Aaron Wan Bissaka is going to be a very good LB, worth more scouting on him. Very talented player.

f**king lucky bastards

21 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

This is why no Premier League refs will be going to the world cup this summer, they are awful.

What will it take for them to realise that the standard of refs in this country isn't good enough?

and guess who has been doing the majority of the VAR reviewing in its trial period, Neil Swarbrick no less. If he can't give the blatant ones , what chance of him being any good at the debatable ones.

51 minutes ago, mojo said:

f**king lucky bastards

Liverpool were lucky today. Let off with a sending off and palace were sh*t up front, 2 near enough sitters missed by benteke.

funny how these teams seem to beat us though.

Benteke is so bad these days he's just one injury away from signing for us. 

37 minutes ago, Zeta said:

Benteke is so bad these days he's just one injury away from signing for us. 

O god, please don't even joke about that. 

2 hours ago, IliyaKrostin said:

Aaron Wan Bissaka is going to be a very good LB, worth more scouting on him. Very talented player.

Right back you mean, and yes he looks dynamic.

13 minutes ago, coco said:

Right back you mean, and yes he looks dynamic.

Yeah my bad, Van Anholt is LB.

City are so clinical, 

2 minutes ago, Jezq8 said:

City are so clinical, 

Yep, game over all ready. Let's hope we make it more of a title race next season. Can't let them have a clear run at it again!

None of this sitting back sh1t for City when they go on front. Deserved Champions this year.

City are simply enjoying their football, they totally deserve it. Pep has done very well!

Also, Bayern are leading 5-0 against Dortmund in the first half.

3 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

This is why no Premier League refs will be going to the world cup this summer, they are awful.

What will it take for them to realise that the standard of refs in this country isn't good enough?

When all the refs and linesmen in epl are horrid.......then we should question that. Not only are they ALL supremely incompetent but corrupt too. Its just so happens they are all horrible game after game? Ohh they are not corrupt some might say, then how f**king come nothing is done about it? It all serves a purpose you see.....whether we find them corrupt or just bad at their jobs, the fa still get what they wish for. Even with VAR they manage to compeletly piss us all off....thats the design im afraid. EPL for me has been rotten to the core for years and years......its just that now more and more are seeing wtf is going on and that the sh*t stinks.

1 hour ago, Old Shaggy said:

Yep, game over all ready. Let's hope we make it more of a title race next season. Can't let them have a clear run at it again!

About 30 points adrift of them and they have infinite more spending power and pulling power. Any idea just how we close a 30 point gap? Benteke? How about we resign Robert Huff? Maybe Zaha from Palace on the wing is the 30 point difference? Oh wait, Loftus Cheek, that’s it. He’ll be better than Pele next season. And Neil Warnock as manager!!!

It’s pretty depressing really.

7 minutes ago, Snedger said:

About 30 points adrift of them and they have infinite more spending power and pulling power. Any idea just how we close a 30 point gap? Benteke? How about we resign Robert Huff? Maybe Zaha from Palace on the wing is the 30 point difference? Oh wait, Loftus Cheek, that’s it. He’ll be better than Pele next season. And Neil Warnock as manager!!!

It’s pretty depressing really.

City finished 15pts behind us last season and improved enough to be 30pts ahead of us now. It's not impossible for us to improve next season, enough for us to chase them at least. And I don't think it's all about spending either. I do think our biggest improvement will come with a change in formation and playing philosophy. This sit back and counter game we have been playing no longer works in the current football climate. So to keep up with the pace setters, a change in our style is the first port of call. IMO of course. 

 

I could bet my mortgage that we'll be champions again next year hahaha !!!

11 hours ago, Old Shaggy said:

City finished 15pts behind us last season and improved enough to be 30pts ahead of us now. It's not impossible for us to improve next season, enough for us to chase them at least. And I don't think it's all about spending either. I do think our biggest improvement will come with a change in formation and playing philosophy. This sit back and counter game we have been playing no longer works in the current football climate. So to keep up with the pace setters, a change in our style is the first port of call. IMO of course. 

Too many pessimistic people on here, it's almost depressing reading the rivals thread on a match day for that very reason. 

It's hard to be optimistic when you look at the calibre of players we've been signing/interested in the last 18 months or so, when compared to the likes of City, Utd, even Liverpool.

Shaqiri hits the post directly from the corner spot.

Minutes later Aubameyang 1 on 1 with Stoke keeper and hits it straight at him.

Then Aubameyang  scores from a penalty and looks rather pleased with himself.

Cruel sport some times.

BREAKING: Alan Pardew has left West Brom, after he and the club agreed to "mutually part ways" 

Wasteman of a manager. He is surely finished at the top level. Vile bloke 

2 hours ago, Blueblur said:

BREAKING: Alan Pardew has left West Brom, after he and the club agreed to "mutually part ways" 

Wasteman of a manager. He is surely finished at the top level. Vile bloke 

Everytime managers (and I hesitate to use the term here) of his ilk get sacked again, I hope we"ve seen the last of them, but somehow they re-surface at some desperate club, and the merry-go-round continues. Are there really no new names who've proven themselves in lower leagues and are ready for the PL, or do PL clubs lack the balls to appoint them?

I lose track of where the likes of Pardew, Hughes, Bruce, Allerdyce, etc... are at any given time of year. They just keep going round and round and round, never achieving anything, continually getting fired and somehow still being appointed. 

I think it’s because a certain group of managers have got themselves this reputation as managers who can save a club and ‘get the job done’, when in reality it’s mostly the new manager effect ‘bounce’. You could appoint the mascot and get a similar effect. They’re not good enough for mid table and above teams, so they’re stuck in the perpetual relegation cycle.