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Post by Lord Emsworth on May 14, 2024 9:04:41 GMT
Glad Liverpool stopped Villa getting max points last night which means Spurs still have a chance of top four in their game with Man City tonight
COYS ✊🏻 👏🏻
#clutchingatstraws
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Post by stu77 on May 14, 2024 19:59:09 GMT
God this is nerve wracking.
I can't believe this will remain goal less.
Keep thinking it's Wednesday.
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Post by stu77 on May 14, 2024 20:57:16 GMT
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Post by personunknown on May 14, 2024 20:57:26 GMT
Pundits will still bang on about not over until the Fat Lady sings on Sunday but it's City's now.
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Post by stu77 on May 14, 2024 21:03:00 GMT
What a save from Ortega.
That's won City the game and almost certainly the title.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on May 15, 2024 6:30:47 GMT
Four in a row
Never been done before - probably go on to win 10 in a row now
That’s sports washing by a feudal theocracy (with unlimited financial resources and the best lawyers around to shoot down anyone who says otherwise) for ya 😩
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Post by stu77 on May 15, 2024 17:26:55 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on May 15, 2024 17:45:12 GMT
Please please please make it happen
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Post by stu77 on May 19, 2024 14:14:26 GMT
Surely the impossible won't happen today ?
City have a history of making things difficult for themselves on the final day (QPR 2012, Villa 2022) if Arsenal go in front the pressure will be on.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on May 19, 2024 17:43:05 GMT
Never in doubt
4 in a row speaks for itself
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Post by personunknown on May 21, 2024 19:27:36 GMT
Chelsea and Poch part company.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on May 21, 2024 20:05:20 GMT
I find that surprising but probably shouldn't
Just as he was turning things round they change again - clueless
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Post by Lord Emsworth on May 21, 2024 20:08:47 GMT
Apparently....
Pochettino wanted to be given more control over transfers, which the club would not agree to. When no agreement could be reached, it was decided it was better for both parties to call time now than risk a change early next season and give Pochettino a chance to find a new job in a busy summer
...which actually makes it more understandable
A similar story to RDZ and BHAFC
BTW, the next Chelsea manager will be the club's 24th (including caretakers) from 2000 onwards — which is more than the number of Popes there have been since 1722 🤠
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Post by Lord Emsworth on May 22, 2024 13:12:57 GMT
Only just read this article which sums up the Prem... The Guardiola supremacy: how City became too good for their own goodO nce more, without feeling. The sun rose on Sunday morning, the Earth completed one full rotation around its axis, and Manchester City won the Premier League title, just as they did in 2012 and 2014, and 2018 and 2019, and 2021 and 2022 and 2023. One more trophy in the glass case, one more silhouette to add to the mural. The greatest saga in English football has been recast as church liturgy, its rhythms hardened into routine, and here Arsenal were simply the latest team to succumb to the myth that there was ever a race to be won.
For City there is of course a glorious familiarity to these rituals now, a muscle memory in those trophy‑bearing limbs, the arms that lift it and the legs that earn it. Of course there is the full‑scale invasion at full-time, which proceeds in contempt of the multiple big-screen warnings forbidding it, because by now it has become a sort of tradition. There are City fans in the lower North Stand who can boast more appearances on the Etihad Stadium pitch than Kalvin Phillips.
Finally everyone gets bored of walking around on the grass, and retreats back over the hoardings. Rostrums are assembled and carpets laid on the pitch. Expectant, beaming families gather in the tunnel. Pep Guardiola takes his bow, clad in some item of novelty apparel that will later retail in the club shop for a three‑figure sum. Then the moment itself, tickertape and pyrotechnics, a large but not overpowering roar of approval. And then it’s all over: back home to begin the excruciating 12-month countdown until City can win the Premier League again.
The problem, of course, is that at some point in the Guardiola supremacy City just became too good for their own good. Too good not just for their competitors but for the competition, for the product and the people whose job is to sell it. City claimed the title by winning their last nine games in a row, but even this only really tells a fraction of the story. All of those games were won by two goals or more, with the average time of the first goal being 17 minutes. Here Phil Foden smashed them 1-0 up within two minutes. We’re Manchester City. Pleased to meet you. Game over.Rest here... www.theguardian.com/football/blog/article/2024/may/19/the-guardiola-supremacy-how-city-became-too-good-for-their-own-good
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Post by stu77 on May 24, 2024 11:54:46 GMT
West Ham midfielder Lucas Paqueta has been charged by the Football Association for allegedly getting booked deliberately "for the improper purpose of affecting the betting market". The four charges relate to a Premier League game against Leicester City on 12 November in 2022, plus 2023 fixtures against Aston Villa on 12 March, Leeds United on 21 May and Bournemouth on 12 August. The 26-year-old Brazil international had been under investigation since last summer over suspicious betting patterns. An FA statement said: "It's alleged that he [Paqueta] directly sought to influence the progress, conduct, or any other aspect of, or occurrence in these matches by intentionally seeking to receive a card from the referee for the improper purpose of affecting the betting market in order for one or more persons to profit from betting." www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c2llxjxq955o
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