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tarbrush posted:What do you think? There's a part of me that wants to see City win by GD in dramatic fashion on the last match day just to see the meltdown that would occur. Liverpool are playing much sexier football, though, so that probably wins out over my sadism.
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Looks like City picked some injuries today. Silva went off on a stretcher and Aguero limped off again. On the bright side Dimichelis has finally come good. 
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J Hume posted:I met a genius on the train Love it. Do you hear that? It's the sound of a thousand man utd fans changing their tune. Enjoy the Europa league boys and get used to it.
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Smeef posted:There's a part of me that wants to see City win by GD in dramatic fashion on the last match day just to see the meltdown that would occur. Liverpool are playing much sexier football, though, so that probably wins out over my sadism. It's not really unlikely. People keep saying it'd take a dramatic meltdown for that to happen but I don't think literally one loss is that big of a meltdown esp. when they still have to play Chelsea. I'm confident but not overly so.
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Apr 21, 2014 23:09
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I still maintain that a 94th minute Torres winner for Chelsea that means liverpool dont win the league would be the best result for the forum.
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Apr 21, 2014 23:10
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 Sky's team of the season. Ain't got much qualms with that
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TwoDogs1Cup posted:
The season isn't even over ffs
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pik_d posted:The season isn't even over ffs Not much will change in 3 games tbh
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TwoDogs1Cup posted:Not much will change in 3 games tbh It's still stupid
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serious gaylord posted:I still maintain that a 94th minute Torres winner for Chelsea that means liverpool dont win the league would be the best result for the forum. who cares about the forum
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Apr 21, 2014 23:14
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Well its the result i'd most like.
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Apr 21, 2014 23:15
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To be honest I do think Liverpool will win it but it's not as easy a stroll as some have suggested
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tbp posted:To be honest I do think Liverpool will win it but it's not as easy a stroll as some have suggested I will not stop worrying until the end of the Newcastle game. I wonder if the trophy will be in a helicopter floating around on the last day.
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Bielsa agreed 'in principle' to take over at Marseille so whatever happens tomorrow it ain't him who will be next
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Eric Cantonese posted:I will not stop worrying until the end of the Newcastle game.
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Apr 21, 2014 23:34
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Who else is Scottish and been at their club for a while?
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Apr 21, 2014 23:36
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Even if Chelsea lose the league this is still an amazing season for a whole load of other reasons
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Thirteenth Step posted:Who else is Scottish and been at their club for a while? Neil Lennon is Northern Irish but he manages in Scotland does that count
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Neil Lennon Lumping on this hard tomorrow morning.
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Gordon Strachan is a good lad
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Pissflaps posted:He was never the right choice. A bad appointment and a disaster everybody with a brain saw coming a mile off. I have been trying not to post here yet as I dont really want to suddenly appear when my team is winning, I will do my best to be polite in this assesment with my 1st post in a current premiership thread. The whole Moyse thing has me thinking, I have been surprised the its been left to go on for so long tbh, I am thinking maybe there was a clause in his contract where he could be sacked on the cheap if failed to qualify for champs league, as its right after its mathematically impossible achieve. At the start of the season I had a bit of an argument with my Dad about this I said it would be an absolute disaster - I really couldnt believe Moyse was chosen I actually laughed. My argument was if he was so great how come he never managed at least a League cup for FA cup with Everton, given how poor the league cup in particular is treated by top clubs I wold have thought this was possible, or at least consistently good cup runs. I think his record was one fa cup final although I might be wrong? He had an ok record in the premiership by building teams that where hard to beat and played POMO mostly. If you look at how he uses players too...I mean he buys Mata a player who is what 5'7"ish (?), likes to play passing game but puts cross after cross in and nothing else. I couldn't believe it when hes assistant brought out a book of set plays in the dug out when they where struggling for invention. As always Moyse plays not to lose rather than to win, its what he does and what he knows. Watching him reminded me of Roy Hodgson for us, with the things he says; he constantly lowers expectations and is reluctant to change either tactics or make subs until very late on when they cant have overly much influence. Admittedly I think last season the united team was probably the weakest United team to win the premiership and as much as it pains me to say it it was Fergie who made the team much stronger than their sum of their parts, through good coaching/managment and sheer dominance of character (eww I feel so sick saying that really). Now its all lost though I am kind of surprised they dont just leave him until the end of season and take time to pick a decent manager announced on last day. Go all in for someone like Klopp or Simeone that way they could play the moral high ground of - well we gave him a season we dont sack managers mantra, but can understand the enough is enough (+ there is the share price to worry about - i hate that that even comes in to it now adays). I would have wanted him out sooner as it was clear he was out of his depth at christmas. Van Gaal would be a good shout but he is an absolute mental case and after a while it would most likely end up in tears like everywhere else he has been. If they do go for Martinez long term I am actually going to feel a little sorry for Everton, this is an odd season when I feel sorry for the mancs and maybe everton also. jynxed fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Apr 22, 2014 |
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jynxed posted:
Yeah Moyes really was United's Hodgson.
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Did Moyes do a "it's not my fault, it's the players," speech like Hodgson and Dalglish both pulled? I hate it when managers do that.
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Eric Cantonese posted:Did Moyes do a "it's not my fault, it's the players," speech like Hodgson and Dalglish both pulled? I hate it when managers do that. He was doing that back at the start of the season
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Eric Cantonese posted:Did Moyes do a "it's not my fault, it's the players," speech like Hodgson and Dalglish both pulled? I hate it when managers do that. Hard to pull that one when you have the same team that won the league last year plus 50 odd million in additional signings.
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Eric Cantonese posted:Did Moyes do a "it's not my fault, it's the players," speech like Hodgson and Dalglish both pulled? I hate it when managers do that. Nah, Moyes always owned up to it. He even announced that he had no clue what he was doing a couple of times and didnt even get any stick from the press for it.
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I'm reading that not qualifying for the top 4 was indeed a trigger in his contract that brings his payout down to one year. Apparently the decision was made in February but they were waiting for this moment to feed it to the press.
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Hoops posted:I'm reading that not qualifying for the top 4 was indeed a trigger in his contract that brings his payout down to one year. Apparently the decision was made in February but they were waiting for this moment to feed it to the press. Where are you reading this, hoops?
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blue footed boobie posted:Where are you reading this, hoops?
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I really, really hope we get to see Ryan Giggs player-manager for the rest of the season and hopefully longer.
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If he got the team together but had a poorish season due to the lovely squad problems that everyone knows about that would have been acceptable. But his first and most important job is to motivate the players which he's utterly failed at.
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blue footed boobie posted:I really, really hope we get to see Ryan Giggs player-manager for the rest of the season and hopefully longer. I hope he plays himself every game and takes all set pieces so he can try get his goal. But I hope he fails.
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Reminder that Moyes was the victim of a grand UEFA conspiracy to prevent Everton from being in the CL
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Ravel posted:Reminder that Moyes was the victim of a grand UEFA conspiracy to prevent Everton from being in the CL We shouldn't even have finished 4th that season. We had 61 points and a negative goal difference. For comparison we have 69 this season with 3 matches to go. Basically, Moyes' greatest achievement at Everton was purely due to 16 other clubs somehow being even worse.
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Also, the best part of this story is that United made the decision to sack Moyes months ago, but waited until they were mathematically eliminated from the CL to do it. What a ridiculous small time mentality.
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serious gaylord posted:Always remember Nicky Butt has more medals than Gerrard lol. and he's higher in Pele's estimation. pretty clear he's the greater player, all things considered
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The plastic gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved David Moyes.
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blue footed boobie posted:Also, the best part of this story is that United made the decision to sack Moyes months ago, but waited until they were mathematically eliminated from the CL to do it. What a ridiculous small time mentality.
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