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I really think this is just inevitable now. It would have been leaked by now if both parties couldn’t come to an agreement and it wasn’t going to happen.

Just watched the highlights. He pretty much won us that match by the look of the highlights, with Murphy a close second.

Yep. And the same guy who was involved in that deal (Craig Eadie) runs the company which registered Cantervale at Companies House. There is not a track record of setting up companies all over the place for no good reason so that is a positive sign. However it's not that expensive to do and I'm sure she can afford the £50 or whatever to wind it back down again if the deal fell away. I would have thought most of the Saudi clans are more worried about purging / being purged right now to worry about football? It is a good way to get money out of the country and keep it safe though eh?

Watch the oil suddenly dry up.

This guy hasn’t got a clue Making his living through pure bullshit and misdirection.

They welcomed him with open arms. No sympathy. Right. There’s a wealth of information out there about his fakery these days. They deserve all they get if they welcomed him with open arms knowing all the stats and about the well documented hell we went through with him.

All that silverware Pulis has won. I can see the similarities.

it's the howls when the ball goes back sometimes that does my head in? Some just expect the ball to go forward for the whole game. Yeah, there was a lot of that today.

I was in the east stand today and it just seemed like the crowd in that area are nervous and sensitive to errors. Any mistake is greeted with howls and gnashing of teeth and it has to affect the players on some level. I’m not saying the crowd there are causing the problems, but it won’t be helping. The Gallowgate were excellent, didn’t stop singing the whole game.

100%. No question.

It’ll be Darlow

That means a price has been agreed right? If they are onto the formal due diligence bit.

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.

Some of the comments on here tonight man. They would have been fair enough if this was Keegan’s title challenging team of the 90s but this is Mike Ashley’s bare bones skeleton crew. And we are only 1 goal down to THIS Man City team. The reason - Rafa.

Really? I've looked at most places and this place is the exception which doesn't surprise me. Again people getting lambasted for questioning Rafas decisions. He is the one that has told us to play like that in the first half and quite frankly its embarrassing from him. Hes basically just forfeited the game he may as well have just said weve got no f***ing hope just go through the motions. Its 1 game for f***s sake its not a season defining game, we aren't relegated if we lose, so why go with this embarrassing formula and team that hes put it. Hes got it so f***ing wrong tonight its unreal A hammering to our goal difference could be season defining.

Considering the squad we have got and the team that Man City have got, I think we are doing pretty bloody well to only be 1 goal down here. It’s not pretty at all but I do think we could nick something. Aarons almost scored but for a great bit of defending. Believe!

1-0 (Yedlin)

5-4-1 isn’t it?

He’s going to do a Jon Dahl Tomasson isn’t he.

He'd wing it and stick a new cover over an old book hoping no one would notice He’d write his own foreword and reviews on the back too. ‘Congratulations to me for writing this book’

Yep, all of the above. If I see him on the tv, I shout at it. No one else elicits the same reaction in me and there’s a reason why. Making me want my own team to lose ffs.

Happy Christmas all. And here’s to an amazing 2018 for the lot of us.

Amen to that

What? It wasn't a particularly good free kick which the keeper should have saved. It shouldn't be used to gloss over a thoroughly average display and a horrendous mistake for their first goal. it was right in the corner. A pretty damn good free kick.

Belly’s gonna get ya!