[Albion] Merson doing a Souness.

[Neville's Breakfast]

Unusual amount of vitriol for Merson here. True, he’s had a bad day with what he said but he’s been absolutely (and gushingly) praising us week in week out for the last two seasons. On that basis, I’m granting him a pass on this one.

I don’t need gushing praise from pundits. It’s not the basis by which I rate them.

 

[blockhseagull]

I think it’s the “manager doesn’t think they are ready for Europe” comment that’s got most people annoyed.

Think the majority of us would agree with him questioning the team selection …. Sadly he worded it like a 8 year old having a massive strop rather than an intelligent, well informed pundit.

 

[Justice]

We aren’t this precious are we? If Franks had put out half a bench side and the same comment had been said I doubt any of us would of given it a second thought.
Merson was a top player he destroyed us at Pompey practically single handed. We did get our revenge with Vicente returning the favour many years later

 

[Triggaaar]

I think it’s the “manager doesn’t think they are ready for Europe” comment that’s got most people annoyed.

For me it's the suggestion that our manager wanted us to lose a PL game. Like, WTF?

If we do qualify for Europe, I can understand if Roberto then thinks we don't have the squad depth to compete both there and in the league, and I'd hope that Bloom & co would address that in the transfer window.

Think the majority of us would agree with him questioning the team selection …. Sadly he worded it like a 8 year old having a massive strop rather than an intelligent, well informed pundit.

Indeed.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

'He has a lot of off days, and good days.......'

What?!

 

[Sheebo]

That's embarrassing. That's only slightly less informed than four Yorkshire men discussing how hard their lives have been and how the young people of today wouldn't believe them if they told them.

Just read the Watford fans’ replies on that thread

 

[Sheebo]

'He has a lot of off days, and good days.......'

What?!

Surely he has the same amount of days as all of us

 

[Invicta]

Jeff Stelling leaving Soccer Saturday after this season, chance to clear the deadwood like Merson out. Get Jules in from BT as they are ending their scores programme.

 

[banjo]

Can we change the thread title. Merson can do one with Souness.

 

[Mancgull]

Is this the same Merson that said City had overpaid for De Byrne at £50m... yes I think it i!

 

[AlexBH]

So if someone could get the word out to Merson that we’re gonna lose to Man U on Thursday and fail to qualify for Europe then we’ll be a sure fire bet to win on Thursday and make Europe. Just repeat it on air please Paul!

 

[Greg Bobkin]

We aren’t this precious are we? If Franks had put out half a bench side and the same comment had been said I doubt any of us would of given it a second thought.
Merson was a top player he destroyed us at Pompey practically single handed. We did get our revenge with Vicente returning the favour many years later

Probably because we don't support Brentford

It's not being precious, it's highlighting the fact that someone who is employed to do a job does not - at times - do it very well at all!

 

[Zeus]

Find this thread incredible. Who cares what Paul Merson said? We are so easily offended.

He’s a pundit who’s paid to have an opinion, and it turned out to be nonsense, but considering we dropped our 3 best players, although hyperbolic, he wouldnt have been completely alone in feeling we were gambling. Who honestly gives a flying fig. Lots of our fans were also worried about the implication of all those changes. We all learnt something very pleasing, including RDZ I suspect.

 

[el_ciddy]

I'm not arguing that Merson's hunch that BHA didn't want Europe was laughable, but it was difficult not to be sympathetic to that mindset after reading the team sheet.

Sympathetic to the view that he was saying de Zerbi was setting up Brighton to lose?

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Kris Boyd seems to talk a lot of sense though…..

 

[theboybilly]

Not sure we can comment too much on celebrating second place with a trophy.

I've never considered that a celebration for coming 2nd, not for one minute. (Had we won the Championship my view would still have been the same) That was a celebration to acknowledge all those years of ifs, buts and maybes as to whether this club would exist in 2017 let alone reach the highest level. And a huge opportunity for a City-wide (I dare say County-wide) open thank you to all that did so much in all that time. The fact that it was such a gorgeous day by the sea was an added bonus.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

I've never considered that a celebration for coming 2nd, not for one minute. (Had we won the Championship my view would still have been the same) That was a celebration to acknowledge all those years of ifs, buts and maybes as to whether this club would exist in 2017 let alone reach the highest level. And a huge opportunity for a City-wide (I dare say County-wide) open thank you to all that did so much in all that time. The fact that it was such a gorgeous day by the sea was an added bonus.

The celebration was for everything that promotion etc meant. What it signified after all those years of battling for Falmer and then finally reaching the PL after all those years of coming so close.

The celebrations would have been exactly the same without the trophy.

 

[Official Old Man]

And yet at the start of the show (I think) he said that the only game Man City will lose in the run up is away at Brighton.

 

[Jam The Man]

I don’t need gushing praise from pundits. It’s not the basis by which I rate them.

Me neither, but I’m not going to jump on the bandwagon just because one of them says something I don’t like.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Me neither, but I’m not going to jump on the bandwagon just because one of them says something I don’t like.

It’s more the ridiculous nature of what he said. It kind of exposed him as about as sane as an internet conspiracy theorist. There is literally no basis for his claims.