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If I were Guardiola I’d be telling Aguero I’d changed my mind and could he stay after all. No tracking back required, no linking play, just bang the ball in the net.

Well said.

What manner of ju-ju is this?

So did I. Should be a good match which means it will turn out to be dire. If Foden plays from the start and City don’t get into crab-dance mode they should win 3-1. If they play the way they did last week ‘Spurs have a chance. Even if both teams play to their best it wouldn’t be as good a game as 1960 ‘Spurs against 1968 City. @compo will tell you the same.

Gunners 2-2 Toffees Liverpool 3-1 Newcastle Hammers 1-3 Chelsea Blades 2-0 BHA Wolves 2-0 Burnley Leeds 1-3 United Villa 2-0 WBA Leicester 2-0 Palace

I sort of know what you mean but then I wonder which fixture would be more attractive, Livingston v Rangers on the plastic macaroni or Aston Villa v Rangers at Villa Park? But wait, I say to myself. Livingston and the Villa are not good comparisons. Swap Villa for Hearts and Southampton for Livingston and I might say stay where we are. On the other hand Everton, Newcastle, Leeds, Wolves. Hmmmm.

It’s already crashed and burned.

If true the Spaniards must have a grounds for action against Uefa. Inducement to breach contract, perhaps.

That’s a lot of face painting.

England will always have a viable domestic league. I wonder if the fourteen would accept a replacement giant from what may soon be a foreign country.

Chelsea 3-1 Brighton ‘Spurs 2-2 So’ton Villa 1-3City Leicester 2-0 Baggies

Klopp trying to work his ticket to parkhead to manage his boyhood heroes.

We know that compo is not a slave to the fiend intemperate but if he were, he would have a rather good Veuve Clicquot. The elite don’t sup on Buckfast.

City and ‘Spurs are the other two according to some reports. celtic will of course be automatic entrants.

City buggered about too much. Serves them right. I wonder if Kane would fit into a Guardiola team. He’d be better off at United.

Chelsea are the form team no doubt though the semi final was tedium. City need to find a new David Silva and get an Aguero style finisher.

Late again. Magpies 1-3 Hammers Wolves 1-0 Blades Gunners 2-0 Fulham United 3-0 Burnley Leeds 1-2 Scousers Effy Cup: Chelsea 2-0 City Leicester 3-0 So’ton

Only lasted the customary 44 days at Leeds. I knew he was in and out at Elland Road but I hadn’t realised it was the same period as Stein. Clough was an excellent centre forward before a bad injury finished him. Saw him score two in a 6-6 draw in a friendly at Easter Road. Joe Baker got four for the Hibs.

That is excellent work. Thank you. Some records have RC making his first appearance for City on 2 December 1893 at the age of sixteen years, two hundred and three days. Elgin didn’t join the Highland League until 1896 so in that respect the inscription is accurate.

Correct. You’re a bit hard on Stein, though. He did 44 days.

I think Chelsea are going to win it.

Stein is a classic example. Won a cup at Dunfermline, changed Hibs into a football team and transformed a bunch of also-rans in the east end. Failed at Leeds but that wasn’t surprising in the circumstances. I wonder what Hibs would have achieved if he had stayed.

Good player, Roofe, but for various reasons frequently unavailable.

The Albion storming up towards second bottom.

I was waiting for the results. I would have been wrong about Fulham v Wolves. Relegation seems settled now. Disappointed about the three going done. There are others I would have preferred and the likely replacements aren’t electrifying. May as well have a go at the rest of the card: City 2-1 Leeds Liverpool 3-0 Villa Palace 0-2 Chelsea Burnley 1-0 Mags Hammers 2-1 Leicester Hotspur 2-2 United Blades 0-2 Gunners Baggies 2-1 So’ton Brighton 2-1 Everton