City 4 Chelsea 2 The story of fired up Englishmen, a livewire Welshman and an Argentine masterpiece.
Our City players were inevitably fighting for Wayne Bridge for sure but they did the shirt and club they play for proud, I dont know about you but I long for the day when we can do away with the term 'Typical City'.
Obviously every football club have 'Typical' moments, destroying one club to then be destroyed themselves the next matchday but City have been the victim of it for too long. I long for the day when City string an impressive run of wins and that is what is needed to take the Premier League title, maybe one day it will happen if our lads can push on as they did at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea.
As a patriotic Englishman myself I feel a sense of justice done for the honest and respectable English people thanks to Manchester City and Wayne Bridge, Bridge showed character and integrity showing the Premier League world that we do not tolerate such action.
As far as Chelsea fans go 'obviously I am not going to tarnish them all with the same brush but' they do much to tarnish their own when treating a victim with disgust and defend the accused, I suppose it is to be expected when you have that London superiority running through your vains feeling a sense of higher power because you bode from a capital of a country.
Did you know that if London did not have two Cathedral's, Northampton or Manchester quite possibly could have been the Capital of England.
Anyway theres no doubting the passion of City's players after bringing down the mighty Chelsea for a short while, the only down point about it all is that now the title race is wide open.
We were robbed previously against Stoke but then that is football for you, there is no doubting Chelsea were to blame for their own undoing. Some of their players clearly allowed the pressure to get to them trying to bully us into a win, as they so clearly try on all opponents but the City players matched them on all levels.
If you ask me despite the lack of respect I have for Chelsea fans now due to their treatment of Wayne Bridge, I really do want them to push on and stop Man United or Arsenal from taking another title.
The only player I wish to highlight is Micah Richards with his two left feet, something needs to happen as he clearly cannot shake off the 'calamity affect' he picked up off David James and Richard Dunne.
Our Englishmen did themselves a lot of good with Lescott keeping Drogba in his pocket, Gareth Barry had a good game and thank the gods as I was starting to worry. Despite Wayne Bridge ruling himself out for international duty he did himself proud infront of England Coach Fabio Capello, Adam Johnson and Shaun Wright-Phillips did not set the field on fire but they did not do any self harm to their chances of joining the flight to Africa either.
Carlitos Tevez 'El Apache' as far as I am concerned is the best striker in the world adove and beyond Messi and Rooney, If Argentine coach Diego Maradona does not build Argentina around Tevez and play Messi in his prefered wide position then the man clearly has no clue. Tevez along with Craig Bellamy have been the shining lights of City and deserve more praise than all others, when we needed players to step up and over-perform these two lads responded.
There is no doubt Craig Bellamy and Carlitos Tevez have opened the door to the Manchester City Hall of Fame for themselves to be eternally remembered so heres to hoping they can go on from strength to strength for as many years to come.
I would like to personally thank both lads for the pride and passion they inject for City one day, From the day Shaun Goater left us I honestly felt a loss of pride and passion within City. Some players tried to bring it back ala Hamann and Dunne but failed, now the fight is back and boy am I so so glad that little money grabbing twirp ala Daniel Sturridge never got a look in.
Joleon Lescott and Vincent Kompany have impressed me and I hope Mancini sticks with the defensive pairing.
Here's to hoping we can continue the fight and reach the promised land.
Whooa hold your horses fella. Whilst it was a day to celebrate, turn on the sky + box to record for properity your article is way off the mark and is short sighted in the extreme.
ReplyDeleteThis game had a fine line a moment that completely turned this game for a very ineffectual City. Had Lampard finish that opportunity for Chelsea to go two up there was no turning back for City. They came for a draw, there body language said we'll take a draw and with Bellamy playing as an auxilliary left back it should they'd come for a draw.
Had that opportunity gone in your article could have been written very differently and the knifes sharpened for Mancini.
The reality in this game is that Chelsea simply imploded for Tevez's goal count 4 chelsea players contributing to allow Tevez to hit a 2mph screamer as the keeper fell on this arse. Both Tevez's and Bellamy's goals would have been comfortably save by every keeper in the league bar Hilario. Look at his position for Bellamy's goal it's comical and that's after ballack and Mikel combine to let Bellamy in. Even the 3rd had Belletti standing with his hand in the air for an offside that never was that allowed a flat footed Barry to beat him to a header.
I'm not trying to piss on your parade, but don't get like the sports journo's who are writing articles that are more suited to bunty, bella and womens own.
City walked a very thin wire yesterday it was a great result, but it was a very very fine line.
I see where your coming from but Hilario was not solely to blame so witch hunting your own player is hardly the right action to take, your defenders including John Terry were poor which could in a way take praise from our attacking but as far as I am concerned we capitalised on your performance.
ReplyDeleteFact is City turned up and the Chelsea players did not like it one bit, so some started spitting their dummies out and playing dirty which explains the yellows and reds.
Your players expect respect from other teams instantly and when they dont get it, they then turn on the rough and tough play that is more the tactic of teams like Hull City, Stoke City and Everton.
We deserved to win with that performance, who cares whether Tevez's goal was a Matrix job, if anyone is to blame it is Terry, Belletti and Carvalho.
No denying you deserved your win absolutely but some of the conclusions you draw a distinctly tenuous.
ReplyDeleteAs I say take the result have fun, enjoy. But there is little to be drawn from this given the circumstances of game.
As I said before, one more finish from Lampard and you could have been writing a very different article. But that's the beauty of football it defies logic sometimes.
Defies Logic?
ReplyDeleteSo what your saying is Logic states Chelsea should of won?, clearly there is an element of superiority underneath that.
You could also say Chelsea were one red card away from being penalised by a certain governing body?
Simple thing is, City won, Chelsea lost so why not loose with dignity unlike those muppets who dirty the image of Chelsea by booing Bridge, a player who gave great service to Chelsea and a player who even holds a place in Chelsea's folklore.
Apologies for the late comment but I felt compelled to comment.
ReplyDeleteNormally I enjoy reading this blog, and agree with your comments, but I have to admit that some of your comments here are in extremely poor taste. As a City fan from Hertfordshire, not so far from London, I have to say that I honestly feel personally insulted by your comments about London which were supposed to be aimed at Chelsea fans. I'm sorry, but where did the comment about "London superiority" turning us all into arrogant tards come from? While there might be some friendly rib-poking over parts of the country and accents, and there may be a north-south rivalry, I can assure you that no mood exists that says Londoners believe themselves to be born superior to "outsiders". As a historian, I find your comment that Manchester or Northampton could've been the national capital to be somewhat misguided. Please, don't insult life-long City fans from London and its surrounds just because geography seems a good way to argue back at Chelsea fans. I know that our club takes pride in having a true Mancunian fanbase, but I sincerely hope that not all fans believe that people from down south are just a bunch of ignorant rejects, despite having done nothing to upset you...
I did not call anyone 'tards' and as a matter of fact I detest the word being used in any way whether complete or short text.
ReplyDeleteYou have completely out paced the bandwagon here and think your taking my comment a little to extreme, I wwas refering to the London ego battles within the current teenage generation.
I never used the words 'all' or 'majority' and I never even used geography as a form of attack, I merely stated and dont try deny it that some of London's clubs fans look down their noses.
If your insulted it is because you allowed yourself to be by a sentence, are you a fan of a Chelsea, Arsenal or Spurs? no obviously not.
So why get all defensive over something that does not even concern you, just because your in London does not make you a target.
As a matter of fact I dont care where our City fan base comes from, I only care for the fact City is Manchesters Club.
No offence but really some people need to not be so sensitive.