Guard of Honour?

[whelk]

Are we giving City one?

 

The respect shown might make them uncomfortable hammering us. Personally I think they are bs

[trousers]

Isn't the guard of hounour thang usually done once by the first team that the champions play after they've secured the title? Swansea have already given them a guard of honour this season for example... https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-city-guard-of-honour-14551753

 

But I'm all for us doing it if it makes them be gentle with us

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[Whitey Grandad]

I think we should give them one.

 

In the true sense of the word.

[Graffito]

Give them one then kick the sh1t out of them.

[Dellman]

They are the best I've ever seen in England, they've broken every record and they play as if it is still the Beautifal Game. So lets welcome them properly before we deal with them

[Bad Wolf]

I'd be happy for us to give them one. In more ways than one.

[jawillwill]

I'd be happy for us to give them one. In more ways than one.

 

Anal?

[shurlock]

For net spend champions?

[DT]

For net spend champions?

 

Bit uncharitable. You still have to get the best out of them, and Pep has done that. I think they should get one. Might well 'soften' them

[Pamplemousse]

If we had something still to play for then my answer would be no. But it's best not to make them angry - it backfired on Swansea, it could backfire on us.

[nta786]

Give them one then kick the sh1t out of them.

 

this

[mrfahaji]

Only if it will somehow help us. I certainly won't be applauding a team/club who have only found success through spending way more than anybody else.

[OttawaSaint]

Maybe we could suck thier dicks while we’re at it.

[Stud mark of doom]

We should give Hughesie a guard of honour.

[ericb]

When did football start doing this guard of honour nonsense? I'm sure i don't remember it when i was younger and yet now it's turned into some huge deal if people don't do it.

[whelk]

When did football start doing this guard of honour nonsense? I'm sure i don't remember it when i was younger and yet now it's turned into some huge deal if people don't do it.

 

Yeah definitely a recent thing and quite pathetic really.

Bit like non celebrating goals against ex teams and people saying ‘class’. More like w@nkers.

[whelk]

Yeah definitely a recent thing and quite pathetic really.

Bit like non celebrating goals against ex teams and people saying ‘class’. More like w@nkers.

 

Actually started in 1955 according to this

 

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11096/11336825/what-is-a-guard-of-honour-is-it-compulsory-who-has-had-one

[Bad Wolf]

Maybe we could suck thier dicks while we’re at it.

 

If they promise not to get within 30 yards of our penalty box (actual penalty box not bottoms) then I'd be all for it.

[Patrick Bateman]

No. I want the team to go full on Vinnie Jones on them, ball grabbing, ridiculously high kicks, general foul play, f**k 'em. Scare them and their world cup chances so they don't want the ball. Then park the bus anyway and lump it up passing the midfield to a target man, get it in the mixer.

[Maggie May]

No. I want the team to go full on Vinnie Jones on them, ball grabbing, ridiculously high kicks, general foul play, f**k 'em. Scare them and their world cup chances so they don't want the ball. Then park the bus anyway and lump it up passing the midfield to a target man, get it in the mixer.

 

Sounds like the ideal way to get the 7-0 drubbing we don’t want...

[EkonOkereke]

I would hope so, by far the best side in the Premiership this season. Deserve it.

[Heisenberg]

I would hope so, by far the best side in the Premiership this season. Deserve it.

 

agreed

[mrfahaji]

I would hope so, by far the best side in the Premiership this season. Deserve it.

 

It just seems a bit unnecessary to me, especially if they've received it once already.

 

Perhaps it's more meaningful if a fellow title rival gives you a guard of honour, but is Kevin de Bruyne going to feel massively humbled because Jack Stephens is giving him a round of applause?

 

Just another example of when something happens occasionally or for the first time, it has meaning and is memorable, then everyone jumps on the bandwagon, it almost becomes expected, and in the process becomes a bit of a bore or annoying.

 

Eg players not celebrating a goal, a minute's silence for anyone remotely famous, a minute's applause, applauding at a certain minute of the game to acknowledge something or someone etc.

[Saint WGC]

No, they've already had one, much simpler way to placate them. Agree a 1-0 defeat and to sell Redmond for £60m to them as Guardiola clearly loves him, sounds like a fair deal all round to me! Obviously if Swansea are 9-0 up, they have to let us equalise in the last minute too and we'll knock £10m off the Redmond price tag.

[Lord Duckhunter]

I think the players should give the supporters a ****ing guard of honour rather than City, we’re the ones who’ve had to watch this ****e all season.

 

 

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[Matthew Le God]

I would hope so, by far the best side in the Premiership this season. Deserve it.

 

The English top league has not been called the Premiership since 2007.

[Charlie Wayman]

A grad of honour for what exactly? Being a buch of show-boating dilettante effing multi-millionaires who have ruined the PL as a competition and English football for everyone else.

 

Sod that for a lark! Sunday is not the time to star gaze and collect sky blue shirts. Time to show our own lads a bit of respect, they've had bugger all from most fans all season.

[Charlie Wayman]

The English top league has not been called the Premiership since 2007.

 

 

Does it matter? Nobody gives a fish's tit except you apparently.

[Matthew Le God]

Does it matter? Nobody gives a fish's tit except you apparently.

 

We all know you aren't one for accuracy....

 

and they need 3 goals for the 100

 

They have 105 league goals in 2017/18.

[ericb]

We all know you aren't one for accuracy....

 

 

 

They have 105 league goals in 2017/18.

 

Genuinely no one gives a sh*t about the branded name of the top flight of english football except for geeky weirdos with nothing better to do in their lives.

[shurlock]

I would hope so, by far the best side in the Premiership this season. Deserve it.

 

Welcome to SWF. Where are you from pal?

[Matthew Le God]

Genuinely no one gives a sh*t about the branded name of the top flight of english football except for geeky weirdos with nothing better to do in their lives.

 

I was correcting the account of someone using an alias account and did so with a after the post.

 

I was not being entirely serious Eric!

[LeBizzier69]

Guard of honour? For footballers? Give me a break.

[Heisenberg]

I was correcting the account of someone using an alias account and did so with a after the post.

 

 

do you have any evidence to support such an outlandish claim?

[Matthew Le God]

do you have any evidence to support such an outlandish claim?

 

I've recruited an undercover team to travel to present day Glasgow...

 

 

To spy on you...

 

 

The evidence they've sent back to my office is piling up!

 

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[Whitey Grandad]

Guard of honour? For footballers? Give me a break.

 

Indeed. The line up beforehand with the phony handshakes is more than enough. What was wrong with both teams running out onto the pitch kicking footballs in front of them?

[Pamplemousse]

I would hope so, by far the best side in the Premiership this season. Deserve it.

 

agreed

 

[Heisenberg]

So come close, get all over me; because the closer you think you are, the less you'll actually see.

[trousers]

[ALWAYS_SFC]

I would hope so, by far the best side in the Premiership this season. Deserve it.

 

Indeed they are and deserve the respect as the best.

I can see them improving next season and beyond with Pep as he a fantastic coach, bit of a worry for the rest of the 6 i think as they try to keep up.

 

I guess one of the others will get Silva in to make the step closer....

[Junior Mullet]

Weirdest thread in a long time. Very homoerotic to begin with, climaxing with Glasgow leading MLG on with a teasy little rhyme.

 

Is that what relief looks like on SWF?

[whelk]

Welcome to SWF. Where are you from pal?

 

Nice touch.

[Matthew Le God]

So come close, get all over me; because the closer you think you are, the less you'll actually see.

 

[LeBizzier69]

Indeed. The line up beforehand with the phony handshakes is more than enough. What was wrong with both teams running out onto the pitch kicking footballs in front of them?

 

Jimmy Case was a master of that.

[Lighthouse]

A grad of honour for what exactly? Being a buch of show-boating dilettante effing multi-millionaires who have ruined the PL as a competition and English football for everyone else.

 

Sod that for a lark! Sunday is not the time to star gaze and collect sky blue shirts. Time to show our own lads a bit of respect, they've had bugger all from most fans all season.

 

[Lighthouse]

Not sure I get all these, 'kick the crap out of them' posts. I don't think having 9 men after half an hour is the best way to avoid a 6-0 defeat.

[jasonb]

The money thing is ridiculous argument as we would trade their owners in a heartbeat.

 

Fact is money has ruled the game for decades not just recently. The numbers have got astronomical granted and Leicester apart has determined the league title more often than not.

 

A point made earlier in the thread that buying 25 players at £50m+ still doesn't automatically guarantee success. It goes a long way to helping but Guardiola (sp?) has still worked that team into the team of the season in the league.

 

Saying all that I'm not fussed either way tbh. Might show a bit of class by us to do it as it's effectively a dead rubber (I think we have done enough, just about).

 

And having said all that I still want Saints to try and beat them otherwise what's the point? Hard work beats talent if talent doesn't work hard. Let's see if City are on the beach or focussed on not getting injured.

 

I'm more annoyed at their fecking parade on Monday as it fecks up my commute majestically.

[mrfahaji]

The money thing is ridiculous argument as we would trade their owners in a heartbeat.

 

Who’s “we”? I wouldn’t. I mean, I’d like my club to be stable and not worry about what the owners are going to next, but in terms of pumping unlimited money in so that my club can buy who they want and focus on being a “global brand”? No thanks.

[Saint_clark]

Saints aside they deserve one. They've been superb.

 

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[Miltonaggro]

Guard of honour before the match, monks' chain at half time, and Les and Ralph bukkake (both teams plus substitutes) in the boardroom with a light buffet before they get on the coach.