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Hardly surprising, I suppose.
He's a massive ****. In every single thing he gets involved in. Property. Politics. Football. The lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
I actually agreed with him on most things yesterday :hide:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
I only hear the accent, not the words. And the accent sickens me. So he's a wrong'un. :judge:Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
He made a good point that if Gabriel hadn't gone down (aka dived theatrically) then the free kick would not have been given. And that would have been a whole different game!Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
:nod: I was trying to explain that to a city fan at work. It was actually very clever from Gabriel. He was also right about the comms issues with the lino. We had just built up a nice head of steam at that point. Thankfully, it didn't take long to get back on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by pjlincs
Gabriel is perfectly under that ball and is going to head it clear. The shove, even though small, is crucial. So yes, he has to make a meal of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Has to be said, we got a bit lucky there. Many refs wouldn't have given it. And there is no way VAR gives that.
:nod: Had it not been given I didn't think VAR would have overruled it. That said, it was a foul.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Definitely a foul.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
My friends who support United are going out of their minds. I swear they were not this hate-filled back in 2004. It is quite absurd. I get 20 messages a day.....:-)
I agree. It's like having a photo finish if you allow a false start.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
You shouldn't be allowed to do that.
I also don't get why we look at offsides to the mm cos that mm could give you an advantage, but dragging back by the shirt is allowed.
Remember that first post-Covid game? Leno has the ball just inside the box and the push him, deliberate foul, not attempt to win the ball, to see if he'll carry it out in the act of being fouled. Injured and misses a cup final and a charity shield.
If two jump to challenge for a header, fair play. But Gabby was set and would have cleared it, that's why he got pushed in the back.
But if that's given, I still don't get why that Brummie **** was allowed to deliberately injure Leo.
Lucky you :-) Listening to that lot whine now that they're sh1t is one of the best things about football todayQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter
The real question that the pundits should be asking is whether the push was sufficient to stop Gabriel from heading the ball clear, and it was. I have zero sympathy for players who put their hands on other players and then claim they didn't commit a foul. If you aren't going to push him, don't put your hands on him :shrug:
I genuinely can't get my head around United fans wanting City to win the league. We have a couple in our office, it's mental.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Can't speak for all of them but my friends simply cannot handle Arsenal's resurgence. They despise Arteta and everyone else at the club.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
It's really just envy, but there is a distinct lack of class. Piling on me after the Wolves games is not the act of a friend. I would NEVER do that to anyone. It's unspeakably childish.
Had weeks of **** about Thomas Partey as well.
We had one setback in the game and we recovered. We would have had half an hour to do it again.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
The way we approached that game yesterday, I think we still would have won. Spurs were atrocious.
Yes, the narrative that odious little paddy Given was peddling on MOTD was nonsense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
If they score there we still go on to win, we were that much better.
I think Shay Given might be the only Irishman I genuinely hate :rubchin:
Oh yes, he really doesn't like us. You can see in his face how hard he finds saying anything positive about us.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
Geordie poison. Finds it way in somehow.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
Awful people. Up the mackems:-)
I don't get that. I know their historic rivalry was the NW derby with the Scousers, but it must hurt being the second best team in their city.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Actually, thinking about it, is it that City have just bought it? All their trinkets will have 115 asterisks, but if we win, we'll have done it far and square like Fergie and Wenger etc.
Genuine question, P, and I haven't thought it through myself.
Sperz get bought buy some petro-dictatorship and spend billions each year after openly bribing the FA, PL, Uefa etc.
It's them against a resurgent Man U {managed by some former player you hate as much as I hate Neville} for the title. Who do you want to win?
I still don't want Sperz to win. I don't care about the asterisks. I don't care ManU pull further away from us in all time titles.
Though I can sort of see where they're coming from. If City with everything then us, Mancs and LFC are where we've always been. We're equals. Doesn't matter if one is 2nd, one is 5th and one is 17th in the grand scheme of things.
But kids in the playground will be choosing City over Utd. They'll lose their City. Surely that means more? How can they cheers for their City rivals?
United still have far more sway than City in Manchester. Both my girls would be United fans if I hadn't stepped in :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
That's some top class parenting right there, P :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Not even a question. Anyone but Spurs. Literally anyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
But then I am a North Londoner who supports Arsenal because my grandfather did, and his father before him.
It is different. These guys are cockney reds. Not saying they aren't genuine fans, but they dont get the Mancunian aspect of it. They dont know what it means, as they say.
Bloody right!Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
My nephew supports Everton, because his father does.
It is a patriarchal line. There should be no arguments about that :-)
My eldest used to wind me up that she would support spurs because she liked Hurri Kane....thankfully she was just being a prick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
If City's dominance went on for another whole generation would it stay that way?Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Does everyone in Manchester already have a team so it gets passed down, and Manchester will always be mostly MU?
I know their historic rivalry with LFC but did they never have one with City? I don't remembering the Manc derby being "friendly" in the way the Merseyside one was.
Gotcha now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
So basically they care more about their rivalry with their fellow Londoners than they do about the club's historic city rivalry. That explains it, I suppose.
But I do think they are missing something. They're supporting ManU wanting to be the biggest in London, not in Manchester.
Oh it's certainly not 'friendly'. Maybe because I live in Trafford I know far more United fans than City fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
The ones wanting City to win the title, I think is because it deflects from how terrible they are. I think they've just accepted that they're playing 2nd fiddle to City but still think they're on a level with us.
Let's not forget they got relegated in the 70's and were as ****e as they are now until Fergie arrived but still had a huge fanbase when I was growing up in Surrey :hehe:
The money is relevant, in my experience. As City simply bought the league, they feel it doesn't count. When THEY could outspend everyone that was fine, as it was football-derived income.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
They have convinced themselves that City destroyed football and good, honest clubs like them cant compete. So when Liverpool win it, they hate it. Us winning it is somehow worse.
They genuinely believe that every team tries harder against them than against anyone else :-)
Pretty funny, really :-)
I hate Chelsea more than City on this front, City's owners just saw what the Russian gangster had done and thought we'll have a bit of that as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
I agree. But I also think it is wrong to deny the football achievement.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Yes, city can outspend everyone by a mile, and yes they are cheating.
But what Pep has achieved cannot be achieved just with money. I think you can still applaud the work, even if you despise the way the club have treated the game.
That really ****ing winds them up :-)
It's a bit nonsense that they had a few injuries in December/January and can just casually drop ?100m+ fixing those issues with significantly better playersQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter