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You're doing the exact same thing.

And we’re meant to feel sorry for Ashley? they love sucking fattys cock the Chronic. The c*** has his price ffs. As long as he wins we’re all good. It's a quote from Martin Hardy's piece rather than the Chronicle. Except that Martin Hardy bit also claims that she turned up at the curry house unannounced, while Amanda Stavely has clearly stated the meeting was organised by Richard Desmond. That's Ashley's claim, not Hardy's. Ashley's claim? Any quote's? Any quotes at all? No, we're trusting the journalists who've been reporting from the same sources every time. At the very least, they're not Hardy's claims. As far as I am aware Martin Hardy is the only one who has made this claim? It's also patently bollocks. She just turns up to a private meeting with Mike Ashley and his wife and oh wait, Richard Desmond sits down and has dinner with them too? Even if Ashley has told Hardy this, it's obvious games and Hardy should know better than just the print it like a fact. Believe what you want. Are you on the wind up?

And we’re meant to feel sorry for Ashley? they love sucking fattys cock the Chronic. The c*** has his price ffs. As long as he wins we’re all good. It's a quote from Martin Hardy's piece rather than the Chronicle. Except that Martin Hardy bit also claims that she turned up at the curry house unannounced, while Amanda Stavely has clearly stated the meeting was organised by Richard Desmond. That's Ashley's claim, not Hardy's. Ashley's claim? Any quote's? Any quotes at all? No, we're trusting the journalists who've been reporting from the same sources every time. At the very least, they're not Hardy's claims. As far as I am aware Martin Hardy is the only one who has made this claim? It's also patently bollocks. She just turns up to a private meeting with Mike Ashley and his wife and oh wait, Richard Desmond sits down and has dinner with them too? Even if Ashley has told Hardy this, it's obvious games and Hardy should know better than just the print it like a fact.

And we’re meant to feel sorry for Ashley? they love sucking fattys cock the Chronic. The c*** has his price ffs. As long as he wins we’re all good. It's a quote from Martin Hardy's piece rather than the Chronicle. Except that Martin Hardy bit also claims that she turned up at the curry house unannounced, while Amanda Stavely has clearly stated the meeting was organised by Richard Desmond. That's Ashley's claim, not Hardy's. Ashley's claim? Any quote's?

And we’re meant to feel sorry for Ashley? they love sucking fattys cock the Chronic. The c*** has his price ffs. As long as he wins we’re all good. It's a quote from Martin Hardy's piece rather than the Chronicle. Except that Martin Hardy bit also claims that she turned up at the curry house unannounced, while Amanda Stavely has clearly stated the meeting was organised by Richard Desmond.

The same Allardyce that he sacked? And then this summer told Sky that it was the one decision he regretted and how sorry he was. In the same interview he said how amazing Rafa was. You don’t think he hasn’t learned from Keegan? He hasn't learnt from anything else.

"In a financially stable situation" -serious danger of relegation which would cripple the clubs finances.

Would you want multiple people involved each with different stakes in the club? probably not I'd imagine? I'd assume it wouldn't work like that. I’m sure an ‘expert’ will be along any minute to tell us. A lot of people were reporting it as a consortium lead by Amanda. So it wouldn't exactly be a surprise.

Would you want multiple people involved each with different stakes in the club? probably not I'd imagine? I'd assume it wouldn't work like that.

All that article says is that they're one of the investors right? There may have been several feasibly? Every where I see people reporting this as the only investor pulling out but I don't see that in the article at all. Might be my lack of business understanding though.

Because, due to Mike Ashley's lack of investment, we are looking reasonably likely for relegation, which would hugely wipe the value of the club. Also, rumoured wealth of 30 billion? Where has that come from?

The difficulty to that is it becomes hard to evenly split the money generated from it, when Man Utd have a million Subscribers and Bournemouth have a tenth of that. But if you give people a share equal to what they generate the league will become even more inbalanced.

I think it's something that has come up in a few talk-ins with Beardsley.

Is that a fact?

Going to be scary to see how people are effected if nothing comes to light tomorrow. I don't believe anyone actually thinks anything is happening tomorrow.

Just waiting until tomorrow when the takeover is completed obvs.

The early part of the match Atsu seemed to clearly be playing further up the pitch to me.

A couple years ago it looked like Stoke were putting together a decent side. However, looking at heir starting 11 today, it really is pretty poor. Hughes seems to have wasted a decent amount there, such as Berahino.

You can quote as many variables as you like the fact is that we could and should have been blown out of sight with the chances they missed. People mention the 35 minute mark but really there was no vast improvement until the subs were made. It has been flogged to death now though and there is a massive split in opinion on the game which won’t be changed. Healthy that there is discussion but I think we should all just leave it now and move on. I’m not going to change my opinion, HTT is not, you’re not and I doubt anyone else will either. Actually, the fact is that we didn't Also, changing opinions is moot anyway as it has no baring whatsoever on Benitez or the players or anything that happens on the pitch. Well let’s all close the forum and all go home then! What are these chances they should have blown us away with? They had 4 good chances in that first half, scoring one of them. Anyway that’s not my point, my point is that when you totally surrender everything to a team like that you are just begging them to score and we all know from the past that when we do concede against the better teams we usually concede a few more. On another day those tactics would have lead to a half-time drubbing renderimg any second half game plan obsolete from our point of view and no doubt more and more goals against. We got lucky and as the game wore on we created chances of our own which would have happened anyway, City always give you a chance or two. Again I wasn’t looking for us to go at them from the off or go toe to toe, I just don’t like nor accept the total surrender at home that was those first 35 minutes or so. It’s suicide football far more than it would have been going at them as has been the argument well made on here. Just IMO of course. I’ll let sleeping dogs lie as it’s been argued to death now. What were the four good chances? Genuinely not sure. The Aguero header was certainly not a wasted chance. It was a good header that was well saved. Maybe Aguero at the far post but that was really a half chance if anything. It wasn't easy at all. We werent't lucky. We defended well and restricted them to long range shots. With the number of chances they had a goal is reasonable. No team scores 3 or 4 from the number of chances, and the type of chances they got.

You can quote as many variables as you like the fact is that we could and should have been blown out of sight with the chances they missed. People mention the 35 minute mark but really there was no vast improvement until the subs were made. It has been flogged to death now though and there is a massive split in opinion on the game which won’t be changed. Healthy that there is discussion but I think we should all just leave it now and move on. I’m not going to change my opinion, HTT is not, you’re not and I doubt anyone else will either. Actually, the fact is that we didn't Also, changing opinions is moot anyway as it has no baring whatsoever on Benitez or the players or anything that happens on the pitch. Well let’s all close the forum and all go home then! What are these chances they should have blown us away with?

I don't think anyone is saying that. The fact of the matter is that when we pushed on later on we weren't a million miles off of getting a result. Was the first 30 minutes a little too defensive, sure. I don't think Rafa wanted us to play that little though. Our players just struggled to retain any kind of possession. Rafa was trying to get the players to push out a bit further. But at the end of the day, with one of the worst squads in the league, against one of the best teams in the world (and certainly most in form), we were probably closer to picking up a point than the majority of the Premier League this season. I am reasonably satisfied with that.

Astounded at some of the posts on here tonight. It really doesn’t get any more simple than we’d have been hammered if we’d ‘had a go’ tonight with this squad. We’d all love our team to have had a go, but we haven’t got the quality to do it yet until, please god, we are rid of Ashley and can buy better quality. The fact is, we were a goal line clearance off a draw here. With this squad. The tactics and game plan were spot on. I’m astounded that people think the way we played for most of the game was the right way especially the first half. It wasn’t as if allowing city so much space, time and just do as they like with the ball restricted them to one or two chances they could and should have had 5 plus with all the chances they had. You do not allow teams like city to be able to basically walk the ball towards the goal. The only reason we were only one down was due to city having an off day in front of goal. Or maybe our defence and GK were able to restrict them to shots from distance and half-chances from awkward angles. Not having that like. Apart from two good saves by Elliott, I don't remember them missing any glaring chances. Yeah, Gary Neville kept on going on about how they should have had 4 or 5 but had an off day in front of goal. I genuinely can't remember them wasting many clear chances at all.

For a second I thought you were talking about Keys.

We didn't know he was playing with an injury. It clearly was affecting his performances.