***city v naaarich official match thread***

[zuricity]

That was some thumping dealt out to Norwich today.Those twunts on motd will somehow manage to wrap it all into a 60 second segment towards the end of the show and then forget all about the beautiful football and focus the discussion on Joe Hart.

Well don't watch it then .

[Green & Blue]

Well don't watch it then .

Not a chance.It never fails to give me something to moan about.

[zuricity]

Not a chance.It never fails to give me something to moan about.

Fairy Nuff

[Nigels Tackle]

Well don't watch it then .

Not a chance.It never fails to give me something to moan about.

60 seconds of coverage followed by 10 mins of joe hart debate...

[AG7]

60 seconds of coverage followed by 10 mins of joe hart debate...

7 fucking goals and we still aren't the first game of the night ...

Gary Lineker's Tweet: "MOTD running order: Ars/Liv, ManC/Nor, New/Che, Ful/ManU, Hull/Sun, Sto/Sou, WBA/CP, WHU/AV. BBC1 10.25. It's an absolute belter."

Right, coming up in 10 mins then, let's see ...

[twosips]

Unbelievable. Five minutes saying Norwich were shit and a shoehorned in mention of Joe Hart.

Seriously...that was it. Livid.

[nottsblue]

Unbelievable. Five minutes saying Norwich were shit and a shoehorned in mention of Joe Hart.

Seriously...that was it. Livid.

Shearer is a bell end. Just wait for him jizzing over barcodes in a minute

[branny]

They were fawning over Arsenals 4-1 win over Norwich (which was only cemented with 2 late goals) and yet we barely get a mention. Then when saying Chelsea lacked energy he refers to Arsenal again as the yardstick. It borders on a Gunners jizzfest then they realise what they're saying and insist they won't win the league.

[Twobob]

And they continue to suck gollum off..

[zabbadabbado]

I thought we played well today.only just got in and missed half of Match Of The Day and not pressed record on the planner duhhhh.

I don't see Arsenal or Liverpool as a threat.I think the top 3 will be Us,Scum,Chelsea.was glad Chelsea were beat,we don't need them setting the early pace. The Arse will spread their legs for Gollum at the swamp next weekend and take a dry bumming,this after being raped by Dortmund this week.Lineker and the other cnuts can then start mourning another Arsenal implosion.

[branny]

Don't want to say told you so ... but yeah, still got that feeling, it'll be this season and it'll be us ... no ones given the record yet? Am feeling too lazy to search for it so someone pls. tell me what's the magic no.?

Pl record is 9-0 Rags v Ipswich. Only other team to score 9 is Spuds but they also let one in v Wigan.

[nottsblue]

You've got to feel for the Norwich fans. It's a long drive home, especially after conceding a handfull of goals

[Nigels Tackle]

will the hartless blues put hughton's men to the sword today?
they shipped 4 at the swamp so we should be looking a double figures
come on city!

it should have been 10(+)

[Breks]

What was with the pissed up karaoke version of blue moon by that bloke? He was terrible, comical though.

[Cocacolajojo1]

Unbelievable. Five minutes saying Norwich were shit and a shoehorned in mention of Joe Hart.

Seriously...that was it. Livid.

I just watched the motd highlights and it was filled with praise for us. "Out of this world", "breath-taking" and "Manchester City didn't let the loss at Chelsea take the stuffing out of their title challenge" are a few sample phrases. Anyone who watched the highlights (what went on in the studie is a completely different matter) and saw it as anything but praise for our ability and criticism against Norwich is seriously not going to live a happy life.

There's bias and there's bias.

[Beefymcfc]

I'm watching Goals on Sunday but think I've missed our match! Either that or they are saving the best till last.

[nottsblue]

Shearer is a bell end. Just wait for him jizzing over barcodes in a minute

I just watched the motd highlights and it was filled with praise for us. "Out of this world", "breath-taking" and "Manchester City didn't let the loss at Chelsea take the stuffing out of their title challenge" are a few sample phrases. Anyone who watched the highlights (what went on in the studie is a completely different matter) and saw it as anything but praise for our ability and criticism against Norwich is seriously not going to live a happy life.

There's bias and there's bias.

To be fair to twosips i think he was referring to the studio analysis. Credit to the commentator Johnathan Pearce who was lavishing justifiable praise on our performance. Shearer just can't praise City for some reason. Its always dammnation for the opposition

[Ted Hughes]

I thought we played well today.only just got in and missed half of Match Of The Day and not pressed record on the planner duhhhh.

I don't see Arsenal or Liverpool as a threat.I think the top 3 will be Us,Scum,Chelsea.was glad Chelsea were beat,we don't need them setting the early pace. The Arse will spread their legs for Gollum at the swamp next weekend and take a dry bumming,this after being raped by Dortmund this week.Lineker and the other cnuts can then start mourning another Arsenal implosion.

All the top 6 sides are technically a threat & are potentially much better than they were (apart from the rags) but are also flawed, including us.

None of them are truly great sides but all are capable of becoming a lot better than they are now & probably will improve considerably.

I put us at the top of that pile.

For us to prove it, requires us to go on a fairly sustained run of good results, followed by another one, when that ends.

If we do that, we will break away from the pack imo, as I don't believe any of them are capable of sustaining that without hitting a bad patch. If we don't manage a proper run, we will remain a talented but flawed side, fighting with other such teams til the end of the season. Which would be fun in itself tbf.

The defence/keeper will decide that.

Demichelis showed some good defensive moments v Norwich but I feel he is a lot slower than he initially appears to be & that may be the test. He does look a level above Nasti (who did nothing wrong at all btw) defensively though & more like the level of Vinny/JL in that area. He is also clearly better on the ball than any of our cbs imo, & actually did some of the 'creative' stuff which people pretend Nasti/Vinny do (but hardly ever actuially do) but the trouble is he knows it, thus casually passed directly to the oppo about 6 times due to not taking enough care, do to overconfidence in his own ability to pass the ball.

The last person to achieve that was probably Richard Dunne, for different reasons.

[twosips]

Unbelievable. Five minutes saying Norwich were shit and a shoehorned in mention of Joe Hart.

Seriously...that was it. Livid.

I just watched the motd highlights and it was filled with praise for us. "Out of this world", "breath-taking" and "Manchester City didn't let the loss at Chelsea take the stuffing out of their title challenge" are a few sample phrases. Anyone who watched the highlights (what went on in the studie is a completely different matter) and saw it as anything but praise for our ability and criticism against Norwich is seriously not going to live a happy life.

There's bias and there's bias.

I was on about the studio comments from Shearer.

[branny]

You've got to feel for the Norwich fans. It's a long drive home, especially after conceding a handfull of goals

Ha ha. I see what you did there. :)