Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun May 13, 2012 5:06 pm  

Mark wrote:

Wow. What an afternoon. City are worthy champions on today alone. The way they won it will stand them in good stead for the future. Kinda ironic in a way, considering our own habits of scoring late. Onto Euro 2012.

I'm not posting again now until we're close to winning a trophy again. I can pop up an act the big United fan.

I thought that we were going to beat Man City today even with 10 men but.......

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun May 13, 2012 5:29 pm  

Well done City, probably deserved that over the course of the season, would have been a bit more palatable had it panned out as i had it in my head, City winning easy, United winning just.

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun May 13, 2012 5:57 pm  

Hi I support Man Utd, New York Yankees, Lance Armstrong, Michael Schumacher, Stephen Hendry, Steve Davis and Phil the Power Taylor. Aint that cool.....

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun May 13, 2012 5:58 pm  

Mark wrote:

Wow. What an afternoon. City are worthy champions on today alone. The way they won it will stand them in good stead for the future. Kinda ironic in a way, considering our own habits of scoring late. Onto Euro 2012.

I'm not posting again now until we're close to winning a trophy again. I can pop up an act the big United fan.

2025 it is, then (sorry Mark, hard to resist that one)
I might get round to watching the Wire game, come Thursday night
I think my Rag next door neighbour went a bit deaf @ 4:55 pm

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun May 13, 2012 6:02 pm  

Gronk! wrote:

Man Citys starting lineup cost less than Man Utds

A daft stat as United spent theirs over 12 years no doubt and City in 3.

Anyway, congratulations to City. They'd have done it a lot sooner with a better manager but they've done it. It'll be interesting to see how the owner's interest keeps up now they are champions. It could go a few ways. They could turn into Chelsea and the success means the owners turn off the tap a little, they could also quite easily dominate English football and make the Premier League a one club race. United can't keep up with them in the spending and are some way behind in terms of the squad quality.

Great to see Everton finish off the good second half of the season by smashing Newcastle, who've punched way above their weight all season and finished in a false position.

Sets up an interesting summer. You've got Liverpool sacking Dalgleish tomorrow if the rumours are to be believed and them needing to spend another £150m to turn around their slide down the table. I'm not sure they'd trust KKK to do that now. You've got City who can now presumably attract a higher calibre of player now having won the Premier League and becoming annual CL qualifiers. You've also got United who will be looking to fight back next season and will presumably have to spend massively on their midfield and defense to win it back.

As an Everton fan, it's that part of the year where we all bunker down and count down the days till the transfer window closes. If we get to September with Baines, Jagielka, Fellaini and Jelavic I'll be made up. The key for us would appear to be sorting a deal with Spurs for Stevie P, who has been the form player in the Premier League since January.

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun May 13, 2012 6:13 pm  

United would rather city had just won 4-0 and have done with it. But for it to happen the way it did, for their game to finish and for them to think we've probably done it, to then have it snatched away in the last minute of the last game.......well......

It will be harder for man united to topple city next season. Mentally city will be stronger, they know they can go right to the wire with united and last the pace, even to the last seconds of the season.

It becomes a bit of cliche to say ''theres been a shift in power'' as soon as united don't win the title but city are a much bigger threat to united dominance than chelsea were because they have much smarter owners.

Abramovich is f*cking stupid when it comes to footballing decisions for chelsea.

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun May 13, 2012 6:20 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Anyway, congratulations to City. They'd have done it a lot sooner with a better manager.

Give over. They were a poor team when sheik took over. Building title winning teams takes time. Even with all the money in the world it's going to take a few seasons to gell it together and get the ingredients right. I think city have made pretty good time to be honest.

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun May 13, 2012 6:27 pm  

Well done to Mancini & Co.....hell of a finish

With respect to the play off teams i am going to offer my tips for the Euros 2012....Germany or France. (got a feeling Poland might do better than people think) reckon Spanish team might be abit tired this time round....thoughts?.

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun May 13, 2012 7:14 pm  

lefty goldblatt wrote:

2025 it is, then (sorry Mark, hard to resist that one)
I might get round to watching the Wire game, come Thursday night
I think my Rag next door neighbour went a bit deaf @ 4:55 pm

I think we won't for a couple of years. There has been times before when we've had a year or two without the league or a trophy. We need to get rid of a bit of deadwood such Owen, Berbatov, Anderson and even move on from Scholes as good as he's been. Need at least two CM's, would love Modric.

Enjoy your night/week/year. It can have been easy for you the past 30+ years being Wire and City.

Mancini, are you listening..
Better keep our trophy glistening....

Re: The Football Chat (cont) : Sun May 13, 2012 7:20 pm  

duke street 10 wrote:

Well done to Mancini & Co.....hell of a finish

With respect to the play off teams i am going to offer my tips for the Euros 2012....Germany or France. (got a feeling Poland might do better than people think) reckon Spanish team might be abit tired this time round....thoughts?.

I want Roddy B, Catlancs and co to tell fergie who the couldbe stars are gonna be, so we can get them on the cheap before euro 2012.