A lot is made of Kane scoring so many NLD goals but my word so many are penalties. He hasn’t scored a non penalty goal at the emirates for 7 years and Saliba pocketed him yesterday. I read this online and that person said if you take away the pens (which of course still have to be scored) it’s not like Kane has reached Drogba and Rooney levels of always playing well and frightening us.

Kane is excellent but he’s had a lot of poor NLD games where he’s done nothing but pop in a penalty

The official Mirror football Twitter account tweeted ‘it was an afternoon to forget for spurs and Conte, he’s saved US many times in the past but today feels unforgivebale’

“US” looks like the bloke who runs Mirror Football is a big Spurs fan and tweeted via the wrong account.

Seriously though, Tottenham

Their tactics are basically are to keep 10men behind the ball packing the areas in their opponents final third so there’s little space and when possession turns over hit a early hopeful punted ball that may release Kane or son. ..that’s it! oh and cheat, yes cheat like crazy and make sure Kane has a constant dialogue with the ref. Poor Anthony Taylor must have been covered in spit by the final whistle.

You’d never have guessed they were managed by an Italian.

Only 2 problems with these “Tactics” are that ..

A) they miss an Ødegaard/Cesc/de bruyne/Erickson type who can find those killer passes

&

B) if a Ghanaian warrior smashes in the 30 yard worldie that whole plan goes down the utter diarrhoea encrusted toilet and you can’t adjust



Simply glorious Michael Crawford inspired antics

This weird thing was happening where we were playing so narrow and following the ball and were leaving Persic alone in literally yards and yards of space. I mean like so much space if they transitioned the ball he would have had a clear 50 yard run on our goal an challenged. This happened like 3 or 4 times however because they have no player with that kind of awareness it was wasted.

Isn't a fair number of Kane's international goals from penalties as well?

The manager of the body shop I brought my car to is South African. I am usually pretty good at guessing the various English accents but the SA accent always seems to fool me. I sometimes get them and the Kiwi one mixed up and they are obviously totally different.

There is also a wide variety of SA accents, depending on class, region, and ethnic background. My favorites are the Cape Coloured and Malmesbury accents. The worst is the poor white Jo'burg accept--the Springs accent is probably rather like a Brooklyn accent.

Americans do tend to think 'English' South Africans are from down-under.

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Kane consistently gets away with this kind of stuff on the pitch and never gets called out for it after games

Does he? Isn't he simply in his stride in this incident? Slow-mo gives a bad impression.

Good point. In real time, if anything Gabriel is the assailant. #justiceforharry

It was a deliberate kick - he could have avoided it. He was hacked off because Gabriel had outmuscled him in the run up to that.

I saw it in real time, and I felt he should have had a yellow straight away.

Before the season we saw top 4 our goal and a goal that was well within our reach. Based on our performances, it would seem top 3 should be the new goal. Yea or nay?

Second, at what point should we see ourselves as title challengers? I don't think we should unless we are within 5 points of the top spot if we aren't there. Any other parameters?

Man Utd struggling a bit against City. I haven't seen any stats, but by my count City have 98% possession so far, and United have blocked somewhere around 250 shots.

2 nil after 33 minutes, I think I won't seem too presumptuous to say Manchester derby will go to City and its a matter of big of a win than if they'll win.

Haaland is just ridiculous.

City are giving them an absolute battering. 3-0 now, 2 for some bloke called Haaland.

City are not mucking about ...

Haaland is described best...

4. City looking awesome. United getting a complete humiliation.

Old red nose looking miserable in the stands.
Looking forward to hearing Keane RIP into them at half time.

There must be a fire drill, Utd fans streaming out of the stadium

Hoping for at least 8, to erase the 8-2 that United fans still like to brag about.

Balogun scores again. His 6th of the season

"Where is the fire so I can fling myself onto it?"

I haven't seen so many guys score before the half since Holly Reinhardt showed up at our HS football game drunk in the back of Al Russo's van.

You don't need to know who they are to get the reference.

They are showing Man Utd fans leaving the grounds at halftime...hilarious.

This is hilarious stuff. United are genuinely lucky that it's only 4. Eriksen marking Haaland on a corner kick. That's embarrassing.

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What is Man Utd’s biggest ever away defeat in history?
Man United’s biggest ever away loss of all time is 7-0. They have suffered a 7-0 away loss three times, to Blackburn on 10 April 1926, to Aston Villa on 27 December 1930 and Wolverhampton Wanderers on 26 December 1931.

What is Man Utd’s biggest ever Premier League defeat in history?

Man United’s record Premier League defeat is by five goals, which has occurred on five occasions.

United lost 6-1 to Man City on 23 October 2011 and 6-1 to Tottenham on 4 October 2020.

They then lost 5-0 at home to Liverpool on 24 October 2021. These all represent Man Utd’s record Premier League home losses.

They also lost 5-0 at Newcastle on 20 October 1996 and 5-0 at Chelsea on 3 October 1999. These two defeats are their heaviest ever away from home in the Premier League.

Eriksen is a terrific player, but I think I'd fancy my chances against him in an aerial duel and I haven't played competitive football for nearly 20 years.

6-1 hat tricks for Haaland and Foden.

Man U away to Everton next week
Spurs away to Brighton next week

Don’t fancy either of them there.

See it was 6-3 in the end. Not the slaughtering it could have been. Sure, losing by a three goal margin isn’t good. But there have been much heavier defeats.

True. It was one of those games that was over at half time, the winners inevitably took their foot off the gas, and the losers grabbed a couple of consolations.
All in all though I think it was the best result from our point of view.

Wolves manager Bruno Lage sacked.

It was 6-1 with 10 minutes left. City strolled through the second half and actually got sloppy at the end. Pep took off 4 players in one go. I'd say he will be just the slightest bit annoyed. The score didn't reflect the domination.

Not so sure about it being the best result for us. I know City are odds on favourites to win it. Or if they’re not they should be. But I’d like to maintain at least a faint hope that we have a realistic chance of winning it ourselves for as long as possible. That means me welcoming City dropping points whenever it happens.

Glorious
Yesterday just Glorious.
We were sublime.
Apart for a few minutes where we were in shock at being hauled back to 1 1 which was infuriating we were sublime.
Toyed with those *%^@.
Absolutely toyed with them in the 2nd half.
Loved the way we came roaring out in the 2nd half and that split second where the ball breaks free and you know Jesus is going to put it in the net.
The crisp lovely finish from Granit.
Just *%^@*** love this team and what we did to those utter *%^@.

Happy enough with that result
Man U get a pasting they deserve, their fans and the media were getting way too far ahead of themselves after they beat us and Liverpool - they’re still a pretty average squad
City showed some frailties and lack of concentration
Man U fans get a false crumb of comfort with the late goals that hugely flatter them

As far as us wanting City to drop points I’d agree that a draw would have been better. I’m still focusing on top 4, there really should be 6 teams for 4 places. City are taking 1 of them for sure so it’s 5 in to 3. We’re flying but injuries could really be our downfall and it only takes a few bad ones or 3/4 bad results when others sort themselves out to close it all back up again.

If we’re still 1st/2nd come the World Cup and have a healthy lead over at least two of the other big 6 then I might start thinking of a title challenge

Added time rant again.
Second half of City v Man U had 5 goals and 4 batches of substitutions, with multiple players going off in at least one of those sub batches. There was also var checks for at least one of City’s goals and Man U’s penalty

The 4th official decides only 2 minutes added time is required! It really should be about 8

I take your point Rich but I’ve seen referees not add on the full injury time minutes on many occasions at Arsenal, when the result isn’t in any doubt. What’s the point in adding on the full eight minutes? It isn’t going change City winning. The only thing it might possibly change is the margin of their victory, which is by no means guaranteed anyway.

I think it’s a case of being sensible. Let people get off home or to the pub without pointlessly adding on a few extra minutes that won’t change the result. Any United fans left in the ground will have a long trip home to Surrey. And the City fans will be eager to get to their favourite pub in Moss Side, Gorton or Ashton-Under-Lyme.