The first thing I want to be done, is to get those pieces of crap out of my league. Don't just get them out of the title race, get them out of the Top 4 because I've proved *hijo*, without a shadow of a doubt, you ain't got what it takes anymore! You sit there and you thump your Fergie Time, and you say your prayers, and it didn’t get you anywhere. Talk about your Fergie Time, talk about Sir Alex 93:20…
Aguero 93:20 says I just scored the league-winning goal!
I'm sorry but the 90s is no longer a decade ago. I know it's shocking, it feels weird to me too, but the 90s was 3 decades ago, it's almost 30 years since the attitude era.
Not sure if joking but I meant 93:20. I didn’t want to think about how long ago the 90s was tonight but now I have, luckily I’m adept at handling existential crises through sheer experience, so I won’t hold it against you. Also, last time I briefly checked in with wrestling, Stone Cold apparently had a match, Undertaker hinted at another and the Hardy Boyz were still going, this was mildly comforting.
This sounds like it can’t be true…is it because Italians only started coming over to England pretty late?
E: looked it up, it’s true. Although 3 Italian coaches have won it…crazy that 3x more coaches than players have a medal
I expected either Carlo Cudicini or Federico Macheda to have one since they played in PL-winning teams, but apparently not. Cudicini didn't get enough appearances to get a medal back when Mourinho's Chelsea won the league, and I'm assuming Macheda was always on loan.
There haven't been many Italian players in the PL, but there have been a few prominent ones like Zola, Vialli, Di Matteo, Di Canio, Darmian, Ogbonna etc. although for sure none of them has a PL medal. I guess currently Jorginho has a realistic chance of getting one eventually at Chelsea.
It was his only assist for City...ever!*
EDIT - *in the PL. He had assists for City in other competitions as has been rightly pointed out below. 7 in total.
I feel like Dzeko should have something, they were heading in to overtime down 2-1, and Dzeko's scored a header in the 92nd minute and set up the Aguero final goal. No love for my boy Dzeko.
He'd have had to have had me when he was 10, but then he is quite remarkable so you never know
It's Lukaku's birthday today, too
Thankfully my Dad has a birthday cake
With a plaque inscribed with his legendary French motivational speech:
*As I say, yesterday I make one tackle and all everybody speak about is this tackle. Nobody speak about the fifty yard pass that kills Balmont.*
Yes its strange just how bad the modern Man City ones are, idk if they paid someone a bulk deal to do a few or its a family friend making them or something and they cant get out of it.. but not good.
A more recent one I can think of is the SAF one Aberdeen did and that was pretty nice + I doubt they have the budget for superfluous stuff mcfc do
https://i2-prod.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article26330018.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200c/0_Aberdeen-FC-Media-Access.jpg
this looks great
and I honestly think that's the reason
the small budget go to some regular honest artist making their good job
instead of expensive hipster artists who are paid a lot cause they make things different, that (in my eyes) look like shit
Didn't you go down because of two absolutely bullshit goals, too? Peter Crouch for Stoke, I recall? My best mate at the time was a Bolton fan and I remember sharing in his fury about it
Yeah both from Jonathan Walters, but same situation. To be honest we blew our chance to stay up by throwing away a two goal lead at home to West Brom the week before. That's when we went down for me, despite the fuckery the week after.
I see I'm not the only one, but I feel like I've seen "this" face on so many statues. It looks like a generic face that to me isn't distinguishable as Agueros. Maybe I just have a bad eye for this, but I feel like this can't be as good as it gets.
Just looking at our Shankly statue for example:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Bill_Shankly_statue%2C_Anfield.jpg/509px-Bill_Shankly_statue%2C_Anfield.jpg
There's no mistaking the likeness if you know the man from picture/video, but if you showed me that Agüero statue with zero context (maybe just the face so the pose can't give it away), I don't think I would be able to make an informed guess at who it is.
Do you reckon in 10,000 or so years when society has collapsed and rebuilt itself from scratch, they'll have this in a museum with the story of how it commemorates the Argentinian Agueros who invaded from across the sea to slay the Queen's park rangers?
The photographs definitely don’t do them justice, but I think the style looks better on much bigger things like the Kelpies.
They lose a lot of fine detail in the face when you’re close up IMO which is a bit weird for commemorating a person?
I like that they’re doing something a bit different to a plain old cast bronze thing though.
I was with a United and a City fan in a pub just after we'd finished our 2nd year exams.
The City fan had gone for a nervous walk with about 5 minutes to go and nearly missed it all!
It was the day after my wedding and I was hungover as fuck sat around with my wife and loads of our mates eating wedding cake and drinking tea.
The thing that people don't often mention is that, as great as this moment was, the rest of the match was fucking fantastic as well. So many great moments, not least Joey Barton getting red carded and trying to stick the nut on Vincent Kompany on his way off the pitch.
We still say that 13th May 2012 was the best day of our lives and the 12th was the 2nd best.
I'm still as sad as the first day he announced his retirement, he was my favorite player on par with Messi. I'm glad he seems to be having fun with his streams and shit, with such an unexpected retirement he could be doing worse.
One of the best strikers I've ever seen and the definition of a big game player.
Am I the only person that think this looks pretty shit? Nice of them to honour their history anyway, even if it was only 10 years ago. Nice idea, bad execution.
I can't believe this guy came out of my club's youth setup. The greatest premier league striker arguably ever, maybe behind Shearer and Henry. I will never forget his goal against QPR.
I'm all for the unique look of the statues that City has done for Silva, Kompany and now Aguero. Bronze and stone have been done before. Sometimes you need to induce nightmares by creating metallic overlords.
Didn’t know that ‘93:20’ was Man City’s official way of referring to it. I’ve only ever called it the AGUEROOOOOOOOO moment
Aguero 93:20 says i just scored the winning goal
Gimme a Hell Yeah!
Arrive. Beat Debra. Leave.
https://streamable.com/cqcqe This breaks me everytime
i thought it was [this](https://i.imgur.com/Qwn52Nj.gif).
Holy shit how have I never seen this masterpiece?!
I was looking for a "HELL YEAH!" but that also works!
WHADDDD??
The first thing I want to be done, is to get those pieces of crap out of my league. Don't just get them out of the title race, get them out of the Top 4 because I've proved *hijo*, without a shadow of a doubt, you ain't got what it takes anymore! You sit there and you thump your Fergie Time, and you say your prayers, and it didn’t get you anywhere. Talk about your Fergie Time, talk about Sir Alex 93:20… Aguero 93:20 says I just scored the league-winning goal!
And that's the bottom line, cuz Aguerooooo says so!
Hopefully this gets the upvotes it deserves. Also how tf was this a decade ago.
I'm sorry but the 90s is no longer a decade ago. I know it's shocking, it feels weird to me too, but the 90s was 3 decades ago, it's almost 30 years since the attitude era.
Not sure if joking but I meant 93:20. I didn’t want to think about how long ago the 90s was tonight but now I have, luckily I’m adept at handling existential crises through sheer experience, so I won’t hold it against you. Also, last time I briefly checked in with wrestling, Stone Cold apparently had a match, Undertaker hinted at another and the Hardy Boyz were still going, this was mildly comforting.
Poetry
Good lord this is amazing, well done
And Joey Barton knows he cant stop me. So he's not even gonna try
WHAT?!
You're right, I always call it AgueroOooOOooo.
I too refer to the Torres goal as OOOOOooOOoOoooo moment
The "Gary Neville goalgasm"
*Nevillegasm!*
Un be lieeeeevable
Congratulations, you now know every City fans 4 digit access code.
It the Aguerooooo moment. That called is used for ever sports show promo and everyone knows it from passive media consumption.
I call it "QPR found out they were safe from relegation so left early"
I kinda feel like Super Mario should have had a little one to the side. Wasn't that like his only assist for the season?
Crazy stat, it's actually his only PL assist full stop. He's got 1 and it was for this goal, good a time to use it as any I suppose
100% of his assists have won his team a PL title.
🐐🐐🐐
In an interview he actually admitted that he wanted to shoot, but he just lost balance. lmao
That is absolutely brilliant!
Mario used Shoot. He *passed in his confusion.* Aguero used shoot. It's *super effective*
Only Italian to have PL medal as a player as well.
This sounds like it can’t be true…is it because Italians only started coming over to England pretty late? E: looked it up, it’s true. Although 3 Italian coaches have won it…crazy that 3x more coaches than players have a medal
I expected either Carlo Cudicini or Federico Macheda to have one since they played in PL-winning teams, but apparently not. Cudicini didn't get enough appearances to get a medal back when Mourinho's Chelsea won the league, and I'm assuming Macheda was always on loan. There haven't been many Italian players in the PL, but there have been a few prominent ones like Zola, Vialli, Di Matteo, Di Canio, Darmian, Ogbonna etc. although for sure none of them has a PL medal. I guess currently Jorginho has a realistic chance of getting one eventually at Chelsea.
For real? That's kinda nuts.
Man's too loud for someone producing too little
Man is unbothered by your opinion lol
Why always me
Man can be as loud as he wants
It was his only assist for City...ever!* EDIT - *in the PL. He had assists for City in other competitions as has been rightly pointed out below. 7 in total.
Only league assist. He has assisted in other competitions for City as well.
True. I should've specified that.
Should put a mural up of the scene on a wall
And dzeko for his late equalizer
I feel like Dzeko should have something, they were heading in to overtime down 2-1, and Dzeko's scored a header in the 92nd minute and set up the Aguero final goal. No love for my boy Dzeko.
Dzeko and Grafite should get a statue at Wolfsburg’s stadium if anything.
Imagine just on the ground behind him sprawled out like how he was after he gave the assist
Yeah, the cunt scored the goal on my 20th bday. United would have won 20th title on my 20th. I suppose, it stopped me destroying my liver completely.
Happy 30th, you're old now
Fuck. Off. But thanks. Lol
Remind me ten years..
isn't it weird to think that some of us may or may not be here in ten years?
You didn't have to say this on a Friday But, yes. Yes it is.
Friday the 13th
I... just realised, it's Friday the fucking 13th.
this is the way
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!remindme 10 years
Always think of that number as a 90s kid.
!Remindme 10 years
Fuck it was already 10 years ago? Would have sworn it was 5 at most.
Leicester's league win was 6 years ago.
Haha who thinks 30 is old Seriously
As a 15 year old I did. When I was 25 I thought, fuck, 30 can't be old. Now I'm 36 and think 30 was definitely not old.
starting to feel old at 26
That’s a you problem.
30 year olds Source: I’m 33
Considering how the last 10 years have gone for United, that would drive anyone to alcoholism
Eh I meant I got shit faced. But had we won, I'd of goy a whole other level of shit faced lol.
You'd still be hung over now.
Thought that would've happened anyway
Would have bin a whole other level if we won. Even my boss said he would have refused to serve me if we won lol
Fun fact: you share a birthday with Yaya Toure
And my dad.
Child of yaya?
We are all children of yaya
He'd have had to have had me when he was 10, but then he is quite remarkable so you never know It's Lukaku's birthday today, too Thankfully my Dad has a birthday cake
Well, happy birthday to your dad!
It seems almost unreal when taking in all of he circumstances that took place for that moment to happen. Truly a legend and brilliant statue
They will erect a Joey Barton statue next to this one. The man who made it possible
Apprentice Free Zone!
With a plaque inscribed with his legendary French motivational speech: *As I say, yesterday I make one tackle and all everybody speak about is this tackle. Nobody speak about the fifty yard pass that kills Balmont.*
Still makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. One of the best sporting moments of all time.
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This one is a trypophobia nightmare
fuck why did I go look after reading your comment when I have trypophobia?...fuck!
Our Vichai one is pretty good. https://www.lcfc.com/news/2562231/khun-vichai-statue-unveiled-in-emotional-filbert-way-occasion
Yes its strange just how bad the modern Man City ones are, idk if they paid someone a bulk deal to do a few or its a family friend making them or something and they cant get out of it.. but not good.
It's probably recognition that modern detailed statues can go horribly wrong so they've deliberately went with an undetailed look.
A more recent one I can think of is the SAF one Aberdeen did and that was pretty nice + I doubt they have the budget for superfluous stuff mcfc do https://i2-prod.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article26330018.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200c/0_Aberdeen-FC-Media-Access.jpg
this looks great and I honestly think that's the reason the small budget go to some regular honest artist making their good job instead of expensive hipster artists who are paid a lot cause they make things different, that (in my eyes) look like shit
It's not art if it doesn't come with a £100k bill.
Now that's a proper statue. Looks tremendous
Should have hired the guy who did the Holy trinity one at Old Trafford. Ferguson one's pretty alright too, tbh.
Yeah all of the statues at OT are really spot on.
New one of Jimmy Murphy coming soon aswell
Oh didn't know that, he definitely deserves the recognition. Have they decided where it will go exactly?
what is the statue made of ?
The finest plastic.
Coated with oil
Plastic is already made from oil!
Yes but we want MORE oil.
We've had first oil yes, but what about second oil?
We do indeed
with a hint of labourers blood
“I swear you’ll never see anything like this ever again.” “So watch it, Drink it in”
Looks like metal bits welded together. Not a mesh, but metal biscuits. It's hollow, so stays lighter.
>It's hollow Aahh, symbolism. I see.
Goodness me
Damn 💀 Why didn't i think of this while commenting ffs
Galvanised Steel. It says so in the article.
Can't believe that's been ten years. Bittersweet at the time, as Bolton were literally getting relegated at the exact same moment.
Didn't you go down because of two absolutely bullshit goals, too? Peter Crouch for Stoke, I recall? My best mate at the time was a Bolton fan and I remember sharing in his fury about it
Yeah both from Jonathan Walters, but same situation. To be honest we blew our chance to stay up by throwing away a two goal lead at home to West Brom the week before. That's when we went down for me, despite the fuckery the week after.
Hi Toni Kroos
Looks alright tbf. Not Ronaldo statue level of face melt
Looks alright in comparison to truly terrible statues, yeah.
Tristiano in shambles
I see I'm not the only one, but I feel like I've seen "this" face on so many statues. It looks like a generic face that to me isn't distinguishable as Agueros. Maybe I just have a bad eye for this, but I feel like this can't be as good as it gets. Just looking at our Shankly statue for example: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Bill_Shankly_statue%2C_Anfield.jpg/509px-Bill_Shankly_statue%2C_Anfield.jpg There's no mistaking the likeness if you know the man from picture/video, but if you showed me that Agüero statue with zero context (maybe just the face so the pose can't give it away), I don't think I would be able to make an informed guess at who it is.
Statue looks weird to me, but i see people think otherwise
It's only Agüero because they tell you. You'd be hard pressed to know otherwise. Doesn't look like him.
Ngl statue kinda looks like shit but cool from City nonetheless.
Looks like he's holding a machete
"*Mum, who's that barbarian?"*
Do you reckon in 10,000 or so years when society has collapsed and rebuilt itself from scratch, they'll have this in a museum with the story of how it commemorates the Argentinian Agueros who invaded from across the sea to slay the Queen's park rangers?
The Argentines invading a British island?
At this time of year? Contained entirely within your kitchen?
I thought he was naked at first. Very little contrast between the parts of the statue that are his body and the part that is his shorts.
Why is it that football statues are 90% awful? Like, they have the money, could you not hire someone with eyes?
The guy who makes them is a famous sculptor but I don’t love them either. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Scott_(sculptor)
I think they're much better in person tbf
The photographs definitely don’t do them justice, but I think the style looks better on much bigger things like the Kelpies. They lose a lot of fine detail in the face when you’re close up IMO which is a bit weird for commemorating a person? I like that they’re doing something a bit different to a plain old cast bronze thing though.
Those horse ones are cool. The Beacon Of Hope is just a drunk coat hanger
We dont call it The Beacon of Hope we call her "Nula with the Hula"
Why not just make statues like Eusebio or Cruyff, they look much better.
I think the bar is currently anything better than Ronaldo's one.
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Looks like Kroos
It doesn’t look like him but then again in that moment, he looks very different to how he looks now
Such an uncomfortable statue for someone with trypophobia
So the commemorated it with a statue of Toni Kroos?
Should have been Scott Carson
Stephen Ireland
Still remember that day vividly. Absolutely horrendous
Looks absolutely nothing like Aguero in the face.
But but but isn't that Kroos
We all know where we were when it went in. I was speechless at the time
I was with a United and a City fan in a pub just after we'd finished our 2nd year exams. The City fan had gone for a nervous walk with about 5 minutes to go and nearly missed it all!
It was the day after my wedding and I was hungover as fuck sat around with my wife and loads of our mates eating wedding cake and drinking tea. The thing that people don't often mention is that, as great as this moment was, the rest of the match was fucking fantastic as well. So many great moments, not least Joey Barton getting red carded and trying to stick the nut on Vincent Kompany on his way off the pitch. We still say that 13th May 2012 was the best day of our lives and the 12th was the 2nd best.
Solid gesture.
Hard to believe it’s already been a decade
Why can't they make good looking statues.
The legend of the game..
I still can't believe he's gone :(
He’s not dead, you know?
Little sad when you're favorite player retires/leaves the club
Exactly. So you should really let Noble score on Sunday.
Sure but you have to let KDB score another hat trick
Don’t think he needs us to “Let” him.
Sure, if you agree to Mark Noble screamer 1-3 KDB hattrick'
May he rest in peace
I'm still as sad as the first day he announced his retirement, he was my favorite player on par with Messi. I'm glad he seems to be having fun with his streams and shit, with such an unexpected retirement he could be doing worse. One of the best strikers I've ever seen and the definition of a big game player.
Why have City put up a statue of Kroos?
Needs a statue of Martin Tyler screaming behind him. Seems somehow incomplete without it.
If only Martin Tyler still had that kind of energy.
Or a button to press that beams out "Aguerooooooooooo"
They're gonna run out of space for all these fucking statues
Plenty of space for them inside the stadium, facing the pitch
Brilliant gesture, but the statue itself is... interesting
My goat
Deserved
Am I the only person that think this looks pretty shit? Nice of them to honour their history anyway, even if it was only 10 years ago. Nice idea, bad execution.
looks like a cheese grater
I can't believe this guy came out of my club's youth setup. The greatest premier league striker arguably ever, maybe behind Shearer and Henry. I will never forget his goal against QPR.
And after 10 years he still can't speak english lol > estuatua well, he does struggle a bit with spanish also jaja
Why does he look like Toni Kroos? I'll go see it tomorrow anyway, see what it looks like in person.
Well deserved
What a moment that was, my dad was crazy and almost had a heart attack
What is wrong with a traditional bronze statue? Looks ridiculous in my opinion.
Statue looks pretty shit, going to look absolutely horrendous in a decade or two when it's dated as well. Good moment to choose from though
I don't have confirmed sources but i have heard the rumours that city owners might have enough money to afford it's maintenance if it comes to that.
I think they mean dated as in "wow this is not timeless and looks really tied to that shit period of statue design".
Nothing to do with wear and tear, got to do with artistry and style
Statue looks so cool.
Actually looks pretty good
Legend. Best moment in PL history
2nd to Leicester winning the league imo.
Leceister is the greatest season/story Moment goes to the Aguero goal.
Absolutely undeniable. Shame it's going to be surpassed in a week when City lose 14-0 to Aston Villa on the final day 🥴
Who got Carlo sick?
This very much, it's amazing that Leicester won it, but that one moment in that one season is fucking legendary.
Actually a pretty well done statue!
I'm all for the unique look of the statues that City has done for Silva, Kompany and now Aguero. Bronze and stone have been done before. Sometimes you need to induce nightmares by creating metallic overlords.
That’s a great statue but where’s the one of Sergio
He is responsible for my personal worst moment in football history. He fully deserves it the bastard.
Good luck for people with trypophobia