Recent content by Wonder Pigeon

City's inevitable procession to the title every year is partly because they ALWAYS have a couple of games in hand on the teams around them. I'd go as far as to say the only reason Guardiola bothers with the FA Cup is to bank a few league games in hand for the run-in.

I could have sworn that Chelsea didn't have much to play for, and that the race was down to Liverpool and City by this point, making the implosion all the funnier. I suppose they both had much better goal difference, plus City's game in hand.

Football needs villains, I say more antics.

Sadly Bazunu has done his achilles and is out of action until next year. Huge blow for his development you'd think, unless you're a well established name it's very hard to win your spot back as a keeper after a long injury.

Poyet for CEO

The best way that a club can show that it's being run in a new way is actually running it in that new way and focusing on that rather than trying to send a message of "zero tolerance". Getting rid of a marquee player who crossed the manager might sound like a huge statement, but it doesn't...

The idea of a "statement sale" would be just as indicitive of the psychodrama United have been caught in as any of the "statement signings" of the previous regime. Selling a player primarily to punish them and teach everyone else a lesson would not be putting down a marker for a more strategic...

How time flies, was it really six years ago that Keane was squaring up to Jon Walters and calling Harry Arter a prick for getting injured?

You demonstably can because in most penalty shootouts we see now even the lump centre backs are taking penos with better technique compated to their counterparts 20 years ago.

Sagnol lives to turn down the Ireland job another day.

Alexandre Jankewitz - got sent off 2 minutes into his first start for Southampton, who then lost 9-0 to United, was never heard from again.

Imagine the pressure on players at the highest level when at 19 you're either Definitely Worth 100 Million, or Actually Shit. He still has plenty of time to develop at Brighton, who are still rightly easing him in.

Steed Malbranque never played under Harry Redknapp OR Sam Allardyce OR Alan Pardew? Impossible. Witchcraft.

A spell at Barca feels spiritually missing from Rijkaard and Gullit's playing careers. Likewise Mancini surely played for both Milan clubs between Sampdoria and Lazio in another universe.

Sunderland crawled into many a poster here's heads after dancing the Poznan, where they have remained ever since.