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It seems meetdoscar isn't feeling lucky today.

Shut up.

yeah it works, although it still displays only 3 likes maximum, even if a post has more likes.Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Sorry for the multiple posts, but the tweets wouldn't all load in the same post. Your spoilers are empty.

Some people say that? I guess they haven't seen Phil Jones or Demichelis playing in midfield.

Anyone else dread the day when he gets fouled and doesn't get up afterwards? I've seen warning signs already, like the bitter tackle from Vidic which got him the red card. On a bad day it could have ended much worse. It's already amazing that he's got smacked much more than any player in the league and hasn't had any problems, but I can't expect it to continue like that till the end of times. I just hope when that day comes, it won't be very bad. Hazard is our first real superstar player in a long time, he's so exciting to watch that I honestly don't remember anybody like that, not even Robben, who was a one-trick pony to be ruthlessly honest. You could say Zola perhaps, but truth be told I was too young at that time to have any real recollection, maybe the older fans can tell me if he measures up or has the potential to measure up to Zola? We've been an outstanding team throughout the Roman era, true, but we've never really had a standout individual who gets praised and watched all over the world. And of all the places, he's from Belgium, who would have thought?

I heard him saying that he's on the team sheet and thus has a chance of playing, I didn't hear him specifically say he's gonna make an appearance.

We must, otherwise how would he get the necessary experience? The other option would be to buy an established and experienced player and be done with it, but that would just show that the club really aren't serious with all this talk about promoting youth, unless you're a young wonderkid on the radar of every major club in the world. There's a big difference between trusting the Hazards and Oscars of this world and then the Shaws. Plus he's English and Chelsea are an English club, so for me he would be a very good signing replacing an englishman with an englishman. Otherwise we'd be forced to meet the home-grown quota by registering a bunch of no-hopers on the team sheet and have no real use of them. Plus you have to realize that those huge European games come along every now and then a year, it's not like he's gonna play Bayern or Barca every single week, he'd be playing mostly against worse English sides, which he has done with success already.

Possibly, but that's just your opinion. I watched the Bergkamp goal and I didn't see any signs of it being accidental, neither did Bergkamp himself say it wasn't intentional, in fact he said he thought it was the best option to get through on goal the quickest. If you look at that goal, he starts turning the moment he touches the ball and looks at the goal, so in my eyes it was as intended as such a move can be.

How do you know they didn't mean it?

I read that Vidic, Ferdinand and Evra would all leave. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Pause the video when Frank touches the ball, I'm pretty sure Bolton's right back is at least on the same line as Dids.

Don't know what to make of this. They call it te famous team goal but it seems to me more like Giroud-Wilshere goal. The goal itself is pretty over-rated considering Wilshere got atleast 1 lucky touch but the intend was there. I hadn't seen that goal before but now I looked it up, it's quite awesome. If Chelsea had scored that we'd all be dead right now out of dehydration from excessive jizzing. It's pretty much on par with this (of course Lampsy's flick was much more awesome).

Willian is frustrating. He seems to deliver the corners and indirect free-kicks either too low (most of the time), too high or just plain inaccurately. When Lampsy plays, he's a nailed on corner and indirect fk taker for me. I'm worried if Willian is the best we got to be honest, because we got so many good box scorers in our team it's not even funny anymore that we don't utilize this strength to the maximum. Given our lack of efficiency from open-play, making use of set-pieces can make the difference between 3 points and 1 point. I would like to see Hazard taking a direct free-kick now and then. If he really wants to be a complete player, he should start doing so. Real leaders usually take the responsiblity. I don't believe he lacks the skill to do it, maybe he just doesn't want to or doesn't work on it, which would be a shame. Otherwise I have no idea who could take our free-kicks, all of them pretty much suck at it. Luiz can score the odd goal every once in a while and so can Oscar apparently, but the rest haven't given me any reason to think they would be any better either... except for maybe Lampard, who isn't a regular anymore and he still fancies hitting the wall more than the goal, so who knows. Oh, and what about Ivanovic? I think he has hit some piledrivers for Serbia. Could be worth a shot (pun intended) from distance.

Shame? Which side you on m8? Sir Andy Gray would have a thing or two to say about that.

LOOOOOOOOOL I totally forgot about that! :lol: We never set a deadline to collect! In fact, there should be a penalty for late delivery! I say, because we beat them home and away, you should post a video doing that bunny dance first then the gangam style dance as well :D @manpe, @didierforever, @Ainsley Harriott, All in favor? Aye aye! Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Porto was his big breakthrough and people can talk about it as much as they want, but what he did at Leiria(?) gets constantly overlooked because he didn't win anything with them, but what he did there with no money or outstanding talent whatsoever was special. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Somewhy my Billy McCulloch thread was closed so I can't post there, but I must share this, just so funny According to Jose Billy gave the team talk

Agreed. In yesterday's post-match interview he praised individuals, he doesn't do that often, but this makes it just this bit more special for the players to hear. "When the team needed, Petr was there. Ivanovic to score that goal as a defender was fantastic. Central defenders were immaculate. Azpilicueta against Speedy Gonzalez, because Jesus is unbelievably fast, Azpilicueta did a fantastic job." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rcpvssr81U "The players are everything, the plan is just something to try to help them, but the players are everything." "Is a team to defend when they have the ball, and is a team to attack when we have the ball." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbnX0p0C0zY

Got mad praise from ex-colleague Jamie Carragher, that should count for something.

He was the tankest tank out there. This is the kind of game that suits him. And that goal came literally out of nowhere, he won us the game with that rare beauty. Yet again we score from the toughest possible position but fluff the obvious ones

I liked how City defenders had this block from tackling him further than the halfway line. They knew most of their attempts would end in conceding a free-kick and they had to stop him dirty at a safe distance. I recall there was this one time when he had like 3-4 players trying to stop him around the middle of the pitch but he just swivelled away and out of nowhere we suddenly had options to make this a productive attack. There was one, maybe two times when he frustrated me by not shooting, for example when instead of shooting a rebound he backheeled it to nobody. We may regret not getting Agüero, but man am I glad at least Hazard is on our side.

City kept banging from our left side because on the right we had a big "RESTRICTED AREA" sign in the form of Brana, Luiz and Ramires. We were a bit more suspect on the left but Dave managed it well, considering who he was playing against. I also loved the cover he got from Hazard, gone are the times when we had those 1v2 situations on the back flanks.

Once Toure fucks off Matic will be the new Yaya of the league.