lol man city

Once upon a time, they were there to be fondly mocked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAc8JooS3MY

Now, the laughter is hollow and savage, yet still sincere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OUNuMSG1RI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLyHSI3bYd0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyAUkaC6nsI

OTM xp

possibly not-xp too

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=4607007375&topic=3826

ahahahahahaha

Def in my top 5 football chants of all time.

On this now  infamous final day of the season Liverpool were 2-0 up with less than a quarter of the match remaining, but with 20 minutes to go Uwe Rosler struck from a penalty to give us a glimmer of hope and then a few minutes later, remarkably Kit Symons equalised. Hope. We were all crying out for a winner, but suddenly their team went into safety-first mode with Steve Lomas holding the ball up near one of the corner flags. City boss Ball was told that results elsewhere meant that a draw would be sufficient and ordered his players to play out time, confident that Liverpool were equally content with a point. Of course, this is Manchester City, the home of base comedy. The information was wrong and by the time Niall Quinn, bizarrely substituted earlier, ran to the touchline to inform his team-mates of the manager’s mistake, it was too late.

he was no sturridge and that's why chelsea passed

http://keishan.com/images/robinho%20man%20city.jpg

http://classicdivebooks.customer.netspace.net.au/diamondheaddiver.jpg

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47206000/jpg/_47206710_tattoomanchris.jpg

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/Man-City-1-421x600.jpg

What does it say above Robinho & Kaka? lol?
xp re tattooed fuckwit

looks a bit like Bébé, which tbf is exactly the kind of signing the old City would've made

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8487297.stm

Despite his departure Mr Atkinson will not be covering up the names on his chest, which are displayed alongside genuine City legend Shaun Goater.

That'll be the bottom one, no mention of the other.

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1132137_city_fans_champions_league_tattoo__for_2011

"I was often criticised for being a Man City fan living in Birmingham, but now I don't think anybody can doubt that I am a true fan."

lol it's impossible for City to be CL winners in 2011, given that they're not even in the 2010-11 CL.

(the story's from 2009)

http://i.imgur.com/GrTpV.jpg

this is pretty impressive stuff from k touré on adebayor

could always reinvent themselves as an mma stable

even if they win 6-1, lol man city

Their whole bench are wearing matching red and black scarves. Mancini is wearing the red and black scarf over the top of his traditional home colours scarf.

This is a club of eejits.

O shit! It's a moving tribute! Shit!

Those were basically unrelated observations anyway.

LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Roj2eqffes

Don't think Mike Meltdown Summerbee will be invited back after that performance

have seen it mentioned but not seen yet, he seemed calm enough up until i switched off

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/feb/17/rooney-kaka-manchester-city-aris-programme

Don't think that really qualifies as a meltdown.

http://www.twitvid.com/AHCJ1

tremendous, really

brilliant - good job he's on £200k pw and can afford someone to dress him in the morning

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/may/12/manchester-city-bluffers-guide?CMP=twt_gu

"If you are asked who your favourite players are from down the years – your credibility is at stake here – don't say Francis Bell, Colin Summerbee and Yaya Dzeko."

"It’s worth noting that from 1923 to 2003 we played our home games at Maine Road"

Adebayor on Mancini:

"But we have a bad moment for maybe two or three months. If I have to go back we will sit down like two big men and sort out the problem. I'm not forcing him to play me but he has to have the right respect for his player. That's all I'm asking for."

Good diplomacy for a big man?

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^^ two teams of small players, the big player myth destroyed.

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" Level of striker we have " !!!! theres more life in a placenta ! ED at best championship mid. table,AS for Balloteli compare his petulance to say Silva , I cant bare to watch him when he is knocked over its like the last act in Mackbeth. and his conntinous fouling of the opposition because they win the ball from him ! how dare they dont they know how good he " thinks " he is .other than the odd trick he is lazy and an utter grass inspector

would they have been better losing a few more games in jan/feb and then chasing it for the rest of the season

idk its in inane counterfactual but it is striking how much better they look since they were written

today was the first time they scored more than once away in a league game since november apparently, lending support to the 'slow decline' theory in citeh historiography

/written off

even if they win 6-1, lol man city

― http://i26.tinypic.com/2ajucf4.jpg (acoleuthic), Sunday, 9 January 2011 16:07 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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boring rambling thoughts:

so ambivalent about city winning. it must have been ridic shit to be a city supporter the last 20 years, your united pals wouldve probably gave up giving them stick they were such an irrelevance, and to the cunts whove been going to shitty lower league away games and enduring relegations and "cityitis" etc. this must be the most unbelievable, unparalleled footballing journey. it's fairly nonsensical but i definitely have "footballing justice" criteria to title wins which have nothing to do with what happens on the park. i know that all clubs in the premiership with a chance of winning the league are owned by sugar daddies, who are more or less munificent depending on their inclinations/financial situation, so it's unfair to argue that a win is cheap because it was "bought" by a tycoon/oligarch. it's also unfair to act like man city is any worse a corporate behemoth than other clubs, it really isnt, perhaps because it can afford to be - their finances are for all intents and purposes bottomless. and again while man city arent well supported, have trouble selling out their stadium often this season while having cunts like david silva, yaya touré and el kun playing for them no less, this doesnt seem enough to write them off in and of itself.

long story short i guess: id have preferred man united to win because they actually have history/have been supported well historically. and im a haivering idiot.

more fun in city winning it, and while i've watched them they play the better football with the players i'd rather watch. sure, very few on their team grew up hoping to wear the sky blue one day, but then i highly doubt ashley young's fervent wish was to look to his right one day and see michael carrick crabbing along beside scholes 3.6.

also fair to point out that citeh had plentiful support two or three divisions ago, much of it no doubt still attending matches these days

Historically man city were pretty huge. No title since '68 really does them a disservice. The highest home league attendance EVER was at Maine Road in 1934, 84k against Stoke, and they set the British transfer record paying 1.4m for Steve Daley in 1979. So those Manchester roots run deep, and it doesn't take much for people who's dads were massive city fans to start going to games. So their support base is potentially really huge. I always thought it would be kinda cool if Preston suddenly returned to being all-conquering behemoths, and this Man city story isn't far from it. I dunno, maybe that's overstating it.

Them being a purely local phenomenon, so far as I can tell and presumably no longer after yesterday, is interesting. They also seem to have something really old-school about them, insofar as that's possible with a billion pounds of oil money, though in fairness I may be confusing 'traditional' with 'shambolic'.

I see them maybe a bit as I would a slightly weird foreign club, things are always a little different there. Maybe Liverpool look like that to others, I dunno.

it's also unfair to act like man city is any worse a corporate behemoth than other clubs

Dunno about that, has anyone asked the people of Abu Dhabi what they think about their unelected leaders funnelling vast sums of their oil wealth into Manchester? I think Chelsea are probably a worse corporate behemoth, but that's because Abramovich is a proper evil bastard, and let's not even go into the Glazers, but there's something deeply unpalatable about the current City incarnation regardless of how much I like individual players.

eh the ppl of abu dhabi have a system, may be fair, may not be, but essentially if you've beef with private ownership of natural resources and the profits thereof funding football, you're starting that party a lil late, no?

I don't see what timing has to do with it. It's actually state ownership of natural resources and the profits funding football that I have an issue with.

i got the impression that was more like after he forcibly removed the captaincy then kompany was voted up next

If he hadn't provoked Barton's red card what would the final result have been?

― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Monday, 14 May 2012 22:32 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah noodle's post about barton as borges' sacrificial judas iscariot only ended up ringing even truer

theyd have won w/e

would they if Bolton had won though?

yeah as if, they were totes on the way to a 1-6 hiding

v happy they won it anyway once our business was done tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW3CWNyYoBo

I assume they would have won 2-0 since they wouldn't have been pressing quite so hard. If Bolton had won, maybe 1-0...

city had like 42 shots or sthing

barton was terry or thiago motta, something to stir up the resentment

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http://i.imgur.com/OmKSh.jpg

love that the manchester guardian are using this image like something from a vhs on youtube

tevez' face squished like a rotting pumpkin

http://tf-chalkboards.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/images/08Ftj.png

:)

woah

our 2nd was fkn triffic might i just add

scoff all you like but armand traore is potentially a pure touchline winger of a very very high calibre

i think i was repping for armand even in the dark days

Mackie's goal was fantastic

Yeah the second was beautiful. With the high angle it was the type goal you could see coming for a good few seconds beforehand, like a grandmaster moving his rooks in for the kill. I could've called the family in to watch it happen live, there was that much time, but I was frozen stiff in horror.

ive been impressed with mackie, how come he hadnt been tearing it up like leon osman in the top flight for the last few seasons

Tbh, the second Traore turned his man, I smelled a goal and that delivery was excellent

repping random french lads is v you tho tbf, feel sure i could dig up some off the cuff defenses of sylvain legwinski or lilian laslandes or whomever

mackie's kind of a strange one, very much the manner of a lower league grafter, full of relentless mad harrying running, but then with sudden moments of preternatural class probably executed without a single thought in his little lovable head. obv hard to gauge playing in a schizo team whihc is why it'll fascinating to see if he develops next season given his unorthodoxy. i mean even to look at him, he's got thin stick legs but hulked out up top

also have you ever heard him speak? you have to hear him speak

Yeah the second was beautiful. With the high angle it was the type goal you could see coming for a good few seconds beforehand, like a grandmaster moving his rooks in for the kill. I could've called the family in to watch it happen live, there was that much time, but I was frozen stiff in horror.

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 14 May 2012 23:03 (Yesterday) Bookmark

totally, i pretty much re-enacted the dutch commentary for bergkamp's wc v argentina for it going "mackie back post mackie back post mackie back post" to ecstatic crescendo

wc *goal* (this one)

i thought traoré was incredible for a 17 yr old in the 2007 coca cola cup final (the one where ade got sent off for a phantom foul)

he was insanely fast (possibly a bit slower over 10 yards since he's bulked up) and had v good technique for a fb, at least a little defensive nous and a bit of subdued malevolence too

which is why he has played his entire career to date in the top flight (even gd juve?) despite seeming totally uninterested half the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJNr8d9qO1U

sounds exactly like he ought to

surprised by how good his technique is, definitely a step above arriviste champo wing-terriers like hunt or whoever

I don't remember you praising Traore except for this exchange, reminiscent of your redefinition of the word 'impressive' as applied to Phil Jones:

armand traoré is awes
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Sunday, August 28, 2011 5:25 PM (8 months ago)

why is armand traore awes
― r|t|c, Sunday, August 28, 2011 5:28 PM (8 months ago)

cuz he just doesn't care
― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Sunday, August 28, 2011 5:29 PM (8 months ago)

oh right
― r|t|c, Sunday, August 28, 2011 5:29 PM (8 months ago)

armand traoré is great

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, August 16, 2011 9:19 PM (8 months ago)

Oh I thought that was your 'ken c' register, not sincere.

phil jones is impressive under any criteria

however, he is a case study for how athletic, supremly confident young prospects attract the frequent assertion that 'they could play anywhere', but when that sudden sugar rush of form breaks they are suddenly considered useless

he needs to be set into one position and developed more stringently, rather like micah richards aka the phil jones of 2008

traoré will probably be a midtable player with intermittent flashes of class to remind you that if he was really bothered he could get 80 caps or france

http://m.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/may/18/fall-and-rise-manchester-city?cat=football&type=article

That's excellent

de niro wrote:
Pmsl, Barry has more technical ability than any other player in our squad and that includes silva. His consistency is amazing and is at this time irreplaceable. Apart from joe he's the one we can't do without.

jamie mackie

nastasic looking v good

this was the worst i have seen them in ages

so fucking bad, lescott brought on to play as auxillary centre forward

they are such a broken team, 3-5-2 with a great central core of stolid bigness -- two tourés, garcia, kompany, nastasic, and three technopygmies up front

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GfAW-Q5bBHE

one for the ages, not quite pollockesque but not far off

lol indeed

With Kompany's groin injury and Richards's pulled hamstring keeping each out for up to a month, the need for a new central defender is newly concentrated following this reverse. Martín Demichelis of Atlético Madrid has been identified, though City are haggling over the Spanish club's €5m (£4.3m) valuation.

On 11 July 2013, Demichelis signed for Atlético Madrid on a one-year contract after his Malaga contract expired.[11]

Manchester City have confirmed the signing of Martin Demichelis from Atletico Madrid.

The fee is understood to be in the region of £3.5million and the 32-year-old Argentine has signed a two-year deal after passing a medical on Sunday morning.

atleti bought alderweireld for £5m as a replacement so that's £1.5m net

is pellegrini going to try playing 442 against bayern

maybe that wasn't the best idea

http://i.imgur.com/1PtGlBm.png

http://i.imgur.com/vQQe1hT.jpg

something about not even needing to do that with joleon lescott

feasting on scraps now but https://twitter.com/MCFC/status/512338361424822272

all of the reports from last nights game focus on how crap touré was again
ive only watched half of the chelsea game this season, where he was fine
his crappy perfomances in europe along with relatively poor ones from kompany silva etc are the best indication of the current state of the epl
tourés best cl performance still while playing as a defender for barcelona six years ago
the midfields, even the ones with talented players, are either overrun or they have to play a blocking system like chelsea
toure has run epl midfields for the last few years but every continental team is too quick with closing down and too neat with their passing & interchanges
even shit aged gerrard looked good in the epl last year

becoming gloriously apparent that -

same lols, different scale

Some totemic value to slipping below United again, especially given how shit United have been for so much of the season.

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7. Well, that wasn't in the script! Plenty of time for City to get back into the game, though. #cityvwestham #mcfc

who do these absolute cunts think they are