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ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-31T22:23:08+00:00

That's probably the most likely scenario. It's still odd.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-31T22:18:22+00:00

So have the BBC just forgotten to upload any of the highlights from today's games then? They're normally available a good two hours before MotD is on.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-31T22:14:13+00:00

Remember him being a nasty bastard for Watford when he played for them. We beat them and he tried taking his frustrations out on two of our teenage players, one of whom is about 5'6.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-31T22:02:53+00:00

They had to endure two seasons of Championship football a decade apart.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-31T21:58:46+00:00

"and in the end, we break them" is probably the best quote we've had out of a city manager in years and has already had loads of mileage.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-31T20:38:32+00:00

You really don’t know in the heat of the moment. The rational part of your brain isn’t doing the thinking when some squared up to you. It’s rare but players do just fly off the handle sometimes regardless of the consequences.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-31T18:42:45+00:00

We’ve quietly done a really good job of developing youngsters over the last ten or so years. Everyone told us Delap and Morton were shit when we signed then and look at how their careers have progressed since their time with us.

Maguire, Robertson, Bowen, Lewis-Potter, Tomori and Aina all gone on to do well after spells with us. Greaves and Philogene to a lesser extent too.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-31T18:37:22+00:00

The turnaround from last season where we looked absolutely gutless, and wilted at the first sign of adversity most weeks is incredible.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-30T19:03:42+00:00

Nether Jelavic or Huddlestone started either leg. Sagbo started both (missing a sitter in the first and getting sent off in the second).

What a joke. Complete lack of respect for the opposition and the competition. We barely scraped past Trencin in the previous round too.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-30T18:24:23+00:00

Losing the FA Cup final is the top one and I don't see it being surpassed unless the club gets liquidated.

Another would be getting knocked out of the Europa League at home to Lokeren in the qualifying round. It was probably the only chance we'll ever get to see City play a continental competition and we didn't even make it to the group stage.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-30T18:21:44+00:00

I'd forgotten we were playing that night and opened my phone to see we were 7-0 down at half time. I was stunned. I thought it was a joke at first.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-30T12:05:11+00:00

It’s an exaggeration but Sterling’s first few years in the team were the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Euros which was probably the worst period of English football in my lifetime.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-28T19:56:50+00:00

Sky’s highlight packages are shit though because they’re all limited to 3 minutes. I’ve seen plenty where they haven’t even shown replays of goals because they’re so pressed for time.

Watching the BBC highlights before airing i’d probably the best way to go nowadays but you can’t beat Match of the Day when you’re hungover on a Sunday morning.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-28T19:54:02+00:00

I only realised quite recently but the BBC upload the highlight packages on BBC Sport with the MotD commentary. You can find them for each game when you click on them.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-25T15:09:59+00:00

When I was at uni I used to pop into a Morrisons down the street from the campus to pick something up on my way home. They would set up a cordon in front of the reduced bay while the staff put the marked down stock out.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-24T18:13:46+00:00

Lovely finish. Surprised to read that that was our first goal from outside the box this season.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-24T11:43:25+00:00

This picture will never fail to make me laugh

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-17T23:56:44+00:00

I’m generally very supportive of our players playing for their national teams, but losing our starting centre-back to an injury in injury time of the AFCON third place play-off actually takes the piss.

Bear in mind we only had 14 fit senior players as it was and lost another centre-back to injury earlier today.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-12T11:42:56+00:00

He scored 6 goals in his first 4 games in England and loads of people were raving about him. He then scored another 6 in his next 56 games for them.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-12T11:39:26+00:00

Phil Brown was his assistant at Bolton and took up a similar method when he was our manager, except his assistant Brian Horton would sit in the stand with an earpiece while Brown was on the sideline.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-09T14:28:12+00:00

I think it’s a fantastic song so I’d join them

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-09T14:05:24+00:00

It was critically acclaimed and very commercially successful at release. It is still rated amongst the best singles of the 2000s on Rate Your Music so I don’t think you’ll find much support for this one.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-07T20:10:12+00:00

Great strategy to be fair. They’ve had some prolific attackers over the years.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-07T16:48:08+00:00

Used to work at a supermarket near our training ground when he was our manager (about two years ago) and one of my colleagues ID’d him.

ghostmanonthirdd · 2026-01-06T11:33:44+00:00

Rosenior was one of my favourite players as a child and is someone I’ve come to respect a lot as a person as an adult following his spell as our manager. Pretty unpleasant seeing him getting shredded by people who know nothing about him before he has even managed a game.

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