Saturday, August 26, 2017


90+11 min There were only supposed to be five minutes of added time!

That is so cruel on Bournemouth. City’s players are going mad, they are all in with the crowd. It was such a scruffy goal. Danilo’s low cross from the right came to Sterling, who got it out of his feet and hit a shot that took a deflection off Surman and looped slowly, agonisingly into the corner.

"Off the kid's head, off the tree limb, off the house, nothing but net" (to continue the basketball analogy)

GOAL! Bournemouth 1-2 Manchester City (Sterling 90+7)
City have won it!

90+6 min There were supposed to be five minutes of added time but there have been a few stoppages in that time so on we go...

90 min City win a corner. Guardiola continues to make a bit of a fool of himself, complaining demonstratively to Eddie Howe about Bournemouth’s unsporting reluctance to play basketball against a side with significantly greater resources. Mike Dean comes over to tell both managers off.


By "basketball" does he mean not being physical? That is the key to defeating the triangle in either sport but I'm not sure that's what he means.





Oh! He could mean that. Either, or. Both...No, Bournemouth's "reluctance" to play basketball: he's referring to defensive timidity.