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PaulieIrish wrote:Liniker already out with this:

http://c.files.bbci.co.uk/16668/product ... ineker.png

budfox wrote:

PaulieIrish wrote:Liniker already out with this:

http://c.files.bbci.co.uk/16668/product ... ineker.png

Unbelievable. Switch the roles around over the first two games and it would be "Are City already out of the race?" and "Do Chelsea already have one hand on the title?"

Thing is though I do like Lineker as a bloke, yes his comments are very biased but my God he gave us some things to cheers in his day.

Dameerto wrote:

budfox wrote:

PaulieIrish wrote:Liniker already out with this:

http://c.files.bbci.co.uk/16668/product ... ineker.png

Unbelievable. Switch the roles around over the first two games and it would be "Are City already out of the race?" and "Do Chelsea already have one hand on the title?"

Thing is though I do like Lineker as a bloke, yes his comments are very biased but my God he gave us some things to cheers in his day.

His tongue is firmly in his cheek (and he's about as passionate about Leicester as we are about City by the way).

london blue 2 wrote:Just hope shearer isn't on.

nottsblue wrote:

london blue 2 wrote:Just hope shearer isn't on.

I'd like to see Dion Dublin on, and the presenter ask him " so Dion, you had City to finish outside the top four. On a scale of one to ten, how much of a bell-end are you?"

And when Shearer does that smirk of his, the presenter just turns round and says you're no better, you thick, boring waste of space

london blue 2 wrote:Just hope shearer isn't on.

nottsblue wrote:

london blue 2 wrote:Just hope shearer isn't on.

I'd like to see Dion Dublin on, and the presenter ask him " so Dion, you had City to finish outside the top four. On a scale of one to ten, how much of a bell-end are you?"

And when Shearer does that smirk of his, the presenter just turns round and says you're no better, you thick, boring waste of space

PaulieIrish wrote:OMG. 3 Arsenal players make Garth Crooks team of the week on BBC. 1 City player.

I guess we're totally over-reacting about beating the champions 3-0. Beating Palace 1-2 seems to be the new yeardstick...

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/33954348

Mourinho’s argument was that Chelsea were the better side in the second half and, perhaps for 25 minutes, they were. Yet the rest of the match leant heavily in City’s favour and the bumper crowd of 54,331 – on the day City opened the new, vertiginous South Stand – could also reflect on four presentable chances, all falling to Agüero, before the scoring started and John Terry’s afternoon turned into a personal ordeal.

Chelsea have a formidable [striker] of their own in Diego Costa but the difference between the two was laid bare here. Agüero spent the match trying to find a legitimate way past the Chelsea defence, always looking for space and an opportunity to draw back his shooting foot. Costa, on the other hand, seemed entirely preoccupied with winning free-kicks, throwing his hands in the air in barely plausible outrage and trying to pick fights that, for the most part, were only in his imagination.

He was entitled to be aggrieved by the clattering elbow that left him with a bandaged head towards the end of the first half and could easily have resulted in a red card for Fernandinho. Yet there has been a change in Costa since his hamstring problem flared up last season. His aggression can be a useful trait but it is reaching the point when it is his first tactic, and threatening only sporadically in more orthodox ways.

What Costa could not do was make any lasting impression on a City defence where Kompany looks more like his old self and Eliaquim Mangala seems far more comfortable than before. Yaya Touré looks rejuvenated and Raheem Sterling has given City a new way to penetrate defences on the left side of attack.

PrezIke wrote:Well, Daniel Taylor of The Guardian did not make any excuses, wrote a fair assessment of what transpired, and correctly picked Fernandinho as MOTM:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... tch-report

Mourinho’s argument was that Chelsea were the better side in the second half and, perhaps for 25 minutes, they were. Yet the rest of the match leant heavily in City’s favour and the bumper crowd of 54,331 – on the day City opened the new, vertiginous South Stand – could also reflect on four presentable chances, all falling to Agüero, before the scoring started and John Terry’s afternoon turned into a personal ordeal.

Chelsea have a formidable [striker] of their own in Diego Costa but the difference between the two was laid bare here. Agüero spent the match trying to find a legitimate way past the Chelsea defence, always looking for space and an opportunity to draw back his shooting foot. Costa, on the other hand, seemed entirely preoccupied with winning free-kicks, throwing his hands in the air in barely plausible outrage and trying to pick fights that, for the most part, were only in his imagination.

He was entitled to be aggrieved by the clattering elbow that left him with a bandaged head towards the end of the first half and could easily have resulted in a red card for Fernandinho. Yet there has been a change in Costa since his hamstring problem flared up last season. His aggression can be a useful trait but it is reaching the point when it is his first tactic, and threatening only sporadically in more orthodox ways.

What Costa could not do was make any lasting impression on a City defence where Kompany looks more like his old self and Eliaquim Mangala seems far more comfortable than before. Yaya Touré looks rejuvenated and Raheem Sterling has given City a new way to penetrate defences on the left side of attack.

Uhhh...take that!

Also, across the pond, the NBC announcers did well today, including Tim Howard, for the American audience watching who have less reason to generate hate against our club and like to see quality football.

I'm delighted for Pellegrini, btw.

Dameerto wrote:

PaulieIrish wrote:OMG. 3 Arsenal players make Garth Crooks team of the week on BBC. 1 City player.

I guess we're totally over-reacting about beating the champions 3-0. Beating Palace 1-2 seems to be the new yeardstick...

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/33954348

Not one single forward in the league this weekend came close to Aguero in that first half display. Fernandinho had one of the games of his life too - Mangala ran Kompany close and only Kompany's goal to Mangala's missed chance separates them. Sagna had another excellent game and is probably keeping Zabba out on merit at the moment, Kolarov and Navas got some decent balls in from wide, Yaya was solid again, and Silva was his usual classy self. Garth Crooks is a blind idiot.