Lighthouse

Why are you persisting with this line? Nobody is suggesting it was the Hillsborough victims fault or that they deserved to die. The point is very simple, if it wasn't for the persistent violence between fans in the 70s and 80s, there would be no need for large fences and walls. Were any of the 96 involved in football violence previously? Possibly not. Did they deserve to die if they had been? Of course not. Blaming the Police is all well and good, they should face justice for their part in the tragedy. Fact is though that football violence played a part in the design of that stadium, without which the accident would never have taken place.

And Le Saux, Cork, Romeu and Bertrand

I can certainly see that POV from a financial, boardroom position but it's a bit odd coming from fans. If I was a big team supporter, in City's current situation, I'd want to go hell's bells for a Champions League win. Only Chelsea, Utd and Liverpool have won it in the last 30 years, you'd want bragging rights over that lot as a fan. I think if someone offered me the ultimatum - Win this years Champions League but you don't qualify for next year's competition (I know in reality you would) I'd take that as a fan.

They do if they aren't wanted. Roy Carroll went to West Ham, Tim Howard to Everton, Eric Djemba Djemba to Villa, Liam Miller to Sunderland etc.

Weren't Le Saux, Beattie and Stern John sort of p/ex.? IIRC they were technically separate transfers but happened at the same time, with the same club, replacing players in the same position.

Ramos, Hoddle and Sherwood definitely weren't right for the job. Levy compounded problems by not showing more patience with AVB and Jol (IMO). The most successful manager they had was saggychops but they let him go too.

Spurs have been under-performing for years. Before Poch was appointed, a lot of people wanted Levy out. Wrong managers, wrong signings and always in the shadow of Arsenal. He hasn't exactly done us over either. Poch and Hoddle left for more money, with the promise of more to spend and a higher League status. We got £8m for Richards too, unlike the man he was replacing who went off to Arsenal on a Bosman.

I don't think anyone's doubting it will be a tough game. They could rest their entire first 11 and still have a better team on paper. The point is we have a better chance if Silva, KDB, Toure and Aguero don't play.

We wont meet his wage demands.

Looks like Glasgow is back.

Firstly, we could score 8 and Roy would still go with Hart in France. Secondly, I don't want Forster having anything do do with that team and attracting even more interest in summer.

That's all just conjecture. You have no idea what discussions were going on behind the scenes. How many players have said they were "very happy at club XYZ" 3 weeks before they're off out the door. It's a pretty standard, non-committal press statement.

Perfect result for us really. With MP leaving City, already with a PL medal but no CL, perhaps winning the latter will be his priority. He is obviously not interested personally in next season's CL qualification, perhaps that will show in his selection of Saturday. Straws, clutching, etc.

Good news, Aguero and KDB next please. Come on Pepe, it's been a while since you did something mental.

Last year at the halfway point we had 33 points. This year we had 24. Supposing we'd achieved those 9 extra points this year, we'd be on 63 right now and breathing down the necks of City and Arsenal. If 6 of those extra points had come from beating Utd and Spurs at St Mary's, we'd be 7 points ahead of Utd, 3 behind Spurs and Leicester would have been crowned Champions this evening. Would have made for an interesting end to the season. All if's, buts and tenuous hypotheticals of course.

They'll be delighted. They've all been Leicester fans since Christmas.

Yeah, sorry. That was supposed to be in response to Alanh.

I haven't seen anything unreasonable posted on here. To say, "well we won, everything's fine," is sticking your head in the sand to an extent. We let in 2 poor goals and went into stoppage time with just a 1 goal lead against the worst team in the Premier League for 10 years. The only other team they've scored twice against in the last 4 months is Norwich. We get away with playing like this against sides as poor as Newcastle and Villa but against anyone better we come unstuck, which showed at Goodison.

What is it now? 1 point in 7 games against Spurs since we came up. Can't see too far beyond 1 from 8 in a couple of weeks personally. Also, we haven't beaten Everton this season either.

Incorrect, he does not suffer 'disappointment', it's all just a cry for attention. It's no coincidence that his opinion is always the one which will draw the most criticism and derision.

Such a predictable troll and yet so many bites.

Interesting this one. If Man Utd win their game in hand, City are only 2 points above 5th and will really need a win. On the flip side, this fixture comes in the middle of a Real Madrid sandwich, with City playing them twice in the space of 8 days. No doubt they will have one eye on the Champions League, I reckon we could get a point if we play to our potential. I'd go with the same team as Villa.

Well if THE Neil Rucastle said it...

Can see the League being decided when we go to WHL. I'll take a stab at Spurs beating WBA and drawing at Chelsea, whilst Leicester lose at OT. 4 point gap going into the last 2; Leicester beat Everton, Spurs beat us and the title goes to Leicester.

You mean when Williams smacked the ball right at him and he wasn't expecting it? Don't be a plank, if you defend that badly you deserve to concede. You could see from William's reaction, he knew he'd c*cked up.