Saturday Mar 30:
All season I’ve listened to Klopp talking about how he takes no interest in the results of rivals and that he only worries about things we can control. And all season I’ve thought “bullshit". Just like the rest of us, he's celebrating like a fucking loon any time City lose. It's inconceivable that he wouldn't be. He goes mad when one of his players score in training, there's no way he's going be all restrained when one of his rivals is losing.
So I enjoyed this from Mané today. 'When I'm watching a City game sometime I have more pressure on myself than when I play because I want them to lose and I'm sure not only me but everybody else as well, even the boss. He might say "No, no" but I am sure he wants them to lose too.”
Is right Sadio lad. Hopefully they weren’t watching today though, as City had Fulham beaten inside the opening 20 minutes. So sure was I that Fulham didn’t have a hope in hell, I didn’t watch any of it and didn’t even check the score until late afternoon. There are some fixtures for City that I’ll take an interest in, but this wasn’t one of them and Wednesday night’s clash with Cardiff is another I’ll be paying zero attention to.
United, Spurs, Palace, Burnley and Leicester. If just one of those can even hold them to a draw it’s back in our hands. Surely one of them can do something?
Also today, the u18s won at Everton to give themselves a good chance of winning the title. Jack Bearne got the only goal of the game. Baby Duncan played but there was no Paul Glatzel, who presumably has an u23 game this week. Interesting that he’s ahead of Duncan in the pecking order at the moment.
Sunday Mar 31:
L 2 Spurs 1 Holy Shit! How many times can we keep pulling it out of the fire late on? We’ve had some huge luck at times this season and this one is right up there with the Origi derby winner. Keepers are just making inexplicable fuck ups against us, which until this season pretty much never happened. They’d always have the game of their lives against us, but now they’re just dropping balls at the feet of our forwards, bouncing them off the crossbar to give us tap ins or pushing them in off the shins of their own defenders.
It’s causing massive fume across the country, especially in the blue thirds of Manchester and Merseyside. Imagine how City fans must have felt watching this? You’d be gutted wouldn’t you? It’s demoralising. Like in the opening months of the season when they were winning every game comfortably and were never in danger of dropping points, but they couldn’t shake us off even though we were winning games on the seat of our pants. It’s happening again now, and every time we win like this, it strikes another psychological blow and will make them a little more edgy.
The character in this team is incredible, which is quite the turnaround considering the lack of mental strength was one of the biggest criticisms of them until fairly recently. Now they’ve got balls like grapefruits. It’d be nice if they didn’t have too prove it every week though. Is it too much to ask for a few routine 4-0 wins?
We've certainly had more luck than we usually get, but in the rush to complain about 'spawny scousers' I feel like the rest of the country are forgetting things like the non-Maguire red card at Anfield, the blatant pen Naby didn't get in the same game and the non-red card for Kompany at the Etihad. There's probably others too, and that's before we even get into some of the scandalous help City have had from officials (and opponents).
Meanwhile, north of the border there was murder at the Old Firm game. Ok, more murder than usual. No surprise that Scott Brown was at the heart of it all. The Scottish Sergio Ramos could cause a fight in an empty house. Two Rangers players saw red after taking swings at him, while a third, our boy Ryan Kent, actually knocked him on his arse with a left hook but somehow escaped punishment.
I don’t care about Celtic or Rangers, I have no allegiance to either and I find a lot of Brown’s antics to be fucking hilarious. That said, I can’t blame any opposing player who tries to knock his head off, as he’s a proper nightmare. That Rangers striker has five red cards this season though, which reflects badly on him and even worse on Gerrard.
Stevie doesn’t seem to be able to control his lads at all, which is something he’s going to have to sort out if he’s to have a managerial career beyond Rangers. Souness was the same when he was there too, red cards all over the gaff. Scottish footy is like the South America of Europe, just full of crazy bastards.
Monday Apr 1:
Heard Neil Warnock on the car radio this morning while I was doing the school run. It was absolutely epic stuff, the highlight of which was him singling out Mike Riley for being a robot who is churning out clones of himself. He said as long as Riley is in charge then refs will continue to be shite (I'm paraphrasing, but only a little).
He also suggested, tongue in cheek, that what has been happening to him this season could be payback for all the years of abuse he’s given fourth officials. “Maybe they’ve got together and said “let’s get him out of here’” he said. Can’t blame them if they had to be honest. Some of those decisions that went against them in their loss to Chelsea were highly dubious.
LFCTV did an April Fool’s Day prank on Brewster today, as it was also his birthday. He’s always come across well in the interviews they’ve done with him, but I thought he came across pretty badly in this. Reminded me a bit of Lucas in that wind up they did on him with the fake driver a couple of years back.
Stinking attitude on him, seemed like a right miserable, self absorbed little shit. This little exchange summed it up:
Fake security fella: “You’ve got loads of followers there. Did you pay for them?”
Brewster (deadly serious): “I don’t need to pay for followers”.
Yeah, you might need to in a few years time when you’re playing in League One mate.
Ok, that’s harsh and I don't really mean it, but I’m irrationally wound up by how he carried on in that video. Based on everything I’ve been told he’s meant to be a great kid and really humble. This video did him no favours though. Made him seem like a a right spoilt, entitled twat.
Meanwhile, how about that Mo Salah eh? Sneaky, clever little trolling bastard. Last night he posted a pic of himself and his daughter, and a ghost emoji. Pretty cryptic, most people wouldn’t think anything of it. But it’s defo a shot at Kane. He didn’t try to claim the winner then he posts a photo of his daughter and a ghost goal emoji. Genius. Bet his mate Big Dejan put him up to it.
Tuesday Apr 2:
In the build up to Friday’s game, Sky interviewed Ryan Bertrand who said he’s “looking forward to nullifying Salah”. That’s it, I’m off to whack a tenner Mo bagging the winner. I mean, he has to start scoring again at some point, and with Bertrand channeling his inner LOvren this seems the perfect time.
United lost at Wolves. While it’s always funny to see the lose, especially when it involves Phil Jones pulling gurney faces, this might not be a good thing as we don’t want them falling too far off the top four pace before they play City. We need them to be right in the thick of it and for that City game to mean something. Otherwise they’ll pull an Everton on us.
Speaking of Everton, Pickford is in trouble for scrapping with Newcastle fans on a night out in Sunderland. I’m surprised this doesn’t happen to him more often as the lad is clearly a little bit off. That being said, there are few things more irritating than young Geordie lads.
I can only imagine the amount of provocation that went on before Pickford and his mates lashed out, but then if he walked into the club the way he walked onto the pitch for England last week I can easily see why you’d target him. Prick thinks he’s Connor McGregor. He’s almost as big an arsehole as McGregor, but he’s still got a way to go yet.
Wednesday Apr 3:
City strolled to a 2-0 win over Cardiff. Once again they scored inside the first ten minutes, added a second and then put their feet up. Getting boring now. Surely someone is at least going to put up a fight against them? At least Warnock played his best team and didn’t throw the game like some have done. Not that it made any difference,
Spurs and Chelsea won too, which really makes that top four battle fascinating now. I’m not sure how I want that to unfold, I change from week to week. The one constant is obviously I want United to finish 6th, but choosing two out of the other three is difficult.
Leaving all bias to one side I’d say Spurs deserve to be in there because they’re much better than the other two, but in terms of what is best for us then them dropping into the Europa would be most helpful as I see them as more of a threat to us than the other two, especially with Chelsea having that transfer ban looming.
The u18s suffered a blow to their title hopes by blowing a 2-0 lead at West Brom and needing a last minute equaliser to force a 3-3 draw. Duncan scored to make it 28 for the season now.
Thursday Apr 4:
Arsene Wenger was speaking to the French media and came out with the following belter “If I die I’m going to ask God where the referees are before I choose between heaven and hell”. I love that, it’s class. I also love that even after retiring he still fucking hates refs so much. I actually miss Wenger you know. I’d like to se him have his own slot on MOTD giving his take on the major refereeing decisions of the weekend.
Meanwhile, Solksjaer says United need to win all but one of their remaining games to make the top four. Oh really? Funny that isn’t it. No prizes for guessing which one they’re happy to not win. Pricks.
Friday Apr 5:
Southampton 1 L 3. Fucking hell. How much more of this are we going to be able to take? Every game seems to be in the balance going into the last ten. We keep finding a way to pull it out of the fire but it’s hard to watch isn’t it? These lads have got massive balls though. Mo came up trumps when we needed him most and it was fucking ace seeing Hendo flying around there like his life depended on it.
If we win it there are going to be some massive moments we’ll look back on, and Hendo’s introduction as a sub in this game and the subsequent impact he had will be right up there. Fucking love it. The passion in that celebration was spine tingling, but there were so many layers to it. You had Hendo going mad, Bobby initially standing with his arms folded, white teeth sparklin under the floodlights, and then suddenly out of nowhere he’s in Hendo’s face doing a karate kick. There's Robbo with his cheesy grin and finally Big Virg comes in with the big chest bumps. Just spine tingling stuff.
Five more to go, and we just need to hope that someone finally decides to stand up to City and not just curl up into a ball and beg not to be hit. Klopp even said this himself before the game. Teams wave the flag when City show up, but when it’s us they’re frothing at the mouth and giving it their most intense performance of the season. Look at Southampton tonight, they were fucking rabid for an hour until they ran out of steam. When they played City they rested some of their best players.
That’s what we’re dealing with, and if we somehow manage to end this season on top then it will be the greatest achievement in the entire illustrious history of the club.
That was the week that was….
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