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Adebayor will start to be lazy once he no longer feels the need to make a good start to a new club and/or Man City go though a bad patch and he feels success won't happen that season.

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Chelsea were already a bigger club than Man City were. Also as bad as Abramovich was he never spent this kind of money, effectively buying a completely new team.

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I have to say the TV pundits just seem to be going with the current trend. If the England match had been played a few weeks ago, before the Arsenal - Celtic game, then all the TV people would replay it and say there was slight contact and a def pen. As the papers are now saying diving is bad they are having a go at Rooney as that is the flavour of the month.

I would prefer it if instead of looking at whether or not there was contact, they looked at whether there was intent to play and ball or just perform a foul, if a keeper rushes out and goes for the ball and there is contact that shouldn't be a pen, if they rush out and aim to trip a player up then it should. No one should be punished for playing football

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Only slightly. I'd say the biggest difference was the players they already had such as Lampard, Terry etc

The problem with City's image is they have lived for so long in the massive shadow of United that the only way the takeover will be considered successful is if they out-do the red half of Manchester. I don't see that happening for a long time, if at all.

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They would have said it was a definite penalty because he is a England player and he was playing for England at the time. Sorry but England has a double standard when it's a foreign player diving compared to an English one. You right pre-Celtic they would have dodged the issue or said it was a penalty, they would have been outraged if the opposition did the same thing. This is not because they are following the popular mood, The British Press always feign outrage at diving, rather they are worried about the comparisons with their treatment of Eduardo. Wenger said that the British press react differently if it were Rooney and he is right.

Now they are saying it wasn't a dive but instead of saying it was a definite pen they are saying it wasn't. However Rooney still appealed for the penalty in an attempt to deceive the ref, amounts to the same thing.

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You really don`t get it do you :p:

p.s. I`d much rather have City`s owners in charge than the Glazers or them two at Liverpool who hate each other. If there is a supporter of any football club who says they don`t wish that some loaded benefactor comes in and splashes the cash on players, well :confused:

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I'ld rather have someone like the older parts of the board at Arsenal, at least they have ensured economic stability at the club for years to come. The top clubs earn a lot of money and some of them are further pushing the limits of their spending. I can't see how it will recouped unless the owners start drastically limiting the budget and selling players. So they will have to write it off and what happens when Chelsea and Cities owners don't want to run the club anymore? No one will want to inherit a loss making club and continue to fund it out of their personal income.

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The bit that made me laugh most about the plate ad was the price, only £19.76, hahaha classic.

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I agree with you there, the Arsenal board do seem to have no desire to take the club into massive debt and do seem very football savie, even Lady Bracewell-Smyth fancy pants or whatever her name is.
Things did look a bit dodgy when Wengers mate Davd Dein left but it seems to have settled down now. Good luck to em i say.
City`s owners do seem to be in it for the long haul, i mean the guy Mansour is worth at least £15 Billion and his family is worth over £500 Billion, he even made ~£1.5 Billion investing in Barclays shares during the `crisis`. Should pay the wages for a few years :p:
The amounts we relate too are chicken feed for them, and they`ve still got plenty of that black sticky stuff under there feet.

I loved the "Free Stephen Ireland party wig" bit :D

Plus we are a `dog`s dinner of a club`, and we know it, just it`s now a very well fed dog.....

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Man Utd threaten to sue Le Havre

:erm:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...td/8242430.stm

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That might stop it, Last thing Le Havre needs is to be sued!

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...cesetters.html


Surely City and Spurs are a threat to Liverpools 4th place? :)

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I missed this story but: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle6819170.ece

So there are no plans to be consistent with Uefa's decision to retrospectively punish divers. They seem to have singled out Arsenal and then said they will not do this for other players.

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:shrug:

Sounds fair to me.

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It does look that way. Noone can argue about the punishment (its clearly written in the rules) but the way that it has been administered has been a shambles IMO.

The absolute worse thing that UEFA could have done would be to victimise Arsenal and that looks like that's what they are doing.

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Why? I can't see how it's fair at all to make Arsenal and Eduardo a special case and then to say you won't do it again. Especially when the player involved has not got a history of diving and it's not the worse diver ever. They should be consistent.