I too thought we were dire in that first half, though we did miss several chances to put it to bed by half time. My whine is this - City will be able to put their group to bed with one more game, and can put the kids out for the last two games: we will probably need to wait until game five AT LEAST. We were given an easy group, unlike last season, and we've made hard work of it, apart from the first 40 minutes against Saltzburg and the second half yesterday. That all said, I do hope we send out the kids for that club world cup nonsense in December: I mean, who values that? FFS, United beat a team from the Galapagos Islands to win it if I remember rightly. It's not exactly The Super Cup.
Liverpool fans miss Champions League win over Genk after travelling to Ghent https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50166371 Two Liverpool fans missed their side's Champions League win over Belgian side Genk on Wednesday - because they travelled to Ghent by mistake. Rob, from London, and Lee, from Leicester, spent around £200 each on train and match tickets only to mistakenly end up 95 miles from where the match was being played. "When we arrived we didn't see any Liverpool supporters, which kind of aroused our suspicions," Rob told BBC Sport. "Then we were sitting having dinner about an hour before kick-off and we said to one of the waiters, who was a Gent supporter, 'we are playing you guys tonight' and he went 'no you're not', and that was when we realised the error of our ways. "We'd had a few beers so driving wasn't possible. Even if we jumped in a cab it was 150 kilometres away so that sealed our fate I'm afraid."
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If we beat Genk at Anfield we are almost there. Salzburg travel to Naples that evening, a difficult place to go as we know.
I'm glad too that the club got in there before the story broke but honestly, I bet they had a laugh about it, Origi too. As far as stereotypes go, it's pretty harmless because it doesn't involve ridicule or hate. Out of interest, John Barnes who has been very vocal on racism in football, long before it became popular to be so, said the Silva tweet comparing his teammate to an image on a sweet wrapper, isn't racist. He may feel the same about this. Which poses the question, is he a good barometer for these 'stereotype' situations?
