Pardew voted Premier League Manager of the Year. Hard to argue with that.
True enough, nice to see also that, its been won by English manager for a change!
Interesting speculation on the Yahoo Eurosport blog page from Jim White
Has success come at a cost for City?
With the kind of timing publishers must dread, this month sees the release of Colin Shindler's latest memoir.
The author sold an awful lot of copies of his earlier tale, "Manchester United Ruined My Life", which was released well over a decade ago. It was a book which suggested that, in its rapacious, commercially-driven quest for monopoly, the Old Trafford operation was driving much of the joy out of football.
As a City supporter, Shindler might be expected to think that. But his tome was nicely argued, fluent and funny and found plenty who agreed with its critique of the rapacious red menace and all it stood for.
At this moment as City appears to be about to lift the Championship, his latest is called "Manchester City Ruined My Life."
In it he laments all the things that City have lost in their relentless pursuit of supremacy. The sense of community, the sense of shared value, the sense that the players on the park are representing the regulars in the stand. The idea that they are all in it together.
What City always were, Shindler argues, was different from United. Now, he believes, that in their unrelenting desire to best their neighbours, they have become everything he loathed about the reds. In short they have ceased to be a football club and become a sporting corporation.
Quite what Shindler would have made of the revelation in the Telegraph this week that City had spent close to a billion pounds in pursuit of the prize is too late to include in his book.
Full post here
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/jim-white/success-come-cost-city-152823910.html
Last weekend of the football season, there are 3 matches that really stand out for me, well I guess 4.
I would like Spurs to win v Fulham, Arsenal to lose
Bolton to win, QPR to lose.
Other permutations, would include QPR winning or drawing and Man Utd winning.
Can't have everything, so maybe Spurs win, Newcastle win, Arsenal lose!
Sounds reasonable
QPR lose and Bolton win would be nice.
Don't have the slightest interest in who wins the title, other than to wind up a couple of mates who support Man Utd. By support them I mean, of course, watch the vidiprinter, watch the odd game on Sky up the pub because they can't afford Sky, and generally moouth off whenever they win despite not being from Manchester, never having been there and having no connections with the place whatsoever
Sound like a couple of people at my work who seem to support whoever is doing well.
I don't work with any Man U fans. But then, that's not surprising as I do work in Manchester.
Defoe not playing today. He's had to make an emergency visit to Specsavers.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/4312774/Alexandra-Burke-dumps-Jermain-Defoe-after-he-cheats-again.html
Moose!
Get in there sons ....Bolton now 2-1
both goals from Davies
Would love to see Bolton stay up.
Meanwhile, the Baggies have an absolute retard in goal.
Not far off.
The twat used to be on Spurs' books until we got rid of him. Has gifted the Scum both of their goals. You couldn't make it up.
However they have let it slip QPR have scored
Arsenal have scored 3-2 to them
Fulop used to play for Spurs as well, has been absolutly awful.
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