downendcity

Everton fans' response. It's not fair...........

We named our cat Jordan because it's not often you see a bankrupt cat with huge enhanced boobs!

Are you Suzy Dent and is this dictionary corner ?

" On me head son"

It's when you have not gone for a slash but still find yourself standing with piss all over the floor that you have to worry RR!

Yes, City fans are the most fickle in football. No, City fans are not the most fickle on football.

We certainly wouldn't have got the winner today under Nige, as he wouldn't have played Mehmeti!

Completely agree it's bonkers that they didn't round it down to £240m.

What, the porn?

Dewsbury Hall is in Ashton Vale?

Do you need National Trust membership to see him?.

Birmingham village green and dog walkers paradise?

JB: " do you expect me to talk?" Goldfinger: " no, I expect you to die......................but to return reincarnated in your next film!"

They will if it's posted on the OS!

It'll be like Bobby Ewing's death in Dallas. The next film will open with Moneypenny waking up with Bond in the shower and the events of No Time to Die will turn out to be just a dream.

That was before Mark Ashton went there!

.................. and Bailey Wright never playing again!

One of the main problems with the Man city case ( stand to be corrected if my understanding is wrong) is that the basis for many/most/all of the charges is the information that was leaked on the internet as a result of Man City being hacked. IIRC wasn't a similar case brought by UEFA, but didn't Man City get a lot thrown out because they argued that the evidence was illegally obtained and ended up with just a fine? As others have already said Everton and Forests cases are relatively cut and dried because it was the evidence of the clubs' own accounts that convicted them, and it was only Everton's pleas of "it's not fair that saw their points deductions reduced. By comparison, it will be much tougher to make a case against Man City. Even if they can produce telling evidence of wrongdoing, you can bet that Man C will have a team of the best i.e most expensive lawyers arguing tooth and nail in their defence to kick the can as far down the road and for as long as possible so that even if they can't escape punishment, by the time a verdict can be reached it will have been watered down to such a degree as to be negligible as far as Man C are concerned. While we have to concede that at this stage Man City are innocent until proven guilty, I think most football fans ( and I suspect that many/most football experts and journalists) think that there is no smoke without fire and that Man C have seriously bent the rules - in terms of gaining an advantage, well beyond that which Everton and Forest have. Despite which, you just know that Man City are more than likely to end up with far less of a punishment than the other 2 clubs. If it was Forest or Everton facing 105 charges similar to those against Man C, would the outcome likely be the same?

We can but hope. However, as is too often the case when supporting Bristol City, I fear that hope will ultimately be replaced by disappointment.

I am a mystery fellow I’m Fred Fernakapan I wear one sock that’s yellow The other dipped in jam I walk about the countryside I walk about the town Sometimes with my trousers up And sometimes with them down And when they were up they were up And when they were down they were down And when they were only half way up I was arrested Spike Milligan ( of course!)

I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vale and hills when all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils beside the lake beneath the trees when an angry man came running towards me shouting " oi you, get out of my bloody garden!"

If we'd never beaten Southampton then I might not have been a City supporter for 57 years! First game was FA cup 4th round in Feb 67 when we beat Southampton 1-0 and that got me hooked. Had we lost, who knows what would have happened..... ...I might have avoided 50+years of disappointment!!!

..or Doncaster, or Scunthorpe? Suddenly mid table doesn't look quite so bad!

Oh, the grand old Duke of Guernsey, he had 20,000 men ( and women) he marched them up near the top of the league and marched them down again, and when they were up, they weren't quite up and when they were down, they weren't quite down and when they were only halfway up they were neither up or down and that's were they stayed.

Not defending the club here, but I do think they were backed into a corner when NP started talking publicly about the fact that the club had not discussed offering him a new/extended contract - he was forcing their hand I am pretty certain that NP could be prickly and that his relationship with senior management could be less than easy ( his record at previous clubs seems to indicate this) and because of this I can easily see that it became increasingly unlikely that the club would not want to offer NP a new contract, despite, from fans' perspective, NP appearing to be the right man. As a consequence I can understand that a point was reached whereby something had to give - either NP walked or the club sacked him. Had Manning continued what we saw in the cup games against WHam and Forest and the game against Saints, then none of these threads would be happening. Sadly he didn't and they are, and will continue...........................................