Noisy Neighbours - the Man City thread

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I've already seen enough to believe that Jesus is the saviour of our season.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38684434

Interesting stats based read on the lolkeeper.

What did you take from it Arb?

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38684434

Interesting stats based read on the lolkeeper.

I saw that in the other place and TBF it is a good use of stats for an article compared to some of the more sensationalist stuff. Having said that their methodology suggests he should have saved 7 of 14 goals in the bad run from the Chelsea defeat in early December to the Everton defeat last week. No way am I buying that it was that high.  Also, after taking into account the bad run, at the beginning of December he must have been in the small group  of goalkeepers who had let in fewer than they should have done yet he had been rubbished at that stage!

Either way it was good to see lolLoris out-Bravo Bravo yesterday

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Tour so good today

Toure excellent as indeed were all of them and the draw being a good result for Arsenal.

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I've already seen enough to believe that Jesus is the saviour of our season.

Reminded me of the Aguero debut when he came on as a late sub and scored and assisted superbly and you just thought - God he is good.

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Fantastic game of football yesterday and the result aside a joy to watch.  The continuing run of -EV on refereeing decisions is getting ridiculous but, as Mr G says, take your chances and it won't make any difference.

I wouldn't go quite as far a Harry Redknapp but he had the right idea:

"I thought the way man city played was just amazing. Pep has picked the team and  I see so many teams concerned about stopping the opposition, playing a couple of dogs in midfield, blocking up areas , stopping people but  Pep picked the team today with 6 footballers going forward and we looked at it before the game and thought what a gamble he has took he could absolutely come unstuck but they were fantastic  and should have won the game comfortably. The football they played was at the top level and it shows if you get good players who can play and get them working like they did  not only did they play but their work rate was incredible and I just thought it was a fantastic performance.

Pep was brave.  He is going to come out of this looking like a hero and a clever man or he will look like a complete fool tonight . Well they didn't win but the performance will give  him great heart. It was like watching Barcelona at times - the football they played and their movement on and off the ball - they were so comfortable on the ball in all areas. They were excellent."

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Fantastic game of football yesterday and the result aside a joy to watch.  The continuing run of -EV on refereeing decisions is getting ridiculous but, as Mr G says, take your chances and it won't make any difference.

I wouldn't go quite as far a Harry Redknapp but he had the right idea:

"I thought the way man city played was just amazing. Pep has picked the team and  I see so many teams concerned about stopping the opposition, playing a couple of dogs in midfield, blocking up areas , stopping people but  Pep picked the team today with 6 footballers going forward and we looked at it before the game and thought what a gamble he has took he could absolutely come unstuck but they were fantastic  and should have won the game comfortably. The football they played was at the top level and it shows if you get good players who can play and get them working like they did  not only did they play but their work rate was incredible and I just thought it was a fantastic performance.

Pep was brave.  He is going to come out of this looking like a hero and a clever man or he will look like a complete fool tonight . Well they didn't win but the performance will give  him great heart. It was like watching Barcelona at times - the football they played and their movement on and off the ball - they were so comfortable on the ball in all areas. They were excellent."

Rarely watch any (non Arsenal) games all the way through but thought that was the best performance I've seen all year against a very consistent Spurs side. Dembele and Wanyama were overwhelmed by Toure, SIlva, De Bruyne, Sane and I didn't think I'd see any team do that to those two. Thought they exposed Dier (albeit out or position to be generous) as the very one paced footballer I think he is.

Kinda shows Spurs quality going  forward that they could get 2 goals out of the game though.

Travesty with the Sterling penalty, don't like to harp on refs too much but that was ridic.

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Yeah was very pleased with the performance yesterday.

When I saw the line up in the boozer before KO I was a little concerned that we could be overwhelmed in midfield, but that wasn't the case at all and we really nullified the threat of Kane/Eriksen well. Pressing their full backs back just meant they couldn't get too much traction going forward, and were often on the backfoot for large periods of the 90 mins.

Obviously it's disappointing to let a 2 goal lead slip, and again it was the opposition being clinical with the chances they get (ala Everton, Chelsea etc). Whilst its disheartening to see teams having, for example, 3 chances and scoring 3 goals, it is pleasing to see us not giving too much away in terms of goal threat in our defensive 3rd. We just need to be much more clinical in our attacking 3rd, which has been the biggest problem this season. Would also help if refs gave penalties for fouls on Sterling

The thought of an all singing all dancing attacking unit of Aguero, KDB, Jesus and Sane really is a mouth watering prospect. Saw a Spurs mate earlier today and he was very thankful that Jesus didn't come on 10 mins earlier; the boy is no doubt eager to impress but he looks to have that something about him that will undoubtedly get bums off seats.

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http://bet.unibet.co.uk/football/premier-league/there-institutionalised-bias-against-manchester-city

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Off to the Palace on Saturday, not a lover of early FA Cup rounds but the lad is well into his away trips, I enjoy Palace, great atmosphere and some decent pubs local to the ground, taking him into the West End after the game so looking forward to the day, Big Sam will be in for some grief I reckon.

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http://bet.unibet.co.uk/football/premier-league/there-institutionalised-bias-against-manchester-city

I enjoyed that.

5 Live ran a slot on it during the Phil Williams show during the week. Made me laugh that they invited Neil Custis to debate it (no one else) and the objective conclusion was there had been no bias. This was the same Neil Custis who was on Sunday Supplement last week and, encouraged by Neil Ashton was spouting total factual bullshit.

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Off to the Palace on Saturday, not a lover of early FA Cup rounds but the lad is well into his away trips, I enjoy Palace, great atmosphere and some decent pubs local to the ground, taking him into the West End after the game so looking forward to the day, Big Sam will be in for some grief I reckon.

No doubt the good result will have added to your enjoyment.

No streams for the game yesterday which is often the case for non-televised FA Cup games. A young lad called Josh was the saviour of the day because he was in the away end and filmed the lot on periscope. Not the best of pictures at times, hardly surprising because he was on his phone,  but he is now a bluemoon forum legend because thousands got to watch the game.

I thought it was brilliant - closest thing to actually being at the match. No commentators, just the atmosphere and comments of the crowd around.

Definitely the way forward for watching televised football IMO.

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Beats me why it takes 90 mins to do 16 miles, M1 a breeze till you hit Edgeware Rd but then crawl along till Thornton Heath,park up at my favourite parking spot 300 yards from the ground, Venture into The George Public House, full of city and great atmosphere eightys music been bellowed out and £4 a pint. Only had the two so sometimes wish train journey may be a good idea. Shocked that the ultras were not allowed in today some problems outside apparently but created a poor atmosphere for the palace fans no doubt about that, lots of empty spaces. About 5000 City there and they certainly enjoyed themselves, Palace must have one of the best concourse for fans, lots of different food from Burgers to Curries and at a decent price too.Gabriel was a delight to watch, fast,hardworking and unlucky not to score.Kompany was back to his best and worked well with Koralov,not sure where Stones will fit in if Pep will stick to that partnership long term but looked solid but it was only Palace, thought Sterling took his goal well but was awful apart from that. Looking forward to an away local next round, Lincoln, Wolves,Watford or Oxford but will take a trip to Derby

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Huddersfield away please.

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Lottery ticket numbers for Saturday pal? 91 miles better than 116 straight down M62