Football Season 2017/18

Tabby cat posted:

Come on City !      A nice brace from our midfield magician

Almost there, TC

Does anyone else find themselves just looking at a football headline, then going straight to the comments, highest rating them, and then reading, say, the top dozen?

MDS posted:

Tabby cat posted:

Come on City !      A nice brace from our midfield magician

Almost there, TC

The prospect of securing the title at home against United must be particularly tantalising, Ian (with apologises to Mr Dolan)

Mike

Local media are suggesting Mark Hughes for Saints.

Christopher_M posted:

Local media are suggesting Mark Hughes for Saints.

Hmm. Not one to appeal to the footballing purists, Chris. I though the ex-Watford guy, Silva, had been linked. I rate him.

This fan would agree with you about Hughes. Though lots like Silva plenty still think he will be off to Everton when it all goes wong with Big Sam. So we are a fickle lot. Wanting the best, but choosy. And we are in no position to be choosy.

* wrong

Mark Hughes.

From the comments on BBC site: "A man so miserable he makes Mourinho look like Timmy Mallett!"

Nevertheless, 17th will please me this year.

MDS posted:

MDS posted:

Tabby cat posted:

Come on City !      A nice brace from our midfield magician

Almost there, TC

The prospect of securing the title at home against United must be particularly tantalising, Ian (with apologises to Mr Dolan)

Mike

Thanks Mike,

It's been a amazing season and up a level compared to Peps first where our defence was  not the tightest.Claudio Bravo was a useless goal keeper.But this season with Kyle Walker - Stones - Mendy and Edison in goal things are so much tighter.

Yeah it will be a great day when we win the EPL hopefully over the Rags at home.We have been so consistent and deserve it.Hope we do well in the Champions Leauge and at least make the Semi finals.

Just love the way Pep wants his team to play and his tactical savvy and passion for the game.You can never say City as a neutral have been  dull to watch this season.

Wow what a team !

Champions League draw:

Barcelona v Roma

Sevilla v Bayern Munich

Juventus v Real Madrid

Liverpool v Man City

Hm, would have preferred to avoid City and, if not, at least have 2nd leg at home.

sjbabbey posted:

Champions League [quarter finals] draw:

Liverpool v Man City

I thought this was a crying shame.

Christopher_M posted:

sjbabbey posted:

Champions League [quarter finals] draw:

Liverpool v Man City

I thought this was a crying shame.

Me too.  The draw looks to have favoured the Spanish giants.

It'll be interesting then if Barca and Madrid both progress whether they'll be kept apart in the semis.

I certainly wouldn't bet against it.

I think teams from the same country are kept apart until the draw for the quarter finals. 

I'm formulating a real world Don-ish 'Brain Teaser' here:

If three of the eight teams in the quarter finals draw of a football tournament are from one country, how statististically likely is that each of those three teams will not meet another from the same country in their quarter final games?

Or, put more simply, is the draw rigged to help facilitate the progress of a Spanish side?  ;-)

As you suggest, Chris, that's a Don-type challenge, and one that is too hard for my tiny brain this late in the evening of a long week. However I'll have a punt at the odds of the Spanish sides avoiding one another if they all get through their quarter finals.................very, very long indeed.     

There. I feel quite pleased with myself now.  

Yes, it was rigged.

To ensure City get through to the semi's.

Big, big win for the Eagles today.  I continue to think they are going to escape.  Pardew's Albion are clearly doomed, and Stoke look like they are going that way.  Competition for that third spot remains too close to call. 

Nice Result for Southampton Chris - You must be very Happy.Lets hope Mark Hughes keeps them up.

As you say, TC, a good result for the Saints, though I suspect Chris and other Saints fans will look at that first half performance when Wigan were on top and fear for the eight remaining PL games.  Hughes needs to sort out that lethargy quickly because PL opposition won't be so forgiving.  

MDS posted:

Big, big win for the Eagles today.  I continue to think they are going to escape.  Pardew's Albion are clearly doomed, and Stoke look like they are going that way.  Competition for that third spot remains too close to call. 

I would like to nominate Newcastle for the third relegation place.

Agree Mike,

I don't know their fixture list but hope Hughes gets them out of it.It will be sad if they go down....but maybe not  to painful as a Pompey fan  

Saw in the Music Room you where listening to Abacab - Do like the stripped down Genesis tracks like "Abacab - "Mama"

But it will always be the Gabriel years + Trick of the Tail - Wind and Wuthering - And Then There Where Three which I enjoy the most

Thank you Ian and Mike. I didn't see the game apart from seeing Gabbi subbed and Soares' very well-taken goal.

More than anything I had the sense from the post match interviews of Højbjerg and Bertrand that the players were playing for the manager. After Newcastle last weekend, this gives me hope.

We Saints are at home to Chelsea in the PL on April 14th. I now see that we have them too in the semis at Wembley on the weekend of April 21/22. Ah.