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.
