 7 players who all need time to gel, we've just got Clichy and Agüero so the gelling period for the team will be shorter than previous seasons and those who've all been here a while will be even more gelled than before. I think we'll have fewer average performances and a greater amount of brilliant as a result of this. But unless we address the areas from the paragraph before this I just don't think we will win the league title!

My prediction: SECOND! (and I'll be extatic with that) (and we'll be even better the next season).
 
I agree we needed another creative midfielder. Silva will be brilliant as always, but we have now signed Aguerro; he will be also be able to provide the link between Mario or Edin ahead of him, and he can score goals.
I hope he gets the freedom to roam around and play in the hole (ooh, Sergio!).
 
Latest odds from odds checker:

Man Utd
7/4 13/8 7/4 7/4 7/4 7/4 13/8 7/4 9/5 13/8 7/4 7/4 7/4 7/4 6/4 7/4

Chelsea
5/2 11/4 9/4 13/5 9/4 5/2 11/4 5/2 13/5 11/4 5/2 12/5 5/2 5/2 11/4 5/2

Man City
7/2 4 4 7/2 4 7/2 7/2 3 7/2 7/2 3 7/2 7/2 15/4 4 7/2

Arsenal
15/2 9 7 15/2 7 9 9 9 8 9 9 7 15/2 8 8

Liverpool
10 9 10 9 10 11 10 10 10 10 10 9 10 10 11 10

Tottenham
50 50 50 40 50 50 40 50 40 50 50 40 50 50 40 50

I don't doubt that we have the players to win the league, but United still have an advantage in Ferguson and his ability to get points out of games which he has absolutely no right to. He proved that again last season by going unbeaten until the New Year and winning the league with vgnof his weakest ever squads.

Mancini needs to take advantage of a fairly kind fixture list at the start of the season. It would be great if we could get to top which would give us a position to hold on to.
 
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