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I believe Reguillon was sent off against Burnley yesterday for a foul in the box, denying scoring opportunity but couldn’t understand why he had the double jeopardy of penalty and sending off. Though that had been stopped. Wasn’t a bad tackle.

The way Cov are playing right now, augurs well for them to be taking points off Leeds and Ipswich at home. They look odds on for Play Offs.

Wasn’t this “FernandesTime” when every time anyone went near him he went down rolling round in agony and getting numerous free kicks/penalties?

You’d be listening to a programme on a Saturday afternoon, when there would suddenly be a pause, then the goal horn would sound before they gave the score details. All very exciting.

We drew.

I’m concerned that refs. at Elland Rd. will be intimidated by the crowd. They seem to have a knee jerk reaction to anything the crowd doesn’t like and book opposition players and give free kicks to Leeds like sweeties. James is one of the worst divers in the league and will regularly get free kicks or penalties. The media love Leeds for some reason so never question dodgy decisions .

Sorry but that phrase isn’t relevant. So many people on here are certain that Leeds and Ipswich are going to win all remaining matches. We gained a point on Ipswich today in a tough match. We don’t need to rely on other teams as such, just equal or better what they are doing. It’s been a long tough season, if we just crawl over the line then so be it. Promotion is the aim, no matter by how many points. Other matches are relevant and if you can’t see that then you have no logic.

Before you start writing City off, do you realise that both Leeds and Ipswich have to go to Cov. Not guaranteed wins by any means. Cov going for for playoffs.

Good thing we won as negativity would have been off the scale. For the vast majority of the season we have dominated teams and until yesterday were top goal scorers. Yes we look to be struggling to keep getting the points and last night ‘s win , no matter how unconvincing, was crucial. Let’s worry about next season in the PL, when we get there. The ref. last night was poor but what a relief to know that when he said no penalty, we knew there wouldn’t be a check. Another tough match on Saturday, but right now, I’ll settle for another scrappy win. Up the City

Albrighton puts in various crosses. He puts them in on the run so that the defenders are more likely to not connect properly. At the moment, our wingers are coming inside and putting in crosses which the defenders can see clearly and have time to deal with.

Hope you don’t win any more on City’s losses. Too much venom going on right now. The other teams also have some tricky matches and our goal difference is like an extra point. Come on City.

English teams were a long way from playing the total football of the 70s that Ajax played. Bill Shankley once said that English fans wouldn’t want to watch the slow build up of play which the European teams played. It has taken managers like Wenger and Guardiola to make this revolution. The playing out from the back between.the keeper and defenders, who takes some perfecting. I don’t think the idea is to keep passing amongst themselves until the keeper comes under pressure and boots it upfield. It took Man City a few years to get it right. City’s team of the 90s won us trophies. A team with Izzett, Parker and Guppy, would not need to resort to “hoofball”.

Thank you all ver6 much for the info. Extremely helpful. 👍👍

Due to potential mobility issues next season, can someone point me in the right direction for info re. Coalville to the KP supporters bus travel? Thank you in advance.

I enjoy visiting the Memorial Garden and think that bearing in mind Vichai’s influence on the Club, do not find it in appropriate for it to be dedicated to him. Whenever the anniversary is celebrated, the other victims are always rightly remembered.

We’ve also beaten them

Vesty just shaded it but Hamza was brilliant.

Standard procedure this season seems to be an apology from Howard Webb for ref. mistakes. It may have been a Championship match but Pawson is one of his team. I won’t hold my breath.

Re. The Cov fans, I’m afraid I’m missing the point too. They all reacted to the goal as normal, then we are seeing the players celebrating. Were the Cov fans supposed to run on the pitch? Please don’t mention the dreadful and pathetic “limbs”! The post the other day of Rotherham fans’ posed for “limbs”, was pathetic.

Can’t believe the amount of reaction to this error. Yes Winks miscued the pass and it led to a goal. Fortunately it didn’t cost any points. If it had, then it would have been annoying but so many goals are scored from mistakes somewhere on the pitch.. As for blaming Mads, that move is made many times during a game and except on the odd occasion, does not cause a panic. We won and carry on rocking back to the PL. Winks has had a tremendous season and will continue to be influential for City.

Don’t know if you’ve noticed but after 84 mins tonight at Villa Park, there are lots of empty seats as fans have left early! Also, there were a few boos at half time. Waiting to see the reaction at full time. As has been said before, all fans are basically the same. Sorry, but we’re not the worst in the country.

I dread to think what this forum would be like if we were mid table and not flying high at the top of the league. Presumably the tea lady recruited Maresca while Top was on holiday. Enzo is an inexperienced manager who has been given the chance to manage a recent Premier League Champion club. He’s doing a great job but needs to be a little less needy. Also, various comments seem to think we wouldn’t be an attractive prospect if offered for sale. Why on earth not? Too many doing our club down. So Sensi didn’t work out, we’ve managed well enough with what we have, only 4 teams have beaten us and we’ve won against 18. Stop panicking and acting as though we’re in the bottom half of the table. There won’t be a shortage of players wanting to join us when we get promoted. Up the City.

Because football brings out such strong and spontaneous reactions, when there’s a miscontrol, like KDH, or when a promising piece of play stops because the ball is played back and back again, there is naturally a collective groan. This plays out in matches everywhere. Same as when a good piece of play is shown appreciation. I’m very happy with our position and playing style but think Enzo is a bit unfair with his comments. Has anyone actually heard him saying this or has it had a spin put on it.

With regards to managers asking for more support from the fans, how many times has Pep done the same at Man City? We actually do show support by turning up during freezing winter nights and difficult roadwork problems. My frustration with the current style is when we pass between the keeper and defenders so many times, that we are put under pressure by the opposition, and mistakes made, leading to potential goals when we are only a goal in front. The way we started on Tuesday, I thought was great and some lovely football played. Should have been 2 in front at halftime. I also get annoyed with the recent habit of players throwing their arms in the air at the fans to gee them up. There are ways of communicating the need for encouragement rather than treating us as though we’ve been given free tickets and should make more noise. Whatever you say about organised singing, what happens on the pitch evokes a response from the crowd. A spell of attacking football naturally gets fans excited whereas too much play between the keeper and centre backs causes anxiety. We are top of the league and probably need another 7 wins to guarantee promotion. Up the City.

For those of you who like to see the players’ stats at half time on the screens in the concourse, you may need to take them with a pinch of salt. On Saturday at half time, Ricardo had something like 23 touches in the 1st half and made 2 tackles. Quite remarkable to do that from the bench😉