Arsenal are on course to become the most average 3rd placed team in the last decade.

Oh to be a goonnnaaaaa

Was this, or was this.....the most dramatic end to a Premiership season ever!

It certainly was mate.

I missed the actual matches live and saw the actual action on MOTD, it was even more spectacular that QPR were winning with 10 men and City basically did a Utd by winning the match at the death.

BTW feel sorry for your hometown team Bolton, the first Stoke goal was a fail and the second Stoke goal a dubious penalty, but then again over the course of the season Bolton were poor, but at least Arsenal finished third something they were a world away from in the first half of the season. Also hope Chelsea win the Champions, which will keep Tottenham out of the Champions league.

Team of the season has to be shared between Man.City and Wigan, I'm stunned how Wigan managed to pull themselves off the bottom of the league and go an amazing winning streak.

Summed it up perfectly there. Will miss my yearly game at the Reebok. Will have to go to Wigan instead :(

My condolences to right-track. Hang in there man...

Under normal circumstances its no big deal for Man.Utd, on average they win the title on two out of every three seasons. The big concern is, that the blue half of the city could now totally dominate:D

That was an unreal finish to the season.

As a Sunderland fan I was obviously holding out a small hope that we would take three points from United on the final day of the season. In the end it wouldnt have made any difference but even though I would take the win regardless of the consequences I just didnt want City to win the damn league.

Blue half? Don't make me LOL.

I've probably met around 50 or so people from Manchester in my life that were also into football, around 50% of those were City supporters and another Mancunian once told me, that a true person from Manchester actually supports City and not Utd.

Now I know none of the above is exactly gospel and is just based on personal experience, but it wouldn't surprise me if City's fanbase rapidly started to expand as Chelsea's did several seasons ago, success normally sprouts out new fans by the thousand.

I told everyone at work yesterday that McCleish would be sacked today as Villa manager and guess what? Thank **** for that although I don't think we will ever get back to a top 6 finish in the next few years.

Extraordinary last day of the season and hat's off to Wigan, Norwich and Swansea for playing some decent football and outplaying many teams that should know better.

Just saw that he's going to be sacked, no surprise really, as had the season been another game longer Villa may have gone instead of poor old Bolton. Villa's recent record was dire and were relegation material.

The "Manchester is Blue" claim from City fans is a sad myth.
A myth I think I've discussed elsewhere in this thread.
The City fans delusions are based on the fact/excuse that their stadium lies within the inner city boundaries. Formerly Moss Side and more recently at the "council house" known as the Etihad (Arabic for United btw). Whereas United's stadium is in the Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester. And the assumption that United gained national popularity after the Munich Air Crash in 1958 as a desperate claim to back up the bull****.
The truth is United have averaged a higher attendance than City in every season since the 2nd World War! Even when Old Trafford was out of use due to bomb damage during the blitz, United matches attracted more fans than City did...in their own stadium.

Simple common sense would tell anyone with a brain cell (an uncommon trait among Liam Gallagheresque City supporters) that 75,000 is a higher number than 45,000, unless you believe the unlikely stat (as is claimed) that more than the difference travel up from London, or cross the Irish sea on a weekly basis.
And if you take into consideration the long and glorious history of Manchester United and compare it to that of City's pathetic existence (20,000 regular fans before the money came in)...I'd say you'd have your answer.
Unless you believe that a club of United's magnitude have failed to attract local supporters in a fiercely proud and football loving city and instead have turned to "blue half" for a life of self inflicted misery for the last 44 years?

What do you think?

Incidentally City's victory parade was attended by 100,000 City fans earlier tonight.
Pitiful when you compare that figure to the 500,000 United fans that lined the streets in the treble winning year of 99.

I honestly thought we were gone when Swansea beat us 2-0 at home. Absolutely incredible turnaround from that moment onwards...I still can't really believe what's happened, even after all this time since the win at Anfield.

My personal player of the season award's gotta go to either Ali Al-Habsi for some truly amazing saves throughout the season (the one from Yossi Benayoun at the Emirates springs to mind in particular), or Gary Caldwell for how he led the side from the back for the last 10-odd games.

Roll on next season :yeah:

As for the title race, I've seen some pretty incredible ones since I've been watching Premier League football. The 5-way race of 2001-2, the top spot's constantly changing hands in 2009-10 and nail-biting 2007-8 campaign spring to mind. This one trumped them all though - amazing stuff.

^Treble post lol

Compare and contrast;

That's some good insight, I didn't know the exact locations of both stadiums and see where the City assumption now comes from in regards to their stadium and city boundaries. I always thought the City fan's may have had some justification for their argument though, considering that a massive % of Utd supporters are based around the country and can draw on these supporters for away games, whereas the City support is just a local support.

The split you've shown, is probably on a par with the Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid split in Madrid which definitely favours Real Madrid but an Atletico Madrid supporter would have you believe that there is a red and white half of the city and Atletico's stadium is also right in the city centre.

One more thing;

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If I ever see this classless Argentinian mercenary **** in one of Manchester's ("only got) 2 restaurants" he'll be left thinking Joey Barton's elbow was just a pat on the head!

Now that's a classic:D

United do have a huge support outside of Manchester. As do all other successful clubs around the world. That much is true.
However, the vast majority of United fans that attend Old Trafford are Manchester, born and bred.
The same applies for the vast percentage of the population of Manchester.

That's more like it ^

He's got some neck for a man who slagged off his club and the city to be seen showing his ugly face from the top of a double decker bus.
He's a twat! City don't need him. Now Aguero is class. The sooner City lose this clown...the better.

Had City not won the title, I was certain that they would have offloaded both bad boys Balotelli and Tevez. Now that they have won, I think they will at least keep one if not both. Both are fiery but both are match-winners. If Tevez had still been at Utd for this season they may have wrapped up the title themselves;) or had he not gone on a walkabout without City, they may have wrapped up the title back when they were still in the driving seat. Love him or loathe him, he's still match winner, but he's certainly one ugly git.

He also is not the only match-winner out there, or the only match winner at City. I hope they get rid of him. Let him **** off back to Argentina and play more golf.

Well done to your team! Remarkable final quarter of the season - I'm astonished at how well Gary Caldwell has performed against some of the top teams in England. He was, shall we say, 'dodgy' in his time up here with Celtic - and playing against some fluff SPL opposition too. He's come on leaps and bounds, it seems. Either he's put in some heavy hours, else Martinez is a miracle-worker!

As for the weekend... well, Barton is a muppet of the worst kind. If I were a QPR fan I'd want shot of him, outrageous behaviour in such an important game for his team. No dignity at all. Get him to ****.

Gary Caldwell amazing really, when they switched to a three man defence and put him as the leader in the centre, Wigan were a different side, surely a candidate for one of the best players of the season.

Joey Barton, the man's a total liability for any team, I really don't know who'd want to sign him, the amount of times he sees red............

Dogleash sacked! Martinez to Lollerpool?

Over to Mojo for an on the spot report...

The England squad is horrific.

And his defence for kicking Aguero, trying to headbutt Kompany and trying to start on Balotelli after he got sent off was that he wanted to get one of them sent off as well for reacting to provocation.

Ridiculous little man. He acts like some kinda superstar on his twitter page, but he's a stain on the English game when all's said and done. Rangers really ought to sack him.

No. Or at least he shouldn't. That's not just me being biased, but the man's on a learning curve - I (and my good buddy Dave Whelan) don't think he's ready for a bigger club just yet. If he takes the Liverpool job, he'll get his reputation dragged through the dirt just like Hodgson and Dalgish did before him. If Martinez is gonna go anywhere, the Villa hotseat would be a more doable destination for him.

I'd much sooner see Rafa back in the driving seat at Anfield - his sacking was a really harsh one, I thought. Failing that, Capello or Villas-Boas to give Premier League management another shot.

I'm happy to see Dalglish go, his handling of the Suarez and Evra incident was poor, especially after the infamous handshake (that never happened) between Suarez and Evra. In the post match interview he feigned ignorance of the incident and claimed he knew nothing about it, the rest of the stadium knew! His signings were both expensive and poor, I guess he was trying to bring in the cream of British talent, problem was it was mediocre talent, the results on the pitch were poor, they didn't score many goals and there were too many defeats. What did he have to show for this season? The Carling Cup, a third rate competition for clubs that don't really care a crap about it t unless they just happen to get to the final. Bye Bye Dalglish you won't be misssed by me.:D

Andy Carroll? Seriously? Shocking squad and why oh why is Baines included? Oh yeah because he has a left foot. FFS.

So it will be Gerrard and Lampard in midfield as usual who can't play together and don't actually like each other either.

**** booking time off work for the games, really not worth it.

We probably won't get past the group stage to be honest.

France have the best individual players of the group, Sweden are always solid and Ukraine are the hosts with fanatical support, it doesn't look good for us does it? But Andy Carroll could strike the fear of God into all of them, just how are opposing defenders going to deal with his physical threat:p:

Me? :confused:

I hear Phil Neal is free

Aren't you our resident Wigan fan?

No, thats Bulldog.

I'm Sunderland.

As a neutral going into the tournament. I think I'm going to back Russia.
A solid squad, with some quality stand-out players who utilize a high standard of passing and progressive play.
They've got an easy enough group and I think are capable of pulling off a shock and winning the whole thing.
Most bookies are taking them at around 20/1 to be outright winners.