Not safe yet —- Dangit

By: Stephen | March 23rd, 2009

Man City: Given, Richards (Garrido 83), Onuoha, Dunne, Zabaleta, Wright-Phillips, Elano, De Jong, Kompany (Fernandes 84), Robinho, Bojinov (Bellamy 65).
Subs Not Used: Hart, Evans, Etuhu, Berti.#

Booked: Bojinov, Fernandes, Wright-Phillips.

Goals: Richards 56.

Sunderland: Fulop, Bardsley, Collins, Ferdinand, McCartney, Edwards, Whitehead, Leadbitter, Murphy (Davenport 16), Malbranque (Reid 72), Jones (Cisse 72).
Subs Not Used: Gordon, Yorke, Healy, McShane.

Sent Off: McCartney (15).

Booked: Bardsley, Davenport, Leadbitter, Ferdinand, Reid.

Att: 43,017

Ref: Steve Tanner (Somerset).

This losing thing really shuldn’t become a fad, please folks, I want to stay up. I think more and more, that at the end of his 18 month contract, Ricky will be packing his bags, he’s just not tactically good enough to stay at this level. Now, if football would let you loan out coaches to lower leagues for management experience, I think we’d be fine. And by the way that red card was a little harsh, but you’ll find enough bloggers and pundits talking about that, so i don’t want to waste your time. But we aren’t a top four team, so the refs won’t be nice to us. Maybe I should petition Daryl to make this section of the offside called “The Refs are always wrong”. Meh, maybe not, but it would be funny.

Oh and can we score? I mean if Cisse wants to stay here, he needs to start becoming a hero. It would add greatly to his legacy if he saved us from the drop. Now I personally don’t think we’re going down, but if Cisse were to play out of his mind, and keep us up, it would be great! Plus, generations of supporters would know his name. I mean, think about it Cisse, it’s not hard, just start playing out of your mind. Ok that’s probably a stretch, and for me to sit here in America saying that could be the fan in me.