Re: Festive Football Chat : Sat Jan 16, 2010 6:33 pm  

Everton have dominated City so far. It could quite easily be more than 2-0 at half time, although I can't believe that Everton were awarded the penalty, even Saha thought the lino had given the foul against him.

Re: Festive Football Chat : Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:19 pm  

Nemanja wrote:

Everton have dominated City so far. It could quite easily be more than 2-0 at half time, although I can't believe that Everton were awarded the penalty, even Saha thought the lino had given the foul against him.

Clear as day penalty for me. Only doubts were the initial contact being outside of the box, utterly idiotic from Richards. Seriously, what on earth was he thinking.

Re: Festive Football Chat : Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:23 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

I take it he refereed Liverpool's latest stunning performance? Was he at fault for the 16 poor players on show as well

Alright, my posts about Rafa have been slightly exagerrated, but since the LFC fans seem to defend the players and think they are good enough, what do they make of their performances of late? Todays performance sounded abysmal on the radio commentary with Aldridge mentioning hearts the size of peas a few times. It was again not a showing by a set of players determined to prove the doubters wrong and to stick up for their manager. Do the players want Rafa out one wonders?

Today we were generally average, again. You would think it was a game between Stoke and Blackburn with the quality of football on show. Nothing from the midfield, two full backs as wingers and a headless chicken supporting N'Gog up front. N'Gog struggled all the way up there on his own, his teammates seemed scared to go near him at times.

We should have won, we done enough to win and Kuyt, well, that miss speaks for itself, utterly woeful footballer.

Re: Festive Football Chat : Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:25 pm  

Robbie Rotten wrote:

Clear as day penalty for me. Only doubts were the initial contact being outside of the box, utterly idiotic from Richards. Seriously, what on earth was he thinking.

My only thought was that you see them all the time in every game and they never get pulled up. Even Saha didn't think he'd got a penalty. Richards was very daft. Not as daft as the City wall for the Piennar free kick, it just dissappeared.



On another note, since when did it become an ejectable offence to have banners at football games?

Re: Festive Football Chat : Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:31 pm  

Nemanja wrote:

My only thought was that you see them all the time in every game and they never get pulled up. Even Saha didn't think he'd got a penalty. Richards was very daft. Not as daft as the City wall for the Piennar free kick, it just dissappeared.

You do, and they're never punished. It was nice to see the linesman made the decision, maybe the idiot who missed Lucas' clear as day penalty should take a few notes.

The wall was shocking, the free kick wasn't much higher than 5 foot and there wasn't much pace or dip to it, just accurately placed.

Everton battered City, City had nothing in midfield or attack, they were bullied for the majority of the game, even 'fearless' Nigel de Jong was dominated by Fellaini and co.

Re: Festive Football Chat : Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:37 pm  

You have to wonder about Citeh when it gets cold. They need to man up if they are ever going to step up to join the big boys. Everton were good today, but none of the other big clubs, Chelsea, Man U, Arsenal etc would have rolled over like that.

Re: Festive Football Chat : Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:40 pm  

Robbie Rotten wrote:

You do, and they're never punished. It was nice to see the linesman made the decision, maybe the idiot who missed Lucas' clear as day penalty should take a few notes.

Ask 27,000 people. I'm sure most Stoke fans wouldn't agree with Rafa.

Robbie Rotten wrote:

Everton battered City, City had nothing in midfield or attack, they were bullied for the majority of the game, even 'fearless' Nigel de Jong was dominated by Fellaini and co.

City's first decent opponent under Mancini and they get beat, must be all the wine and pizza they had before the game.

Re: Festive Football Chat : Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:30 pm  

Robbie Rotten wrote:

We should have won, we done enough to win and Kuyt, well, that miss speaks for itself, utterly woeful footballer.

Workhorse.

Nemanja wrote:

On another note, since when did it become an ejectable offence to have banners at football games?

Rumours of 6,000 plus protest midweek and a possible stayaway for the Hull City game. From two different callers on 606, one claiming to be a season ticket holder.

Re: Festive Football Chat : Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:46 pm  

Catalancs wrote: Rumours of 6,000 plus protest midweek and a possible stayaway for the Hull City game. From two different callers on 606, one claiming to be a season ticket holder. Rumours are loads of LUHG banners, chants etc at City, then a stand-out for a bit at the Hull game. They also want a 5-10 minute stand out in front of SMB statue versus AC Milan with the world's cameras on the game. There's another MUST/IMUSA meeting next Saturday, same time, same place. I can't believe some fans were chucked out for the LUHG banner, surely they must've known that word would go around about this, which will inevitably lead to more in the future. They're also trying to get more people boycotting the Megastore, food, beer and programmes in the future. The chanting got some media attention: Sky Sports wrote: Chants of "We want the Glazers out" from the Stretford End emphasised the debt mountain being carried by the Red Devils but there are also concerns about the strength of Sir Alex Ferguson's team. Few keys points from the MUST/IMUSA meeting.

Catalancs wrote: Rumours of 6,000 plus protest midweek and a possible stayaway for the Hull City game. From two different callers on 606, one claiming to be a season ticket holder. Rumours are loads of LUHG banners, chants etc at City, then a stand-out for a bit at the Hull game. They also want a 5-10 minute stand out in front of SMB statue versus AC Milan with the world's cameras on the game. There's another MUST/IMUSA meeting next Saturday, same time, same place. I can't believe some fans were chucked out for the LUHG banner, surely they must've known that word would go around about this, which will inevitably lead to more in the future. They're also trying to get more people boycotting the Megastore, food, beer and programmes in the future. The chanting got some media attention: Sky Sports wrote: Chants of "We want the Glazers out" from the Stretford End emphasised the debt mountain being carried by the Red Devils but there are also concerns about the strength of Sir Alex Ferguson's team. Few keys points from the MUST/IMUSA meeting.

Re: Festive Football Chat : Sat Jan 16, 2010 9:11 pm  

Just seen Rafa's new rant about the 27000 people and it is truly cringe worthy. Perhaps more embarrassing than his facts. Fair play to the sky lad for trying to get a straight answer out of him but he wasn't budging!