I was going to watch the game yesterday as the wife and son are Newcastle fans and granddad Hackett was a Sunderland fan (lived in Shiney Row until his late teens) but i thought it was a late kick off so missed it, doh.
Being called a moronic twat by someone who found remedial England a challenge is a compliment, now do us all a favour and **** off back to your Swans board and start a "how many goals are we going to beat Sunderland by" thread and stay there you bitter ****.
thre may be fans who want to talk about the game, you two will chase them off and you really should know better jack. I'm off now. cant be botherd with it so if you want to kill the board, carry on.
BWFC: Jaaskelainen, Steinsson, Cahill, Knight, Robinson, Eagles, Muamba, Reo-Coker, Petrov, K Davies, Klasnic subs: Bogdan, Alonso, M Davies, Blake, Pratley, Wheater, Blakeman Man City: Hart, Richards, Kompany, Lescott, Milner, Dzeko, Kolarov, Aguero, Barry, Silva, Y Toure subs: Pantilimon, Zabaleta, Johnson, Savic, Clichy, Tevez, Balotelli
Very surprised Tevez is on the bench, i thought he would start with Tevez and Dzeko and finish with Aguero and Tevez, I bet Balotelli is not happy.
Kolarov didn't play last week so i guess its just squad rotation, i am sure they will swap later. I have never seen Bolton play and TBH i wasn't expecting them to give us as as many scares as they have.
Manchester City served intent of their attacking ambitions this season by beating Bolton in an entertaining game. David Silva gave City the lead from the edge of the box when Jussi Jaaskelainen got his positioning all wrong. Gareth Barry then smashed a shot into the top corner before Ivan Klasnic swept home Martin Petrov's cross. The visitors took hold of the game again when Edin Dzeko fired in on 47 minutes and despite Kevin Davies heading in, City looked impressive. Sergio Aguero could easily have scored twice before the break after good work by Dzeko, but he missed the target on both occasions. And overall it was a performance which oozed with attacking purpose with the City players interchanging positions with relative ease. Carlos Tevez was named on the bench, eventually replacing Aguero, but the way in which Dzeko, Aguero and Silva combined will give City boss Roberto Mancini plenty of encouragement for the season ahead, whatever Tevez's long-term ambitions. Bolton struggled to match their opponents' inventiveness at times, but in coming back twice to reduce a two-goal advantage, they showed they are a team who can compete with the more expensively-assembled Premier League sides. At certain moments they were outplayed, but Owen Coyle's side began with real gusto, furiously harrying the City players to win the ball back and they twice went close early on with Joe Hart parrying Chris Eagles' free-kick and Zat Knight volleying wide from a corner. But as City settled, Silva, as is so often the case, began to dictate play by cutting in from the left and his pass allowed Aleksandar Kolarov to cross but Jaaskelainen brilliantly stopped James Milner's effort. The Finnish keeper was left embarrassed on 26 minutes, however, when he misjudged Silva's low shot from the edge of the area. Either side of the opener Aguero should have scored his third and fourth goals of the season after incisive crosses by Dzeko, but he put the first attempt over and then headed just wide. There were many encouraging signs for the visitors, with the Bosnian looking comfortable on the ball and Silva a menace, and it was no surprise that City extended their lead on 37 minutes. Barry collected a short corner from the right, and with time and space to shoot, he fired superbly into the top corner. It looked as though an onslaught was on the cards but seemingly out of nowhere Owen Coyle's side recovered through Klasnic. Nigel Reo-Coker found Martin Petrov on the left wing and his quick-fire cross was swept into the net by the Croatian forward. Any hopes of using that goal as a foothold in the game were soon ended when Dzeko re-established a two-goal lead when he fired in two minutes after the break. Once again it was a preventable goal, with Knight failing to deal with Milner's hooked overhead pass, but Dzeko hustled him off the ball and fired low under Jaaskelainen. That immediately put City back in control and where Silva impressed in the first half, it was Milner who began to orchestrate proceedings in the second. Bolton's second goal came against the run of play when Paul Robinson swung in a free-kick deep on the right and Davies rose to head expertly past Hart. Mark Davies injected some attacking energy to their midfield but they could not find another way past a firm City defence and Mancini's side could have scored again when substitute Adam Johnson delivered a teasing cross that Tevez could not connect with. The City boss stated his intention to take more risks this season, and by naming two strikers from the start his side produced a performance that was as entertaining for the neutral as it would have been for the watching City fans. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/14520274.stm
**** ref for both sides. Good game in general, you deserved the win and much more but we did well to keep the goal difference. Milner is a cheating ****. Bring on Liverpool!
Today was the first time i have seen Bolton play and I must admit they played better than i imagined they would, the last 20 minutes was a worry as City fans know what it is like to see defeat dragged from the jaws of victory.
Bolton4Europe well if Milner is a cheating **** then so is Petrov, Micah Richards barely touched him and he went down like he had been hit by a 40 ton run away container truck, a wuss Bolton have turned him into. If Bolton are going to go anywhere this season they need to be alot tougher on the ball otherwise they will end up strugling to stay in the top half of the premier league.
We are trying to get into the top half of the league, not stay there Also, just because one player is a wuss (an ex-City player), it doesn't mean the whole squad isn't tough on the ball. Kevin Davies for example would backfire your claim. Did you see Milner's second dive where he went down for **** all, went to the sideline, and then got up to take the throw about 5 seconds later. Cheat.
That tackle of Kevin Davies was a little bit dangerous to start with in the first minute of the game, Kevin gets that tackle wrong and he's walking straight down the tunnel. Then Bolton could have ended onthe wrong end of a hammering. It's a well and good trying to be a hard man when tackling but you need to stay on your feet when you tackle like that.
Kevin Davies has never timed that 25 yard sprint tackle wrongly, hence why he never gets sent off. You say 'could'... enough said.