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Leonid Slutsky, your team got a good hiding... now run along back to Russia.

Oh hang on... Bobbys is superb too.

That GIF is brilliant .. well done Browny

I wanna be greedy... oh yess... another please City

5 mins + that lengthy stoppage

There is fight in this team I said, did i not hahaha!! 

defend well City and hit em on the break for the winner. Come on.

8 minutes ago, Thatch35 said:

People talk about injuries being the problem...johnson has spent millions on 30 players and it seems city only have 11 players who are up to it. The squad is clearly weak. 

Might be true but perhaps lack of match practice? No excuse mind; they should be primed and ready. I am not an expert but they should be no? There is fight in this team though. Hopefully not too late in the day.

game over.

HT . that was very poor

Oh dear.

11 minutes ago, MC RISK77 said:

What is

8 minutes ago, Fordy62 said:

The minimum pricing per unit of alcohol in Scotland would be my guess. 

I was gonna say 'he forgot to get his 12 pack before the game started' ; so same same!

Just now, Red Right Hand said:

Boro 0 - 1 Derby

Wolves 1 -0 Bolton

They know thattttt

Wolves are way over the horizon now. Derby into the top 6 level on points.

3 minutes ago, Nogbad the Bad said:

Pack 'creams one' wildly, well wide, much to the commentators over excitement.

Sky reporter just said 'just over the bar from Pack' lolz

A Gloucestershire league derby; who would have thought it 15 years ago... and first blood to FGR 1 up at the Lawn

Another yellow this time for Hull for hacking Callum

Sound fine here; must be the time lag.

32 minutes ago, cityexile said:

No Bryan or Djuric. Thinking of those out long term, getting down to the bones now.

I am hearing through my sources that Duric IS in fact on the bench.

And since we have 2 players for every position, so says LJ, then why the alarm bells?

I think we are perfectly capable of winning today; the players simply have to work harder than Preston and that, folks, will not exactly be difficult now will it. Moreover, Callum O'D says we are gonna win so if we don't he shall be tarred and feathered. You heard that here first, i think, although I bet his team mates have threatened him with it already.

12 minutes ago, iamalagerdrinker said:

Just arrived  the Walton Club opposite the ground is away fan friendly with shirts on etc £1 entry cheap drink can only see Dark Fruits on draught though..

Sounds awful. Ask for your money back and go to a proper public house 

25 minutes ago, bristolcitysweden said:

You could believe so as this is England  but SL can afford Easyjet unlike Raul Castro

Raul only goes in the latest incarnation of an Illushin courtesy of Cubana. Awful on both counts.

Are we talking about the players coach breaking down here?

Well, you know what they say Cidered; you cannot take it with you.

1 hour ago, reddogkev said:

Fascinating read as always Havana, thought-provoking and somewhat disconcerting.  How far and wide does the influence of the Russian wealth spread?

Today I fear a close game with City losing by the odd goal.  To me, based on our recent form and key injuries, this just seems like a typical game we will lose.

Hoping to be wrong come 4.50.

COME ON YOU REDSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Some very old money, you know the sort that fell asleep on the back benches of the Lords about 20 years ago and are still there. The sort that own a pile through 10 generations but are a bit hard up for cash yet still wield enormous influence in the corridors of Westminster and are from both political polars... These are the types who have been 'befriended' by the dirty money and is replicated on Capitol Hill. These are the core reasons we see a lack of action or will.

Leonid Slutsky is banned from travelling to the United States and his no doubt not inconsiderable assets in the country have been frozen. He also has similar asset sanctions in place in Canada and the European Union. I refer of course to the 49 year old Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs and namesake of the manager of Hull City a close friend of Roman Abramovitch. Slutsky, the manager, had hoped to bring the likes of Tammy Abraham to Hull City when, in the close season, he announced his intention to guide his new charges back to the Premier League at the first time of asking. That we are at the point where, if the press are to be believed, Slutsky is in the last chance saloon it illustrates a remarkable fall from grace. 

I have to remind everyone that I have no time, whatsoever, for the majority of Russians in power today, not a particularly startling remark considering many of us will feel the same. 22 Oligarchs literally raped and pillaged a nation, initially accompanied by the wraith of the then newly elected Putin but who soon would all became his 50% partner making Putin the richest person in the world overnight. The brutality of a regime, thenceforth, to anyone who named and shamed him and anybody close to him catapulted the country as, most decent people's, most hated country on the planet and so it remains. I digress but remember this; In 2009, Russian tax accountant Sergei Magnitsky died in a Moscow prison after investigating fraud involving Russian tax officials. While in prison, Magnitsky developed gall stones, pancreatitis and calculous cholecystitis and was refused medical treatment for months. After almost a year of imprisonment, he was beaten to death while in custody. The Magnitsky Act, passed in the US Senate in 2012 and campaigned for by Bill Browder*, seeks to punish, by asset freezing and visa refusal, of the Russian's involved in the brutal murder of a man who was an attorney, a proxy in fact, of Bill Browder a US/Russian citizen now living in the UK, now with British nationality, who previously set up the Hermitage Fund with a billion dollars of investments in Russia; you can guess what happened to that. 

Remember the Magnitsky Act; for in an umbrella framework it could, one day, freeze the assets of Putin which, incidentally, are reputed to be in excess of £200 billion. ALL of which was stolen. 

Back to Slutsky, the manager. For all we know as clean as a whistle although his time as manager of the Russian national team would have brought him into contact with his abhorrent paymasters. So, his fall from grace may be completed today. It would appear, according to many reports, that he is in his last chance saloon with the likes of Nigel Adkins and Paul Lambert poised to take over if they lose against City. With 1 point from a possible 6 City have gone from the relative comfort of a 5 point cushion inside the top six to just 2. Not only do we need to win today but it would give me great pleasure to see a British manager back in charge of Hull City. We have reached a ridiculously low point, and I make no apology for this and there is nothing personal in it, by having a Russian managing an English club. Slutsky, the manager, maybe a decent chap but he has no place in our game. All Russians, in my book, are supposed guilty until proven innocent.. and isn't that feeling just so prevalent in our general psyche and mind set, wrongly I admit, because of the person in charge in the Kremlin. One day his day of reckoning will come.

Hull City, Hull Comets, Hull Tigers; the East Riding. Humber Bridge is a white elephant and an irrelevance; I hope the football club soon become the same, an obscure lower league club from which they came. We owe them a good beating, lets do it City. Enjoy the bridge, take a few pics, don't gloat at the win, be humble and get out. 

42 minutes ago, Monkeh said:

5 years contracts are the problem anyway

Johnson signs one we go to shit

Dopey signs one they go to shit,

 

#ban5yearcontracts

Blame the Tories mate. 

2 minutes ago, Reigate Red said:

Snap so did I as it looked so bad. Why choose that side of the net where the defender was - the other side was easier.

Utterly unfathomable. I wonder if the thought Police look at these sort of things and go 'hello hello, was goin' on ere then, i smell monkey business'