***official city v palace match thread***

[Duckman]

I'm sure it's the Rags who hold the record but not sure what it is. Keep going regardless though and we'll find out when they start crying about it, telling us the ref robbed them in the last game or something.

I think Ive heard its villa with the record, back in 19th century.

[Tesl]

Looks good, don't it ;-)

1 Man City 19 33 41
2 Arsenal 18 18 39
3 Chelsea 18 15 37
4 Liverpool 18 22 36
5 Everton 18 12 34

However, all the rest have to play tomorrow so one of them will close in or overtake us. Only Arsenal can go top with a tough away game at the Toon.

Its starting to look very very good!

If Chelsea don't win tomorrow then things will start looking very nice indeed. For a while now there has only been 1/2 points between first and fourth, and if results go favourably tomorrow (ideally Chelsea/Liverpool draw and Arsenal lose) we should be starting to feel very confident. Most the points we have lost so far this season were ones we threw away ourselves, if we can stop doing that in the second half of the season we could become hard to catch.

Very exciting times!

[Beefymcfc]

I'm sure it's the Rags who hold the record but not sure what it is. Keep going regardless though and we'll find out when they start crying about it, telling us the ref robbed them in the last game or something.

I think Ive heard its villa with the record, back in 19th century.

It may just be a PL thing they're spouting then, afterall, footie was only invented in '92.

[Beefymcfc]

Just realised that we've broke the 40 point mark. That's us sorted for the season then, break out the Brut in celebration of another season in the PL.

Yeee Haaaa ;-)

[Douglas Higginbottom]

I'm sure it's the Rags who hold the record but not sure what it is. Keep going regardless though and we'll find out when they start crying about it, telling us the ref robbed them in the last game or something.

I think Ive heard its villa with the record, back in 19th century.

19th century, interesting.

[Dameerto]

Just realised that we've broke the 40 point mark. That's us sorted for the season then, break out the Brut in celebration of another season in the PL.

Yeee Haaaa ;-)

Are you saving the Old Spice for New Year's?

[Duckman]

I'm sure it's the Rags who hold the record but not sure what it is. Keep going regardless though and we'll find out when they start crying about it, telling us the ref robbed them in the last game or something.

I think Ive heard its villa with the record, back in 19th century.

19th century, interesting.

Local commentator mentioned it during the lpool game. Im not sure its true though.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Seriously good 3pts that.Absolutely delighted and that's 2 games in a row now where we have held onto a lead without being close to our best. They can all put their feet up now and have a good rest before a must 3pts at Swansea next week.

PS glad we were not playing Swansea today.

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

3pts. Job done. Its all about the results over xmas period. Chuffed with clean sheet as well

Agreed. We can't play scintillating stuff every week - 3 points and we move on.

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

dzeko and garcia.........

i'd rather have jim whitley in midfield.

hes so poor he let vince do the midfield role on a number of times in the second half.

Funnily enough I thought Garcia had decided to play centre-half in the second half.

[Beefymcfc]

19th century, I missed that lol.

Anyway, can anybody guess what Pulis had to say after the match? I bet he didn't bring money into it, did he ;-)




























Crystal Palace boss Tony Pulis: "We are really disappointed to have not got anything from the game. The difference between the teams is spending about £350m. The weekly wages of one of their players would probably cover half my team and if I was their manager, I would be sat on the sidelines with a cigar in my mouth."

[Dameerto]

If he was our manager there would be no problem buying a ticket for home games. What a classless tw@t.

[sheblue]

19th century, I missed that lol.

Anyway, can anybody guess what Pulis had to say after the match? I bet he didn't bring money into it, did he ;-)




























Crystal Palace boss Tony Pulis: "We are really disappointed to have not got anything from the game. The difference between the teams is spending about £350m. The weekly wages of one of their players would probably cover half my team and if I was their manager, I would be sat on the sidelines with a cigar in my mouth."

What a bitter little insignificant man he is.

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

If he was our manager there would be no problem buying a ticket for home games. What a classless tw@t.

Seems to be a shared trait amongst British managers.

[Portadown Blue]

Pulis is the master of negative anti-football tactics. Palace goalkeeper took at least 30 seconds over every goal kick, and similar at throw-ins. On one occasion the ball went into his technical area and he just let it roll past him. He'll do anything to waste time.

[Hutch's Shoulder]

Pulis is the master of negative anti-football tactics. Palace goalkeeper took at least 30 seconds over every goal kick, and similar at throw-ins. On one occasion the ball went into his technical area and he just let it roll past him. He'll do anything to waste time.

Credit where credit's due, they practice that all week

[london blue 2]

Was that Silvas Fifth booking? Does he get the match ban or miss out due to the new year?

[Cit.revenge]

I m never watching Pulis teams again .What a crap

I'm sure Pullis will be sorry to hear that.

Get over yourself, if you stop for a couple of seconds and think it through what the fuck was he supposed to do?

As a manager with the resources available to him, he set his team up to give them the best chance of getting a result and very nearly pulled it off.

Once they went behind it was al but over, but they had carried a threat on the break, which is why Hart was MOM.

It may well be goal difference that keeps his team up at the end of the season and not getting the sort of pasting that other teams a lot better than Palace have at the Etihad this season was a good result for him.

Sounds like you've thrown all your toys out of the pram because we didn't get 7 or 8.

Happy new year!

Take a chill pill mate .I think he would play like this or nearly ugly with Barcelona players and i have right to not watch or i dont :)

[Bleed_Blue]

For playing against oppositions like Crystal Palace who park the bus / when Yaya is rested against weaker teams :

How about using Nasri in a deeper role, like today when he was playing along with Ferna, esp when Yaya is not playing.

For playing in Yaya's position Nasri cannot hold on to the ball longer/tackling is bad compared to yaya, but he closes gaps and seems to enjoy playing more central. Also Nasri/Silva already play their and Yays's role when Garcia is in midfield, since Garica only does half his job(defending) why not put Nasri in his position and have Ferna behind him against weaker teams. Like Real Madrid when Modric plays in deeper role.

Negredo
Milner Silva Navas
Nasri
Ferna
Back 4
Hart

[failsworthblue]

Really important win.

Well done Garcia, was the only midfielder left for the last 30mins after a baffling set of substitutions, some idiots slagging him off because he would not get forward.

Hope they get relegated.