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That was the week that was (May 11-17 2019)

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Saturday May 11:

 

Barcelona want Andy Robbo. I want a yacht like John Henry’s. Well see who gets lucky first. Things aren’t going well over at Camp Nou though. Reports today reckon Messi has told them to ‘sell Coutinho’. Wow, with friends like him who needs enemies. They’ve probably got Suarez house hunting for him again. In England. Pricks. I know I should probably be taking pleasure in how things have gone for Phil, but I’m genuinely not. 

 

I mean don’t get me wrong, I definitely don’t want to see him tearing it up for them, but that’s more to do with how I feel about Barca than any beef I have with Coutinho. I almost feel bad for him now as those fans are fucking gobshites. He should have known that though, the white hankie waving twats. He was loved here. He had it made, but he wanted to follow his dream and it’s turned sour on him. Let that be a lesson to anyone else who is thinking of walking away from Kloppo’s Reds. As for Phil? Bring him home, Jurgen.

 

On the field today, Leeds beat Derby in the first leg of the playoffs. I don’t want Leeds to come back up but only because I’d be concerned that Milner might be tempted back there. Let them stay where they are, for now, even though I’m intrigued by Bielsa and think he’d be a welcome addition to the top flight. We’ve just lost Neil Warnock, we could do with another entertainer. Yes, I did just compare Bielsa with Warnock, but obviously I don’t mean their football. Just that the game is full of boring bastards and those two are off their heads.

 

Ideally I don’t want Lampard getting promotion (not even sure why as I quite like him these days) but it might be good for Wilson if they wanted to take him for another year. I don’t have any major beef with West Brom but I don’t like the way they treated Darren Moore so fuck them. I think the one thing we can all agree on is that Villa need to stay where they are, the boring, unfunny, witless pricks.

 

Sunday May 12:

 

L 2 Wolves 0 Definitely a bit of after the Lord Mayor’s Show about this. The efforts from the other night meant there were a lot of heavy legs out there, and the whole emotional drain of what was happening at Brighton made it worse. 

The players will have had that brief moment of “fucking hell, City are losing? Maybe this is on” but it was only fleeting as they will have picked up on the sense of deflation around the ground almost immediately after. With no more cheers after that they knew it was over, and it would have been so easy for them to subconsciously ease off and let the fatigue win.

 

Wolves were pushing hard for an equaliser but as they have done all season, the lads dug deep and managed to get it done. I couldn’t be prouder of them. 97 points, only one defeat (courtesy of bad luck and a bad Manc ref) and a second Champions League Final in a row. 

 

The best LFC team of my lifetime, title or not. Let every sad jealous prick around the country have their fun. The only people entitled to gloat are those connected to City. Everyone else is a fucking million miles behind us and any piss taking coming from them is like water of a duck’s back.

 

Gary Neville laughing at us? Yeah, you’ve got your own problems lad. Your mate Ole is presiding over a sinking ship and will be lucky to hold onto a top six spot next year. Wolves fans taunting us about ‘you fucked it up again’ when less than a month ago they blew a 2-0 lead with 10 minutes left in an FA Cup semi.

 

Then there was Everton’s official twitter account offering congratulations to City about a minute after the final whistle. I mean fucking hell, that was shameful even by their non-existent standards.

 

It hurts not winning the title, but the difference between this time and other near misses is this team hasn’t even peaked yet. They’ll get better. No-one is swooping in and taking our best players, none of our players will want to leave and pretty much every top player on the market this summer would be desperate to come here. Great manager, great team, great fans. Who wouldn’t want to join us right now? 

 

I can’t remember the last time we were in a position as strong as this. Even when Kenny’s side were at the peak of their powers they wouldn’t have been the top destination for overseas players because Italy and Spain was still where it was at. Now? Players all over the world will be intrigued by what’s happening here. Klopp will be able to get pretty much whoever he wants this summer.

 

Up the Reds, fuck everyone else and let’s go and win that European Cup to make up for the injustice of what happened a year ago.

 

Monday May 13:

 

Reports claim that UEFA want to boot City out of the Champions League. Of course the reports weren’t written by the English media, they won’t touch any of this with a shitty stick. I don’t know why, all I can assume is they’re terrified of City’s lawyers because frankly it’s just really weird how everyone skirts around it. The only person on TV I’ve ever heard referencing it was Martin Keown, who was promptly told he couldn’t say it.

 

The papers barely reference it either. I genuinely don’t get it. Anyway, UEFA’s investigators apparently reckon they have enough to ban them for a year. Good. This is just the tip of the iceberg though as the stuff they are investigating isn’t even the most serious shit they’ve been doing. It’d be nice if the Premier League grew some balls and did something about it too. I won’t hold my breath on that though. Everyone is terrified of taking them on because of the financial might backing them.

 

In transfer news, we’re being linked with Julian Brandt again. I like him, he’s looked great any time I’ve seen him which isn’t very often if I’m honest. Ok, ok, I’m basing it entirely on a few cameos as a late sub in the world cup. He did look boss though. Anyway, he’d be a good signing but I don’t want him. Why not? Because I want Coutinho back. 

 

If he was the only signing we made this summer I’d be more than happy with that, providing of course we stiffed Barca on the fee, or maybe even nabbed him on loan with a view to buy. For that to happen though, Coutinho is going to have to do what Michael Owen couldn’t and tell his club it’s Liverpool or nowhere. Call their bluff. They want him off the books and the fans hate him (he was booed relentlessly yesterday at the Nou Camp) so he needs to stand firm and prove how much he wants to come back.

 

In other transfer news, the president of Leipzig was asked about Timo Werner joining Bayern, and he said “Maybe [Timo] doesn’t even want to go to Munich. Maybe he would rather join Tuchel in Paris, Klopp at Liverpool or Favre at Dortmund.” Not having that one though, I don’t think Klopp wants him at all. In fact, hasn't he already said as much? I'm sure he did.

 

The Spanish press meanwhile have us being in for De Ligt and reckon we might pip Barca to his signature. I’ll say here and now, without a shred of doubt, that there’s no way we’re paying £75m for a partner for Virgil when we’ve already got the best defence in the league and we’ve got more depth at the position than anyone else in England. There’s zero chance of that happening, even though he'd be great. 

 

Also today, I saw a tweet from Neil Reynolds who does the NFL stuff on Sky. He was commenting on an interview with Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (who I fucking hate by the way) where he was talking about what a big City fan he is and how great he thinks Pep and his team are. Reynolds revealed that when he interviewed Rodgers four years ago he had a signed Liverpool shirt on his wall and was going on about what a big Red he is. Nothing worse than cunts who change teams. No wonder his own family hate him (google it, they actually do).

 

Rodgers will get his in a few months when my Bears get hold of the turncoat bastard.

 

Tuesday May 14:

 

Remember when people didn’t want us to win the league because we’d be unbearable? Pretty sure there’s nothing we would have done that would have been worse than that video of the Man City players singing that shitty fucking song attacking us. I mean what the fuck? Had our players done anything like that Klopp would fucking murder them himself.

 

That’s the difference between our club and theirs. These cunts are still small time despite their success. They don’t know how to act like a big club because they’ve never been one. It’s all new to them and they’re floundering. The manager is tit, the press office are utterly consumed with their obsession about us, as are the fans, and now it looks like it’s all filtered through to the players too.

 

It’s a compliment really. We’re in their heads. We have been since we knocked them out of the Champions League last year. I said to a few people last week that they want to win the league more for being able to stop us winning it than for the glory of winning it themselves. They won the title and their first thought was “haaaaaaaaa fuck you Liverpool”. 

 

They don’t even have plans for a parade, but I really hope that changes just so we can piss ourselves watching it. They’re fucking pathetic. A soulless, embarrassment of a club who just don’t get it. The players know it too. They see the support our lads get and it must really fucking get on their nerves. 

 

I just hope Klopp sends that video out in the group chat he has with the squad. Let them all see it. Drink it in, and fucking ram it down their throats next season. Hopefully they win the FA Cup next week so we can play them in the Charity Shield. That's how I want to start next season, by smashing them at Wembley. You want a war? You'll fucking get one.

 

Also today, Guardiola is named manager of the year. Hahahaha fucking hell. I mean really? They finished one point ahead of us and went out of the CL in the quarters, whereas we’re in the final. They finished with less points than they had last year, while we improved our tally by 22. We lost one game. This wasn’t even a close decision, its the most obvious call they’ll ever make, and they still got it wrong. This is worse than when the players picked Pogba in the team of the season.


Wednesday May 15:

 

City issue a statement about the singing. No apology, no humility, merely a denial that the chant was about Sean Cox. These are unbelievable, they really are. Whether it was about Sean Cox or not is hardly the point (for what it's worth, I'd say it's obvious the fans see it as being about him, but the players won't have even thought about it). Let's leave Sean out of it for a second. They're still singing about fans being battered in the streets, about Kompany injuring Salah and about us being 'victims'.

 

What pisses me off the most is that we're actually being attacked for being offended by it. "Oh look, scousers being victims again". Well yeah, because we are the victims here, yet somehow City are trying to make out that they're the ones being hard done to? Fucking scumbags.

 

A journalist told me some time back that as a club City are absolutely horrible to deal with on every level. They’re small time and have no idea how big clubs act. They complain about LFC getting better media coverage, while at the same time banning their players from talking to Sky and generally not making them available for the papers as much as they should either.

 

Liverpool, on the other hand, are the exact opposite. The press are given regular access to Klopp and the players, and the press office is generally very accommodating. So of course we’re going to get more media coverage, and that’s before we even bring up the fact that we’ve got a couple of billion more fans than them, which means more interest in LFC articles and videos than City ones.

 

We know the people who own City are morally bankrupt, you only have to look at their human rights record to know that, so why would we expect the people who work there to be any different? Owners, press office, manager, staff, players - all cunts. I bet even the tea lady is a right fucking cow as well. 

 

Of course the FA are doing nothing about it. Probably too busy trawling through twitter to find daft posts made by League Two players when they were 15. I mean seriously, how is what City’s players did ‘not breaking any rules’? Then again, we can ask the same thing about their accountants too, but that will also fall on deaf ears.

 

Meanwhile, the playoff game between Leeds and Derby was fucking sensational. Two teams who really deserve to be in the top flight based on the way they play the game, but only one still has a chance. I’m glad Derby won for the reason stated the other day, but I have to say I was getting pretty wound up with their excessive celebrations afterwards.

 

They went way too far and milked it way too much. I’m genuinely surprised there wasn’t a pitch invasion by the Leeds fans. Lampard was giving it a bit too much and that probably encouraged the players to go overboard as well.

 

Then afterwards their official twitter account was taking the piss out of the Leeds fans. It was a funny, well thought out tweet, basically mocking an equally funny chant by the Leeds fans which was mocking them about the spying thing, but is it really the place of clubs themselves to be doing this?

 

I dunno, in fairness most of the Leeds fans I saw reacting to it were saying ‘we gave it out so we can take it’ but it just doesn’t sit well with me. The more I watched Derby over egging their celebrations the more I thought “if they were playing anyone else other than Villa I’d want them to get beat”. But they are playing Villa, so… Up the Rams!!


Thursday May 17:

 

Another day another twatty statement from Man City. 

 

“Manchester City Football Club is disappointed, but regrettably not surprised, by the sudden announcement of the referral to be made by the CFCB IC Chief Investigator Yves Leterme. The leaks to media over the last week are indicative of the process that has been overseen by Mr. Leterme. Manchester City is entirely confident of a positive outcome when the matter is considered by an independent judicial body. The accusation of financial irregularities remains entirely false and yada yada yada…”

 

Roughly translated “Who the fuck do you think you are investigating us? Do you know how rich we are? We’re not worried though, because we’re rich and lawyered up to the eyeballs. Did we mention that we're rich?”.


There’s a pattern here. The cunts thinks they’re above the law. One of the leaked emails even showed them telling a UEFA official the last time they were being investigated that rather than pay a fine Sheikh Mansour would rather spend £30m on hiring the world’s top 50 lawyers and tying UEFA up in court for the next 10 years. There was another email between high ups at City after one of the seven FFP investigators passed away that said "one down, six to go".

 

Seriously, when you actually read up on the shit they’ve been pulling it’s staggering that more hasn’t been made of it. The rule breaches are rampant but it’s the “what the fuck are you gonna do about it? Nothing, that’s what” attitude about it that’s even worse.

 

The media in this country don't want to touch it though.This shit should be all over the front pages, let alone the back. I guess when you’re got that much money and power you actually can do whatever the fuck you like without consequences. I’ve been calling City “Ben Johnson FC” but I was wrong. They’re “Donald Trump FC”.


Friday May 18:


Firmino and Alisson make the Brazil squad for the Copa America, but there’s no place for Fabinho. Anyone shocked by this hasn’t been paying attention. This is a nation that picked Gabriel Jesus to start over Bobby at the last World Cup. They have a history of doing mad shit and specialise in stupid. They picked Richarlison. Enough said. 

 

Meanwhile, Guardiola assures Barca that City won’t be trying to nab wantaway Atletico star Antoine Griezmann, saying “Don’t worry guys, Manchester City is not going to buy Griezmann, we cannot afford him”. 

 

Well you can’t afford him if you’re playing by the same rules as everybody else, but then if you were playing by the same rules as everyone else you couldn’t have afforded half the players in your squad, you doping cunts.

 

He also said “If Liverpool win the Premier League it is an incredible achievement. Man City win and it’s ‘ok’. All I know is we won the most incredible Premier League season.”

 

He’s worse than Mourinho. Yeah I said it. He is. Mourinho was a cunt but he never really attempted to be anything else. The worst thing about “Pep” is he’s a fake nice guy. So many people have fallen for the act and think he’s a decent bloke. He’s not. He’s a cunt. And a bad fuckin’ weirdo.

 

Just a shame no-one pointed out to him that when you win something by cheating and by outspending the competition by around half a billion quid, you don’t get the same kind of credit. Plus, when you won the league by a gazillion points the year before and then only a point a year later, people aren’t going to be blown away by it and the story might be the team that improved by 22 points on the previous year to take it down to the wire.

 

Just enjoy your title win and stop whining you bald weirdo.

 

Also today, I see Carra is on board my “bring O Magico home" train. Good stuff from him today highlighting that the one thing City have over us (other than money) is creative midfielders like De Bruyne and the two Silvas. Add Coutinho to what we already have and we’d take some fucking stopping.

 

Finally, it seems like everyone is falling over themselves to buzz off this video of De Ligt addressing the Ajax fans. 

 

 

 

 


“ooooh what a great leader” “wow, he’s only 19” blah blah blah. I agree that he’s an impressive kid but it can’t only be me who watches that and thinks, yeah lad, you forgot the bit where you say “and now my work here is done, I’m off to Barcelona. Adios amigos”.

 

Wait, stop the press. More Guardiola quotes, this time on the chanting on the plane.  “Just for one second imagine we could offend about these tragedies about Liverpool, all the Liverpool people, it’s incredible. We were happy for ourselves. If someone was offended for another issue, I am sorry, I apologise, but it wasn’t our intention. 

 

“We were happy for ourselves to win the Premier League against an incredible contender. You know my opinion on social media, but we are not the only one to do that. We are living in that position and that is what it is."

 

Ok, I appreciate he is speaking in his second or third language, but most of that doesn’t make any sense, and the stuff that I could understand is weak as fuck. “Sorry you were offended” isn’t an apology you arrogant bald fuck. And if you were happy for yourselves why aren’t you singing about yourselves instead of singing about us? 

 

I’ll tell you why. Because as I said, City wanted to win that title not for themselves, but just so they could go “haaaaaaa you didn’t win it! Allez Allez Allez hahahaha”. That goes for fans, manager, players, Gallagher brothers, Eddie Large and every other cunt connected to the small time bastards.

 

And what the fuck has social media got to do with it? That might be the reason we know about it, but the singing happens with or without social media. That would be like blaming hackers when incriminating emails have been made public. Oh wait, they’ve done that too. Pricks. 

 

and that was the week that was…


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I find the English football authorities 'code of omerta' regarding City's financial transgressions absolutely infuriating.

 

We've got our best team in a long while but it counts for little in league terms while these fuckers can basicly field two top quality 1st elevens on the back of illegal financial doping.

 

These cunts have directly cost us two league titles in 5 years when in truth if it wasnt for the blood money they'd just as likely be in the championship as not.

 

And boy am I fucking bitter about it.

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59 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Disappointed there was no piss-taking of their title celebration in front of that piss-poor excuse for a crowd outside their stadium.

I didn't watch it, been avoiding all of that stuff. I did see a piss take of it on twitter comparing it with Ajax though. 

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The main reason the media don't mention their cheating is because of the current political climate. The UAE are ludicrously considered an ally by Europe and America. Stories about their cheating would be suppressed by the media executives because they don't want to annoy an ally.  It reminds me of the attitude towards Stalin's Russia during and after the second world war it was more or less the same. George Orwell couldn't get Animal Farm published because it was an anti Stalin novel and publishers didn't want to go near it for fear of pissing off the Russians. Orwell called it "intellectual cowardice".  What's needed is the political climate to change towards the UAE the way it did with Russia but that doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon unfortunately.

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Love how pissy Guardiola is here. City are a small parochial club and UAE money will not change that overnight. The papers lead with stories they know people are interested in, and Man City buying more trophies doesn’t really do it.

 

The City manager claimed winners are never liked as he aims to lift the FA Cup for the first time when they take on Watford at Wembley.

 

'People don't like winners,' Guardiola said. 'Here, in Spain, in Italy, everywhere. We feel our people are happy with what we have done. I feel our fans in the street, the letters I receive from the people. They are incredibly satisfied.'

 

Guardiola suggested City are fighting against the weight of history in how Liverpool and Manchester United are viewed in comparison to his team.

'Liverpool have gone 29 years without winning the Premier League — it's normal people are waiting for them finally to win,' he added. 'If Liverpool had won the Premier League it would have been an "incredible" achievement. When City win it is, "oh, it's OK. It's an achievement".

 

'I think we did an incredible two seasons, but to be the best you have to do it a bit longer. I'm not going to say it's the best when you have Sir Alex Ferguson's period at United or Liverpool and Bob Paisley in the 1980s.

'An example of how important Liverpool and United are is the website for the Daily Mail. The first story (last Monday) is the Paul Pogba discussion with fans at Old Trafford, not that we won the Premier League. It is not because I am not satisfied with the Daily Mail. I know we are not being compared like that (to their rivals) which is why we are incredibly satisfied over the last decade.'

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Man City is a nothing club and they know it.

 

Their fans are complaining about us, their players are singing about us and their manager is complaining about us...

 

Amazing how Liverpool manages to wind up these financial dopers by just existing 15 years ago it was Chelsea and now it's City.

 

It's such an empty existence they won an FA Cup today and a fan decided to complain about Salah. I expect this is how Everton would act if they ever got their shit together and won anything. 

 

As for the rivalry it has definitely kicked up a gear since the release of that video and UEFA announcing their investigation, when they won the league most Liverpool fans were concentrating on our amazing performance while putting their victory into context by referring to the FFP allegations. But now most Liverpool fans on Twitter are completely invalidating their achievements this season and it's driving them up the wall because they can't even hold the fact that they won the league over our heads. Next year is gonna be a ride and a war with every match feeling like a must win affair and if we do come face to face with City it's gonna be crazy.

 

I welcome that war tho because I fucking loathe every fibre of that club with every fibre of my being... As Derek said above they have cost us two titles with their blood money and cheating next year will be a reckoning...

 

Before that tho lets win that fucking Champions League...

 

PS: Nah Dave I find it impossible to forgive Coutinho for faking a back injury when we had to play a Champions League qualifier...   

 

 

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The media gloves are finally starting to come off with Ben Johnson FC now. Miguel Delaney and Rob Harris both going in hard on their sports washing. That Wembley cake walk yesterday is proving to be a watershed moment for a few journalists now. Harris really rattled that entitled prick Guardiola in the post-match press conference.

 

The shithouse cheating bastards are probably very relieved they get to step away from the media for a couple of months now. I’ll be very interested to see how critical the guests are on Sunday Supplement this morning. The pressure needs to get much stronger than this if there are going to be real repercussions. 

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On Coutinho, I think he’d be good for us but I wouldn’t go back. I reckon Edwards will have someone just as good, if not better, for less than even a cut price deal would be.

 

Barca will deffo cut their losses but we’d still be talking £60m+ and when players like Ziyech are available for £25m, Coutinho makes no sense.

 

Yes, fucking Barca over for a second time in 18 months for the same player would be sweet as fuck. However, I’d rather prioritise our bank balance over poking a rival in the eye. 

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I wouldn't be surprised at all if the media had been barred from writing about the FFP 'allegations'. There's a lot of stuff that the media can't print for similar reasons. Now that there is a possibility of a charge and ban the papers can report that factually. Like you said, the leaked emails clearly reveal City's mindset when it comes to any off field challenge - we have the cash to make you suffer in court for years and years, basically we can bankrupt you. Do you dare take us on? They're a state funded club and how they have arrived at where they are is totally relevant in the context of football history. Their absolute domination domestically this year (and almost last year) is a direct result of their state funded investment in their players and bringing in the best managers who have access to unlimited resources.  There is no question about it. It is right that this is investigated and basically questioned in terms of is this a 'fair' way to bankroll success and do we want this to be a model for the future? Is this going to make football more exciting or is this going to lead to a hollow soulless sport where only a few clubs dominate year on year?

 

Whether the footballing powers that be (and media) have the courage to actually challenge this remains to be seen, but I expect there a number of squeaky bums when those City emails are received at the various HQs. I hope we can challenge them again next season and push on to win it, but it's going to be a gruelling season especially when a number of teams now in the PL accept defeat before the game starts as evidenced when they don't even register corners/shots on target at their home games against them!

 

Regardless, we have been incredible this season, and to a large extent, last season too. The football, the passion, the team have been a revelation and I have enjoyed every minute of it. Klopp brings joy to the sport and has built this team up over a number of seasons, bringing in youth and a fair play philosophy which encourages a special enjoyment in the game and how it is played on the pitch. It's no coincicdence, although perhaps a little ironic given the bigger picture, that we have topped the fair play league for the past three seasons.

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Delaney’s piece was brilliant.

 

This line in it is perfect:

 

Many City supporters have similarly wrestled with their identity over that time, albeit in a different way. It often feels like they are still in the midst of a long adjustment process as they continue to adapt from being one of the most endearingly neurotic English clubs to – yes – the most lavishly-funded project in football. It is, in truth, probably more difficult to mentally square the two than it is for Watford to beat them.

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