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And we had some terrific streaks without wins under him, years into his fucking tenure.

Gemmill still high from all the positives of that first 40 mins, good lad Gem. When was the last time we played football properly for 90 minutes? For as long as I can remember we have always had a decent 45 in one half and then spent the other 45 clinging on for life. I know teams normally get a 'spell' where they are in control for a bit but we seem to have a good 45 mins of every game getting bombarded.

Aye he's played a handful of good games in the few year he has been here, he has completely missed the point that top players work hard.

He made sure to make a point that he was 'injured', always gets his excuses in does wor Moussa.

Aye it'll be a good education that goals aren't fucking nigh on impossible to score, despite looking that way for the last 4 year or so.

Only Blackpool and Yeovil have worse away records than us this year, we're going to take that crown in spectacular fashion with games like this. How fucking shite must Chelsea feel btw?

Aye thanks to Mike Ashley we're about the level Man City were when our lot were good.

McClaren has never lost a Premier League game to Man City until today, we don't do things by half in the Mike Ashley era.

Toon fans "ole"-ing our passes, fully expected us to lose possession and Man City to complete a rapid series of one-two passes before Bony scored.

Pretty much his entire life losses as bad as this have been akin to 2-0 losses to everyone else. A 1-0 loss must seem a canny result to poor fuckers like Haydnator.

"Aye but can you do it on the balance sheet? that's where it really matters".

It would have definately seen one, possibly a triple hat-trick.

True. Our players seem to lose heart in a game like no other.

A mix I think, this second half we've really let them turn it on by giving them all space and time on the ball. Man City's team are class but not many sides will let them have this sort of free reign.

Aguero with 5 goals and now Bony coming on I hate playing Man City man

Those positives are getting a bit hard to hold onto here Gemmill

Aguero is right up for it today like, hell of a player tbh. Took us apart 2nd half.

The man is an utter tragedy to the game, I was hoping since he hadn't really been picked up to now we'd not really see him start again. He has been an utter disaster today.

Crumpling now. Shame that we basically haven't come out for the second half after the good first half. Sissoko giving up now.

Otamendi there man, covered in tatoos, big beard and he goes down like a sack of shit clutching his eye after Mitrovic's arm brushes his throat.

Fucking hell, what happened there?

Fucking shame that, deflected in off Gouffran?

And falling over anytime he doesn't.

We're starting to get held deep, hopefully we can gain back a foothold or else the second half could turn into a kicking. We've played well in the first half overall mind and have been the better side, it's always a struggle when you're playing a side with a front 4 that cost more than your football club.

It crushed me that he didn't do it, I doubt we ever will. Unless of course he's saving it for the game against the mackems so any suspension he is given comes after it.