'Even allowing for inflation, this thread is not worth 198 Terry Francises' - EPL 2017-18

Yep. Burnley are a right bore.

Halfway through and in a lot of countries the number one is walking it:

Bayern München lead by 11 points
Barcelona lead by 8 points (and 14 to Real)
Man City lead by 14 points
PSG lead by 9 points
Club Brugge lead by 11 points
Wolves lead by 7 points

Only Holland (PSV 5 point lead, but it was 10 a week ago :-/), Italy and Portugal (both up for grabs) are too close to call.

Martial -_-

Mata you magnificent bastard

Impressive performance by amartey there

lol ya, quite a feat

Rashford ffs

omg

How the fuck did we bin this

Rashford and Martial refusing to score
Smalling half dead but still left on the pitch

martial, jesse, rashford all missed nailed on chances, fucking hell

That is genuinely one of the stupidest managerial decisions I've ever seen

Jose out

that Jesse miss was the worst

I would giggle at yall but we just did a similar thing ourselves down in the depths of league one

fuck it though, lol

Mou out otm. Sack him on Xmas day. Strip his ill fitting kit off and send him to Guantanamo Bay. For once I'll allow severe torture.

Monk's available now.

still think we could beat city on a good day, not saying which one though

what’s brechin’s form like at the moment?

Terrible fwiw.

Are East Stirling still shite? I can remember a time when people would use their opponents as bankers on football accs, and they had a losing streak to Man City's winning streak.

to match*

Who can play the football united need while competing at the top end, developing youth and delivering value from the big money players without dragging the proud reputation of the club through shit

Can only think of Rogers atm

East Stirling(shire) aren't in the league anymore.

Rather, they're in the Lowlands League. Albion Rovers were always terrible too but they're up in League 1 now - third tier.

that Jesse miss was the worst

Agonising, but at least he was doing the right thing, just narrowly failed to get it in. Rashford's decision making was awful once he came on. Repeatedly failing to pass to players who were clean through and refusing to take a shot when he was clean through himself.

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I notice Gretna are down there as well now, just to keep it on topic I'll mention East Stirling was Ferguson's first managerial gig.

Lol! Monk back to Swansea rumours.

if true, one less relegation spot to worry about imo.

i think they're fucked this time whatever happens

aye, Swansea is doomed.

It appears Nick Cohen is having another senior moment.

hang on i thought City was run by an anarcho-vegan commune

I don't see what's so bad about the article. City's owners do, by and large, get a free ride from the press

I presume he'll be doing exposes on all the other 20 odd dodgy oligarchs that own EPL/EFL clubs, and finding some bizarre way of weaving some more Corbyn bashing into them.

tbf football clubs are the worst aspect of our trade relationships with the middle east

nick cohen is a fucking manchester united fan

he cops to that in the opening line tbf

the points gap at christmas is: 13 points. nick cohen, manchester united fan, is bitter. he takes to his computer keyboard

i don't understand why sports journalists don't write more often about well-known political facts

also owned by dodgy fucking oligarchs. It is like having a beauty pageant for pension aged men in the local Wetherspoons, comparing and contrasting good oligarchs from bad oligarchs.

democratic oligarchs are way better than feudal oligarchs, you can always vote to replace them with somebody nicer

it really shouldn't be hard to tack on "who are owned by a medieval police state" after every use of "Manchester City" in a match report tho

i say let the middle east have its fun before climate change literally makes it uninhabitable

City ownership is nothing

if Man City's attack is like genocide, then Lukaku should be arrested as a collaborator.

Conscientious objector tbh

If only more clubs were owned by decent upstanding Englishmen, the sort who'd got where they are by sheer determination and hard graft and the honest English sweat of their honest English brows.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F11b9c8da-602f-11e7-b6f8-8145f3f5d431.jpg

Our owner is one of these "decent upstanding Englishmen". He does lots of charity work in the local community to help people who are struggling to get by on zero hour contracts, whilst sitting on a small fortune made by paying minimum wage/zero hour contracts.

surprised at the reaction to the city stuff itt - not all owners are the same even if many are corrupt or nefarious. seems to react like that is to play into the hands of a secretive group that has managed to paint itself as relatively benign:

this is a good read: https://medium.com/@NcGeehan/the-men-behind-man-city-a-documentary-not-coming-soon-to-a-cinema-near-you-14bc8e393e06

"not all owners are the same even if many are corrupt or nefarious"

Yes it's arguable the American ones are the worst tbh.