Well done Alan Wiley, great way of taking the spotlight off yourself.

What a crap, scrappy affair this is. Pitch looks like it's starting to cut up in parts. Could be a long winter for Latics supporters. Wonder if the rugby will get a mention on MOTD 2 tonnet.

Clearly the rugby digging the pitch up

So you spotted Shaun Ainscough and Michael McIlorum running onto the pitch with spades at halftime too?

Another cracking decision from Wiley. Deary me.

It hasn't been the best. The pitch always looks like that too.

Sure did. Think Amos Roberts was there too

Kris Radlinski stood on sidelines in his carpet slippers coordinating the whole thing.

It's 1-1 with 5 minutes to go and people are leaving

That's cos it's crap

That was fun wasn't it? City had to play the final 30 minutes with 10 men after Pablo Zabaleta's red card but they held out despite some sustained Wigan pressure. A point apiece is fair enough though.
The result is only the 5th draw in the Premier League from 85 games and in reality both sides should be happy with the point.

Around 14,500 Latics fans there today. Not sure how many of those went to watch City, but still I thought there'd be more on that that.

whats the betting that on the 2 good 2 bad thing on MOTD2 tonight one of them will be Tevez running around like a headless chicken and then diving full length to stop the goalkeeper kicking ball that made me laugh anyway.

Berbatov was superb on Saturday but how Utd did not score 5/6 I will never know. Think Liverpool were very unfortunate with THAT goal although in truth they deserved nothing from the game.

Sets up the game next week perfectly.

Beachballs have sold ot on Liverpools online store apparently, I wonder whose bought them all them?

Backlash

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Indeed.

The Liverpool way, you will beat Lyon and United guaranteed.

Darren Bent's Sunday twitter...

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Things we learnt from the Weekend’s Football

Arsenal have made the best start in Premier League history:
27 goals in their first eight matches is more than any other side has managed since 1992. Crazily, most people still don’t consider them genuine title contenders.

The best-paid referees in the world don’t know the rules:
Last week their fitness was called into question; this week their knowledge of the rules. There are only 17 laws in football, and the small booklet weighs in at less than 50 pages, so one would hope a professional referee could manage to skim through it in their spare time. But of the four officials on call at the S of L on Saturday, none of them knew that Bent’s goal should not have stood.

The Championship is really poor:
Three awful teams from last year are in the top four, and Middlesbrough even managed to lose at home to Watford this weekend. Message from Scudamore- “please stop sending us up such dross!”

7 games
4 goals
2 assists

Assist in yesterdays game, following a 40 yard run down the right-hand-side touchline

What's happened to Roque Santa Cruz?

Glad you are playing Lyon before the Utd game as hopefully they will face the backlash and the recent slump will be forgotten by the time Sunday comes around.

Deary me.

In the games we have conceded, we have played Arsenal, Villa (away) and United (away) and Wigan (away). United and Arsenal are top teams, while Villa and Wigan are in decent form, with the latter scoring 3 against Chelsea (who arguably have the best defence in the league).

Yesterday, we had a new centre-back pairing (Richards and Lescott). Then when Zabba got sent-off, Kompany came on for his first appearance of the season, to play alongside Lescott for the first time. I'd say they coped quite well considering. Let's face it, apart from teh goal, Wigan only had 20+ yard pot-shots at goal when we had a compliment of players on the pitch.

IMo our defence has looked very good, in the main. On the floor, we have been superb. United created one chance on the floor against us. However, that game highlights our weakness. Adebayor defends near post, while Lescott in the middle. The opposition team need to simply get it over Lescott and we look vulnerable.

Lescott is getting better each game. I thought he carried Richards yesterday, and played with great assurance and calmness.

Id be confident with Gerrard and Torres back but only Gerrard out of the two has trained today.

He looks way off the pace. Don't forget that he has only played about an hour since March, and hasn't had a pre-season.

He's has been poor but I trust Hughes' in the transfer market. I am confident he will prove to be a useful signing. Hughes gets the best out of strikers IMO. He did it with Santa Cruz and Bellamy at Blackburn. I expect him to do the same at City.