There was definitely a point when bowling alleys just went “you know what, fuck it, wear whatever shoes you want”. Accept your whole historical schtick has been wrong. Be more bowling alley.

Can we pinch the City Women’s set piece coach? 8 goals from them in 9 games.

Took a picture of just the ref after Doku scored to remind myself of the best view I’ve had of a goal since I was sat behind Elano for his Newcastle freekick. Peach.

Such a good performance. All across the pitch. Doku will get the plaudits (and rightly so), but Nunes and O’Reilly both absolutely brilliant. Just buzzing with all of that, proper good stuff.

Remember being so unbelievably happy for Del Piero when this went in. Juve were my European team when I was little and Del Piero my hero, yet he had such a weird relationship with the Italian National team. Could never understand why he was the scape goat and it just never clicked properly for him.

Just remembered this. I was living in London and having to get an hour tube every day with an early iPhone and this was my life.

Ahh just seen about KDB. Gutted for him.

Paul Merson doesn’t seem to know anything about football at all. How was he so good at it?

Could sense one, so annoying. Hopefully just a stamp on Nico, but looked more like a twist when it happened and not seen replay since. Fingers crossed Rodri and Kovacic can get fit enough to share the role for couple games.

Very good first half that. Getting our swagger back. Especially against a team seemingly out to grab and kick us whenever they can. Hopefully they don’t get too cynical and we can avoid injuries.

Some of my finest work

Has anyone asked Carragher if it’s possible Wirtz chose the wrong club yet?

I’m obsessed with the lad with skateboard. Absolute perfection.

Turned the screw the second half and should’ve been way more by the end. Pep made some great changes. And gotta say think Ndiaye put in the best defensive performance against Doku I’ve seen all season. And caused all sorts of problems. He’s some player.

This is very much a post-international break game. Shite.

What’s happened to McAtee? Is he injured or just joined the wrong at the wrong time?

Inside No. 9 Stage Fright is one of the best things I’ve ever seen. If you’re going later this week in Manchester I’m jealous, I wanna go again.

Those dreaded words that send shivers down the spine: “John Stones starts for England” Godspeed, John.

Sounds as good as it could, really.

There’s no way O’Reilly has taken as long taking that throw as they have fuckin about before taking the long ones

Good result but horrible second half that. Hindsight a wonderful thing though, in truth apart from Donnarummas one save that was just facing a bunch of long throws and Henderson lumping it into the wind. We were very solid. Just lacking the cutting edge up top still.

Such a shame. Hamstring can hopefully not be too bad comparatively…Got the break to recover initially too. Just have to wait and see how much longer after that.

Not sure that’s the team most were expecting. Big for Savinho/Bobb.

Pretty funny that VAR just overturned a penalty against United for the exact same thing that VAR decided to give a penalty to Monaco in the champs league. So inconsistent it’s mad ha.

I don’t really follow the women’s football enough and not sure what exactly went on with City and Chloe Kelly, but that late winner is just the tonic after her celebration tbh

I’d understand leaving Foden out last season, but this season he’s clearly back flying. And to leave Gibbs White out whilst flying last season but take him now? And Morgan Rogers…very odd. Hope Foden doesn’t have some secret injury.

Can we get this on the badge next season?

Frustrating so close to the end but a very harsh decision and stand by it, all in all we look good again. That was nothing like last season. If they can use that disappointment to get three points at Brentford we’ll go into international break feeling good and (fingers crossed) players returning.

No matter how this ends up, it is good seeing City like this again, taking a hit but carrying on with our football and not losing our heads and making it worse. The confidence breeds confidence.

Johnny. Johnny Stones. Johnny. Johnny Stones.

Of all the mad decisions at that place this one just gets funnier the longer it goes on tbh.

Spurs topping off a Match of the Day for the ages.

Get in Palace. Fully deserved. Hopefully that knocks some stuffing out of Liverpool who have been riding their luck big time

Even more so now. Totally dominated that and that deflection was an absolute freak. So we’ll see if that can shake it off and carry on dominating/get the win…or that uneccessary doubt creeps in.

Line up is very much a last season style of line up so this will be a good marker on how much stronger their mentality is. Should easily be enough to control the game and not concede daft chances…but so was last seasons team.

Genuinely excited to see what a Doku vs Walker set up pans out like.

If Villa continue the way they’re going and City make something of this season I demand a 6 part Netflix series about that Nunes goal.

I think City will be gutted about that but also take a lot of heart from it. And using it to build on. Whilst getting a point. So considering how I felt before the game I’m happy with that.

Look forward to us having first keeper sent off for time wasting.

Some proper weak reffing on the 50/50s here.

Same starting 11 from Pep three games in a row? What is this, a title run in?

Such high hopes for Your Party shattered in one go. Can’t see how they come back from this. Gutted.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Just find the Kimmel stuff terrifying to be honest. Used to just be whoever controlled the papers/Murdoch owned the world, but there’s such a wide scope of media now it’s mental watching them rampage through it all in real time.

Maybe Liverpool’s good luck IS sustainable after all.

Rodri looked absolutely fucked by the end of his game yesterday btw. And I think it’s gonna take him a couple months before he finds his rhythm again, was a second behind what he wanted to do quite a lot. So it’s quite incredible how much more composed we looked with him on the pitch ha.

A customer in the shop just asked us to turn the “heavy metal off”. It was Popular by Nada Surf.

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Although no one saw it coming, it turns out Donnarumma is a world class goalkeeper.