** Official Match Thread - Birmingham Home **

[xavi6]

Subs: Given, Richards, Zabaleta, Santa Cruz, Barry, Vieira, Jo.

What's up with Ade?

Fuckin hell, let's hope we don't have an early injury up top.

[Dameerto]

I think we have a plan for Zigic, involving de Jong and Zigic's knee caps. I THINIK Zigic will be fairly quiet for most of the match.

[sharkey]

villa 1 scum 0!

2 nil

Shit house 2-1

2 all now, c*nts

[Manx Blue]

2-2 at Villa...Vidic should be off. Dean booked Ashley Young for going into the crowd. R5L have just said Vidic went into the crowd after scoring and had been booked earlier.....where's the justice?

[xavi6]

2-2 at Villa...Vidic should be off. Dean booked Ashley Young for going into the crowd. R5L have just said Vidic went into the crowd after scoring and had been booked earlier.....where's the justice?

There is none. Hernandez and Nani should've been sent as well.

[shawzy]

Hart, Boateng, K Toure, Kompany, Kolarov, De Jong, Y Toure, Milner, Johnson, Silva, Tevez.

Delighted

Good line up....Lets hope those wingers support Tevez and Silva abit more than of late.

[Dameerto]

With that back four we've no complaints if we're shite (though I'm expecting a good game from us)

[shawzy]

Loads of quality rivers on myp2p for this one ;-)

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Whatever team we put out should be good enough to get past Birmingham even though they will play mainly a containing game. It might well turn out to be a very hard fought tight game but if we score early it could be anything.

[Manx Blue]

2-2 at Villa...Vidic should be off. Dean booked Ashley Young for going into the crowd. R5L have just said Vidic went into the crowd after scoring and had been booked earlier.....where's the justice?

There is none. Hernandez and Nani should've been sent as well.

Wasnt watching Xavi...what went on?

[Esky]

Zigic is nine feet tall so we need to minimise the amount of stupid free kicks and corners we give away.

[Dubciteh]

Zigic is nine feet tall so we need to minimise the amount of stupid free kicks and corners we give away.

And also shit in the air, i watched him on tues and hes worse footballer ive seen in a while.

ps watch him score today..

[Dameerto]

Zigic is nine feet tall so we need to minimise the amount of stupid free kicks and corners we give away.

I think he'll be hobbling like a geriatric hobo after ten minutes personally.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

2-2 at Villa...Vidic should be off. Dean booked Ashley Young for going into the crowd. R5L have just said Vidic went into the crowd after scoring and had been booked earlier.....where's the justice?

There is none. Hernandez and Nani should've been sent as well.

Wasnt watching Xavi...what went on?

Don't forget Brown for stopping the goalscoring chance for the pen.

[xavi6]

2-2 at Villa...Vidic should be off. Dean booked Ashley Young for going into the crowd. R5L have just said Vidic went into the crowd after scoring and had been booked earlier.....where's the justice?

There is none. Hernandez and Nani should've been sent as well.

Wasnt watching Xavi...what went on?

Nani - Deliberate elbow on Warnock. Only got a yellow.

Hernandez - Booted the ball away after the whistle in the first half but no yellow. Then got booked for a lunge in the second half. Should've gone for two bookings.

Brown - Last man when he fould Young for the peno. Yellow.

Vidic - Booked for dissent after the Young goal then celebrated with the fans after the equaliser. No yellow for that even though Young got one for doing the same thing.

Corrupt as fuck.

[13021J]

Why isn't Ade on the bench guys :-(

[Esky]

The FOX America commentator just said we need to, quote unquote, 'lay a whoopin' on Birmingham if we're to reaffirm our title aspirations.

[Fesan]

Rumours have it that yaya is tired/injured and that is why he's been crap lately... With this teamselection leaving barry out and yaya in, unless yaya has a great game i will seriously start doubting mancinis selection... Maybe barry is far more tired than yaya?

[Esky]

Zigic is nine feet tall so we need to minimise the amount of stupid free kicks and corners we give away.

And also shit in the air, i watched him on tues and hes worse footballer ive seen in a while.

ps watch him score today..

Saw a bit of him at Valencia - he's a Jekyll and Hyde type player. Can be very dangerous (he was against Arsenal a month back).

[Dameerto]

Rumours have it that yaya is tired/injured and that is why he's been crap lately... With this teamselection leaving barry out and yaya in, unless yaya has a great game i will seriously start doubting mancinis selection... Maybe barry is far more tired than yaya?

It could be a product of the formation we're going to start with (though I won't even guess what Mancini has up his sleeve). I guess we will have to wait and see? (Yaya has looked a little tired in recent games though)