Noisy Neighbours - the Man City thread

[hhyftrftdr]

I remember the days when we used to struggle against Midtjylland, if memory serves me right they took us to penalties in a UEFA Cup qualifier back in the day. Of all people, I think it was Ched Evans who scored the winning spot kick.

The difference was, we were garbage back then, didn't have a pot to piss in.

And to think the united fans who travelled to Denmark were charged £72 for the privilege of watching that tripe

Edit.....Evans scored to take it to ET/Pens, it was Charlie Corluka who netted the penalty winner. 8 years ago, how times have changed

[TightEnd]

Midgetlland were only formed in 1999, making them the youngest club in the europa league

meanwhile in the UCL, chelsea formed in 2003 and city formed in 2008 are still in it too :-)

[hhyftrftdr]

Midgetlland were only formed in 1999, making them the youngest club in the europa league

meanwhile in the UCL, chelsea formed in 2003 and city formed in 2008 are still in it too :-)

Tighty, cast yourself back to page 1 of this thread, you'll see I beat you to that joke ages ago

Self deprecating humour ftw.

[hhyftrftdr]

Well it's taken almost 3000 pages, but the Pogba thread on BM is going into overdrive this evening. A guy who is generally regarded as ''ITK'' claims the wheels are in motion for a summer transfer.

Welcome to Manchester, PP?

[TightEnd]

Danny Mills says Man City players distracted by Pep Guardiola announcement and have taken their eye off prize

 http://dailym.ai/1TuGMjo

[hhyftrftdr]

Danny Mills says Man City players distracted by Pep Guardiola announcement and have taken their eye off prize

 http://dailym.ai/1TuGMjo

You can take anything Danny Mills says about City with a bag of salt. He hates us, which is surprising bearing in mind he was gifted a 5 year, £30k a week contract despite being shite.

[TightEnd]

i've got the bag of salt and i still think he has a point. bit naive to deny it really. eyes off the ball, potentially mailing in the rest of the season til Pep gets there. not very professional really

[hhyftrftdr]

i've got the bag of salt and i still think he has a point. bit naive to deny it really. eyes off the ball, potentially mailing in the rest of the season til Pep gets there. not very professional really

What are you basing that on though?

We've played 2 league games, both at home and lost them both. One against your boys, top of the league and best away record and we were mullered, another against Spurs, also top 4 and we were edged out in a close game, certainly not helped by that clown Clattenburg. It's not like Villa and Sunderland came to Eastlands and turned us over.

These are 2 games we could've lost regardless of the Pep situation. The next half dozen games or so will give a much clearer indication if Mills (and others) is on to something or not. We could either be out of every competition, or be League Cup winners, through to the QF of the Champions League, and possibly still in the hunt in the PL (I don't hold out much hope vs Chelsea tomorrow in the FA Cup).

I think it's just far too simple to say 'you've lost 2/2 since announcing Pep, the players don't care, already on the beach' etc. It really isn't as straightforward as that, football rarely is.

[swinebag22]

I thought we put a real shift in against a very good Spurs team and we looked to have a defensive plan that was working well until that ridiculous decision.

If anything the players were trying too hard to prove that they weren't just waiting for Pep.

I can understand the comment after the leicester game, where we were outfought, outhought, outplayed etc.. but any focus on us in that game takes away from a brilliant foxes performance.

The big test will be the CL and B2B Liverpool games.

I have already written off the chelsea game given the team we will be putting out. I will be watching with interest though because the youngsters playing all look to have decent futures. Just think Chelsea will really be up for this, are playing more like a top 4 team and need the europa qualification

[Archer]

i've got the bag of salt and i still think he has a point. bit naive to deny it really. eyes off the ball, potentially mailing in the rest of the season til Pep gets there. not very professional really

Not naive really - certainly as far as the City fan base is concerned (as reflected on City forums) the Pep factor doesn't even feature as a reason for our woes. There are plenty of other view points put forward for that.

Agree with Swinebag and having watched the Spurs game again there was no lack of commitment, desire etc in that game.

[TightEnd]

Manchester City’s tight fit forces Pellegrini to cut his cloth  http://gu.com/p/4gqze/stw

[horseplayer]

Danny Mills says Man City players distracted by Pep Guardiola announcement and have taken their eye off prize

 http://dailym.ai/1TuGMjo

You can take anything Danny Mills says about City with a bag of salt. He hates us, which is surprising bearing in mind he was gifted a 5 year, £30k a week contract despite being shite.

Mills must be in the top 5 worst pundits going and there is some strong competition.

Man City covered more ground against Spurs than any other game this season hardly an indication the players have jacked it in

[Archer]

Manchester City’s tight fit forces Pellegrini to cut his cloth  http://gu.com/p/4gqze/stw

Agree with Pellegrini on this. Shame his hand is forced but Kiev and the 2 games that follow against Liverpool are more important.

[Archer]

Danny Mills says Man City players distracted by Pep Guardiola announcement and have taken their eye off prize

 http://dailym.ai/1TuGMjo

You can take anything Danny Mills says about City with a bag of salt. He hates us, which is surprising bearing in mind he was gifted a 5 year, £30k a week contract despite being shite.

Mills must be in the top 5 worst pundits going and there is some strong competition.

Man City covered more ground against Spurs than any other game this season hardly an indication the players have jacked it in

I'd not seen that running stat for City against Spurs. I like it.  Only saw the stat that Spurs ran a million miles more than City.

On Mills, he really is bad and just about the most anti-City pundit out there.

[horseplayer]

Danny Mills says Man City players distracted by Pep Guardiola announcement and have taken their eye off prize

 http://dailym.ai/1TuGMjo

You can take anything Danny Mills says about City with a bag of salt. He hates us, which is surprising bearing in mind he was gifted a 5 year, £30k a week contract despite being shite.

Mills must be in the top 5 worst pundits going and there is some strong competition.

Man City covered more ground against Spurs than any other game this season hardly an indication the players have jacked it in

I'd not seen that running stat for City against Spurs. I like it.  Only saw the stat that Spurs ran a million miles more than City.

On Mills, he really is bad and just about the most anti-City pundit out there.

Spurs are trained twice a day to run a lot and press a lot if you dont at least try and match it you really are in trouble