Excellent performance, we played superb. However, our finishing could have cost us, especially after Joe's blunder near the end. That said, we should have had a larger cushion as the offside goal was never offside, Barry wasn't remotely interfering. The referee, as usual, was determined to mess with us - Kolarov's unfair red card and Tevez's yellow meaning both will miss West Ham away next weekend - but sometimes class prevails over corruption. Balotelli was great by the way, and has already matured some, even if he still does go down too easily. He is much less petulant and not lashing out. 1-0 flatters Bolton, we hit the post twice, bar once, disallowed goal for nothing, and some class says by their keeper. If the press spin this as a lucky win for us, they really will be outdoing themselves for absurdity.
right on stu. bad offside call, never a foul let alone a yellow for kolarov, to be fair was playing like shit. Still concerned about our lack of ability to play against route 1 teams but the inclusion of Lescott may have been helpful for this type of match. Last week, kolo lost out on a header that ultimately cost us 2 points. As for the finishing, ONE MORE PASS might have been nice. Maybe Mansour should give the guys £1 for every goal and £1 million for every assist.
Not to look too far in the future but West Ham away Everton home and the newly managerless Newcastle... if there ever was a opportunity to become dominant, this is it!!!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8ueVCDT5WI"]YouTube - Tevez V Mancini 04/12/2010[/ame] as much as the public scorn tevez should obey mancini at all cost i think mancini is getting the final kick soon.
I think it's been played by the media waaaay out of proportion. If you didn't know that Tevez was a passionate player who wants to leave it all on the pitch, and would be disapointed being taken off with the victory not secured then you do not know much about football. Tevez has come out and said he has no problems with Mancini at all. Nothing in it!
Was that our captain yelling at our coach!! oh f*ck doesn't that mean we'll get deducted 4 points as per some fa rule I made up! I guess we dropped out of the top 4 because of that.... I love how everybody but city fans give a shit about this nonsense.
Gee .. anyone would think that City have some passion in the ranks. Wait, that can't happen. We only have mercenaries playing for us .. right?
source: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=849673&sec=england&cc=5901 to be honest the video shows no indication of that. i dun think a half-second hug from milner is really 'forced to hold his team-mate' lolol.
With a team like this, and with egos like this nigh a week will go without somebody on this squad having some kind of outburst or shitty thing to say weather thru the media or thru their agent or thru some kind of messed-up translation, these guys weather it's true or not consider themselves the best in the world and quite often this confidence manifests itself as petulance. But honestly, it's not a big deal. Rooney looked happy playing for scum today, and look at all the bullsh*t that flew out of his mouth a month or so ago! Plus he's been known to have a tantrum or two