citytilidie wrote:I just got back from the game (live in milton keynes) tevez pissed me off today, fair enough he loves West Ham but he is a Man City player now, fair enough give the fans a little clap etc but he was taking it too far imo didn't show us city fans any respect.
It might interest you to note that it slightly embarrassed me too. It was a real sense of ambivalence for me to turn up 10 minutes beforehand and see he wasn't playing. He just doesn't want it at The Boleyn, to be honest. We showed him real admiration when he very first arrived in the UK and I don't think he can forget it.
I'd like to make one or two other points if I may (with the fact that it was an 'end of season game' perhaps underscoring them):
1. You are stronger defensively than I thought, but more in DM than CB. Toure had a reasonable game, because Cole didn't (and our #9 is a journeyman nobody). I get the sneaky feeling that, if we'd tested harder your keeper, we could have scored more, but, as I say, this is end of season stuff and it was prob his last game
2. Johnson is a star in waiting, but also an embarrassing actor. Pretended to be seriously hurt more than once, lost the decision and sprinted back to his position or to the ref to have a moan. A bad side to an otherwise spotless performance. Good shout to sign him at that age. On the right deal, he could play wide in your team for years to come.
3. Vieira is too old for the Prem. A few decent distributive balls masked his lack of pace and - dare I say it - strength on the ball
4. Adebayor and RSC are the two least committed/interested players I have seen all season - and you'll have seen for yourselves the calibre of the players I have watched for 19+ games. News reaches that Adebayor might get released from Da Costa's back pocket sometime soon; it all depends on whether he can be bothered to walk towards the light. RSC was even worse. This is a defence that has shipped goals to every single other team this year, bar Blackburn, but it was walk in the park material for Da Costa (forget Upson - he's rubbish too).
5. Unless they were getting personalised beam back throughout the match, your team didn't much care whether it came 5th or 6th. A bit saucy from a fan whose team topped up 17th, but you get the point.
See you next season!