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His time in France showed his biggest weakness, imo. His win percentage with PSG was much lower than it is with Real, despite the team he was managing being head and shoulders above the competition. Ligue 1 is more defensive and he struggled to break sides down. Although, he should've walked it considering it's a 'Mickey Mouse League'.

I'm not sure if it's just me but the players have seemingly got less and less confident on the ball under Carver. There were a number of occasions yesterday when players just weren't interested in showing for the ball.

Sissoko was fine when allowed to go forward. Carver's ludicrous tactics meant most players were invisible for large periods.

He struggled but a lot of that could be attributed to our horrific set up. He'd get the ball and want to start a move, only to be left without any real options. His instinct isn't to hoof it. He has potential, he played a couple of meaningful passes and shows good positional awareness, a bit raw in the tackle though.

Carver is so fucking dumb, man. He's even worse than Pardew for soaking up pressure. Loads of occasions where players had little options on the ball so it got punted away etc. Played like a lower league away team. Dreadful.

Foster really isn't the type of lad to get involved in any of that kind of stuff. He is, however, shit.

How snidey did Poyet look when going up to Bruce

What fucking horrific comments they are.

Diegol.

Reus is an absolutely brilliant player. One of my favourite to watch.

Rakitic?

Barca working the extra man in midfield to perfection.

Messi, man. The bloke's disgusting.

City are playing 4-4-2 but without a genuine wide midfielder? Odd. You'd think, with Dzeko and Aguero, they have the aerial advantage. Should be looking to exploit the wings and early crosses.

Good to see the ship is steady. Glad I didn't watch.

I was at a talk in with MM a few weeks back and he said the same. Something about players going and enjoying themselves abroad, rather than playing. Didn't say they'd refused to play but he may have had more info since.

As if the club have included that famous quote of his in their Facebook post for him. Anyway, Happy Birthday, Sir Bob. I was incredibly young when Keegan was around and only have limited (possibly fabricated) memories of his tenure, so SBR was the first and only great NUFC manager I've had in my time truly supporting the club. Some brilliant memories of his time here.

If you've ever been to France, he's really not that abnormal I used to play football in some of the rough Paris suburbs and these lads, that can best be described as chavs, would wear tiny little man bags with Adidas trackies etc. Just different cultures.

I think the Bristol City bloke has pumped a fair bit in to the city's sporting activities, to be fair. He wants to create a multi-sport Madrid-style set up.

Him going sideways isn't always his fault, mind. He picked up the ball yesterday and had some space to run into, we only had Cabella and Cisse in their half, he started attacking and nobody offered him an option or tried to even make space for him. It ended up with him being surrounded by about 4 players, IIRC.

Apparently Cabella had 14 attempted passes in the final third and Sissoko 11, I can barely remember those two even getting a touch near their box

I'm gonna disagree with that. Cowardly sub obviously but Cabella had been hopeless all night and was fading. Cabella was awful. He wasn't alone in this, though, in fairness. That midfield 5 put in one of the worst collective performance I've seen for some time. They were either anonymous or absolutely fucking crap.

That was an utter abomination. Carver is even worse than clueless, he has no idea how to get us going in attack. Players massively isolated again and just no cohesion or pattern at all.

He's just inviting a shit load of pressure on to us The players look absolutely petrified, like. Totally fucked by their boss.