We all know it was offside, but Man City scored, so the end justifies the means. Had that been disallowed, City may not have won. No way can the authorities allow something like that to happen. The game is biased. Whether it's intentional or not, there has always been a desire to help the bigger sides. Had it been the other way around, do you think any referee would have found it in himself to give the goal? Never in a million years would that have stood had Watford scored it.
Generalisations are good. We owe much of our wealth to them. I refer, of course, to Real Madrid FC rather than the gorgeous city of Madrid. Many of the bars around the Bernabeu still have a strong Franco connection. These patrons are dying out but you’ll overhear some eye watering conversations up there. Similar vibe to those Dublin bars where they passed round a hat for contributions to ‘help the struggle’ at closing time.
I imagine much the same could be heard around (what was) Upton Park. Not really sure what your point is, or why it reflects badly on Pep. Who is, after all, a Catalan.
We did get a goal kick that should have been a corner, so as the pundits say, it all evened out in the end
They were furious about that weren’t they? Ironic cheers at the next decision in their favour, booed the ref off at half time, Aguero remonstrating with him as they left the pitch. They don’t like it up ‘em.
Guardiola always strikes me as a bit of a sociopath. All weird smiles when things are going well, then a complete **** as soon as anyone questions anything he says or if they lose. Even today in his press conference, he was saying we defended well but couldn't resist a dig about Gray playing as a defensive midfielder. I'd love to see what he would do if he ever managed a club that wasn't the top dog in its country. He has never been tested by taking a small club away to a big club where every single player is better than his team. I bet he wouldn't be having full backs bombing on and having 80% of the possession then.
Also, it wasn't that long ago that we were getting ****ed over by refs in the championship. Have definitely come a long way! COYGH
I see Gracia made 7 changes in order to have a fresh team for the FA Cup. I wonder what Chris Sutton will make of that? No doubt he'll see next week when we play our strongest team and make 7 changes, he'll be saying we're a disgrace again. Merson will say he hopes we lose, but then there's nothing new in that.
An inaccurate comparison. W Ham is a bit ‘Oi, oi, Danny Dier, I’m a geezer’ (to our great entertainment). Bernabeu was a cradle of fascism. See Preston on The Spanish Holocaust for details. No connection with the metropolitan Pep. See first post.
You’re being oddly obtuse tonight. A history of connection with fascism means what - that we should dislike Real Madrid? Well, OK. I’m damned if I can see what that has to do with the “Pep is a fraud” argument though.
Sutton is probably furious that we made 7 changes today. He'll think we don't deserve to win the Prem now
I, like many madrilenos, dislike Real Madrid because of their integral association with fascism. Maybe we are all having an obtuse evening. As you will discover from reading my first post, no link with Pep. Peace, Bro, & let’s concentrate on Gary’s Judgment of Solomon on our performance.
The sooner you learn to tune out the random noise that Chris Sutton spouts, the happier you’ll be. I can’t tell if he’s a professional troll like that Hopkins lady, or if he has single digit IQ, but everything he says is idiotic. His employment shows just how shallow the pundit talent pool must be.
I dont agree. We didnt have them on the ropes at any point but that moment changed the entire mindset of the game from a Watford standpoint. It was totally top six bias again. Who is to say we could of not held out for a possible point? Whatever Javi said at HT was moot after that. Still proud tbough.
Some interesting comments from Pep. Looks like Deulofeu might be on his radar. https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/s...rst-goal-against-watford-for-manchester-city/
I wasn’t intending to be confrontational, I just didn’t understand your point. In fact, I took your first post to be a reference to the entire city, not a particular football club, hence my suggestion of a generalisation. Anyway, no matter. I have already shrugged off today’s result but am pleased that JG seems to have had an eye on next week, which is a much more important fixture imo.
Frustrating really. Looks like Javi was looking to keep it a lot tighter than against Liverpool and suspect it was always his intention to bring on Deeney and Deulofeu with around 20mins to go to either nick a winner/equaliser if we could hold it to 1-0 down or better. It was a tactic which was working pretty well until the ref intervened and gifted them an opening goal inside 60secs of the restart. That said, City were obviously going to step it up a level on the restart so I think they would have likely opened us up before long. Maybe would have been an idea to bring Deeney on at halftime to give us a focal point and potential route out of defence. Easy to say in hindsight as the goals happened so quickly at the start of the second half but he’d at least have given City a bit of grief especially with how he has been playing in the last few weeks. Plus we become the latest team to fall victim to a Sterling tap in. Look, City in full flow is pretty impressive but surely you can learn to have a player covering the centre of goal/far post for that play. Every team seems to let him go and it happens time and time again.
