*Official* English Football Season 2011-12

[grecian]

C'mon Stourbridge, magic of t'cup

 

[sledger]

City staring down the barrel a bit here.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Of course Cavani has been awful for almost two months and he finds two goals from us. From what I've heard we've been complete balls so I won't complain, as long as our league form holds I don't mind if we don't progress in the CL.

 

[Nate]

Sounds like Lescott and Zabaleta have been awful.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Why on Earth Micah didn't start I have no idea.

 

[Scaly piscine]

That should be Man ****ty out then. Mancini should take most of the blame for it.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Stourbridge. Possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen.

 

[Jarquis]

Argylolololol

 

[Lillian Thomson]

C'mon Stourbridge, magic of t'cup

Stourbridge. Possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen.

Argylolololol

I feel a bit sorry for our collection of rejects, park players and teenagers. This is easily the worst squad of players ever assembled at a professional football club. The only possible miracle solution would be a proper manager and 15 new players when the transfer window opens in January.
We signed another nobody in the making last week.
Altogether now ♪♪ There's only one Aris Guerin-Lokonga ♪♪

 

[Woodster]

Not a good result for the Blues. Don't think we necessarily played badly, Napoli were dangerous on the break again and Hart had to make a few very decent saves in the second half, then we came on strong late on and should really have got something from it.

As Bobby Manc says, it's our first season in this comp, we certainly weren't going to crack it first time, but it's not over just yet.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Not a good result for the Blues. Don't think we necessarily played badly, Napoli were dangerous on the break again and Hart had to make a few very decent saves in the second half, then we came on strong late on and should really have got something from it.

As Bobby Manc says, it's our first season in this comp, we certainly weren't going to crack it first time, but it's not over just yet.

Certainly weren't going to crack it first time leaving some of your best players out in what was the deciding game and then bringing substitutes on so late they can barely make an impact.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Yeah I think Mancini missed a trick in this one. He must be worried about our upcoming fixture list. Aguero on the bench I can understand because he's been worried by a muscle injury in his leg, but leaving out Micah (arguably our best player this season) for Zabaleta, especially against a team with the lightning pace of Napoli, is inexcusable. Kolarov over Clichy is another one, he left out our two fastest (and best, funnily enough) wing-backs for a game against a team with frightening pace on the break.

Though it's his first really large blunder for the season so I guess it's not really too much of a worry. As long as he keeps them out of the league then I'm happy haha. I'll care about winning the Champions League in ten years time, for now, I'm just happy to see us in it.

 

[Jarquis]

Ahh, cheers for that.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

I hope we buy Subotic, that man is a beast.

 

[Woodster]

Certainly weren't going to crack it first time leaving some of your best players out in what was the deciding game and then bringing substitutes on so late they can barely make an impact.

Yeah I think Mancini missed a trick in this one. He must be worried about our upcoming fixture list. Aguero on the bench I can understand because he's been worried by a muscle injury in his leg, but leaving out Micah (arguably our best player this season) for Zabaleta, especially against a team with the lightning pace of Napoli, is inexcusable. Kolarov over Clichy is another one, he left out our two fastest (and best, funnily enough) wing-backs for a game against a team with frightening pace on the break.

Though it's his first really large blunder for the season so I guess it's not really too much of a worry. As long as he keeps them out of the league then I'm happy haha. I'll care about winning the Champions League in ten years time, for now, I'm just happy to see us in it.

I'm sure there will be reasons why he's gone with this team that we are not privvy to. Certainly think he'll have looked at Zaba doing a better defensive job than Micah, his positional sense and speed in reacting to situations opening up are a couple of reasons why he will have thought Zaba would play a more effective role. Yes he's not as good going forward, but with Silva, Balotelli, Dzeko, Milner and Yaya, he probably thought we would create enough opportunities, along with Kolarov and his delivery into the box with his left peg.

Clichy I think should be playing in almost all the games as he's been really impressive for us imo. Maybe with Kolarov's experience of playing in Italy against Serie A clubs, the fact he wouldn't be directly up against an out and out winger, and would be able to get forward and make some telling contributions, I don't know. I'm sure there are factors that us regular football supporters would not even recognise, as to why Mancini made the selections he did.

Our deliveries into the box were not great last night, Dzeko and Balotelli did not enjoy their best night's, and credit to Napoli's front three who created us problems for much of the night again.

Big game on Sunday ahead, will be a real test after this disappointment, and a tough game in store at Anfield, no doubt.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Lol Chavs.

Just gonna be The Arse in the 2nd Round at this rate.

 

[sledger]

Pleased Arsenal won obv. But Van Persie scoring all the goals again, really? This is taking one-man-teamery to a whole new level, and it's making me nervous now. Particularly given his less than fantastic record with injuries.

 

[duffer]

Had a mate who spent three seasons calling him Alex Mong. Just sent that to him. No response. What a dickhead.

 

[sledger]

Wat! Alex Song has been great for a while now, the hell you talking about?!

 

[duffer]

His view is something along the lines of he wouldn't be good enough of a defensive midfielder for a team who wins trophies and this is shown since we haven't won a trophy since he became a fixture in the side. A strained syllogism tbh.