Sunday, December 30, 2018

Manchester Ciry are in second place seven points behind ‘Pool after 20 games. Their next match is against the “Reds” January 3 at Etihad Stadium. Liverpool have not lost this season. With my iron grip on the obvious, Manchester City must needs win that match.

The undersigned has not read any of the reports on City’s three recent losses in league play as he is a little short on his Prozac. However he strongly suspects that infamous powers have unlocked the mystery of manager Pep Guardiola’s buckyball offense, which in the Catalan dialect is termed tiki-taka, to wit: press them high, for if one backpedals in soccer’s typical zone defense one is going to find buckyballs in the back of one’s goal.

If this mystery has been solved it was solved two years ago by an anonymous blogger who no one ever listens to about anything when he first witnessed tiki taka. When he first saw it.