Match Day Thread Vs Man City (A)

I'm on about when your players deliberately set out to injure opponents but DONT get punished.

You know, like the Rooney elbow at Wigan, his excuse...."I knew he was coming up behind me, so I got him before he got me"

His defence?, clairvoyance.

 

Did you see the Busst incident? it was a total accident where several players went for the same loose ball, not at all like two players going for a 50/50 and one going studs first.

 

59 twat

 

I do agree, but as was just said by three ex strikers on MOTD, had he not gone for that ball he would have been shot.

 

Well how about you just leave it at that instead of trying to make something more of it? Because your earlier posts really do read like you're suggesting it was deliberate - have a little read back if you've already forgotten.
Not for the first time, you're knocking down an argument that you yourself have set up. In this case, I think it's a really ****ty trick to try and score points over such a scenario.

 

The point is, Busst's injury like the City keeper's injury was accidental and non malicious.

 

Have I said anywhere at any point that it was intentional?

 

Maybe the people that keep answering?

 

No, but you've said an undefined 'we' have exonerated mane and said it wasn't a sending-off because it wasn't though.

 

Who are not the ones that you are citing as saying that they're exonerating Mane and saying that it wasn't a sending off.

 

Maybe started getting up earlier in the day and changed from night shift on here to days he'd have got a proper argument with the posters he cited.

 

The point is it could have been avoided if a leg had been bent so studs weren't showing.
I will ask again, if a defender hit your striker in the ankle studs first with a straight leg and both feet off the floor after your striker beat him to the ball, would you still say there was no intent or would you claim he could have pulled out?

 

True. It is just one of those unfortunately.

 

Diego, two footed tackles were part of Scholes's and Keano's MO.

This ain't about hypothetical questions it's about what happened at the Etihad today, if it wasn't I'd ask why things like this go unpunished despite being deliberate.

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I say again, what gutted me about today was not just the 'misfortune', but how we reacted to it. City faced down their adversity a fortnight ago against Everton - we just completely folded. In the CL, especially away fro home, we're going get decisions go against us. It's the way it is. This team are just so intrisincally insipid that I really fear for us.

 

No, it's not. If a defender goes off the floor with a straight leg and studs first to make a tackle and catches the opposition because he is a fraction slower to the ball is it "just one of those"?
Defenders are expected to try and make tackles and are slated if they don't but still have to take other peoples safety into account, why should strikers be any different.

 

Why would he bend his leg to reach a head high ball if he didn't know the goalie was there? If he did know the goalie was there before him, it's intent.He SHOULD have realised the goalie was there, so therefore it's reckless and uncontrolled. Really not sure what you're struggling with in this.

 

You would have to ask the ref on that particular day, we all know things get missed/let go, it shouldn't be used as an excuse for other things though.

 

So you think it was intentional then?