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OK, what shall we sing about then? How good their players are? How efficient the Manchester Metrolink is? They've styled themselves on being a proper working class club for local supporters, compared to their big 'Franchise FC' neighbours and now they're going the 'global brand' route, can we not take the piss without getting essentialist about it?

They were, and spent the last 20 years taking the piss out of Man U for their glory hunters. Now a load of people worldwide who probably didn't even know there were two teams in Manchester three years ago are suddenly posting "CTID!!!" everywhere, and another generation of Essex dwellers have remembered their grandad was from Manchester...

Going down to Eastlands in a few weeks, need some troll songs to wind them up I think. "You've just become what you hated" (You're just a small town in Durham) "You're what's wrong with football, you're what's wrong with football, na na na na, na na na na" "City supporters, Essex branch, City supporters, Bangkok branch" (Ryan Taylor, over the wall) Wheel out a few of the usual Man U ones about hating cockneys and 'taxi for London' as well, that should do it.

Fucking hell man

Why would you do that? 32 goals in 37 games in 2011 Playing Chelsea, expected a backlash from Man U so swapped him with Rooney.

Think of the badly parked cars!

Muslim at work reckons they're gonna take over Europe next year, like.

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/9569/rk9bvd.jpg Not too sure the whole community is welcome to join them...

I took RVP out as well, fucking twatfaced twat

BREWCE IN! 5 points from 7th!

Brewce eewwwtttt

Took RVP out of my fantasy team yesterday

BlueSquare actually phoned me up the other day, offered me a £10 matched bet and some suggestions on what to put it on. Ended up shoving it on their "enhanced" Liverpool/Man U double. £37.50 if it comes off, if not I've got another tenner free bet out of it.

Someone on their forum compared their 'mag at work' tales to kids telling each other ghost stories. "And then I realised the Mag saying that they were going to finish top four wasn't at work... He was phoning from the extension UPSTAIRS"

He was prepared to do the same with Barton & Nolan til things happened and laterly with Jonas/Ameobi. But yeah its completely against everything he has done. Yeah, till 'things' happened. I imagine that if Colo goes, we'll offer him a contract and a thing will happen. Jonas signing a new contract radically changes the dynamic imo. Things like Barton deciding to delay talks and Nolan wanting longer arent problems where Colo is concerned imo I thought with Nolan it was basically that he wanted a longer/better contract than we were willing to give someone his age, so he went to a club that would give it to him? I know there are often circumstances you can point to with outgoing players, but I think these can be somewhat rooted in how much desire we have to keep them. I think if Barton had been younger we might have gone more out of our way to keep him sweet, for example, and have been more willing to put up with his indiscretions (as we had been in the past). Jonas so far is the exception, and Colo is older and worth more. Hope we keep him, but I can certainly see us letting him go without too much of a fight if the conditions are right.

He was prepared to do the same with Barton & Nolan til things happened and laterly with Jonas/Ameobi. But yeah its completely against everything he has done. Yeah, till 'things' happened. I imagine that if Colo goes, we'll offer him a contract and a thing will happen.

As much as papers talk bollocks, it wouldn't surprise me. Was surprised when it looked like he was staying, as giving him a contract that would end with no resale value and while he's still able to command a good fee goes completely against the Ashley model. Liverpool are the kind of team who would over-pay for him as well. Decided against getting a Colo shirt even after that interview with him because I could see it happening even then. And, after all, it's been a while since Mike has done something fucking stupid.

Always said that teams should put someone in front of the first man. I know you're trying to clear them and it takes someone out of the box, but I think it would be worth it to have someone there to give it back to the corner taker and wing it in again, considering the amount of times even good teams lose the ball this way. Especially as, by that point, the set piece defending drill has already gone through its motions and you're a bit more likely to catch them off guard.

The thought of scousers singing the Coloccini song makes me feel rather ill.

http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/city-glory.jpg Manchester City: Becoming everything they've ever hated since 2009

Their threads about the Terry racism claims and the black footballer awards

Monkey Arms just went mental when the scores came up

Steve Bruce?

NUFC official twitter said 3 hours ago there was a 40 minute queue at the ground, so they were advising people to ring up instead. An hour ago they described the demand as "immense" and gave a different number just for home tickets for people struggling to get through.

Looks like a promo shot of a boyband you'd see in Smash Hits.