The Budweiser FA Cup

[Starvinho]

3-0!

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

I'm quite enjoying this game

Little harsh on the keeper, really good save first time around.

[DavidMarrio]

Chris Foy got a decision right?!?!?!?!?!! WHAT

[MDK]

Poor keeper, I feel sorry for him.

[FLiam]

Can't work out if I'm enjoying this or not.

[Matt]

I'm not being stubborn, I'm fed up of people not understanding simple points.

I wont change my point of view, because it's right. It was a red card. It was a reckless two footed lunging studs up off the ground tackle. Had Nani not jumped it, there would have been very dangerous contact.

A low challenge where he clearly takes the ball and with no real force behind the challenge is a red card? I'd like to know how that challenge was going to create dangerous contact more than one with more force but with studs down and one foot where he doesn't win the ball - that's a yellow card tackle and more dangerous than Kompany's. Kompany was stupid to go in like that because you do risk getting a red and I can understand why the ref gave it at the time, but seeing the replays, it was wrong.

Fuck's sake. This game's shit.

[Pettengill_Mark]

Poor keeper, I feel sorry for him.

True, none of the goals have been his fault.

[Summers]

I'm not being stubborn, I'm fed up of people not understanding simple points.

I wont change my point of view, because it's right. It was a red card. It was a reckless two footed lunging studs up off the ground tackle. Had Nani not jumped it, there would have been very dangerous contact.

A low challenge where he clearly takes the ball and with no real force behind the challenge is a red card? I'd like to know how that challenge was going to create dangerous contact more than one with more force but with studs down and one foot where he doesn't win the ball - that's a yellow card tackle and more dangerous than Kompany's. Kompany was stupid to go in like that because you do risk getting a red and I can understand why the ref gave it at the time, but seeing the replays, it was wrong.

Fuck's sake. This game's shit.

You can't have control of a challenge if both feet are in the air - and they were - not miles, but they were. It wasn't low, as such, because both studs are up. So if Nani didn't jump, that's effectively two sets of studs flying into his shins. So it IS reckless. Excessive force, in this case, is the fact he's off the air with two feet up. He has no control over the tackle.

[Cheeky Hughes]

I doubt we will be seeing Pantilimon any time again this season, sadly.

[MDK]

Poor keeper, I feel sorry for him.

True, none of the goals have been his fault.

He hasn't done anything wrong. Now that I've said that, he'll flap at something.

[Summers]

His only mistake, out of all the goals, was poor parrying from the penalty. But that's a non-issue. A keeper saving a penalty in any form is unexpected and a bonus. Bad game to judge him on.

[DavidMarrio]

Pantilimon ain't done nothing wrong. Rooney's header wasn't getting stopped, neither was Wellbeck's volley. He saved a pen that unfortunately for him went back to Rooney.

[Pettengill_Mark]

Typically, Man City fans boo their players off the pitch at half time, would they have done this 5 years ago?

[brenchill]

Typically, Man City fans boo their players off the pitch at half time, would they have done this 5 years ago?

Yes.

Being 3-0 down at half-time to your main rivals is never going to get a good reaction, no matter how shit you are or how strong your opposition is.

[Matt]

It was probably the ref getting booed.

[lanky316]

@Summ - At best it's one set of studs, the first leg was well in front of him, thus the ball winning in the first place. His second one may have caught him but that seemed to sweep around after he'd won the ball. He's gone in with what I'd have called a "firm but fair" challenge. Of course with Sir Chris Hoy in charge, you never know what's going to happen from one decision to the next. Can sort of see the red but can see why it's so contentious as well. Would be pissed off if that was one of our players getting it, same as why I was so pissed off for Bolton when he did Cahill for that challenge miles out that wasn't that bad at the Lane.

Also, hooray for Stevenage, this year it's our trophy!

Edited due to taking too bloody long typing...

Edited January 8, 2012 by lanky316

[Pettengill_Mark]

Typically, Man City fans boo their players off the pitch at half time, would they have done this 5 years ago?

Yes.

Being 3-0 down at half-time to your main rivals is never going to get a good reaction, no matter how shit you are or how strong your opposition is.

But what does it achieve? Apart from lowering the morale of your players. Seems pretty pointless. City have 45 mins to play and I can see them getting back into this.

[MDK]

I think some of those boo's were directed at the ref as well.

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

Are they booing the players though? Thought it was more booing towards the referee.

[brenchill]

Typically, Man City fans boo their players off the pitch at half time, would they have done this 5 years ago?

Yes.

Being 3-0 down at half-time to your main rivals is never going to get a good reaction, no matter how shit you are or how strong your opposition is.

But what does it achieve? Apart from lowering the morale of your players. Seems pretty pointless. City have 45 mins to play and I can see them getting back into this.

It doesn't achieve anything and I agree that it's wrong. But that's football, I guess.