COMMENT OF THE MONTH: Daily Star: Nani: "This is funny. I don’t know. The quality I have got makes people jealous. Of course the fans who say that are not Manchester United fans." After being accused of going down too easily, strongly denied he’s a serial diver.

6 September 2010

Legend Francis Lee Happy To See Robinho Leave, Robinho Is Nothing But a Wannabe Flop!

Robinho has some nerve slating Manchester and more importantly England, disrespect one city and you disrespect them all as far as I am concerned.

At least you can walk through a huge majority of English towns and cities without having to worry about being mugged for a pair of shoes or being shot for showing up in the wrong suburb.

Riots are just as common outside Brazilian football as they are inside Brazilian football with fans and players being shot and murdered in the streets and on the training pitch.

Robinho has a lot of nerve saying Manchester is a horrible place to live.

Ex Manchester City player and Legend Francis Lee tells it how it is even if we already think the same, and branded having flop Robinho at City as a definite low point.

“I was delighted to see him come, but even more so to see him go,” he said. “He’s supposed to be one of the best players in the world, but unless he sorts himself out, he never will be.

“He’s definitely got a flaw. All the supporters wanted him to be a big star, but he let them down, he let the club down and he let himself down.

“Considering the money he was bought for – the pounds that have been spent on him – and how quickly he went from hero to nothing, it was totally unacceptable. But the best thing has happened with him leaving.”

Lee will be inducted to the Hall of Fame on September 23 at the Hilton Hotel, Manchester in recognition of his contribution to City, Derby, Bolton and England.

Francis Lee will join other legends like Sir Bobby Charlton on the National Football Museum's celebration of the greatest players to grace the English game.

Fellow City stars Colin Bell, Frank Swift, Bert Trautmann and Denis Law are already present in the Hall of Fame.

Robinho is not even a scratch on these players and never will be, to be branded the next Pele was completely laughable.  City fans gave him the warmest of welcomes, treated him like a legend and made him feel wanted and all he could do to repay us, was to flop and whine like a little baby.

Thank God Robinho's gone!

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4 September 2010

Fresh England Shows City Are Moving Forward, Shocking Numbers Of Under 21 Players At One Club Revealed!


England last night had a glimpse of what is on its way, football is finally coming home with a bit of luck and City's lads representing England did us proud.

Last thing I want to do is beat down players but is it me or is Walcott still over-rated?, I mean the lad produced one worthy cross into the box in my opinion and our Adam Johnson did far more for England in ten minutes than Walcott did in one hour.

Adam Johnson continues to justify why Manchester City went out on a limb to bring him to Eastlands.

Gareth Barry put in a good performance but I still think he has room to improve, James Milner continues to justify why City paid the fee despite anti Englishman Cashely Cole making life harder by wanting to attack all the time leaving huge space behind him which many strong sides like Spain will exploit.

Let James Milner do the job hes great at Cashley and do some defending will you.

Finally Joe Hart, didn't have much to do until the last twenty minutes or so apart from the almost Glen Johnson blunder, but when called upon the lad was absolutely, fantastically, amazingly, again unbelievably on form.

Well done to the lad for a tip top performance and boy am I glad he is a Manchester City player and not a rag, oh I feel sorry for Wayne Rooney and wonder what he thinks of when he is surrounded by Manchester City stars?

On to the under 21 subject.

One Premier League club has reportedly only put forward a list of 20 senior players but supplemented that list with a reported 56 under 21 players, now if that is not trying to farm youth then I don't know what is.

Club in question: Arsenal FC

For decades young players have only had a few select clubs to dream about playing for, these clubs have been feeding off other clubs youth systems via their own popularity. 

It is all well and good bringing in a few select future stars but to draft in so many young players is just preposterous.

Half these young players could be playing at other clubs around the world but instead they are fighting to play for one thing, to play for a popular club for all the wrong reasons.

Sure agents and parents have to also take part of the blame, but the majority of the blame lay solely at the feet of the clubs in question. I'm sure there are one or two other countries clubs doing the same but I am English so will stick to my country.

PFA Chief Executive Gordon Taylor claimed that the new Premier League rules do not go far enough to improve home grown talent but is he right?

I believe the rules do not even scratch the surface as this is supposed to be about getting England back on track and not Europe back on track instead.

The problem is not having enough young English talent coming through the ranks, Manchester City have produced some fine young English talent in recent years and still continue to produce with the likes of young England striker Alex Nimely etc. But one or two clubs can not carry a nation and its high time English clubs get off their backsides and start to bring football back to English families doorsteps.

For example Manchester City FC's project 'City in the Community' along with other projects are a benchmark for what needs to be done so other English clubs should take note.

One thing is for sure though and that is having a shocking number of young players at one club is not good for development as they should all be playing football instead of one half watching the other half progress, in my opinion you should only have as many as you can play in all leagues and competitions.

Now can anyone honestly say 76 players in a first and reserve team combined is not shocking, I would not like to see my club follow farming clubs like these but rather see huge quality over quantity instead.

Whats your opinion?

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