It suggests straws are being clutched.

De facto champions

CHAMP21NS

comment by HB Fash - Never doubted Stevie G as manager (U21935)
posted 3 minutes ago
It suggests straws are being clutched.
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In what way?

Some would argue that not recognising United as the champions of England is akin to slavery.

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 36 seconds ago
Some would argue that not recognising United as the champions of England is akin to slavery.
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bad slavery at that

I think what it says is that we should let this season run and see where we are in Feb/March, because making judgements about the first 10 games of the season is foolhardy.

Whatever floats your boat

Would be interesting to see the stats for the likes of Spurs, Chelsea etc

Definitely making progress. We’re building foundations and actually team building which is something that we haven’t really done since SAF.

Ole has proved capable of going on good 10+ game spells though, so that gives some hope.

This season is gonna be batshittt. How some people still haven't grasped this is beyond me.

Like someone very rightly once said " The table doesn't lie"

comment by morespurs (U15748)
posted 24 seconds ago
Like someone very rightly once said " The table doesn't lie"
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Why do you Spurs fans do this to yourselves time and time again? It’s not even November.

Interesting numbers though, shows it's not all doom and gloom.

The losses include home defeats by strugglers Palace and Arsenal, and an absolute beating from Spurs, it'll be interesting to look back on these and see if they were just blips due to no pre-season.

December****

I think we need to mindful of the brutal schedule over the next 6 weeks. How he manages the team through that. But to stand a chance if anything we can’t have our performance levels drop.
We’ve had a bit of time with Ole, and we’ve seen the team let themselves down time and again at critical points.

So here we are, in a really good position, laying in wait.
But do we trust them enough to stop choking.
I do believe they are Playing for Ole, still sounds like he’s running a good ship internally, but I’m cautious, cos of what’s gone before, where they have let themselves down.

comment by The Post Nearly Man. 20times, 20legend (U1270)
posted 9 seconds ago
Interesting numbers though, shows it's not all doom and gloom.

The losses include home defeats by strugglers Palace and Arsenal, and an absolute beating from Spurs, it'll be interesting to look back on these and see if they were just blips due to no pre-season.
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The Spurs one certainly was. They were four games ahead of us fitness wise when we played them for most of the match with ten men.

Many of our numbnuts on here read way too much into that game.

comment by StringerBell (U11749)
posted 1 minute ago
I think we need to mindful of the brutal schedule over the next 6 weeks. How he manages the team through that. But to stand a chance if anything we can’t have our performance levels drop.
We’ve had a bit of time with Ole, and we’ve seen the team let themselves down time and again at critical points.

So here we are, in a really good position, laying in wait.
But do we trust them enough to stop choking.
I do believe they are Playing for Ole, still sounds like he’s running a good ship internally, but I’m cautious, cos of what’s gone before, where they have let themselves down.
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Would be great to win on Wednesday and put the group to bed.

Can’t really judge against Liverpool as they had the title sewn up amongst that time. Was evidently on a holiday. Also like you say Europa league etc. City are in the worst state they’ve been for years

comment by morespurs (U15748)
posted 23 minutes ago
Like someone very rightly once said " The table doesn't lie"
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Why do you keep posting this? Leicester could easily be top tonight.
The table skews things until all 38 games have been played or if not then, then Atleast when 19 games have been played and everyone’s played the same people.

Ridiculous to be growing yourselves title winners after 9 games.

From all your rivals, and those aiming to end above United this season......PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep OGS.

Thank you!

City are in the worst state they’ve been for years

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Been saying this for a couple of years. I can see similarities to SAF’s last few years where we didn’t replace key players and our from was often patchy even though we still won the title.

comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 2 minutes ago
From all your rivals, and those aiming to end above United this season......PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep OGS.

Thank you!
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This is a bit tired now, isn't it?

We finished above you last season. Let's see what happens this season or at least by March/April to make any judgements?

comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 1 minute ago
City are in the worst state they’ve been for years

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Been saying this for a couple of years. I can see similarities to SAF’s last few years where we didn’t replace key players and our from was often patchy even though we still won the title.
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Just losing to many top class players, Fernandinho and aguero always our injured, ya ya, kompany, silva, sane. Even players like Zabaleta.

comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 7 minutes ago
From all your rivals, and those aiming to end above United this season......PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep OGS.

Thank you!
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Ahh, the optimism of the 2nd season of a Jose club.