Today's matches

Fuuuuuukkkkk

 

Lingard, that's probably it.

 

Quality goal from Lingard, the ten men on top...

 

Better way to win the contest with a great goal like that, rather than on penalty kicks.

 

Would have thought this occassion was made for Abedayour, yet Gayle got the nod from Pardew. And now Palace making it look like Urinals have 12 men.

Hurry up I want my dinner.

 

Brave by de Gea, saves those penalty kicks.

 

....and Gayle could/should have won it for them.

 

Well after a slow, rather tedious beginning that match ended in an exciting way. I believe the result opens up another Euro spot for somebody? Saints? Do West Ham also get a shout? (I guess in spite of themselves after that awful finish).

Hammers in Europe

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West Ham United

A side plot to today's win...

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David Gold

Congratulations Man Unt. I'm sorry for all my friends at Crystal Palace but West Ham are in the Europa League a great end to our season. dg

 

As with us, the 10 men win out.

 

The football was far better than that produced by Palace & Manure!

 

West Ham get the Europa League place...

 

Wayne Rooney "the [Utd] fans have had a tough two years"

My heart bleeds for them.

I expect when we win the FA Cup the captain [insert name here] will say "the fans have had a tough 150 years. But they are proper fans, they know their loyalty is blind and may never be rewarded."

 

Fantastic winner! Is Lingard not going to the Euro''s?

 

David Haye is on the 'Dave' channel 'fighting' his next mug shortly...

 

Milan are, sadly, complete crap at the moment, I expect they aim simply not to concede. They have one good player though, a young lad called Niang, is he playing? I've seen enough football for today. Well done the Hibies, Leith Walk will be rocking tonight.

 

Meanwhile in the Big Apple - I've been doing more gardening - just returned indoors to see BWP score a couple of quick goals (SWP and Fat Frank on respective benches), with 20 mins to play.

Talk about getting taken to the cleaners on your home pitch, by your NY rivals.

Fat Frank coming on to try and save the day for NYC, no sign of our former diminutive player.

6-0 now. NYC defend like us on a bad day!

7-0 now at Yankees Stadium, home field for NYC.

MLS
BOXSCORE
New York 5, New York City FC 0
Saturday, May 21, 2016 3:00 PM
Location - Yankee Stadium

NY RED BULLS AT NEW YORK CITY

2nd Half 67:00 1st Half 2nd Half F
NY Red Bulls 3 2 5
New York City 0 0 0

Matchup | Boxscore

SCORING/DISCIPLINE SUMMARY

Scoring
NY - Dax McCarty 3rd minute
NY - Bradley Wright-Phillips 42nd minute
NY - Bradley Wright-Phillips 45th minute
NY - Dax McCarty 51st minute
NY - Alex Muyl 56th minute
Discipline
NYCFC - Mikey Lopez (Yellow Card) 16th minute
NYCFC - Federico Bravo (Yellow Card) 30th minute
NYCFC - Thomas McNamara (Yellow Card) 37th minute

Starting Lineup

NY Red Bulls
Num Player Pos
31 Luis Robles G
78 Aurelien Collin D
25 Chris Duvall D
16 Connor Lade D
15 Salvatore Zizzo M
16 Sacha Kljestan M
11 Dax McCarty M
8 Felipe Martins M
99 Bradley Wright-Phillips S
13 Mike Grella S
10 Lloyd Sam M

Substitutes
Num Player Pos
27 Sean Davis M
98 Shaun Wright-Phillips M
24 Kyle Reynish G
19 Alex Muyl S
3 Gideon Baah D
30 Gonzalo Veron M
92 Kemar Lawrence D


New York City
Num Player Pos
12 Josh Saunders G
2 Jason Hernandez D
13 Frederic Brillant D
22 Ronald Matarrita D
27 RJ Allen D
6 Federico Bravo M
21 Andrea Pirlo M
5 Mikey Lopez M
7 David Villa S
15 Thomas McNamara M
19 Khiry Shelton S

Substitutes
Num Player Pos
9 Steven Mendoza S
8 Frank Lampard M
10 Mikkel Diskerud M
11 Jack Harrison M
3 Ethan White D
25 Eirik Johnson G
51 Andoni Iraola D

 

Sounds like a signing Harry might have made if he were still managing our club - all in the family.

We should have signed BWP instead of SWP.

Frank Lampard has been called the worst MLS signing ever by several US media outlets

Frank Lampard was jeered by his own fans as his New York City side were humiliated 7-0 by New York Red Bulls.

Substitute Lampard, 37, was making his first appearance of the season in the week it was revealed that he earns $6m (£4.1m) - more than the entire Red Bulls squad.

Red Bulls' top earner Wright-Phillips in contrast set to make $650,000 (£448,000) this season.

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Patrick Vieira's City - who started with fellow big names Andrea Pirlo and David Villa - had 57.7% of possession.

Bradley Wright-Phillips scored twice for the Red Bulls.

The former Manchester City striker now has 50 goals in MLS - one fewer than Thierry Henry managed for the same club.

Red Bulls were already 5-0 up when ex-Chelsea and England midfielder Lampard, who had been out with a calf injury, replaced Pirlo with 15 minutes remaining.

The win equals the record for the biggest margin in MLS history.

Los Angeles Galaxy beat Dallas Burn 8-1 in 1998 while Chicago Fire beat Kansas City Wizards 7-0 in 2001.

Lampard, Pirlo and Villa are all in the league's top 10 earners, with Red Bulls' top earner Wright-Phillips in contrast set to make $650,000 (£448,000) this season.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36352180

 

So NYC lost 7-0 fielding Pirlo, Villa and Fat Frank?...

You couldn't make it up...

The Man City 'malaise' is spreading...