cosmicway

That was a fix, 1-0. Pep does n't like to hurt people.

Left routed in Greece - Mitsotakis triumphs.

They 're mathematical champions now.

Tuchel destroyed.

City players had 10 yards of free space every time they gained possession of the ball. They had to be fools not to win. Granted Madrid are not very good at pressing and maybe they too wanted to distance themselves from their opponents (ill advisedly if so) but I 've seen City in other matches too. Why have we grown so incompetent ?

Except for the case of Haaland, I don't understand how City have beaten us to a miserable pulp in the transfer market. Especially the last two years. If I make a visit to Todd Boehly's office one day, or that of Roman before him, they will say to staff "give this guy one million to buy a coffee". So how come this failure ?

The days when venues counted are gone. Pep may well be heading for one more exit.

The first half was unwatchable. Attempts at Indian foray plus the Mendy giveaway. The second half was better but again we relapsed after the 2-2. This team needs a demolition squad.

Why Mendy ?

Hall, Gallagher, Ziyech are not first division players.

Postponed for Monday after outbreak of covid in the Panathinaikos team (*). (*) how can they recover from -any- covid in one day ?

Lamps - raspberries 3-1. Watched the last ten minutes. I woke up and thought it was 2 pm and it was 6 pm. It was 1-1 then Badiashile scored the second. Whom do you prefer to finish fourth ? Mc Guire or scousers ?

Fixed match in Greece Sun 7 May, Olympiakos - Panathinaikos, away win 2.05 maybe more in the exchanges. Discussion Evangelos Marinakis owner of Olympiakos Piraeus and Nottingham Forest wants to gift the league to Panathinaikos. Panathinaikos are old rivals but Marinakis's no 1 enemy in the world is the president of the yellows (AEK Athens) Dimitrios Melissanidis. Also the match will take place with the gates closed - no spectators. Pawn the jewels.

Not all great players become good managers. The Greek legend of legends Maropoulos was a very bad manager and the fans were throwing pieces of wood into the pitch, back in the years.

No I 'm not downplaying. But the premier is more difficult than Europe. Europe is seemingly more difficult because it's a cup competition and you cannot afford to lose a tie. In Europe I recognize only Real-Barca-Bayern-PSG. Also Atletico but not their team of the last two years. In Europe we may also face other English clubs (and Arsenal of 2019 were poor really) but from the other nations I recognize only the above four as difficult opponents (well, not now of course - we would probably go out to Krasnodarsk or Tatabanya now).

True. Also I believe our European successes in those 6 years is somewhat overblown. Because there is really nothing out there in the continent if you take away 4-5 big clubs. Then we won the CL with only two good performances really, against Real Madrid and City - masked the underlying problems.

Despite his ballon d' or (well deserved) never could. Only a few times and also a rare moment of brilliance with the goal he scored against United a few seasons back. Generally he has no attacking qualities.

Kante was tried as a playmaker again - inevitable.

Nobody has ever frustrated me more than Sterling. Mudryk and Madueke are useful.

Kovacic lost himself in the park and Arsenal scored their first. But really nobody expected anything better. Madueke was a positive.

FFP after squandering money indeed !

Why is everyone against Neymar coming to Chelsea ? Nonsense. He will be our best player.

Gallagher and Sterling are in my opinion uncle George types when it comes to penetrating a block of defenders - can't do it. Kante scored a goal against United I think it was once upon a time. He is one of the topmost defending midfielders ever but no use in attack - he makes mistakes the moment he tries.

Another thing that perplexes me is this: Let's accept as a fact that we 're no longer capable of taking on Real Madrid-City-Bayern, possibly PSG and some others. Because those have found the cream of the planet and we did n't and it's difficult to match them. But Fulham, Brighton and Brentford ???