Quite the weekend this one. For weeks we’d been playing catch up but we’d somehow found ways to get the results we needed to keep the gap at the top to two points.
It must have been driving City mad, but this week the roles were reversed. We took care of business early and said to them “ok, now let’s see what YOU’VE got”. The answer was ‘not much’.
There’s no shame in losing at Chelsea, but it was the way City reacted to going a goal down that should have the rest of the league sitting up and taking notice. This team is not invincible, and the sooner people realise it the better it will be for us.
It took Chelsea 45 minutes to realise it as their first half display reeked of cowardice. City looked great but they always will if the opposition just hands them the initiative like that. I don’t know what the fuck Chelsea were doing. They could barely get out of their own half and they approached the game like you’d expect Burnley or Huddersfield to do.
Chelsea have some of the best players in the world in their side, why the fuck were they playing like that? Hazard was used at centre forward, which is a waste of his talent as it plays to his weaknesses rather than his strengths. He was fuming at the lack of service for most of the first half, understandably so.
The one time they got him the ball to his feet he set up the opening goal. Kante’s finish was quality and from that moment on City didn’t look the same. You could even see it in their faces as they made their way back for the kick off. Shock and frustration. They aren’t used to not having things their own way and they don’t like it up ‘em as they say.
Chelsea took great confidence from the goal and were a completely different side in the second half. They deservedly extended their lead courtesy of a brilliant David Luiz header, and he was fantastic all game actually. Whisper it, but he’s actually a fucking good defender these days. And he’s always been a magnificent footballer.
Unfortunately we had another unsavoury racism incident. The fella involved reckons he called Sterling a “manc cunt”. Highly dubious. It certainly looks like he said “black” but proving it beyond doubt might be tough. Does anybody ever refer to City players as ‘mancs’ though? Maybe it’s just me but I’ve never heard it. United players are ‘manc bastards’ but City players are just ‘bastards’ or ‘greedy bastards’.
The likelihood of a Chelsea fan calling a City player from London a “fucking manc cunt” is fairly remote I’d say. Besides, just look at the kip of him. Or should that be, look at the ukip of him. Brick Top looking cunt.
I stand by what I said last week though that football doesn’t have a problem with racism - society does. There is far less racism within football than there is outside of football. Whatever that Chelsea prick says inside a football stadium, I guarantee he says and does worse in his everyday life. He’s probably one of the Tommy Robinson crew, going on marches and shitting his pants inside Lime Street.
I’ve got no love for Sterling because of the way he engineered his way out of Anfield, but the more crap that gets thrown at him by the rest of the country the more my animosity towards him wanes. In fact, I’m utterly indifferent to him now because of the shit he’s getting from knuckledraggers up and down the country.
Liverpool fans have every right to boo him and give him shit, as there's a legitimate 'football beef' there, but I hope we don’t do it anymore as these fuckwits have made it about something else. If we give him a hard time it’s just going to look like we’re part of the baying Brexit mob.
What has he actually done to incur the wrath of fans from Chelsea, Burnley, Newcastle, Fulham, Stoke or whoever else you want to mention? He gets shit everywhere he goes but the only fans who have any reason to give him stick are us. The rest of them are booing him because….?
If it’s because he’s shite for England, then he’s part of a pretty large group. How come the rest of them don’t get the same treatment? Oh wait, John Barnes did. If it’s because he’s young, rich and a bit flash, then I expect 90% of the players in the league to be booed this weekend.
The main reason so many English football fans hate Raheem Sterling is because of how he is portrayed by the British media and how it fuels the subconscious (or in some cases the conscious) racism within them.
Those Chelsea fans spitting venom at him are doing it for one reason and one reason only. Put it this way, they aren’t doing that to John Stones, despite the similarities between the pair. There is one main difference between them though.
Credit to Sterling for how he’s handled it all. At least he won’t have to worry about opposition fans this week. He ditched the Redshite and Evertonians are pinning their hopes on him and his City team-mates denying us a title. They’ll probably line his path onto the field with fucking rose petals this weekend.
Meanwhile, United had a comfortable home win over Fulham that said more about Ranieri’s side than Mourinho’s. Fulham were truly shite and were 3-0 down by half time. It was as though they’d written the game off before it started. Young, Mata and Lukaku all slotted in the first half and United played some nice stuff for a change.
Lee Probert gave Fulham a penalty after a clean tackle by Herrera. Awful decision. Kamara calmly put away the pen but Probert then evened things up by sending off a Fulham lad for absolutely nothing. Worst decision of the weekend, and possibly the season. I don’t know what he even thought he saw, it was just a fucking scandalous decision.
Rashford then wrapped it up with a snapshot from the corner of the box that the keeper should have saved. Rashford played well on the left wing, but fortunately for us he’ll be playing as a second left back this weekend, that’s if he plays at all. Fellaini is a nailed on starter though. We know exactly what to expect this weekend, and hopefully we’ll finally manage to overcome it.
That sending off though, fucking hell.
Down at the London Stadium, James McArthur prodded in from close range to put Palace ahead against West Ham. Milovojevic came within a whisker of doubling their lead with a free-kick that was hit so hard that when it came back off the bar it actually landed further away than the spot he’d taken it from. Amazing that. One hell of a strike.
My boy Snodgrass equalised for the Hammers with an absolute beauty. I’d actually forgotten that he was my boy from back when he was at Hull, but this goal was a timely reminder. Very under-rated player.
A typical poachers goal from Hernandez put the Hammers ahead and a delightful curler from the impressive Anderson made it 3-1. Schlupp’s header gave Palace hope but it was too little too late.
Remember last season when Palace lost their first seven games or something and were in massive trouble? They’re two points worse off now than they were this time last year. I still think they’ll be fine though as long as Zaha doesn’t get hurt.
Spurs won at Leicester despite resting Kane and Eriksen. A screamer from Son broke the deadlock seconds before half time and an offside Alli added a second after the break. Good result for Spurs that and they somehow scraped through to the Champions League knock out stages as well after a draw in Barcelona. Not that we can say anything about scraping through, so I’ll leave it at that.
Leicester without Vardy is like Jaws without the shark. What’s the point? Apparently some of their fans booed Iheanacho. He’s been shote though hasn’t he? I mean, a couple of years ago he was so highly rated but he’s done fuck all since leaving City.
Just goes to show how easy it is to look good in a team that’s as good going forward as City are. Gabriel Jesus is probably shite as well you know.
Arsenal left it late to beat Huddersfield in a bad tempered game at the Emirates. Torreira got the only goal of the game. As I said last week, I like him. In fact, he’s probably the only Arsenal player I’d have at Anfield. Maybe Ramsay too, but there’s no-one else I’d want. That’s more of a vote for our lads than one against the Arsenal players though. They’ve got some good players, but only one (or maybe two) that I’d want.
As for Huddersfield, every week they get praise for how they’re playing but when you don’t have a striker you’ve got no chance. The only striker of any worth they have was sat in the away end with the fans, handing out shirts. Mounie was serving a suspension because of a terribly harsh red card last week.
That was a double blow for Huddersfield because not only did it mean Mounie wasn’t playing, it meant that Depoitre was. I think he’s worse than Joselu, but it’s a close call. Mind you, stick him up front for City and he’d probably look like Alan Shearer.
Three Arsenal players were booked for diving. THREE!!! Cheating fucks. Cheats never prosper though, eh? Bollocks. They do. All the fucking time.
Elsewhere, another shocking mistake from a Southampton centre half cost them dearly at Cardiff. The giant Vestegaard got his feet in a mess and put the only goal of the game on a plate for Paterson.
The Saints had two excellent penalty shouts turned down by fat Jon Moss, and Warnock was full of praise for the ref afterwards. Not because of the non-penalties, but because of an advantage he played in the build up to the Cardiff goal. “I’ll not be praising him again, but that was a great advantage”.
We’ve been linked with Pascal Gross this week. Bit out of left field that one and it’s probably bollocks. We’ve done pretty well signing players from bottom half clubs in recent years though. Gini, Robbo and Shaq all came from relegated clubs, so I’ll keep an open mind on this.
Gross was in action for Brighton in their 1-0 loss at Burnley. This was the Burnley of last season. Boring. Direct. Physical. 1-0. Hopefully it’s not a sign of them getting back on track, as I’ve enjoyed seeing them getting battered.
There was more dreadful refereeing in this one though, as a Brighton defender attempted an overhead kick in his own box and caught Bardsley on the head. He made good contact on the ball but that doesn’t matter does it? As far as I’m aware you can only do overheads when there’s nobody trying to head it clear.
Not sure if the correct punishment is a pen or an indirect free-kick for dangerous play, but the one thing it isn’t is play on. Still, Burnley don’t get pens so that probably influenced the ref’s decision. Burnley get even fewer penalties than we get at Anfield.
Onto Sunday now, and hahahahahaha fuck off Newcastle. A cool finish by Jota gave Wolves an early advantage but that Ayoze Perez loser equalised soon after. Yedlin was then sent off for pulling back Jota when he was clean through, but Newcastle should have had a pen when Perez was elbowed square in the face by Boli. Mike Dean was having none of it, surprisingly. Not like him, he normally loves a pen and he was looking straight at it, with his beady little baby bird of prey eyes.
The Geordies thought they’d held out for a point but then up popped Doherty in the 95th minute to win it for the visitors. That’s seven defeats in nine home games for Newcastle. If they can’t rely on their home form they’ve probably got no chance.
Good. Of all the teams in the bottom half they’re the ones I want relegated the most. I also hope Mike Ashley holds onto them forever, just to piss them off. He doesn’t need to sell, he’s loaded, he should just hold onto it out of spite and to make them miserable. Fucking Geordies, always smelling themselves and telling everyone how great they are.
They deserve all this shit they’re going through as karma for those “USA” chants they taunted us with at the height of our problems with Gillett and Hicks. Fuck them. I probably should let it go, but what can I say, I’m petty and hold grudges for a long time. So I’ll say again. Fuck. Them.
Finally, the Blues were in action on Monday night. They needed a 96th minute free kick from Digne to salvage a point at home to Watford. So, since their “fantastic” performance at Anfield when they almost pulled off an historic 0-0 win, they’ve had home draws with Newcastle and Watford. We’re running scared though, apparently.
That would certainly explain why we’re so far ahead of them though, as it’s a well known fact that you run faster when you’re shitting yourself. I know this because I once broke the 100m record while running away from ultras in Cologne train station. True story. You should have seen me, I was flying past everyone.
Turned out it was a false alarm and was just a bunch of kids throwing bottles, and the walk of shame back into the station to where I’d left my dad and mates behind was a little uncomfortable. Not least because I’d ran that fast I think I may have even lapped them at one point. The important thing was that nobody got hurt. And by nobody, I mean me.
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