Jonas

Another one for the Bruce worse than Pardew count. Multiple reasons when I think about it. Bruce is far lazier, hides his c*ntliness with a nice guy alibi where Pardew is what he is, Pardew didn't shaft a club to come here and could even claim to be ignorant of Ashley's intentions whereas Bruce knew and was warned but wanted to slack off for good coin, Pardew wasn't backed by Ashley - Bruce was. Then in fairness I have Big Sam worse than Pardew and Souness running him close.

Didn't Cantona get whacked by a copper there in the Man United/Galatasaray thing? Bang out of order that. Should have at least Midnight Expressed the horrible c*nt

Or it was by far the hardest fixture. Wolves getting outplayed at home by a lower league team was far more of a disgrace if your remotely reasonable

Lot of money for such an oppressively low ceiling Gakpo

An initially doubly incorrect decision and 4minutes later the decision is exactly what it looked like at first viewing.

The only way ordinary teams can beat Man City is keep it tight, hope for a break and bring on subs to change the game. Competing with them is not an option.

I just don't see how its his fault we were outclassed and beaten. Thats the case even when they lose to anybody outside to enshrined elite and the utterly natural order of what should happen. There's players in that team that wouldn't have been out of place in the scratch Pardew team that won there.

Didn't beat Man City at Eastlands nor go toe-to-toe with them only on account of not being equpped to and we only had five-six key players out and our hands tied behind our back financially. For shame.

Christ! you'd think everybody else that goes to Man City goes toe-to-toe with them and gives them a game and its just chance that they thrash most teams and haven't lost for 38 of these games.

Would have snapped your hands off for a 2-0 loss and nothing game.

Aye Dubs has dealt with everything well for once. Saves it for games that are total wastes unfortunately. Completely unconvincing and often costly the rest of the time.

There's four purples and a revitalised Schar in an otherwise Ashley team against the best team in the world. Not seen anything remotely surprising.

Why were some people expecting any other kind of game? We cant compete with them and so were not competing with them. You can fluke but with our luck?! We knew this when the draw was made. Give City two spawny goals and this is them against anybody outside the top 5 and almost everybody in Europe. Its every City game against almost every manager they come up against, not Howe.

Most exciting thing that's happened in the game including the goal and it's contraband

Have a hundred times their resources but zero chance of competing with them. What a sport.

So steps sponsorship ay? Got the shit early game killing goal the sorry direction of this sport deserves

This would have been a massive game in the making,.clash of titans... Thanks to ffp it's a drab write off in a dead atmosphere. Thank God it was brought in to save football.

It really diminishes the achievements that any of them have coming in an environment where Newcastle, City, Villa are held back from being anything like what they could be. But it won't be presented like that. The usual teams finishing above clubs they have financial advantages over that they've now enshrined is true Roy of the Rovers stuff.

Each rule softens us up for the next one without which any single one just looks blatant and would have been absurd. The idea that it's cheating 'financial doping' for a club to spend money it has - but not cheating at all to ban a rival from competing is just preposterous but its taking hold.

That's exactly how the big clubs and UEFA want it unfortunately. And it's basically the raison detre of the CL which went from the unpredictability of a cup format to a league, then did away with qualifiers because the English (and one other big league club eg OM and Barcelona) clubs kept getting knocked out in the prelims (we were the first not to be), to runners up can enter, to 4th place can enter to this carry on next season.

"...have a great history in the past but since 2016.." A terrible fall from grace from the dizzy heights of scraping Premier League survival in a good season to the division they've spent most time in since the late 50s

Is it wrong in any way?

Think I had more hope under Ashley. Could at least dream of him selling up to someone with ambition. That it was only him holding us back not the entire system. Now we couldn't have more ambition, potential and wherewithal and it doesn't matter.

Yet prior to Pope's injury it was probably the best defence any of us have seen for the previous two years.

Too busy and life's too short to watch this. Just think of Sir Bobby and gan canny Pep.