Super Sunday Podcast – 15th May
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What happened during the abandoned match at Old Trafford?
And what is love? If it's building up to nothing, we'll never see how far we've come. We keep looking.
So this story will dominate here at Old Trafford. But let's talk about what's happened on the field today. And Thierry, Manchester City got there just... Like you said, just.
And I'm sure there is one guy who's going to be happy. And he must have watched the game. It's Pep Guardiola. Relieved, I imagine. Hugely relieved. Oh, I think so. Because you... You want to come here in Manchester and make sure that you have the Champions League because, like you said before, that's what it's going to get judged on. And if you have already one year raised by not being in the Champions League, that's not really what you want to do. And by the way, they're still not yet in the Champions League directly. They still need to qualify, but I'm sure he must have been happy with being in the top four, maybe not about the performances that we saw at the end of the season.
My goodness, Jamie, they've made it hard for themselves, haven't they?
They have, I mean, I think year in, year out. We speak at the start of the season, all of us, and we always say Man City have got the best squad, they've got the best players, but they still don't go and dominate. They've won leagues. I mean, I think this team now is coming to the end of a cycle. They've changed the manager in Pellegrini, Mancini, so it's their type of, it's their teams really the last few years, and they've been very successful. But you still have the feeling that they should have done more for the players that they've got. And with Guardiola coming in, he's not coming in just to win a Premier League every couple of years. He's coming in to try and make Man City become what Manchester United have been over the last sort of 20 years, dominate.
I'm not saying he'd be there that long, but over the next four or five years, how long he's at the club, he'll be able to come in and dominate and win that first Champions League.
And we were watching it, Graeme, in the television compound here with the other games going on, keeping up to date with the situation here at Old Trafford. And again, more evidence today from City on the job that Guardiola's got on.
It's an enormous job. They have not been convincing this year. Man City supporters will not be happy the way the season panned out. They only showed their real potential occasionally. For me, today was a typical Man City performance where it was lacklustre. I didn't see anyone bang at it. I didn't see any players falling out of each other. They were just costing. I think that's a legacy of what happened when they announced that Guardiola is going to join in February. And I think some players got into their armchairs nice and early and thought, well, this guy's a lame duck manager. We're playing for the next one.
How did Manchester City perform on the final day of the season?
And they nearly didn't qualify for the Champions League. And for Man City, that would be disaster. This team don't... Their ambition is not just to win the occasional Premier League or get to the semi-finals of a Champions League. Their plan, with the financial power they have behind them, is to dominate English football and be regular players in Champions League finals. And looking at that team there today and this season, they're a million miles away. You know, players are coming to the end of their cycle, players who have done well for them, but have been allowed to coast this year. And I think circumstances heaped it on them, you know, with having to announce Guardiola's coming in February. I think that damaged Man City going forward, because that team, that group, are far better than what they've shown this year.
Consistently, they've been a shadow of the team.
they finished fourth in the end Manchester City meanwhile here at Old Trafford the story developing all the time we now have confirmation from Greater Manchester Police about the controlled explosion it says this latest update a controlled explosion has just been carried out within the stadium by bomb disposal experts at Old Trafford more to follow and we will of course keep you up to date as things happen you'll have seen with us earlier the bomb squad arriving and there is confirmation that that controlled explosion in there in outside Old Trafford did happen at
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What happened during the abandoned match at Old Trafford?
0:05–2:56
2
How did Manchester City perform on the final day of the season?
2:56–5:59
3
What are the implications of Manchester City's Champions League qualification?
5:59–20:10
4
How did the players react to their season's performance?
20:10–41:10
Speakers
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