Ballboy tactics: The secret to Man City's 5-0 win over Crystal Palace?
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Man City managed to put five past Crystal Palace on Saturday, but was it actually due to the ball boy's tactics?
It wasn't just the Premier League games that delivered top tweets. From Ryan Giggs scoring a screamer in the Indian Premier Futsal League to the Old Firm derby, it was a football-filled weekend on Twitter...
1) Setting the Old Firm tone
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Why is the rare spectacle of a manager being accidentally taken out on the touchline so eternally satisfying to watch? It’s almost as if that dotted white line of the technical area offers no protection whatsoever.
2) What the heart wants?
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After Bristol City raised the social-media goal celebration bar last week, here’s Celtic’s Leigh Griffiths: the hands say he loves you, the eyes say he wants you dead.
3) Pep talk
The poor ballboys of the Premier League, now being given tactical briefings from its obsessive micromanagers.
Still, after Man City's 5-0 win over Crystal Palace, perhaps there's something in it...
4 Early (late) bath
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Good old Jose Mourinho, managing to scrape some controversy from even the most benign Premier League situation since 2004.
5) Spectator sport
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Fair play to the injured Nathaniel Chalobah for...
1) not watching Watford’s win on an illegal internet stream
2) not resorting to the living hell that is listening to your team protect a one-goal lead on the radio.
6) This week in Benjamin Mendy corner...
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£100m-worth of charming mickey-taking here, as one expensive Manchester City full-back has some fun at the expense of another expensive Manchester City full-back.
7)Still got it
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Ryan Giggs here, taking some time out of his quest to break into football management, by half-volleying one into the top corner in the Indian Premier Futsal League.
8) It's a cruel, cruel world
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Poor old Derby 2007/08, the official benchmark for being truy rubbish in the top flight.
9) Meanwhile, in Turkey
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The most notable thing here is not so much the flurry of red and yellow cards, more the fact that the highly combustible Pepe managed to avoid getting one of them.
10) Scottish Football 1 Everyone Else 0
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The best bit of punditry so far this season, as Chris Sutton and his notepad are sent flying by an inch-perfect horror tackle.
