There are rumours that Terry will make an announcement within a couple of days. I would think that if it is he who is making the announcement, I would think he is staying. Surely if he was going to sign for us, he wouldn't publicly state his desire to leave Chelsea? I would have thought he would simply Chelsea and a deal would be done or the club would tell him that they are not prepared to sell, and that's that.

It was an absolute belter, but at least Nited won their game...what score was City's game??

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Game number two, goal number two for Owen.

Found his playing level in Malaysia

2-0 to Pirates and deservedly so.

(Yes, I finally managed to get a live stream – from the club, before anyone asks if it was legal!)

But then I used to use my own regular column in a certain national daily to rail against the culture that screamed panic when England lost friendlies.

Friendlies have an important role to play – but winning is not top of the list, most of the time. And certainly not at this stage of a pre-season. In terms of Saturday's City game, we saw Michael Johnson play 45 minutes. Bojinov and Petrov also put in good spells (the latter, the full 90). A number of youngsters were blooded. Weiss looked generally good – although a little physically light at present.

So for me, there were a lot of interesting and positive things to come out of that match. And questions too. I simply wanted to roll my eyes at the City fans, online, who were calling for Sparky's head. It shows a complete lack of understanding of the role/s of friendlies. And it irritates me every bit as much as when I was reporting week in, week out, on domestic and international football. There are times I've thought that we should actually ban all coverage of friendly games – because so many people just don't seem to 'get it'.

Playing alongside the best players of his career. Kiko Macheda or Robbie Fowler...

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A picture of Tevez celebrating scoring for Utd at Wigan in the game which effectively won us the league? city have plumbed new depths with this one.

No.

I think he'll sign an extra couple of years at Chelsea, on a slightly improved deal.

7 Goals Not A Bad Effort From The Lad!...

Certainly no Joe Hart.

Certainly no Joe Hart.

Noble would drop him if he coached Villareal

Me too, I reckon City's attention has just earnt him a bigger pay deal.

ITV text, this morning, rafa says that babel will have a big season this time out he says his attitude is right.. I for one really hope so, he was brilliant for ajax and with the game time he would do a great job for us.

And for Robbie Rotten IMO jay spearing has been the stand out player so far in pre-season.

Ever since Sven's time in charge its mystified me why anyone would pay good money to watch an England friendly. I suppose if the FA insist on charging people to watch these glorified training sessions, and continue to award caps to the players, then its not really surprising that some people think they should be taken seriously.

I note that Sven has been sniffing around for a job in Russia.

According to the teletext today, Notts County are after him.

Anyone know, without searching, who the current Russian champions are?
They are also leading this season.

I blame the advent of SKY Sports News for the unnecessary attention friendly games are now given, I remember last season some team (can't quite recall who) were "in crisis" because they had lost three friendlies or something, yesterday Liverpool had been dealt a big blow because they lost one in Austria, it's ridiculous and just serves to get todays attention deficient folk all excited.

I think it's Zenit, but i could be wrong.

Friendlies are just purely for fitness the results mean nothing, they're perfect for players like Owen who have arrived at new teams and looking to bed in and prove fitness.

Rubin Kazin or something that sounds similar ?
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Definitely Rubin Kazan.

Correct. Not one of your 'usual suspects'.

I've been watching 'Russia Today' on Freeview. Some interesting stuff on there, from a different perespective.