Other Games - 2017/18

[ADVILLAFAN]

I remember that game, right at the end of the season. One of the only games ever that we won with the cheat Mark Halsey as referee and for some reason I’d remembered that Emile Mpenza played in it.

[Flamingo Lane]

I was in a pub in Northampton yesterday, and got talking to the barman, who was probably in his 20s.  He told me he supported Manchester City, and then immediately added - in an almost apologetic tone - that he's supported them since the age of 4. 

[SoccerHQ]

Remember going to the Man City 2007 away game and winning 0-2.  Me and a mate got talking to two blokes the same age after the game and remember them being so pissed off with the way their club was being ran. I can vividly saying ‘“look, you’ve had the shit times but keep the faith it’ll get better” I often think of those two blokes and hope their loving what they’ve got now. Lucky buggers.
Their takeover always makes me think “what if”?
Maybe the expansion of Manchester airport with the added Emirates flights and new ground swayed Sheikh Mansour and his family to buy City rather than look at a certain club in B6.
Good luck to them I say.

Man City: Isaksson, Onuoha (Jihai 46), Dunne, Distin, Ball, Hamann (Sinclair 68), Barton, Ireland, Vassell, Samaras, Mpenza.
Subs Not Used: Weaver, Dabo, Trabelsi.

Man. City 11 from that day. Actually wasn't as bad as I expected pre takeover. Dunne-Distin was arguably the best CB combination outside the top 6 in those days and Hamann, Barton and Ireland were all decent midfielders back then.

The less said about the attack the better though...

I can't remember Dabo or Trabelsi at all. I know of Mpenza but don't remember him being at City.

As for other games, I would be pissed off with that Kane goal being allowed to stand if I were an Arsenal fan.

Hatem Trabelsi. Good attacking RB for Ajax who played in their champions league team with Zlatan, Van Der Vaart and Wesley Snejider.

He nearly signed for Arsenal once. True story but the move was so close to going through he was actually on the Arsenal team for one of the Pro Evolution games I used to play. Think it might've been the 2005 edition. His knee was shot by the time he signed for Man. City.

Dabo played for Lazio for years. Probably best known for being attacked by Barton at training shortly after this game.

[SoccerHQ]

Ah I was wrong, it was Pro Evo 4!

During the pre season of 2004, Hatem was given a trial period at Arsenal by Arsène Wenger. Seemingly, he impressed the Gunners and a fee between Ajax and the English champions was agreed. With the transfer looking imminent, even Pro Evolution Soccer 4 included Trabelsi for Arsenal. However, due to personal reasons Trabelsi never fully signed with Arsenal and soon returned home to Ajax.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Trabelsi played for Tunisia I think. Believe another Trabelsi played for them at the same time, I assume his brother.

[SoccerHQ]

Nah Nizar Trabelsi played a little bit....then joined the Al-Qaida team!

Edit: You could be on about Sami who was Tunisia captain at 1998 world cup.

"
 
 Sky News has been forced to issue an on-air apology after it mistakenly identified a former Tunisian World Cup football star as a disciple of Osama bin Laden.

In an incident that has echoes of the BBC's £500,000 libel of African diamond firm Oryx, Sky News confused former Tunisian captain Sami Trabelsi with convicted terrorist Nizar Trabelsi.

A news bulletin on September 30 reporting Nizar Trabelsi's imprisonment for 10 years for plotting to blow up a canteen at a US air force base mistakenly used a photograph of his namesake, Sami Trabelsi.
By coincidence, Nizar Trabelsi, 33, had spent several years as a minor league professional football player in Germany before he was recruited by Bin Laden."

[TopDeck113]

I was in a pub in Northampton yesterday, and got talking to the barman, who was probably in his 20s.  He told me he supported Manchester City, and then immediately added - in an almost apologetic tone - that he's supported them since the age of 4. 

Things like that amuse me: Manchester City morphing into the very thing that for years their genuine supporters railed against and used as a form of moral superiority against followers of Manchester United. 

[TheMalandro]

Great
Goal from Ayr.

[Dave]

Finally google calciopoli and you will be enlightened.

I was living in Italy when it happened.

I'm not sure that Googling it will enlighten me any more than I am already.

Thanks though.

[manic-road]

Newcastle beating Man Utd, stay like that and Albion in deeper shit.

[kippaxvilla2]

Oh my word this weekend just gets better and better and better.

[kippaxvilla2]

7 points from safety Albion are.

[lovejoy]

Finally google calciopoli and you will be enlightened.

I was living in Italy when it happened.

I'm not sure that Googling it will enlighten me any more than I am already.

Thanks though.

Sorry my post comes across as patronising, which was unintended.

The dice are loaded against Napoli it has to be said.

[PeterWithe]

I was in a pub in Northampton yesterday, and got talking to the barman, who was probably in his 20s.  He told me he supported Manchester City, and then immediately added - in an almost apologetic tone - that he's supported them since the age of 4. 

 I think it was Damon, late of this parish, who said that a sure fire way to wind up any Man City follower was to look at them earnestly and ask who they used to support?

[Toronto Villa]

I was in a pub in Northampton yesterday, and got talking to the barman, who was probably in his 20s.  He told me he supported Manchester City, and then immediately added - in an almost apologetic tone - that he's supported them since the age of 4. 

 I think it was Damon, late of this parish, who said that a sure fire way to wind up any Man City follower was to look at them earnestly and ask who they used to support?

I'll look forward to asking plastic Villa fans that in 5 years or so when we have just won the Champions League again.