Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [Sunday 13th May 2012]

Red card for pulling away from someone who was grabbing him? :o

Premiership season might've been exciting but the officials have been a disgrace. Need to go back to school to learn the basics.
 
Being a united fan still hurts to say this.

But after reflecting on the season City deserve the title. Yes they have unlimited funds but honestly United did not perform good enough on many occasions and can only blame themselves for losing the prem.

I just hope next season is just as good as this one. Been the best season I have ever seen. (still need new monitor tho cup v monitor = monitor wins).
 
I'm not a huge football fan. Was a huge city fan when they were in division one and stopped following a couple of years later when I went to high school.
Well done to city today my father and most of my family are die hard city fans and I haven't seen them this happy in a while. I was following the game at work with commentary which was a few mins behind and the 86th minute or thereabouts it was saying something about another failed attempt for city. I went to do some work for another 10 mins then saw the final result :)

To be honest though with the amount of money they have spent and the quality of the players they have had quite a few losses which they should have domenated. Oh well as my dad always says being a city fan always keeps the heart pumping and the blood flowing

As much as I dislike united they have had a great season considering and o match points with the squad city has really shows how great a manager fergie really is
 
Mmmm, no. He's had some outstanding games and kept us in it plenty of times. The problem has been our defence, which is woeful. I knew we wouldn't beat Stoke today, but in truth we were very unlucky.

However, we just have not been good enough this season and deserve to go down on the balance of things. My worry now is that we'll sink like a stone. 11 players out of contract, 3 players back to their parent clubs and around £100 million in debt. Not a pretty picture :(

A shame really as I like Bolton, not sure why but just a generally hard-working team who quietly go about their business. I hope you'll be back soon :)
 
Given the massive improvement I've seen defensively from Clichy this season (his first season at City) I think Arsenal could really benefit from a change in the back room staff

Given who Rice's replacement is, I live in hope. Steve Bould should, in theory, improve the defence massively if Wenger lets him do more than pick up cones and dish out training bibs.
 
I'm not a huge football fan. Was a huge city fan when they were in division one and stopped following a couple of years later when I went to high school.
Well done to city today my father and most of my family are die hard city fans and I haven't seen them this happy in a while. I was following the game at work with commentary which was a few mins behind and the 86th minute or thereabouts it was saying something about another failed attempt for city. I went to do some work for another 10 mins then saw the final result :)

To be honest though with the amount of money they have spent and the quality of the players they have had quite a few losses which they should have domenated. Oh well as my dad always says being a city fan always keeps the heart pumping and the blood flowing

As much as I dislike united they have had a great season considering and o match points with the squad city has really shows how great a manager fergie really is

Mancin has done well, the Tevez and Balotelli saga that was mental could have changed the season, it almost did, Tevez gone for months was crucial, media was all over him and the team, they have done well to do what they have, next season who knows Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea will be going for the title, 5 teams going for it, maybe 3 can win it.
 
A shame really as I like Bolton, not sure why but just a generally hard-working team who quietly go about their business. I hope you'll be back soon :)

Thankyou :)

I'd love to think we can bounce straight back, but we've been going backwards since Allardyce wasn't given the cash to push on when we were knocking on the door of the top 4.

Had a lot of setbacks this season and never recovered from the opening 6 games, but you can't concede as many goals as we have and expect to stay up. I think Coyle has a lot to answer for, he has made some bizarre decisions this season. Buying Sordell in January and then not playing him until the last 20 minutes or so today being one of them. If you're struggling in the league you need to make sure any January signings can come in and make a genuine impact, not leave them on the bench for the rest of the season :/

Still, I've been following Bolton for 35 years, been there in the old 4th division so have seen much worse than out current situation. Just a shame that we had to go down to 2 contention goals today. Salt, meet wound :)
 
Thankyou :)

I think Coyle has a lot to answer for, he has made some bizarre decisions this season. Buying Sordell in January and then not playing him until the last 20 minutes or so today being one of them.

haven't you made some other blunders in the transfer market, selling players for less than their worth (habsi springs to mind) and buying players for more than they're worth?
 
Thanks Motd show Toures big moments as his dive vs us and not him being dominated for 90 minutes by Lucas and probably tackle of the season :p.
 
Ref needs shooting. Two bad decisions cost Bolton their Premiership status.

It didn't, it cost Utd the title though, I don't think QPR did it on purpose, but they knew the result and they were safe even having lost and let in two goals, would they have scored two if QPR weren't already safe, would QPR have stayed more alert, who knows. The QPR fans made it clear Bolton didn't win, the players knew and the effect isn't certain but definitely possible.

Nice to see Hughes is still grounded. 'QPR will never be in this position again while I'm manager'.

Really has got his head a long way up his own backside.

In what way has he got his arse up his backside, look at their current form, compared to Warnocks, he's got Warnock's rubbish players to deal with and he's survived. They have improved, their results have improved and their defence has improved. They'll improve further and given time he'll almost certainly find some good signings in the summer.

I'm fairly sure it was you who several games after Hughes arrived, with little time to have actually made huge changes, laughed at hughes pointing out how great O'neill was doing(with a dramatically better squad). hughes has taken a full on championship side and kept them up, O'neill took a midtable Prem team, and kept them up, he did great at Fulham, turned City around(but wasn't given the chance to finish despite having the same first half of a season with a brand new team as Mancini did in the second half with more high price players, he did great at Blackburn, and he'll do well at QPR.

Given the massive improvement I've seen defensively from Clichy this season (his first season at City) I think Arsenal could really benefit from a change in the back room staff

He hasn't, he was great for Arsenal, Arsenal's DEFENCE sucked, not all of Arsenal's individual defenders sucked. Verm, Kos, Clichy, even Mert probably are all very good players, individually, but the system, the other defenders, and the midfield covering them is a joke.

Clichy gave the ball away the least of all left backs in the league last season, made the fewest mistakes, made the most successful tackles, had the highest pass completion rate, etc, etc. He's improved offensively, but that is more to do with having people worth crossing to when he makes a run down the left and a team that actually knows how to cover defensively.

Clichy was massively under rated, by people who don't know better, because of the defense he played in. Great player, a freaking steal at 7mil, which even's out the laughable fee we got for Nasri.
 
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