Saturday
Deadline for KK 194 is next Tuesday. Currently we’ve got David Mooney’s quiz, Tony’s second part of 92/93 season, Points Of Blue minutes, Uncle Ryan, Steve Bagley, and Bry Duffy’s come up with the half term players report.
Tomorrow it’s the rags in the 3rd round of the Cup. Here’s the It’s A Fix extract/update :
GAME 20A) SUNDAY JANUARY 8TH FA CUP RD 3 KO 1PM
We were the 5th club to be drawn out, so with all those other possibilities, the next ball, inevitably, was that of those lovable, rascally, rags.
A shit draw for both clubs meaning that we’ll both have to field full strength teams, though last year when we played our second eleven (Leicester, Notts County) we finished up with replays, and we can ill aford those this season.
In the F.A. Cup, there’s been meetings in seven rounds (+ a preliminary round which doesn’t really count, so not included!)
1926 SF 3-0 Bramall Lane
1955 4th rd h 2-0
1970 4th rd a 0-3
1986 3rd rd a 0-1
1996 5th rd a 1-2 (Alan Wilkie giving United an outrageous penalty)
2004 5th rd a 2-4
2011SF 1-0 at Wembley
So it’s 3 wins for City and 4 for united.
Since the O/T drubbing they’ve pulled off a few boring 1-0 wins, then a couple of 5 nillers when Fulham and Wigan laid down, although the ref helped them V Wigan with a disgraceful sending off of a Wigan player. They went out of the Carling at home to Palace, and have dropped out of the Chimps League into the Europa, to face Ajax.
They’re still in second place in the Prem. despite being shite but lost at home to Blackburn and away at Newcastle – text from a rag “worse game I’ve ever seen in my life united beat themselves didn’t need any help from Newcastle” Wow, I thought they were beaten by the better team! No wonder everyone hates them!
Can they lose three in a row? Yes! Means more to them than us but we must still do it, and as previously predicted, we go into this one as firm favourites, despite no Ya-Ya? Rooney and Fergie are coming out with the usual crap with City total class as usual.
Question is – will City sink to rag levels by repeating over the speakers time and time again “Welcome to Manchester, the home of the FA Cup Winners” like they did at the swamp before the Carling Cup semi second leg, then play a naff gloating victory song at the end of the game?
Just caught the end of Soccer AM this morning, Noel G doing well as usual plus the City lads kitted out by Kitbag and publicised in the MEN. Funny how Kitbag can snap to it when they want and the MEN always happy to pick up a story but no help from either for the Us and Them book.
Dave
Sometimes life just isn't fair, is it? The game given to United on the back of a stupid and wrong ref's decision. I hope we'll appeal this travesty to, at least, get Vinnie back for the Spurs game.
ReplyDeleteI was concerned at the line up with us looking a bit lightweight, but there weren't too many other options. Kolarov, dear me, where was he when Valencia was crossing for the 1st and the lunge for the penalty was just stupid. Nige should have done much better for the 2nd. Nasri, what are we getting from the guy, bugger all it seems to me.
On the positive side, and there's quite a bit of this. Clever substitutions at half time, Silva off with Weds in mind. If Roberto had known how the 2nd half panned out, he might have taken Nasri off instead. How can ref and linesman both miss Jones shepherding the ball out with his arm in the 85th min and why couldn't the late free kick have bounced a bit more kindly.
At the start of the 2nd, I'd have settled for 3.0 at the end I feel gutted and cheated we didn't manage a draw.
Hopefully, a few more players available for Liverpool, and let's make them pay for this travesty of justice!
The lads did themselves and us proud by the end of that game.
ReplyDeleteAs for not fair Dave I'll phrase it differently.
Foy you're a fucking disgrace.
Don't normally swear but I thought this display deserved it.
What will come of it then?
Anything?
I doubt it. The police policing the police.
Week in week out with these same referee's getting it wrong time after time.
Shameless.How can these men see the decisions they'e made and show their faces again in a matter of days in front of thousands of people at a football ground and millions on television?
This is on par with Wilkie's call against Fonzeck for daring to breath in the same air as Cantona!
Is there an internal competition going on with the ref's to see if they can all send a City player off? Are we really that bad, really that aggressive? Are we f**k.
That rant aside with the exception of the superb free kick Kolarov is awful.
NDJ will be kicking himself for Wellbeck's goal and bad luck to the big lad for almost keeping out that twat's penalty kick.
Never thought I could ever put this statement together but I hate you even more potato head I really do. You in my opinion were responsible for that sending off. Not a single player around the incident even thought for one second that that was anything other than what it was, A super tackle.
Head high a good result against 12 men yet again.
The appeal has to be successful,any other outcome will be a travesty.
C.T.I.D
We can be so proud today. Without a doubt the sending off affected us, but that would have been no excuse if they'd beaten us 5 or 6-0 which at half time I thought was a definate possibility, as they would have pointed to also being down to ten men at O/T. In effect, we murdered them in the second half with ten men, came out of the game unscathed and its United who now have to compete in the FA Cup (Liverpool away next,ha-ha) whilst we can continue trying to win our first premiership. I am in no doubt that the authorities are trying to make it as hard as possible for us, that's why we drew Liverpool in the league Cup and not Palace or Cardiff and United in the FA Cup and not Tamworth. If we can see out January and still be top of the league or even two points behind United, we will be OK as by then we should have our injured players back, the lazy Argentinian gentleman transferred with a replacement bought and United will have some tough games in February with the FA Cup to keep them occupied. Ya-Ya will also be back at the beginning of February, maybe even sooner if his national side get knocked out early. Like it or not, I'm afraid their twelve men were too much for our ten today.
ReplyDeleteRule 41 states that the letter of the law only applies to Deryk Boyata and Vincent Kompany.
ReplyDeleteRule 42 states that rules 1-41 don't apply to Shrek, Camelgob, Gerrard, Lampard, John Terry and Ashley Cole.
Rooney has responded ( in very bad broken English on his twitter site ) saying that the ref made the decision, etc. No apology for waving an imaginary card in the Foy's face who visibly wilted under the pressure. Roberto did the same when thoroughly wound up over Barry's dismissal against Liverpool and apologized straight away. Any chance of spudhead doing the same, of course not-who's got the class need we ask?
ReplyDeleteI watched the game with my red son-in-law who was kacking himself in the second half, said that it was definately a pen late in the game from Jones' handball ( this has not got much mention! ) and that Utd were fortunate in the end.
Why wasn't Giggs booked for the deliberate foul from behind on Aguero ( Note Vinnie's was going for, and won, the ball and even Nani wasn't complaining ). Also, to show Blue's are honest, there was a far worse two-footed challenge by De-Jong later on to which I would have had no problem with a red card. By then, of course, Foy realized what a balls up he had made, shame he won't admit it of course to cancel Vinnie's ban.
Unfortunately that tackle was reckless and excessive and merited a sending off. Those are the LOTG that the referee applied. We may not like it and we may not understand it but those are the instructions to referees from the governing body (yes, I am a referee)
ReplyDeleteAs a City fan I hated the call of course but I dont blame the referee. Well done lads for the stirring fightback and I think going out of the FAC may be a blessing as we should prioritize the league, Carling and Eurpoa in that order now.
Virtually every pundit and caller on Talksport today, with the exception of 90% of United fans and Darren (Red) Gough reckoned it was not a sending off. The tackle was technically a twwo footed tackle, BUT only one foot seems to make contact with Nani. I have played football and I don't understand how anyone can make a sliding tackle with one leg, it just cant be done. You need to use both legs to slide in, but provided you only make contact with one foot it shouldn't be illegal. Anyway, we have a referee in Duffman who says it was a foul, so I guess we are wrong.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Vinnie was in clear control of what he was doing, both feet on the ground, with the right foot sliding across to take the ball cleanly. I guess the devil's in the detail, which will form the crux of City's argument against the ban.
ReplyDeleteLove the way that Sky obtained a balanced view of opinions by quoting Rooney and Ferdinand and then asking Lou Macari and Clayton Blackmore
ReplyDeleteAs I alluded in my previous post, Ferdinand and John Terry would not have been dismissed for that type of challenge.