It's weird, he seems a very mellow chap and he's obviously quite old now so it feels even more out of character. Saying that, I imagine if you have had a career plagued by injury you'll be a bit touchy about people going through the back of you like that.
Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [2 - 3rd February 2013]
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As I said when we last won the league and people were moaning if we're that bad what does it say about the rest of the league? Unless people think we're top due to nothing but luck I cant understand this mentality that it's ok to criticise the team a the top but not say a word about those below them
A point on City last season as well, people may feel they were deserving winners of the league last season but the margin they won the title by in the end was goal difference, so even if you (plural) were impressed by the style of their football it still wasn't enough for them to pull clear of everyone else.
Robbo said earlier that our attackers have saved us and our midfield has been lacklustre, on one hand he's right about the attackers but then on the other had the attackers been more clinical we would have been 2 or 3 up at half time today and not relying on a late goal and then hanging on (the exact same applies to a few other games this season as well). As for the midfield personally I feel it's been anything but lacklustre, like I said a few weeks ago the current midfield pairing of Carrick and Cleverley is the best I think we've had since 2006.
At the risk of repeating myself like I said the other day there's still plenty more to click for us, for years we've relied upon the likes of Ronaldo, then Valencia, then Nani, then Valencia again to create most of our chances, this season we've pretty much been without contribution from any those players*. When you completely remove the main source of creativity from a side most teams would then struggle massively and yet we've still managed to score 61 goals, obviously I don't necessarily expect other supporters to notice this kind of thing because they probably see Valencia in the team sheet on MOTD on a Saturday night and think everything's rosy. Something else to look at is how quite RVP has been the last couple of games which fortunately for us has coincided at a time Rooney's come back from injury and started scoring himself. If between now and May we can lineup consistently with Vidic in the defence, Carrick and Cleverley in centre midfield, Kagawa on the left, Nani on the right, Rooney & RVP up front I'm pretty confident that we'll start pleasing a lot more people with some pretty comprehensive score lines, all that is a big if though
*yes I'm aware Ronaldo no longer plays for us
He's poo, tried to point this out ages ago, can't pass and doesn't do much else...
@ Stewy after that long ass reply to Danny (most of which wasn't even retaliative to what he said) I dont have it in me to highlight the aspects of Cleverley's game you're missing so I'll either leave it for someone else to do or leave you to your opinion 
Disappointed today. With everyone around us losing, a win would have been just the ticket, but as I said, sheffield wednesday are a much improved team, so I am not totalky surprised not to get a result.
Oh and another player sent off in the first half
...this is getting ridiculous! Was nice to see Gus taking a dm off to keep 2 up front though...and the stats don't seem too bad in terms of possession and shots for a 10man team, so not all bad.
Disciplinary problems are getting a bit worrying though
Oh and another player sent off in the first half
...this is getting ridiculous! Was nice to see Gus taking a dm off to keep 2 up front though...and the stats don't seem too bad in terms of possession and shots for a 10man team, so not all bad.Disciplinary problems are getting a bit worrying though
Ok just because I couldn't resist rising to this, according to whoscored.com Cleverley has a pass competition of 90.4% this season, to put that into some perspective that puts him 9th of all the midfielder's in the league and the 3rd best English man behind Scholes and Leon Britton
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Any word on zaha today I'm surprised there hasn't been more scrutiny.
not exactly how that comes across
As I had already mentioned the Arsenal game, your post suggests there were other games were more than 5 were scored - which wasnt the case
My post was a factual statement which was correct, had I said '4-5 other games as well as Arse' you'd be right.
Although initial point being you smash plenty of teams
Does anyone apart from Benetiz think Colo should have been sent off over what happened with Ba?
To me it was just two committed players going for the ball and unfortunately Ba came out worse. Nothing in it at all and Benetiz is trying to deflect from another poor game from his team (IMO)
To me it was just two committed players going for the ball and unfortunately Ba came out worse. Nothing in it at all and Benetiz is trying to deflect from another poor game from his team (IMO)
I agree
No probably not a red, although can understand his frustration. Is 100% a pen though, already hate strikers being clattered after shooting and its ignored but if its a pass its a foul, let alone a boot to the face.
We've seen players sent off for just high boots recently (albeit harshly) and quite often when the boot gets head high it results in a red. Colo full on volleyed Ba in the face and while I don't doubt it was accidental, it's hard to say it wasn't dangerous play.
Fair comment
Fair point.