Where's Wally.... I mean Toure? Nice photo of City team celebration and a forlorn figure to the side. Bye bye Yaya
Did anyone notice the City players reaction after the winning penalty? There is footage taken from behind the goal and as the ball hits the net, all but one City player sprints towards their keeper. That one, Company, turns to console and shake hands with the the Liverpool players. Class touch that. I do like him.
Yes, the BBC mentioned that in their text commentary. I've always liked him since hearing him being interviewed a couple of years ago - articulate (especially as English isn't his first language), intelligent and a true sporting man.
There may well be a alternative reality out there where Liverpool had won the League cup & Adam has a double page spread of him lifting the trophy while sporting some terrible facial hair (some things don't change), so I'd just like to say. Thank you Willy, you sir have restored order to the universe & it is appreciated.
I saw that tweeted quote earlier - This is for all our fans who support us through thick and thin. Over the last 5 premier league seasons they have finished 3rd, 1st, 2nd, 1st and 2nd. Yeah well done fans for sticking with the club. Must be a real struggle when your team can only finish 3rd. At this rate you will overtake those loveable geordies for having the most amazing support.
So, with L'pool up in seven days time, its time to start contemplating how many dubious penalties will they be awarded, and how many red cards will we get?
Oh well, we won 6 games in a row while they pissed about in that cup and won the same number of trophies as us.
Seeing that Sadio is available I would love to see him using the Liverpool game as a point maker and play out of his skin, an attempt at a faster hat trick would go down well.
Retire a thread about beating Liverpool....now why would we want to do that. Hopefully, will continue to be essential.
Listening to the radio this morning [yes, that old fashioned thing in the corner and on MW too] and the Radio 5 football news came on with updates of yesterday's football matches. As the presenter was doing his spiel I predicted that he'd say... Liverpool lost after taking the lead at Southampton. What he actually said seconds later was that Liverpool lost after taking a 2-0 lead at Southampton. So I got it slightly wrong. But how come I came so close to getting it right? It's because since I've been a Saints fan, which is practically all my life, there have only been a few seasons where Southampton FC have ever been truly credited with beating any opposition. That was during the early 1980's and when we were in League One and The Championship in recent years. You see this stuff in the very fabric of sporting headlines in newspaper articles, and time and again it is reinforced. And it's not just Saints. It's any club that beats a glamour club. The glamour clubs don't get beaten. They unfortunately lose. This morning's announcement on Radio 5 was so geared to that way of thinking that the presenter even said that Liverpool lost at Southampton. Not against Southampton. See the difference? He didn't even acknowledge SFC as a football opposition, but just a place. I know it's very subtle but it is embedded in football journalism. And now you're aware [if you weren't before] this happens every time Saints beat glamour club opposition, listen out for it when we come up against Man City, if we beat them. Tbf to them, they may not quite yet be establishment enough, but Liverpool are about as historically glamorous as it gets. Hence they lost a football match in Southampton. We don't really know who the opposition were and we don't really care. Just fancied off-loading that.
