Nice sunny day in San Francisco as City kicked off at the
Hawthorns. Patrick, Maggie’s beloved
barkeep, was uncharacteristically sullen probably due to being reminded that
Arsenal were bottom of the league. He soon brightened though up to inform all 16-plus
of the attending SF Blues that we should
be careful lest we bring worse things onto ourselves. Personally, I kept my
trap shut. Dr. Adrian Rawlinson offered
to write us all sick notes as we had skived off work to watch which showed
ultimate compassion from one who has uttered the Hippocratic Oath . Dave Brogan
was off like a rocket towards the moan zone as the game began, complaining
about the fullback pairing of Saghna and Kolorav but really!! why begin the
season like this when we have 37 more glorious opportunities to vent our
spleens? What’s this? City started
brightly, bossing the game as Silva buzzed around, playing through Yaya as West
Brom watched like stand-ins from ‘Dawn of the Dead’. George A. Romero aka Tony
Pulis stood impassively on the sidelines projecting his thought-waves, ‘4-4-2
wtf was I thinking? and these West Brom boxers are very tight around the nether
regions’. Nine minutes in Silva shot across the face of goal, Navas retrieved
and brought it back for Toure to scuff a shot through Dawson’s lanky legs into the side of the net, a lucky
dribbler –WE LOVE SCABBY GOALS! Cue a loud
Rob, Kyle (and bro) and Jeffrey-led chorus of Yaya, Yaya Yaya… It got better, 25 minutes on the clock a languid
one-two with Bony for Toure to curl one in to the Myhill’s left top corner.
City continued in similar fashion as the half ran out, Sterling should have
scored but no matter; his 6 out of 10 performance, though bright, was below the rest of the rampant City players.
West Brom improved in the second half (it was hard not to) and had a few
chances to score but not even Gino Fortunato,
who has a morbid fear of 2-0 score lines, looked not the slightest bit
worried. The killer blow came as Silva whipped in a corner to Vinnie in similar
fashion to his (almost) league winning goal against Man Utd in 2012, glanced powerfully past the goalkeeper. Jose
and Jacq Ferreira, Zack, Ajay, Simon P,
were up and Mick Graham started to enjoy the game. Kudos to Mike and Sue
from Oz who attended and we didn’t mention the cricket once. Great result! bring on Chelski and the
‘Cheating One’.
SF Blues Man of the Match: Kyle Cook for his rousing
rendition of Manuel Pellegrini’s Lamborghini.
West Bromwich Albion
13 Myhill
04 Chester Booked
25 Dawson
06 Lescott
11 Brunt
08 Gardner Booked
24 Fletcher Booked
07 Morrison
14 McClean (Yacob
- 45' Booked )
17 Lambert
(Anichebe - 74' )
18 Berahino
(McManaman - 80' )
Substitutes
03 Olsson
05 Yacob
09 Ideye
10 Anichebe
19 McManaman
29 Sessegnon
38 Rose
City
01 Hart
03 Sagna
04 Kompany
20 Mangala
11 Kolarov
42 Y Touré
(Demichelis - 80' )
25 Fernandinho
Booked
15 Jesús Navas
21 Silva
07 Sterling (Nasri
- 74' )
14 Bony (Agüero -
63' )
Substitutes
05 Zabaleta
08 Nasri
10 Agüero
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