Anyway the game commences again in a ground littered with empty seats, I repeat we must address this and with soulful solutions! Let's focus more on this issue than tunnel clubs where it is between £7,500 - £15,000 a ticket for corporate elitists to try and kiss the asses of the players! Enough to make you puke in every respect! Indeed next Wednesday night I take to the very same pitch in a football aid game where I was bought 90 minutes at centre mid for my 40th birthday present by my Mrs! Putting her money where my mouth is! Now football aid is a game where anyone can bid or buy now to play, like eBay, and the money goes to charity. They arrange games at nearly all the football league clubs so fans can have the opportunity to live their dream and play in the stadium whilst giving to charity. You get a shirt with your name on, change in the dressing rooms, two teams with each team lead by an X player, the full shebang. However last week I was told after booking it 6 months previous that due to that bloody tunnel club it was off this year?! Luckily they eventually saw better of how this actually looks with elitism trumping charity and reinstated it, much to my delight!
Anyway enough I must talk about this game! It was a flat atmosphere which these 12:30 Saturday's can be, but we started ok making a few chances and then at the point when we needed to score Silva who after however many years seems to have found his shooting boots to finish the article did just that! This is great to see and makes me very happy (if I could play at 10% of his capability on Wednesday night I will be over the moon!). We are then cruising in this relatively non eventful game and soon we have a penalty that Jesus takes over Yaya and finishes with at least the same composure. At this point as a fan you should start to relax a bit, but we are city fans and we know it never quite goes like that and low and behold they pop up with a reasonable goal from nowhere just before half time!
The second half starts and we are a bit cagey as all around on the pitch and in the crowd know how tight the league positions of 3 to 6 are! We have a few half chances but everyone looks a bit out of sorts especially Kev who has definitely misplaced his crown at the moment!
Next the inevitable happens as they gain a penalty from where they were gaining the most penetration with the windy runs of Mahrez on the right wing. You can just feel it's happening again as the ball hits the back of the net! But no Mahrez twisted and turned one too many times! As he slipped on point of impact hitting the ball from one leg to another and it was disallowed! The football gods were very much shinning on us! However we still had to see it out where at times you questioned whether the gods would stick with us! But in the end they just about did!
There's not much else to comment on the this cagey, vanilla game that represents 3 points and average entertainment, apart from another shit ref, and that for me the team-sheet was again wrong! In that I would have played Zaba again, Fernandhinio in the middle, dropped Kev, played Jesus on the wing, told Sterling the game had been cancelled due to bad weather! and played Aguero. On this going back to Zaba again I heard his post this week was words to the effect of 'I love city but no contract offer as yet, so need to look around for the sake of my family'. This is wrong even if he had nothing left to give this clubman deserves a contract but he still has stuff to give and he has earned it! Him coming on was the biggest clap of the game! Clubs need Zaba's! So Pep I urge you to see this and give him a new contract! Pay him with the money you will save by shipping Sterling on! I repeat my reasons here could be sentimental but they are not I still believe he has more than enough to give to this club and for god sake be soulful when all around are not and reward loyalty, decency, tenacity and skill!
Colin Bell Stand, Third Tier.
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