This is our City: 2010-12-26

6 January 2011

Arsenal Are A Disgrace And Embarrassment To English Football, Mancini Tactics Spot on

After years of sheer magic watching Thierry Henry hop and skip over challenge after challenge, watching Patrick Vieira dominate midfield's and go up against the nasty piece of work that were Roy Keane and seeing the solid brick wall ala Tony Adams in defence.

All Arsenal boil down to now are a bunch of pansies falling all over the playing field the first chance they get, no wonder opposing teams play the way they do when even the slightest whisper of fresh air can trip an Arsenal player up searching for a free kick or gift card for the opposed.

I was disappointed with Mancini's squad choice but more than happy with his tactics, If City played the way Arsenal do then I'd be extremely embarrassed.

In the first half Arsenal players were flying around and falling over at any given opportunity, how Robin Van Persie gets away with it all the time without even a yellow achieving total immunity baffles me.

Well to be honest it does not baffle me at all, falling over extremely easily has become so common with Arsenal that referee's these days seem to allow it to continue because it is Arsenal. This obviously dates back to the time when Wenger called for his players to be protected.

If I were an Arsenal fan I'd be embarrassed watching the circus they are now having to pay to see, having to pay some of the highest prices in the Premier League just to watch a bunch of footballers in skirts.

I'd understand Arsenal fans accepting it if they were winning titles and the Champions League, but lets face the fact they are not even close to doing so.

With that said City gave Arsenal way to much space, not closing them down fast enough. Showing way to much caution with no cutting edge to our game, that I believe was down to Mancini's reluctance to play Adam Johnson from the off.

You could see as soon as Adam Johnson came on that our players started to believe, for a moment we actually attacked with intention.

Any of my regular readers will know that I have mentioned many a time about City having to play against 12 including the referee, well the Arsenal game was a prime example.

The referee had shown his yellow card way to easily for Barry and Dejong, this should be no surprise and we should expect a whole lot more of it.

53 minutes into the game Arsenal fans continued to scream and shout for anything, seriously when is there going to be a referee with enough balls to put it to Arsenal?

It is like Arsenal are totally immune from being booked, Van Percie went down like a sack of spuds and Vincent Kompany hardly even touched him, the referee does nothing rightfully and Van Percie stops play with his theatrics.

Tevez got hacked down right infront of a cameraman and again an Arsenal player failed to get booked, Dejong and Barry got booked for lesser which is just totally insane.

We all know Vincent Kompany as a clean and fair footballer, well by the way one or two Arsenal players were acting you would think they were trying to get him booked.

How people can say Arsenal play the best free flowing attractive football baffles me, all I see is a bunch of kids falling over trying to get their opponents booked at the best possible chance they get.

Sagna and Zabaletta had a forehead to forehead altercation but even Sky Sports pointed out that Sagna were the guilty party, and that Zabaletta should not have been shown a red card along with Sagna who clearly caused the whole problem.

Another Arsenal player went down like a sack of spuds just to get a free kick in the last dying minute, Boateng did nothing wrong and again the referee got it wrong.

We may not agree with Mancini's tactics or lineups from time to time but then we are not the boss, even if we wanted to win against Arsenal a draw is just as important for it leaves us above Arsenal still.

Lets face facts that if Arsenal were missing Fabregas and Nasri, they would have lost without any shadow of doubt, even more so if City were not missing Balotelli but more importantly Silva.

We were definitely missing David Silva which could easily have gained us three points but that is football, one thing we have to look forward too is the arrival of Edin Dzeko.

4 January 2011

So What If We Buy A Title, Arsenal Up Next And The Undeserving Should Be Left Wanting

No matter where we go we hear the same old crap, that we should not be proud of anything because we are buying the title etc etc etc.

Liverpool bought their trophy cabinet full with cash by buying players and running an academy which has all but become stale of late.

Man United in the borough of Trafford have been buying the league title since the day Harry Stafford bought the club, he was part of a four man team of scumbag businessmen that thought it would be funny to rename Newton Heath to Manchester United despite the fact Manchester already had a football club aka Manchester City FC.

Buying players then bettered their chances year in year out as well as tapping up young players from other European clubs. Arsenal are also another club as well as Blackburn, Spurs and everyone else, every club on this planet are spending money to better their position in world football so we are no different from any other.

I am very proud of my club now and I was still as proud of my club when we were back in the third division, at least we can say we are not being gifted a league title year in year out like United were, when the rest of the league were ten times weaker due to lack of funds, the same funds that were only available to a select few aka Liverpool and Man United.

At least when Manchester City do win a title, we will have done it with hard work unlike some. We have come a long way and endured more ups and downs than most clubs could imagine and we are still here to tell our story.

With Arsenal up next I thought I would cover relations between City, The Arse and The Hotspur, first things first The Arse seems to be gaining an affinity with The Hot spur.

on our last meeting with Tottenham, Arsenal fans were expressing how they wanted Tottenham to destroy us which ended nil nil. Only now Tottenham fans are expressing how they want Arsenal to destroy us too, one particular Tottenham fan had this to say, 'I hope Arsenal kick ur ass and I’m a Spurs fan.' really? I would never have guessed.

Maybe they could merge both clubs together and brand them Hot Arse FC, they are certainly blowing hot air this season and it stinks of jealousy and envy.

With that said it is about time we register a win at the high and mighty Emirates, especially after the last game where we were subject to a cheating Arsenal FC and referee.

I still believe to this very day that we are always on the receiving end of referee's, rarely do we ever gain any kind of favour but then that makes it all the more sweeter when we beat a twelve man team.

We will be without Mario Balotelli and David Silva through injury, but we have Nigel Dejong back and Yaya Toure to keep Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri quiet. I think we have a far stronger midfield with Milner and Johnson on the wings, it is a pity we cannot get Edin Dzeko signed up ready to play as it seems we may have to wait a little longer if the media are to be believed.

Here's one for you, Newcastle wanting to loan some of our players after the witch-hunt they caused against Nigel Dejong, the player in question is Wayne Bridge.

I mean what a cheek to even suggest such a move, if I had my way City would never ever do business from this point on with Newcastle United, Everton FC, Arsenal FC or Tottenham Hotspur FC and obviously Man United are top of my never do business with list.