Cheers mate will do Not sure I'll ever reach retirement the way the age is going up though Constantly lose track of days due to doing shift work anyway, counting down the hours until half 2!
I am amazed that he is still part of the BBC football set up. This forum is not the only place where he is ridiculed and he doesn't fair much better in publications like WSC. It is a case of being best to ignore him, I think. Still, there is the smug satisfaction in knowing that Liverpool are unlikely to ever win the Premiership at least whilst Man City and Chelsea have the degree of financial support they benefit from. Man City have probably under-performed a bit this season but I still think they at a top footballing side and play the game in the right spirit. It will be a difficult match to win whilst having the potential to be the most enjoyable one to watch. Aguero has been incredible over the last few seasons and been unfortunate not to pick up any PFA awards from his fellow professionals. The only downer for Man City or he is their lack of bringing players through the ranks and they are probably just about the worst offenders in this respect. Their transformation form laughing stock to a team of global superstars has been pretty incredible. You would have never envisaged this happening when Alan Ball took them down to the third tier.
Invested a lot of money into their academy in recent years though, will be interesting to see if a lot of good players come through in around a decade.
Lawrenson once said he likes to wind his friend up who is a Saints fan....I guess that it is just a habit by now.
I am going to use pundit's logic....we will win this 2-1 because we really really want it. As we all know...really really wanting it beats skill every time.
Very tough squad to break into though. They don't have the pathway we offer for Academy lads. They have two first 11s!
In training shots. Manolo is running with a coach and standing with a ball.....so I presume a good sign, but not for this weekend.
Manolo looks like he could do with a shower, a hug and a good square meal. Does no one feed this guy?
https://www.theguardian.com/football...r-this-weekend Gabbiadini returns and Guardiola could learn from Puel Manchester City would be higher up the table this season if they were managed by Claude Puel rather than Pep Guardiola. They might not have enjoyed such spectacular peaks and, in the long run, Puel might not be able to deliver as much glory as Guardiola may yet do, but they would have played with a fair amount of style, all the same, while being a darn sight more sensible than Guardiola’s quixotic capering. If City fail to achieve their minimum target – reaching next season’s Champions League – it will be because, despite the Catalan’s best coaching efforts, some City players remain unable to do what the manager persists in asking them to do. Southampton gave City a scare at the Etihad last October and can be expected to do so again this weekend, especially as Manolo Gabbiadini is fit to lead City’s defence on a merry dance while Maya Yoshida makes light(ish) of Virgil van Dijk’s absence for Saints.
One wonders whether the 'Manchester' Guardian, to give it its old name, has a biased axe to grind, but I think that's very fair comment overall.
