Annoyman

I like my women how I like my coffee

anally

I always felt these nicknames were kinda lame anyway, and mostly just still around for sports journalists who need a synonym for a team name. "Villans " and "Villains" is kind of an enh who cares distinction anyway, but anyone using the word "Villians" needs to be shot into the sun

Gotta go with the first one cos it was such a scrappy, chaotic build-up with everyone nervously following the ball all over the place and then Young's all like nah listen this is how it's gonna be and plants this previously awkward-bouncing really bad person straight in the corner like it ain't really no thing, sheer human technical ability imposing its will on the situation and sticking a finger up at the capricious whim of physics, all metaphorical like for Villa finally rolling the sleeves up and being like no more 'anything can happen in derbies' shit we're running things now, Peter Enckelman finally receding into the distance forever with a single tear in his eye, all saying like it's OK it's OK you have to let me go

Props to Carew's tap-in for being the most sarcastic goal I've ever seen, but the rest of em felt a bit hollow by comparison, bit like pulling the wings off a fly.

PESSIMISM OF TEH INTELLECT, OPTIMISM OF TEH WILL

Don't cry for us, we've got Craig Gardner

The truth is he never left us

All through his wild days, his mad existence

He'll score from close range, he'll score from distance*

*nb it is unlikely that I will try to get this going anytime soon

Who the hell is Craig Gardner?

lol at autocorrect rendering old posts unintelligible

Man, Paul Tait's face after that comedy sending off is actually kind of heartbreaking

Favourite memory of that CC cup game is Terry Cooper afterwards thundering about how Saunders' goal was offside, then being shown footage of him being in his own half and just blustering "nah nah he was offside". I may be misremembering this.

Excessive Mancunian civic pride is actually one of the least interesting things imaginable.

There isn't actually any official recognised Second City. Birmingham is the second largest by a long shot, but opinion polls generally point towards Manchester, based on the fact that more people like it and 40% of all good bands ever come from there.

That said, I have a building sized chip on my shoulder about this and I will physically fight anybody who suggests it is Manchester.

ahahahahaha

Yeah, if you'd offered me 5-0 that's pretty much the spread of scorers I'd have asked for.

OK maybe Petrov instead of the second Maloney one.

Still!

I think Blandy is right.

So is Martin making plans for Nigel ?

He has this future in our midfield

Y'ravin a **** larf re Mertesacker.

Grauniad Fiver's rumours section yesterday says:

And Ipswich could get 25% of a big fat nothing as their sell-on clause

prices Spurs out of a move for Charlton's GBP20m Darren Bent.

Dunno if that's been posted as this thread is masseev. Nb Graun Fiver's rumour mill also recently included "Gareth Barry to Sunderland", so carrier bag full of salt there maybe.

William, It Was Really Nothing

I don't know how good the quality of that is, I'm at work.

To the tune of "William, It Was Really Nothing":

Oh Stiliyan, Stiliyan Petrov

Is really something

He'll score tonight

(some other dude came up with most of this)

I have somehow picked up the impression that Owen Hargreaves would quite like to play for Manchester United.

Joey Barton just seems so utterly not worth the trouble, though I do quite like the idea of him disppearing into a meeting with MON and then limping humbly out half an hour later, only opening his mouth to mutter polite "the three points was the important thing" platitudes for the rest of his career.

Kind of like Father Jack saying "THAT WOULD BE AN ECUMENICAL MATTER"