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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu May 08, 2014 7:32 pm  
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Well, you can never argue over a 38 game season. When city are crowned champions on sunday, they will be worthy winners.

Fair play to pellegrini, seems a chilled guy, has just quietly gone about his business without trying to ruffle any feathers.


Man City have the best squad in the Premier League. They've managed to just take a title that they should have walked because other clubs did the job they couldn't.

Pellegrini is a boring tvvat that for some reason people are sucking up to. He's had an easy ride because Moyes and Mourinho have taken the headlines. We'll see how chilled he is when there's real pressure on. After the defeats to Barca and Chelsea he turned into a right sad git but that behaviour is excused because he's so utterly dull. Seeing Audrey Roberts lift the trophy is a billion times more palatable than seeing the scousers do it but he's still got a lot to do before he's even proved that Citeh were right to sack Mancini.

Now while I am anti-FFP and hope that Citeh and PSG do fight it so hard it dies, the fact does remain that we are operating under FFP rules this season. Manchester City have blatantly cheated FFP spending rules and that has possibly helped them win the league this season. Well done Platini, you bent tvvat.
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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu May 08, 2014 8:06 pm  
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Man City have the best squad in the Premier League. They've managed to just take a title that they should have walked because other clubs did the job they couldn't.

Pellegrini is a boring tvvat that for some reason people are sucking up to. He's had an easy ride because Moyes and Mourinho have taken the headlines. We'll see how chilled he is when there's real pressure on. After the defeats to Barca and Chelsea he turned into a right sad git but that behaviour is excused because he's so utterly dull. Seeing Audrey Roberts lift the trophy is a billion times more palatable than seeing the scousers do it but he's still got a lot to do before he's even proved that Citeh were right to sack Mancini.

Now while I am anti-FFP and hope that Citeh and PSG do fight it so hard it dies, the fact does remain that we are operating under FFP rules this season. Manchester City have blatantly cheated FFP spending rules and that has possibly helped them win the league this season. Well done Platini, you bent tvvat.


:lol: Typically bullish. Only lord god hose mourinho could find some sort of negative or criticism from winning a title. A title is a title is a title. For all city's money they still rely quite alot on the trio of kompany aguero and toure. They are their power players, but they have only started together 6 times this season. When they have started together, city have destroyed teams. Had they started more games together, city would probably have won the title with abit more to spare.

Your argument about other clubs doing city's job for them is f*cking ridiculous. Chelsea beat both their title rivals home and away and they will probably finish 3rd. How are stupid are they? They couldn't beat 2 teams battling relegation in the run in, when they had the ability to beat their rivals......Chelsea are probably as guilty of throwing it away as liverpool. For beating your rivals, you don't get a title. You get one for accumulating more points and city have done that, as well as amassing a superior goal difference. When the pressure has been city have been able to negotiate the banana skins that chelsea and liverpool haven't.

The pressure has been on pellegrini all season. They've been favourites from day one, the fans and owners didn't hope for a title, they expected and demanded one. All rodgers and mourinho have done all season is cop out and claim they won't win it, or they aren't aiming to win. Rodgers has talked solely of getting CL, even when liverpool were 3 games away and mourinho has talked only of development. Wenger was probably half right, fear to fail. So they've talked themselves into a situation where they can't fail.

Well done city.
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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu May 08, 2014 8:35 pm  
I'm enjoying the irony of a Mourinho worshipper calling another coach a 'boring t***'...... :lol:
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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu May 08, 2014 9:04 pm  
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A title is a title is a title.


That's BS for a start. A league title for Rodgers and Liverpool would have been clearly more meaningful and significant than a league title for Pellegrini's Man City.

For all city's money they still rely quite alot on the trio of kompany aguero and toure. They are their power players, but they have only started together 6 times this season. When they have started together, city have destroyed teams. Had they started more games together, city would probably have won the title with abit more to spare.


They spent 100m quid last summer and brought in 15m in sales. Great work that is.

Your argument about other clubs doing city's job for them is f*cking ridiculous.


Man City went to Anfield and screwed it up. Went 2-0 down, then managed to get back into the game and equalise. Then they screwed it up again.

Chelsea and Crystal Palace delivered the title to Manchester City, not the dullard Pellegrini.

Chelsea beat both their title rivals home and away and they will probably finish 3rd. How are stupid are they? They couldn't beat 2 teams battling relegation in the run in, when they had the ability to beat their rivals......Chelsea are probably as guilty of throwing it away as liverpool. For beating your rivals, you don't get a title. You get one for accumulating more points and city have done that, as well as amassing a superior goal difference. When the pressure has been city have been able to negotiate the banana skins that chelsea and liverpool haven't.


I agree. Mourinho screwed things up even worse than Pellegrini did. But he did it while actually competing in Europe and he did it with 3 strikers worse than Citeh's first 3 options.

I think Mourinho messed up massively this season and failed to take a title he should have brought back to Stamford Bridge. So if I can criticise Mourinho for his under performance I'm not going to pretend that Pellegrini hasn't messed up too.

The pressure has been on pellegrini all season. They've been favourites from day one, the fans and owners didn't hope for a title, they expected and demanded one. All rodgers and mourinho have done all season is cop out and claim they won't win it, or they aren't aiming to win. Rodgers has talked solely of getting CL, even when liverpool were 3 games away and mourinho has talked only of development. Wenger was probably half right, fear to fail. So they've talked themselves into a situation where they can't fail.


I agree that Mourinho was talking nonsense over Chelsea not being ready for a title challenge. Rodgers was just talking sense for the most part, Liverpool really shouldn't have been involved to the extent they have.

Rodgers failure was probably the fact that he did believe the title was on the way and he forgot that he needed to actually get the results.

Pellegrini under pressure? Utter BS. He's been free to work without any media intrusion because all the press was focused on OT and SB. Club pressure? Man City would insist he hasn't been under any. But he's probably still been under less than either Moyes or Mourinho were.

Well done city.


They haven't actually won it yet, you know? Knowing that Man City have managed to screw up against Wigan twice, knowing how difficult a job they made of beating 10 man QPR. It really is a little early to be handing them the title right now.

I want them to manage it because I really do dislike Liverpool that much, but you only need to get down on your knees to rim them if you're into that kind of thing. I'm not. So they can have the title on Sunday but IMO they've got a long way to go before they actually prove themselves as a team. They can have the rimming from you if they want it, but they'd probably turn it down anyway because they don't know where your tongue has been.
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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Thu May 08, 2014 9:06 pm  
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I'm enjoying the irony of a Mourinho worshipper calling another coach a 'boring t***'...... :lol:


You might not like Mourinho, but only a complete and utter div would say that Mourinho was boring compared to a guy who sounds as interesting as reading telephone numbers.
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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Fri May 09, 2014 11:37 am  
Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:
You might not like Mourinho, but only a complete and utter div would say that Mourinho was boring compared to a guy who sounds as interesting as reading telephone numbers.


Maureeno is just a bellend.

Whilst Pellegrini may be considered boring in personality, the way he's got City playing this year is a joy to watch, far far better than under Mancini. 100+ goals and could set a record this Sunday. It's been an honour going to the Etihad this season to watch City.

Maureeno on the other hand gets his team to time waste on throw ins, goal kicks, corners and generally slow the tempo of the game most weeks bar the odd game and has the cheek to moan at other managers when they do it to him (like West Ham).

Thankfully justice has preserved and his team are going to finish with nothing this year. :)
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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Fri May 09, 2014 3:58 pm  
Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:
You might not like Mourinho, but only a complete and utter div would say that Mourinho was boring compared to a guy who sounds as interesting as reading telephone numbers.


So because Pellegrini doesn't play to the gallery on a constant basis, it makes him boring?

Personally, I find Mourinho's constant whinging (and that's what it has become) very, very tedious - He is what is commonly known in these parts as a 'big girl's blouse', and that is just as boring as Pellegrini's supposedly downbeat nature.

As for the football, well with similar amounts of talent on the pitch (transfer fee-wise), the only one who can be described as a bore is almost certainly Mourinho.
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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sat May 10, 2014 12:26 pm  
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That's BS for a start. A league title for Rodgers and Liverpool would have been clearly more meaningful and significant than a league title for Pellegrini's Man City.

They spent 100m quid last summer and brought in 15m in sales. Great work that is.

Man City went to Anfield and screwed it up. Went 2-0 down, then managed to get back into the game and equalise. Then they screwed it up again.

Chelsea and Crystal Palace delivered the title to Manchester City, not the dullard Pellegrini.

I agree. Mourinho screwed things up even worse than Pellegrini did. But he did it while actually competing in Europe and he did it with 3 strikers worse than Citeh's first 3 options.

I think Mourinho messed up massively this season and failed to take a title he should have brought back to Stamford Bridge. So if I can criticise Mourinho for his under performance I'm not going to pretend that Pellegrini hasn't messed up too.

I agree that Mourinho was talking nonsense over Chelsea not being ready for a title challenge. Rodgers was just talking sense for the most part, Liverpool really shouldn't have been involved to the extent they have.

Rodgers failure was probably the fact that he did believe the title was on the way and he forgot that he needed to actually get the results.

Pellegrini under pressure? Utter BS. He's been free to work without any media intrusion because all the press was focused on OT and SB. Club pressure? Man City would insist he hasn't been under any. But he's probably still been under less than either Moyes or Mourinho were.

They haven't actually won it yet, you know? Knowing that Man City have managed to screw up against Wigan twice, knowing how difficult a job they made of beating 10 man QPR. It really is a little early to be handing them the title right now.

I want them to manage it because I really do dislike Liverpool that much, but you only need to get down on your knees to rim them if you're into that kind of thing. I'm not. So they can have the title on Sunday but IMO they've got a long way to go before they actually prove themselves as a team. They can have the rimming from you if they want it, but they'd probably turn it down anyway because they don't know where your tongue has been.


ah f*ck not a quote off.

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Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun May 11, 2014 5:16 pm  
Well done to city.

Fitting really that a team that plays football in the right way has won it, a team that can defend as well as a attack and a team that doesn't throw a hissy fit at other teams tactics when they themselves are guilty of the very same tactics ''to get the required result''

Very well deserved.

Chelsea trophyless, also deserved.
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