El Cashico Manchester city vs Chelsea. 4PM kick off sky sports 1

ricero

Probable line ups for today



First big game of this new season. I think it will be a tense affair with neither team going all out.

prediction 1 - 1.

homerjay2005

thought this was known as El Plastico and not El Cashico?

hullaballoo

You're both hilarious.

Johner

City should win this, 2-1.

Right Turn Clyde

I suspect this could be a cagey affair. However, I rarely, if ever, get anything right when it comes to football. So I'll go 4-2 to City.

Also, I think it will take less than 3 minutes for Sky to zoom in for a close-up of Chelsea's new medical staff.

That_Guy

El Cashico.... Fúcking hell.

Fudge You

Souness is correct.

Lets hope City do them. Silva to get two. 3-1 city.

brevity

I think it will be a draw as well. Probably a bit of a cagey affair.

MD1990

El Cashico with $t€rling as the poster boy really fits this game well.

MD1990

homerjay2005 wrote: »

thought this was known as El Plastico and not El Cashico?

The game at Stamford Bridge is known as El Plastico when Chelsea fans bring out the plastic flags.

JustTheOne

Fudge You wrote: »

Souness is correct.

Lets hope City do them. Silva to get two. 3-1 city.

What he say?

Turtyturd

Reckon this will give United/Chelsea from a few years ago a run for it's money in terms of being sh!te, especially so soon into the season.

Hopefully City win, but can see it being a narrow Chelsea win. Typical Mourinho performance, with 10 Chelsea players in their own box for 89 of the 90 minutes and scoring with their only chance.

Also expect something controversial to be said/done by Mourinho to draw attention away from last week.

Fudge You

JustTheOne wrote: »

What he say?

Just about the doctor bullsht, that Jose was wrong.

GavRedKing

8-1 Chelsea.

Eva Caniero to run and net an OG.

Nalz

GavRedKing wrote: »

8-1 Chelsea.

Eva Caniero to run and net an OG.

Yeah?

brianregan09

1-1 or 0-0 written all over this one i'd say

blueser

Fudge You wrote: »

Souness is correct.

Lets hope City do them. Silva to get two. 3-1 city.

I'll take that, thanks very much!

GavRedKing

Trilla wrote: »

Yeah?

well, it'll be disallowed obviously.

monkey9

Fudge You wrote: »

Just about the doctor bullsht, that Jose was wrong.

And he was. We know what Mourinho is like, but the club backing him on this issue is bang out of order.

Anyone, one all.

Crackle

Comfortable 2-0 win for City I reckon.

bad2dabone

City to win unless the bus is out.

fozz10

Who gives a flying f#ck what he says or does to staff. The only clowns who have interest in that non story is sky sports on a poor news week and sun newspaper readers who thrive on that sh#t . He is the boss he will tell them what to do.... end of story. Of course you get the rival fans who latch on thinking its a big story but even know themselves nobody cares. Its so funny watching the crap news all week trying to make it headlines! Hopefully a Chelsea win or draw today.

Sanity_Saviour

Turtyturd wrote: »

Reckon this will give United/Chelsea from a few years ago a run for it's money in terms of being sh!te, especially so soon into the season.

Hopefully City win, but can see it being a narrow Chelsea win. Typical Mourinho performance, with 10 Chelsea players in their own box for 89 of the 90 minutes and scoring with their only chance.

Also expect something controversial to be said/done by Mourinho to draw attention away from last week.

lol

LuckyLloyd

If you posted on social media about an incident internal to your company and got sacked you could have no complaints imo.

This is the kind of week Mourinho thrives on. Chelsea win imo.

Sanity_Saviour

monkey9 wrote: »

And he was. We know what Mourinho is like, but the club backing him on this issue is bang out of order.

Anyone, one all.

it's amazing how much rival fans latch on to this non-story to fuel their bizarre hatred of a manager

titan18

fozz10 wrote:

Who gives a flying f#ck what he says or does to staff. The only clowns who have interest in that non story is sky sports on a poor news week and sun newspaper readers who thrive on that sh#t . He is the boss he will tell them what to do.... end of story. Of course you get the rival fans who latch on thinking its a big story but even know themselves nobody cares. Its so funny watching the crap news all week trying to make it headlines! Hopefully a Chelsea win or draw today.

Tbf, no manager should have any say in what the medical staff do. Just like medical staff have no say in tactical decisions.

GreNoLi

3-1 City.

fozz10

titan18 wrote: »

Tbf, no manager should have any say in what the medical staff do. Just like medical staff have no say in tactical decisions.

But the whole point is who the fu#k cares!! If someone is actually interested in that as a story then its quite laughable. And pretty sad. Sky are all over s#it like that cause that's what they love. Making a big deal from nothing roll on the match!

MD1990

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

If you posted on social media about an incident internal to your company and got sacked you could have no complaints imo.

This is the kind of week Mourinho thrives on. Chelsea win imo.

She done her job. Got punished for it. Thanked people for support on Facebook. Deserves to be sacked :rolleyes::rolleyes:. Then thanks to recieving all this attention for being punished for doing her job she has disgraceful front page headlines about her. If anything Mourinho should apologise.

Fuhrer

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

If you posted on social media about an incident internal to your company and got sacked you could have no complaints imo.

This is the kind of week Mourinho thrives on. Chelsea win imo.

You could have many complaints and a successful wrongful termination lawsuit against them, but this wasn't even internal.

LuckyLloyd

MD1990 wrote: »

She done her job. Got punished for it. Thanked people for support on Facebook. Deserves to be sacked :rolleyes::rolleyes:. Then thanks to recieving all this attention for being punished for doing her job she has disgraceful front page headlines about her. If anything Mourinho should apologise.

He won't.

Fuhrer wrote: »

You could have many complaints and a successful wrongful termination lawsuit against them, but this wasn't even internal.

Hmm, doubt it tbh, but that's for another part of the site not this thread.

monkey9

Sanity_Saviour wrote: »

it's amazing how much rival fans latch on to this non-story to fuel their bizarre hatred of a manager

If it's a non story, how do i know about the story? She's a professional medic. She's been demoted in her position because Chelsea weren't winning at the time and Mourinho lost the plot.

JohnDaniels

Chelsea XI: Begovic, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta, Ramires, Matic; Willian, Fabregas, Hazard, Diego Costa

MCFC XI: Hart, Sagna, Kompany, Mangala, Kolarov, Yaya Toure, Fernandinho, Navas, Silva, Sterling, Aguero

monkey9

MD1990 wrote: »

She done her job. Got punished for it. Thanked people for support on Facebook. Deserves to be sacked :rolleyes::rolleyes:. Then thanks to recieving all this attention for being punished for doing her job she has disgraceful front page headlines about her. If anything Mourinho should apologise.

Yeah but Mourinho is a genuis because everyone forgot they didn't win the match and aren't talking about that so the laws of mathematics in regards to the league table have been defied.

Fuhrer

monkey9 wrote: »

If it's a non story, how do i know about the story? She's a professional medic. She's been demoted in her position because Chelsea weren't winning at the time and Mourinho lost the plot.

Its a much more important then what most of the articles are focusing on,

With all the stories about head injuries and and players being allowed to stay on even when they should be taken off, now the one person who should be diagnosing it to get it sorted as quick as possible, now has to check ok with to go do their job with someone whos only focus is on winning the game

Wrongway1985

Hmmm wonders if the Liverpool fan who named the thread would dub Liverpool v Man United similarly

monkey9

Fuhrer wrote: »

Its a much more important then what most of the articles are focusing on,

With all the stories about head injuries and and players being allowed to stay on even when they should be taken off, now the one person who should be diagnosing it to get it sorted as quick as possible, now has to check ok with to go do their job with someone whos only focus is on winning the game

The thing as well is, the referee called the medics on. That's the end of it, it has nothing to do with Mourinho anymore. There are no footballing tactics. Professional medics are attending to an injured player.

Mourinho is happy enough to have his players diving and feigning injuries when it suits him. Fine, that's part of tactics he uses to win football games, like all teams in any football match around the world. But's it tough sh!t when it goes against him.

To demote a professional medic because of it is out of order.

adox

To call it a non story is deluded.

It would set a very dangerous precedent if a manager could dictate whether medical attention could be revived by a player depending on the score/time left in the game.

It was utterly bizarre, even for Mourhino and he such be derided for it.

rottie 11

I'm gona go for a crazy 4-2 chelsea win

adox

adox wrote: »

To call it a non story is deluded.

It would set a very dangerous precedent if a manager could dictate whether medical attention could be revived by a player depending on the score/time left in the game.

It was utterly bizarre, even for Mourhino and he such be derided for it.

Nobody was talking about the result last week at all. It suited Mourinhio down to a tee.

No doubt that doctor will be back on the bench again. Probably next week.

Ranchu

I fancy city for this. Silva and Yaya were in great form last week.

JohnDaniels

I'm really looking forward to this game. I hope City can get an early goal to make Chelsea come out and play then it could be a great match.

monkey9

adox wrote: »

To call it a non story is deluded.

It would set a very dangerous precedent if a manager could dictate whether medical attention could be revived by a player depending on the score/time left in the game.

It was utterly bizarre, even for Mourhino and he such be derided for it.

But do you know what would have made it a non story. If Mourinho didn't start jumping around like an ape on the pitch when he realised his medical team were attending to one of his injured players.

But of course, we're not talking about them not winning the game. 'Job done'. Genius. :rolleyes:

blueser

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

Hmmm wonders if the Liverpool fan who named the thread would dub Liverpool v Man United similarly

Of course not. Only City and Chelsea spend money. Everybody knows that.

Skylinehead

rarnes1 wrote: »

Nobody was talking about the result last week at all. It suited Mourinhio down to a tee.

No doubt that doctor will be back on the bench again. Probably next week.

This isn't some "masterstroke" from Mourinho, the result would have been forgotten about anyway. Other teams, namely Arsenal, had worse.

If it was all planned to deflect attention, how do you explain him getting visibly angry at the time?

rottie 11

Can everyone just stfu about the doctor thing FFS

Skylinehead

Skylinehead wrote: »

This isn't some "masterstroke" from Mourinho, the result would have been forgotten about anyway. Other teams, namely Arsenal, had worse.

If it was all planned to deflect attention, how do you explain him getting visibly angry at the time?

I'm talking about during the week. The talk during the week was about a doctor, game wasn't even mentioned. Suits him down to the ground.

Trust me, I'm no fan of his. As classless as they come. He wins trophies though and that's what matters.

Sanity_Saviour

monkey9 wrote: »

If it's a non story, how do i know about the story?

hahaha did you actually just type that in all seriousness?

monkey9 wrote: »

She's a professional medic. She's been demoted in her position because Chelsea weren't winning at the time and Mourinho lost the plot.

exceptional, lost the plot is glorious exaggeration. Frustrated is probably a word more sensible people would use!

Alfred Borden

City to blow Chelsea away hopefully.

blueser

Alfred Borden wrote: »

City to blow Chelsea away hopefully.

That would be nice. However; if you offered me a scrappy/lucky/boring 1-0 win right now, I'd take it. Chelsea are masters at grinding out results in this sort of game. Can't see the game being a thing of beauty.

Sanity_Saviour

adox wrote: »

To call it a non story is deluded.

It would set a very dangerous precedent if a manager could dictate whether medical attention could be revived by a player depending on the score/time left in the game.

It was utterly bizarre, even for Mourhino and he such be derided for it.

What delusions do I have? not really sure you've used deluded in the right context there.

Being frustrated that his team were less likely to score with less time on the clock is a normal reaction. Where did he say he wanted to dictate whether medical attention could be given to a player?

Complete non-story that the Sun and gremlins feed off.