Watching them get a run like that I start to feel that the draws are rigged. It is beyond luck to get so many easy draws in a row. I think Burnley at home is probably the only bad draw since it was early enough in the cup so there was plenty of non premier league sides left. Also Leicester in the league cup was semi hard.
FA Cup Final (slaughter)
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Why? It's a trophy. Barca included their spanish cup when talking about their calendar year 'sextuple'.
Nah, we were too busy laughing at Bayern.Did you moan this much about one team dominating when United won back to back (back to back to back) titles and the big treble?
The difference between the teams until the 3rd went in was the finishing of chances. Watford were giving them a game up until that point.
Salty in here.
wasn't Jose mocked when he did the three finger celebration after the Europa league final in 2017?
Will it be a City/Liverpool Community Shield.
Abu Dhabi Athletic triumph again.
But seriously, they're feckin' good to watch, although having said that it is a bit like watching someone hitting on your wife....
But seriously, they're feckin' good to watch, although having said that it is a bit like watching someone hitting on your wife....
Yep. He is owed an apology.
That's a strange place to jump to. Why would Gill care? Especially as United stopped placing much emphasis on the FA Cup after the treble. He would probably be more disappointed at missed opportunities in light of a Spurs Pool CL final, as both clubs were firmly behind United when he left.
To be honest, teams go hell for leather for the super cups in other leagues but in England its always been seen as a friendly to start the season. You watch the losing team in those super cups and they are upset, distraught even. You watch the team that loses the Charity Shield and they're like "Ah well...".
At least that should be a game, red cards all round. Kick lumps out of each other. Imagine (I know we don't really want to) Liverpool are CL winners and they bring the trophy out before the game. The look on Pep's face would be a picture.
Congratulations. What a decorated list of clubs.
Nah, the minute Pep fecks off no matter who comes in we'll not be near this level, even with another £1bn spend.
Not going to watch that really.
Can only beat whats in front of us though. Hardly City to blame because those clubs went further than the others in the big 6. Should they have put Liverpool, Chelsea and Spurs back in the competitions after they lost so City would have a tougher draw. Those teams got where they did on merit.
We’ve had it the worst it could possibly be with city. (Agüeroooo)
Liverpool haven’t won the league since 1990. Lets keep it that way.
Except it's the strongest league in Europe.
Wouldn’t be surprised if when added up the total value of all those teams, they still wouldn’t come anywhere near the value of City’s squad.
He was in the crowd today next to Southgate.
Didn't Man. United try to get him in 2012 but he'd already committed to Bayern. Remember SAF meeting him in New York and finding that out so he was obviously on the potential list of candidates at one stage.
None of them beat Chelsea, Liverpool, Spurs and Arsenal? We took Chelsea and Arsenal out of the way. Wolves took Liverpool and us out. You have somehow managed to escape all the big names in both competitions- quite unprecedented. And still needed refs help in one match.
This season it is.
But with Bayern, Real Madrid, Juventus, Barcelona all rebuilding over the next few years, I don't expect English to sweep European trophies for much longer.
Was there a game today?
I have to say it is the first time ever in my lifetime as a Utd supporter that I actually am really jealous of little Man City from Moss Side. Not only they have a brilliant winning team with a winning mentality on the pitch they have shown they have a great set up of it as well. Reminds me of what we actually were & how badly we’ve fallen behind.
Well done to Lyon women
Yeh, Lyon 4-1 Barcelona in the women's CL final.
Most predictable result this season, I knew as soon as they beat Wolves that this would happen.
I expect at least Pool and City to go deep again next season, and whoever features in the Europa league to do the same. Others will rebuild, but those two have the structure and the players to keep their levels for a few seasons still.
To be fair, United’s own cup run in 2016 was also piss easy but who cares? You can only beat what’s in front of you.
Edit: Quoted the wrong poster. Oh well.
Teams are rolling over against City and the resistance they’re coming up against is pathetic. Liverpool got in their faces and stopped them, Spurs too to a degree but Watford just caved in. Not one nasty foul by Watford that I saw (I did miss about 15-20 min), no gamesmanship to disrupt City. Nothing.
They won't every trophy in England. All four thats quite an achievement. Whether you like it or not the community shield is an official trophy and should be treated as such. The league cup in every league is useless for the big teams but in the end it counts and in the future all people are going to see are the trophy counts.
Thanks for the info. Well done Lyon ladies.
1. Yes, a defence mechanism. It was thrown against us as abuse for years and years so we turned it against them and started being proud of our Jewish connections. I'm not going to pretend it's all ok, but plenty of Jewish people (including Levy) don't view it as offensive, it's actually quite a controversial issue. I'd rather it didn't happen but since rival fans still make gas chamber noises relatively regularly, I think we have bigger issues out there and it's a pretty cheap blow you're trying to land.
2. We will invest, once our revenue gets to a level where we can support spending. We've just financed a massive new stadium in order to build our revenue stream up in the future, something City don't have to worry about it because you invent sponsors. It's called building a club up for the long term.
3. Don't give a feck about what Villareal did, it's not the same long term plan that exists at this football club. I have plenty of issues with our owners/lack of spending but it's a helluva lot more commendable than chucking crooked money at a club and pretending it's legit by breaking the rules.
4. When I say no one cares, I mean nobody is impressed by what you're doing. It doesn't feel like it's being done by an actual football club at all, of course it's annoying and bullshit what you're doing to football but you're just part of the weird grey sludge that is the 'sugar daddy fc' brigade. You're not even really Manchester City anymore.
5. Can't do shit in relation to the ridiculous, obscene spending you've both thrown at your clubs. Of course I get wound up, it's fine for you as a fan of City to try and shrug off and justify what you've done, but fans of proper clubs who built their way up with hard work and planning aren't exactly going to be delighted when clubs win a lottery ticket and start throwing crooked money around via inventing sponsors. What do you expect the reaction of other fans to be? Oh yeah it's City again, highest revenue in the league apparently .. get fecked.
So David Moyes did win us a trophy?
Now would be the perfect time for us to announce a big signing!..
I try not to be too nostalgic but yeah our treble winning team most definitely had harder cup runs:
FA Cup (including but not all):
Liverpool
Chelsea (finished third that year)
Arsenal
Newcastle (when they were good)
Champion's League:
Barcelona and Bayern in group stages
Inter
Juventus
Bayern
Crazy really.
FA Cup (including but not all):
Liverpool
Chelsea (finished third that year)
Arsenal
Newcastle (when they were good)
Champion's League:
Barcelona and Bayern in group stages
Inter
Juventus
Bayern
Crazy really.
Absolutely. The community shield is not a pre season trophy. It signals the start of the new season. Are fans going to say "feck ya we won the community shield" no because its 4th in the pecking order of trophies in the league but still it is an official trophy so if City win all 4 which they did it is quite an achievement.
Look no further than this thread.
None of which is our fault. If you'd beaten Wolves, you'd have had a shot at Watford but you didn't. You were well beaten by Wolves, you deserved to go out they deserved to stay in. Watford made the final by beating the very team United and Liverpool couldn't. They deserved to get where they did as did we. If other teams had done their jobs Watford wouldn't be at that stage.