***City v Chelsea |Official Match Thread***

[Cotswoldknight]

One question I’d like to ask Pep about Saturday night is.. Why

[john68]

It's pretty much on Pep for the selection. Not much else to say.

Except perhaps that after watching Leicester beat them he wanted Sterling's pace behind and sacrificed the whole balance of the team to do it by leaving out Fern. Mahrez would have made more sense.

Johnny, I usually find myself agreeing with almost all of your views but on this, I am unable to agree at all with your view on Sterling.
Week after week we have watched him deliver failure on the pitch. Time and time again, he has been the reason our attacks have been halted and chances lost. His form in front of goal has been nothing short of abysmal.

Your theory about his spedd doesn't stand the test. He might be fast, he might get us up the pitch but then...WHAT?
He gets into space and stops, waits until confronted by defenders, holds the ball until the move is covered, runs up blind alleys, runs into defenders and falls over waving his arms from the floor.
There is no point teararsing down the line time and time again when the is never an end product.
It looks good, but it's fake. Like a boxer who chucks a lot of leather but never hits the target
Sorry mate.

[carl_feedthegoat]

It's pretty much on Pep for the selection. Not much else to say.

Except perhaps that after watching Leicester beat them he wanted Sterling's pace behind and sacrificed the whole balance of the team to do it by leaving out Fern. Mahrez would have made more sense.

Johnny, I usually find myself agreeing with almost all of your views but on this, I am unable to agree at all with your view on Sterling.
Week after week we have watched him deliver failure on the pitch. Time and time again, he has been the reason our attacks have been halted and chances lost. His form in front of goal has been nothing short of abysmal.

Your theory about his spedd doesn't stand the test. He might be fast, he might get us up the pitch but then...WHAT?
He gets into space and stops, waits until confronted by defenders, holds the ball until the move is covered, runs up blind alleys, runs into defenders and falls over waving his arms from the floor.
There is no point teararsing down the line time and time again when the is never an end product.
It looks good, but it's fake. Like a boxer who chucks a lot of leather but never hits the target
Sorry mate.

Spot on...as ( nearly always) you normally are.

Nool's and Beefy disagree........can you give them some therapy lessons on visual reality ?

I spent over a grand that day.......woke up with wassap messages from my rag infested family and rag 'friends'

I'm still fuckign bitter.......as you can see

[branny]

It's pretty much on Pep for the selection. Not much else to say.

Except perhaps that after watching Leicester beat them he wanted Sterling's pace behind and sacrificed the whole balance of the team to do it by leaving out Fern. Mahrez would have made more sense.

Johnny, I usually find myself agreeing with almost all of your views but on this, I am unable to agree at all with your view on Sterling.
Week after week we have watched him deliver failure on the pitch. Time and time again, he has been the reason our attacks have been halted and chances lost. His form in front of goal has been nothing short of abysmal.

Your theory about his spedd doesn't stand the test. He might be fast, he might get us up the pitch but then...WHAT?
He gets into space and stops, waits until confronted by defenders, holds the ball until the move is covered, runs up blind alleys, runs into defenders and falls over waving his arms from the floor.
There is no point teararsing down the line time and time again when the is never an end product.
It looks good, but it's fake. Like a boxer who chucks a lot of leather but never hits the target
Sorry mate.

Someone put his stats up from the final. He gave the ball away twelve times and quite honestly, I bet there are a fair few other games this season where this stat is around the same or even higher. He's the last name that should be on the pitch against a counter attacking side.

[PeterParker]

I really avoided social media these days, but just seen some pictures with Father Ruben going and picking our players after the final whistle.

He needs to step up as captain, no more fucking around.

[carl_feedthegoat]

He needs to step up as captain, no more fucking around.

and to tell PeP some home truths about his line ups in certain games.

[Beefymcfc]

It's pretty much on Pep for the selection. Not much else to say.

Except perhaps that after watching Leicester beat them he wanted Sterling's pace behind and sacrificed the whole balance of the team to do it by leaving out Fern. Mahrez would have made more sense.

Johnny, I usually find myself agreeing with almost all of your views but on this, I am unable to agree at all with your view on Sterling.
Week after week we have watched him deliver failure on the pitch. Time and time again, he has been the reason our attacks have been halted and chances lost. His form in front of goal has been nothing short of abysmal.

Your theory about his spedd doesn't stand the test. He might be fast, he might get us up the pitch but then...WHAT?
He gets into space and stops, waits until confronted by defenders, holds the ball until the move is covered, runs up blind alleys, runs into defenders and falls over waving his arms from the floor.
There is no point teararsing down the line time and time again when the is never an end product.
It looks good, but it's fake. Like a boxer who chucks a lot of leather but never hits the target
Sorry mate.

Spot on...as ( nearly always) you normally are.

Nool's and Beefy disagree........can you give them some therapy lessons on visual reality ?

I spent over a grand that day.......woke up with wassap messages from my rag infested family and rag 'friends'

I'm still fuckign bitter.......as you can see

I think you’ll find I totally agree, I even said that ‘He was only being used as a decoy’ early in the CL Final thread. He’s been off form for a while and the only good thing I could see coming from his inclusion was that his speed my pull their defence wider to open space. Even so, I still thought he was best of a bad bunch in the first half but once he realised he wasn’t getting anything from the ref, not that he should have, he went into the corner and did nothing else.

[johnny crossan]

It's pretty much on Pep for the selection. Not much else to say.

Except perhaps that after watching Leicester beat them he wanted Sterling's pace behind and sacrificed the whole balance of the team to do it by leaving out Fern. Mahrez would have made more sense.

Johnny, I usually find myself agreeing with almost all of your views but on this, I am unable to agree at all with your view on Sterling.
Week after week we have watched him deliver failure on the pitch. Time and time again, he has been the reason our attacks have been halted and chances lost. His form in front of goal has been nothing short of abysmal.

Your theory about his spedd doesn't stand the test. He might be fast, he might get us up the pitch but then...WHAT?
He gets into space and stops, waits until confronted by defenders, holds the ball until the move is covered, runs up blind alleys, runs into defenders and falls over waving his arms from the floor.
There is no point teararsing down the line time and time again when the is never an end product.
It looks good, but it's fake. Like a boxer who chucks a lot of leather but never hits the target
Sorry mate.

Looks like I've been alone in this ditch for a while. Sterling has got us where we are as our best player for 3 seasons. He didn't lose us that game but his replacement of Fern was an incontestable error that left the midfield disjointed and vulnerable. It also hobbled Gundo as an attacking threat. For that blame Guardiola not him, he should have had the guts to put Mahrez on the bench - Chilwell had him on toast in every game.

[Sparklehorse]

It's pretty much on Pep for the selection. Not much else to say.

Except perhaps that after watching Leicester beat them he wanted Sterling's pace behind and sacrificed the whole balance of the team to do it by leaving out Fern. Mahrez would have made more sense.

Johnny, I usually find myself agreeing with almost all of your views but on this, I am unable to agree at all with your view on Sterling.
Week after week we have watched him deliver failure on the pitch. Time and time again, he has been the reason our attacks have been halted and chances lost. His form in front of goal has been nothing short of abysmal.

Your theory about his spedd doesn't stand the test. He might be fast, he might get us up the pitch but then...WHAT?
He gets into space and stops, waits until confronted by defenders, holds the ball until the move is covered, runs up blind alleys, runs into defenders and falls over waving his arms from the floor.
There is no point teararsing down the line time and time again when the is never an end product.
It looks good, but it's fake. Like a boxer who chucks a lot of leather but never hits the target
Sorry mate.

......and his first touch is worse than abysmal,I personally hope I never see him in a City shirt again, he should take some lessons from Mahrez who has a sublime first touch.

[Outcast]

https://www.football365.com/news/guardi ... y-matthaus

I'm still struggling to shake it off my system. I'm not a fan of those Krauts but you can't argue with Matthaus.

[salford city]

You could not make this shit up. Just had a letter from supporter services saying how much they have missed the fans in the stadium and how they were looking forward to the biggest game. Signed Pep. I hope CBBT got his

[carl_feedthegoat]

https://www.football365.com/news/guardiol-stole-champions-league-manchester-city-matthaus

I'm still struggling to shake it off my system. I'm not a fan of those Krauts but you can't argue with Matthaus.

Mate - the whole fuckign world is saying it and IMO we shouldn't let this drop and just jog on to the next season without taking PeP to task on it again and again until he acknowledges his fuck up.

Arrogant CUNT that he is.

[Hazy2]

You could not make this shit up. Just had a letter from supporter services saying how much they have missed the fans in the stadium and how they were looking forward to the biggest game. Signed Pep. I hope CBBT got his

Did pep sign it Twat x

[salford city]

You could not make this shit up. Just had a letter from supporter services saying how much they have missed the fans in the stadium and how they were looking forward to the biggest game. Signed Pep. I hope CBBT got his

Did pep sign it Twat x

No but that's how I read it and what i said