Blimey, come on Town

Mark Hughes must be on thin ice now! He’s managed to change one of stuffiest, tenacious difficult teams to play against to the worst defence in the league.

City are absolutely taking Spurs apart here. They should be about 4 up by now

The relegation zone looks very different today. 😀

How many bookies have paid out on City now? It’s already done really isn’t it?

It’s already done really isn’t it?

Not if all the teams City yet have to play follow Danny Murphy’s advice to kick City off the park. Spurs tried and failed but could easily have ended Sterling and KdB seasons.

The way England players like Deli Alli and Rooney allowed to kick players and get away with it domestically is a big factor in the national team’s underperformance at tournaments.

It is pretty sad when a talented team like Spurs resort to such tactics – they have form for it though – see last season against Chelsea

#RobinForADay 😆

😯 😆 8)

I’m sure I can feel the tremors from Ashton Gate from my house.

Lets hope Bristol are respectful in victory, and that their manager doesn’t do anything uncouth, like running down the sideline or running around to all corners of the ground wagging his finger.

I’m sure I can feel the tremors from Ashton Gate from my house.

Probably the baseline as Bristol play a selection of tunes from their favourite beat combos in the dressing room.

their manager

He’s doing alright to be fair. Seems a good bloke. As was his old man. I only hope he fulfils what looks like some potential.

Yes!! As a full-time Liverpool fan, and a part-time Robins fan (Mum’s family are from there and I’ve been to see them a number of times and always follow their fortunes), this is a good day.

Blimey!! 😯

World class attacking

Sunday league defending

Under 12’s standard goalkeeping

Watching this with my scouse mate who predicted a 5-4 final score before kick off, but wouldn’t commit to who. He may well be right

Could/should have been 0-3 down at HT, but then within a few mins we were 3-2 up….WTF!

It was never going to last though! 🙁

missed this re Bristol fair play two cracking goals and showed how far we have to go to be world beaters

Arsenal v pool was end to end awesomeness – like kegan v Kegan

Fantastic game! Utterly bonkers. 2 great attacking sides. 2 absolutely shambolic defences. Quality viewing.

Before the game we said this match would be decided by who makes the most defensive howlers.

Mignolet is an absolute liability. You’ll never have an even half decent defence when you know you’ve got someone flapping away like that behind you

Bog standard Liverpool! I’ve said that about Mignolet for a while binners – he affects the whole defence. Pulls off some world class saves but then all keepers do. Always got a howler in him.

The Mignolet “attempted save” looked like he’d been paid to let one in. Forfend.

It’s why they concede so many from set pieces. Watch any decent keeper and they’re organising and setting up the defence in front of them. At set pieces, or crosses whipped in, he looks like a rabbit in the headlights

Can’t argue with that .
Which may be a first for this forum .

Huh.

The January transfer window will open on Monday to Liverpool’s extraordinary world-record £75 million signing of Holland centre-back Virgil van Dijk from Southampton.

– http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/12/27/liverpool-agree-world-record-75m-deal-virgil-van-dijk/

Wasn’t Lovran the last defensive solution to arrive from ‘name your price’ Southampton?

That went well

It won’t make a blind bit of difference to the hopelessly naive, headless chicken style of defence that Kevin Keegan Klopp favours. Surrounded by mediocrity (at best), with a midfield that can only run in one direction, and with Mignolet flapping away behind him, his career will no doubt go the same way as every other defender who arrives at Anfield.

It’s fantastic to watch, but there’s absolutely no chance of winning owt

They did manage a ‘hens teeth’ clean sheet last night, but that was only because i’d had a bet on 5-1. Bastards! 😀

They did manage a ‘hens teeth’ clean sheet last night, but that was only because i’d had a bet on 5-1. Bastards

9 hen’s teeth up to now in 20 games. So nearly 50% then.

Only 82% possession away at Newcastle for City so far tonight. Sloppy. 🙂

Dwight Gayle….

😆

I reckon City could end up being 20+ points clear of anyone else by the end of the season, easily

Especially if Jose’s sulks turn into his third season meltdown prematurely. £300m not enough. Maybe do a spot of coaching instead of whinging? The thing that strikes me about Pep is the improvement he makes to players – Sterling and Stones spring to mind in particular.

Er ….

Clean Sheets
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1. Chelsea 10
2. Manchester City 10
3. Manchester United 10
4. Arsenal 9
5. Burnley 9
6. Liverpool 9

7. Tottenham Hotspur 8
8. Brighton and Hove Albion 7
9. Everton 6
10. Huddersfield Town 6
11. Swansea City 6
12. West Bromwich Albion 6
13. West Ham United 6
14. Watford 5
15. AFC Bournemouth 4
16. Leicester City 4
17. Southampton 4
18. Crystal Palace 3
19. Newcastle United 3
20. Stoke City 2

Is there a ‘headless chickens’ table for shipping 3 goals in 4 minutes to chuck away a 2 goal lead? 😆

£75m for a defender. That’s not far off what Real payed for Gareth Bale. World has gone mad.

Celtic will be pleased with that bit of news

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3. Tottenham Hotspur 342
4. Arsenal 337
5. Chelsea 322
6. Manchester United 279
7. Southampton 252
8. Crystal Palace 247
9. Newcastle United 244
10. Watford 232
11. Stoke City 224
12. AFC Bournemouth 214
13. Leicester City 208
14. West Ham United 202
15. Huddersfield Town 196
16. West Bromwich Albion 195
17. Burnley 190
18. Everton 186
19. Brighton and Hove Albion 176
20. Swansea City 171

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5. Manchester United 10

Can’t find the table for goals against in six minutes losing a 2 nil lead. Very specific that one!!

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1. Swansea City 80
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3. Burnley 68
4. Southampton 68
5. Brighton and Hove Albion 63
6. Everton 62
7. Leicester City 62
8. Stoke City 62
9. AFC Bournemouth 59
10. Crystal Palace 58
11. Newcastle United 58
12. West Ham United 57
13. Huddersfield Town 52
14. Watford 52
15. Tottenham Hotspur 47
16. West Bromwich Albion 46
17. Arsenal 45
18. Chelsea 39
19. Liverpool 34
20. Manchester City 30

As soon as De Gea leaves …. ut oh!!!

@binners – predictable is predictable, give it a rest lad, there’s a boy 😀

This ‘Statto’ stuff is fascinating, but isn’t there only one table that counts? And that makes pretty sorry reading for anyone who doesn’t support City.

Unfortunately, I think it might be looking like that for the next few seasons, at least.

They looked like they were having a kickabout down the park last night against Newcastle

Judging by the number of times he’s mentioned City in this thread, methinks binners is a closet blue.
Or at least wishes he was!

I am bored of watching United this season, its like watching the team that played under LVG but at a slightly faster speed. No creativity and too many players being played out of position so the team is all unbalanced. Rashford,martial,mata,henrik m all of them being played out wide and all of them are better suited to playing centrally. But most of all as a united fan i am sick of hearing Mourinho excuses and moaning, he really is very hard to like. GGMU.