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Pre Match Pre Match - Man City (H) - Sun 16:00

This belief that Walker is a better defender than Trent is nearly as painfully stupid as brexit.
Kept Southgate in job for 2 world cups and had Trent sitting on the bench watching for vast majority thinking what may have been completely negating what he can offer going forward. What would they have won possibly if he had played? never know.
 
Guardiola said: “I’m so proud of my six Premier Leagues against that [Liverpool] team and the previous team [under Jürgen Klopp]. I didn’t expect Anfield to start chanting at 0-2 that I would be sacked. Maybe I deserved to be sacked with our results! Maybe I’m still in the job because I won six Premier Leagues and a lot of titles.

“They want to sack me. I wish they were more kind. Why didn’t they do it at 0-1? Why didn’t they do it last season when we won the Premier League? Why do they want to sack me now? I didn’t expect that from Anfield, for other clubs like Brighton I can understand it. But for Anfield I didn’t expect this, maybe it is the respect we have. They know we have won six Premier Leagues. But it’s fine, it’s part of the game.”
 

Slot’s heavy hitters floor listless City​


Late-2024 Liverpool are reminiscent of the late-2019 team that eventually won the club’s first league title in 30 years. Back then, a 3-1 home win against Manchester City put Jürgen Klopp’s side eight points above second place, and nine above City. In 2024, they are nine points above second and 11 above City – with, we hope, no pandemic to interrupt the season. There are eight players from that squad still at Liverpool, and if the football is more measured under Arne Slot, Sunday’s potential knockout blow was achieved in the heavy-metal fashion of a Klopp team. “I knew Jürgen left the team in a very good place,” said the diplomatic Dutchman afterwards.

While Slot is enjoying his first Premier League season, Pep Guardiola was subjected to “sacked in the morning” chants, another rite of passage for any English football man. Even Sir Alex Ferguson was subjected to it in October 2005, when Middlesbrough crushed his Manchester United team 4-1, a defeat that sparked Roy Keane’s exit. Ferguson dug himself out of the hole with a grinding 1-0 win over José Mourinho’s Chelsea. Guardiola hoped for similar at Anfield but his battered squad appears incapable of letting fly any dogs of war. At Anfield, City were punchless, while the same defensive mistakes of recent weeks were still evident. “If I don’t want that pressure, I resign, go home and I don’t have this weight on my shoulders,” said Guardiola before the match. Is a Keane-esque sacrificial victim required? Kevin De Bruyne’s fringe role continues to intrigue.
 
He was excellent today. Hardly put a foot wrong.
The Excellence comes from re-building his form last season after so many seasons of recovery from bad bad injuries and also a huge amount of experience in that back-line having played with everyone especially VVD.
 
Not read the whole thread, so apologies if this has already been said. Standard of refereeing was really good yesterday. There were a few instances where I thought Ake should have been penalised for fouls on Mo in the first half, but that aside they handled it all well, including non-intervention by VAR and no howlers. I don't think many of us would have expected that before the game.
It should be like this every week.
 
Not read the whole thread, so apologies if this has already been said. Standard of refereeing was really good yesterday. There were a few instances where I thought Ake should have been penalised for fouls on Mo in the first half, but that aside they handled it all well, including non-intervention by VAR and no howlers. I don't think many of us would have expected that before the game.
It should be like this every week.
Yes, it was decent, but you can literally do anything you want to Salah under an apparent cloak of invisibility. If I was a defender I would just run up to him and smash him in the face because nobody will see it.
 
Nine men have been arrested following reports of tragedy chanting at Sunday's Premier League match between Liverpool and Manchester City.

Merseyside Police said nine men, aged between 19 and 57 and variously from Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire, had been detained at Anfield Stadium.

One of the suspects, a 28-year-old man, was also arrested on suspicion of assault, police said.

Another man, a 19-year-old from Medlar-with-Wesham in Lancashire, has been charged with a public order offence, namely tragedy chanting, under the 1991 Football Offences Act.
He will face Sefton Magistrates' Court next month.

Cunts.
 
Nine men have been arrested following reports of tragedy chanting at Sunday's Premier League match between Liverpool and Manchester City.

Merseyside Police said nine men, aged between 19 and 57 and variously from Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire, had been detained at Anfield Stadium.

One of the suspects, a 28-year-old man, was also arrested on suspicion of assault, police said.

Another man, a 19-year-old from Medlar-with-Wesham in Lancashire, has been charged with a public order offence, namely tragedy chanting, under the 1991 Football Offences Act.
He will face Sefton Magistrates' Court next month.

Cunts.

Can't say I like this idea of criminally charging people for essentially just being (very) obnoxious.
 
I tend to agree, but context matters. There's a difference between being very obnoxious online and being very obnoxious in a public place with lots of people who might get very angry, which is why it's a public order offence and not a "being obnoxious" offence.
 
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