Burnley learned their lessons from the 6-0 FA Cup defeat in March and on the evidence of their first Premier League outing, they will be more than capable of staying upIt was a faltering start for Burnley’s triumphant return to the top flight. First someone decided to host a pointless lights show in bright sunshine to get the crowd excited and then Erling Haaland opened the scoring for Manchester City in the fourth minute. Only one of them made an impact with a flash.Neither event would do much to whip up a furore in most circumstances but the Burnley supporters are accustomed to what their side can do under Vincent Kompany. City were ahead but feeling the heat at Turf...
Manchester City captain’s had already shown how valuable he still is to his manager in the last few weeks even before Monday’s heroic winning goal against LeicesterWhat a way, potentially, to go – via the sweetest of matchwinning, 30-yard goals. With almost 70 minutes played and Manchester City’s title defence in peril, up stepped Vincent Kompany to fire a rocket past Leicester City’s Kasper Schmeichel in the penultimate game of their season-long tussle with Liverpool.If it proves the final significant act of Kompany’s stellar 11 years at the club, this will be a fitting, storybook ending. After a victory that means City can retain the title by beating Brighton on Sunday the 33-year-old denied he would retire. But Kompany did...
Given how Pep Guardiola has treated Yaya Touré and Joe Hart, the news could soon be worse for the Manchester City defender after his 34th injuryThere is a wonderful old sketch in The Goon Show when Throat, Neddie Seagoon and Justin Eidelburger, played by Spike Milligan and his partners in anarchy, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers, intend to steal Napoleon’s piano and arrange to meet outside the Louvre on the second stroke of midnight. Except Seagoon arrives on the third stroke. “You’re late,” Eidelburger says. And the explanation is a thing of beauty. “Sorry,” Seagoon says, “my legs were slow.”Vincent Kompany, one imagines, knows the feeling. It’s just not so funny in his case when his legs are not what...