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#TOO LITTLE TOO LATE...Manchester City, Champions League semi-finalists last week no longer have qualification to the next campaign in their own hands. Incredulously, that privilege is now finally handed to the most mediocre Stretfords side in a generation. As The Blues Premier League regression has continued whilst the rags have persisted through scraped wins, it's been coming...Planet Blue and everyone connected with the club would do well now to not countenance favours from other sides with little to play for and focus upon the fact that Pep Guardiola's task of resurrecting the nosedived neighbours domestically is on the brink of becoming confirmed as a whole lot harder with Thursday night Europa League football and an attraction to top signings gone. The new gaffer and his squad are going to need bags of support. This would constitute a disaster for the club's aspirations whilst the re-emergence of talk of "Typical City" brings an unwelcome comedic element as a wretched season of kamikaze under achievement draws to a close...It wasn't without trying or belated, persistent endeavour today. Even Bony crashed his first shot of the campaign in anger against the crossbar, but what have become trademark familiar failings under Manuel Pellegrini served to undermine what was a terrific team effort against an Arsenal side who were rocked for lengthy periods... I'm pointing at central defenders inexplicably letting their man go again and nonsensical substitutions which replaced players striving for a win such as Fernando and Navas with those who have plummeted to the ranks of the hopelessly ineffectual in Touré and Sterling. ...As we saw on numerous occasions such as in drubbings by Spurs and Liverpool long BEFORE the announcement of Guardiola's impending arrival, the impetus was lost and the usual inability to mount a barnstorming finish repeated itself...My Man of the Match today was the hooked Fernando who typified the what might have beens in leading the fight that The Blues took to the Gunners which had they replicated in earlier games would have made at least a top four finish a formality. Next we go to resurgent Swansea having dropped 7 points from a possible last 12 and in desperate need of a lifeline but as I asserted earlier, talk of the rags blowing such a golden opportunity now is for me just whistling in the dark.
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#TOO LITTLE TOO LATE...Manchester City, Champions League semi-finalists last week no longer have qualification to the next campaign in their own hands. Incredulously, that privilege is now finally handed to the most mediocre Stretfords side in a generation. As The Blues Premier League regression has continued whilst the rags have persisted through scraped wins, it's been coming...Planet Blue and everyone connected with the club would do well now to not countenance favours from other sides with little to play for and focus upon the fact that Pep Guardiola's task of resurrecting the nosedived neighbours domestically is on the brink of becoming confirmed as a whole lot harder with Thursday night Europa League football and an attraction to top signings gone. The new gaffer and his squad are going to need bags of support. This would constitute a disaster for the club's aspirations whilst the re-emergence of talk of "Typical City" brings an unwelcome comedic element as a wretched season of kamikaze under achievement draws to a close...It wasn't without trying or belated, persistent endeavour today. Even Bony crashed his first shot of the campaign in anger against the crossbar, but what have become trademark familiar failings under Manuel Pellegrini served to undermine what was a terrific team effort against an Arsenal side who were rocked for lengthy periods... I'm pointing at central defenders inexplicably letting their man go again and nonsensical substitutions which replaced players striving for a win such as Fernando and Navas with those who have plummeted to the ranks of the hopelessly ineffectual in Touré and Sterling. ...As we saw on numerous occasions such as in drubbings by Spurs and Liverpool long BEFORE the announcement of Guardiola's impending arrival, the impetus was lost and the usual inability to mount a barnstorming finish repeated itself...My Man of the Match today was the hooked Fernando who typified the what might have beens in leading the fight that The Blues took to the Gunners which had they replicated in earlier games would have made at least a top four finish a formality. Next we go to resurgent Swansea having dropped 7 points from a possible last 12 and in desperate need of a lifeline but as I asserted earlier, talk of the rags blowing such a golden opportunity now is for me just whistling in the dark.
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