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Manchester United - Rodgers gives too much respect

September the 14th, Leicester City travelled to Manchester United to play their fourth game of the season. A lot of Leicester fans were excited, United are on the slide, they aren't the team that won the treble in 1999. Despite spending £130 million on two defenders, their defense is still suspect, Paul Pogba obviously wants to leave and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has had legitimate questions asked about his qualities as a top line manager, despite success in his native Norway as a manager. As the international break finished City found themselves in a favorable position, in the last Premier League game they had played well, dispatching Bournemouth easily with Jamie Vardy looking back to his predatory best. Youri Tielemans had found his step again and then Manchester United had some key injuries, Paul Pogba and Luke Shaw being chief amongst them. Brendan Rodgers went cautious though, playing two holding midfielders in the shape of Wilfred Ndidi and Hamza Choudhury. Harvey Barnes and Ma...
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Sheffield United - Shithousing and Rockets

Today City went to Sheffield to play the red and white team of Sheffield. Sheffield United are a good side, they've come out of the Championship playing good football, looking organized and looking to keep the ball. It wasn't going to be easy, any one that thought it was going was massively off the mark. When the lineup was announced was, there was no Wilfred Ndidi, why? He had made a poor mistake at Chelsea by giving the ball away and allowing Mason Mount to score but he atoned for his error with a second half header to earn City a point. He picked up a leg injury so missed the game, Hamza Choudhury replaced him and Mendy filled Choudhury's place on the bench. Choudhury quickly became the high light for City, his performance is simple to describe. Kantesque, he was everywhere, the center half pairing of Jonny Evans and Calgar Soyoncu loved his protection and at times he often played as a third center half. He almost played in a way like Fernandino has made famous at Manche...
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Wolves - The opening day 2019/2020

The season has finally started, a local derby against a very good Wolves team was a good test for the team. It was however something of a mild Puel game. The ball moved too slowly, Maddison, Perez and Tielemans didn't offer what they can normally. Jamie Vardy looked isolated and Ben Chilwell was poor today. His crossing needs to improve for a full back in the modern game and at times he was out of position too. Which almost lead to Wolves scoring had they pulled their striker pulled the trigger quicker it wouldn't have been so pretty. Good points were quite simple though. Soyoncu looked composed and strong in the first game since Maguires long talked about moved to Manchester United. He looked composed along side Jonny Evans, but Evans is a Rolls Royce of defender himself. Harvey Barnes as a second half sub looked lively, made Perez's performance looked labouring and slow in comparison. Ricardo as usual was solid at right back and Albrighton looked engaged when he was int...
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2018/2019 From Despair to Hope

The season 2018/2019 has been a contrasting season, a season filled with some serious lows but some shoots of hope for the future. Leicester City again fired their manager, but when Brendan Rodgers walked into the KP, the sense of optimism rose tremendously. City started the season with Claude Puel, the drab, uninspiring Frenchman who somehow had survived the pathetic run of form that was the end of 2017/2018.  By February, Khun Top had had enough of Puel and replaced him with Celtic's Brendan Rodgers at the cost of some £9 million. As Rodgers entered the building a sense of optimism entered the building, new managers often give the clubs a kick after they enter and Rodgers certainly did that.  The body language of the players changed and seemingly the grey cloud of Puel was purged from City. The summer transfer window was highlighted by Riyad Mahrez finally leaving for Manchester City for a record transfer fee of £60 million.  It was Manchester City's record transf...
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Happy and glorious, sometimes..........The ups and downs of being a England football fan.

I'm English, always will be. Always will be proud to say that too, I'm also proud of being from Leicester and I often wear a Leicester shirt, one time and an American made a comment that "must be a hard team to support". How about fuck off, you don't just pick a team, a lot of people are born in cities that don't have glamour teams. Some people are born in cities with two teams but support the other club, in Liverpool, you have  Everton and Liverpool. Liverpool have been one of the most successful clubs in English football history but Everton have their own loyal support despite Liverpool's trophy rich history. Sometimes teams are picked for religious reasons, see Rangers and Celtic. If you consider yourself a Scottish Protestant, you'll be a Rangers fan. If you consider yourself an Irish Catholic then you'll be a Celtic fan. Tensions between those clubs often becomes ugly. Driven not just by football but also by hatred of the others version of Ch...
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