[Football] MASSIVE challenge for Guardiola

Not Andy Naylor

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Dec 12, 2007

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Seven Dials

• Mar 4, 2020

• #1

Forget winning away to Real Madrid, Guardiola has a real task on his hands when he takes Man Citeh to Hillsborough this evening in the FA Cup.

Obviously this is City's cup final, possibly the biggest game any of their players will have faced. Somehow a cruel trick of the league tables has prevented Aguero, Silva and the rest from experiencing the atmosphere that only a slightly run-down stadium in a suburb of north Sheffield can generate until now. But I'm confident it is something that they will remember for the rest of their week. Sorry, their lives.

Any thoughts on how De Bruyne, Sterling and the rest will cope?

 

Eeyore

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Apr 5, 2014

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• Mar 4, 2020

• #2

As they travel down the banks of the River Don, past Lakey News and see the awe inspiring training ground on the left, their souls will tremble at coming prospects. And once in, and the lighter show begins, they'll wish themselves to Anfield, or the Bernabeu, anywhere for calmer seas.

 

Stato

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Dec 21, 2011

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• Mar 4, 2020

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Watching the plucky oil billionaires taking on the second biggest club in Sheffield tonight I was amused to hear the Hillsborough Massive singing 'Where were you when you were sh*t?' at Man City fans.

Man City averaged 28,273 when they played the 1999 season in the third tier. In 1993 Sheffield Wednesday finished 7th in the Premier League and reached both the League and FA Cup finals and averaged 1009 less than this. Wednesday have had an average attendance larger than City's third tier attendance in two seasons out of the last 50.

 

GT49er

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Gloucester

• Mar 4, 2020

• #4

Are Wednesday still playing crowd noises over the PA? They were when I went there in the 90s.

 

pb21

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Apr 23, 2010

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• Mar 4, 2020

• #5

GT49er said:

Are Wednesday still playing crowd noises over the PA? They were when I went there in the 90s.

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On a more up to date basis, what about the pioneering mobile phone light shows, I wonder if are they still going?