BLUE IS THE COLOUR

Liverpool are just the fucking worst club, City are irrelevant

Scenes.

Beautiful, beautiful stuff

i'm mostly upset that west ham didn't beat brighton, which lets man u sneak into europa and stops us getting top 10

Saw this Tweet. It’s the sort of sour grapes I need right now.

Without Liverpool, City would have won 5 titles in a row by:-

21/22 19 points
20/21 12 points
19/20 15 points
18/19 26 points
17/18 19 points

Make no mistake, Liverpool are all that is stopping the Premier League being the worst 'big' league. This is what the future looks like.

Aside from the sportswashing and financial cheating I will say this, that was some balls to come back from 0-2 down to win it 3-2. But as soldier says, they’re irrelevant so after a couple of days no one will care.

Micah Richards is just such a joyous human being as well, so him being happy is always lovely to see.

I'd hate to lose a title to them again, but if it's them or Liverpool it's them.

Nice of the City fans to assault the Villa keeper.

Like FFS.

in a way the fact so few hate on MC like they do with the other big teams is something of an insult to them anyway. They could lose every game next season and- despite their dominance in recent years- I wouldn't enjoy it anywhere near as if it happened to Liverpool or Man U. I guess I just find it hard to waste much emotion on them

Where are you based DS? Surrey?

I get what you are saying, but this cheering on the death of football due to traditional rivalries is anything but irrelevant. I did it myself when City clinched their first league at the expense of United, but things have changed since.

The rivalry between United and Liverpool in the 90s and 00s was different, because Liverpool were largely an average side (who had their moments) competing against a great side (and a great manager). What we have now is a great Liverpool side competing against a side who have unfairly gained a huge advantage....over everyone else.

By the way, check out Micah Richards BBC article today. Spends most of it talking about why City aren't respected like Liverpool and even goes as far as to attack Liverpool's spending in order to justify the position of Man City.

Unfortunately, without a Liverpool buzzing around, City would be 20 points clear every season and we would basically be Ligue 1. Liverpool are hiding the un-competitiveness of the PL and the media are lapping it up.

So the dust has cleared after the emotions of yesterday.  I'm not happy about Burnley being relegated but neither am I surprised.  The club I support is in a very precarious financial position after the private equity buyout that loaded the price of the purchase back onto the club.

Overall, the last 6 years in the premier league have been fun.  We went on a European trip, although did our absolute best to make sure we didn't qualify for the group stages by sending out the reserve team.  Sean Dyche absolutely hated cup competitions and would pick a team to lose as quickly as possible.  We, contrary to popular belief, actually played good football on occasion.  The frequency of this changed in the later years and the football became really fucking dire.  I can see why fans of some teams are glad we are gone, some Burnley fans agree and think a reset in the championship will change the style.

I'm not that hopeful of a prompt return to the top flight.  Most of the first team squad is out of contract and will be leaving.  The talented few who are left will be sold to service the debt (a big thanks to Nick Pope and James Tarkowski, they were immense).

We will be left with no manager, no players, an eye watering interest payment to regularly service (oo-er), a downgraded youth system (not that it produces anything anyway, the NW is full of top academies and the talent goes elsewhere), and an owner that the fans have turned against.  I think our chances of being in league 1 are better than the premier league, I just hope our club will still exist when it happens.

I started supporting my team in the old 4th division.  I never thought we would make the top flight.  I've been to some weird and not so wonderful grounds across the country and the journey has been so much fun.  Sadly, the times for a small club from a small town to be consistently in the premier league are coming to an end.  The money is insane and being a millionaire is no longer enough.  Newcastle will swallow the dark side of their ownership if it brings success, they spent nigh on £100m in January, we spent -$12.5m.  That's not sustainable to compete at the top table.  I know that Mike Ashley was a terrible owner who didn't care about his club but I'm pretty sure he never murdered anyone or committed state sponsored mysogeny.  If this is the price of football then I'm glad we can't pay it (sorry if you are a Newcastle fan but I have strong feelings about this).

Onto next year and I'm looking forward to some local derbies against our historic rivals.  I just hope I still have a club to support in 5 years.

Paul the sparky wrote:

Is football dying? Or is it already dead? Or is this just a smidge of hyperbole after Liverpool didn't win the league?

A bit of all 3 I reckon!

Apart from the actual game itself near enough everything about football could be a lot better.

They're fine

monkey wrote:

Send them back.

does this include US-led business consortia? asking for a friend