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This sort of **** is why I find it so frustrating to watch City and it was the same when Guardiola was at Barca.
Just an obvious, cynical trip with no attempt to get the ball and Silva should be straight in the book. It's an easy one.
They've done loads like that this half and got nothing. Herrera got booked for being pissed off, though.
 
Di Maria sent off for kicking out at Fernandinho, stupid but understandable
Exactly what is wrong with football there. Fernandinho followed him off the pitch to delay the throw. There should be an immediate sanction on that but instead Di Maria feels he has to take action. I don't think he even meant to kick him
 
Exactly what is wrong with football there. Fernandinho followed him off the pitch to delay the throw. There should be an immediate sanction on that but instead Di Maria feels he has to take action. I don't think he even meant to kick him
Di Maria half-slipped on the snow, but I think he was trying to step on his foot.
Fernadinho's just immune to being carded, for some reason. Could've got two in the first five minutes or so.
 
Di Maria half-slipped on the snow, but I think he was trying to step on his foot.
Fernadinho's just immune to being carded, for some reason. Could've got two in the first five minutes or so.

He made six fouls in that game and didn’t get a single booking. He’s a very good player, but it’s frustrating that he almost never gets punished. He must have a silver tongue.
 
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How long before people get fed up with Citeh dominance of the PL? The fact it hasn't happened yet despite the £££ spent could suggest that Pep may not be the exalted one that the pundits claim. However I wouldn't be surprised if they end up taking the title four years out of every five. Frankly I'm already bored with their undeserved presence at/near the top anyway, and incredibly bored with the fawning over the team and manager which is more or less worship of money... since who believes they would be anywhere near this position without massive unchecked investment? So lets just go on ignoring the many times that Pep gets it wrong, or keep worshiping his 'fabulous' handling of the integration of Foden (who could have been playing PL football two years ago in any other team), or his other wondrous miracles. That is boring. When will others get fed up too? Because participating in a league that will increasingly be just the plaything of an oil state is really not the way football should go, and I would be very happy if they pissed off and joined their own super league, but with only a few of the worst culprits.

EDIT and seeing the past post which came in as I was writing this, how long before Citeh stop getting away with this cynical fouling?
I just don't regard City as a proper football team. They are just an ego trip for one of the most disgusting group of humans on the planet. I refer to Saudi. The commentators fawning over them is quite sickening and usually results in me turning the game off. As you say they are not content to buy up all the best players they can, they then employ a manager whose tactics include very cynical fouling of any opposition team trying to move into their half. They have taken diving to new levels and officialdom rewards them for doing it. The pursuit of money is reaching new depths. They have stolen the game of football and the FA has enabled it to happen.
Football is a business at this level, masquerading as sport, but what a strange business it is. Can you think of another business that would be so eager to employ a manager, and now I am talking Jose, who has been fired from his last 3 jobs with huge pay offs because he produced such poor performances from talented players who clearly play better when he has gone. Crazy.
 
I just don't regard City as a proper football team. They are just an ego trip for one of the most disgusting group of humans on the planet. I refer to Saudi. The commentators fawning over them is quite sickening and usually results in me turning the game off. As you say they are not content to buy up all the best players they can, they then employ a manager whose tactics include very cynical fouling of any opposition team trying to move into their half. They have taken diving to new levels and officialdom rewards them for doing it. The pursuit of money is reaching new depths. They have stolen the game of football and the FA has enabled it to happen.
Football is a business at this level, masquerading as sport, but what a strange business it is. Can you think of another business that would be so eager to employ a manager, and now I am talking Jose, who has been fired from his last 3 jobs with huge pay offs because he produced such poor performances from talented players who clearly play better when he has gone. Crazy.
This 100%.
Watching the game last night, listening to biased commentators underplaying the numerous and cynical City fouls and a referee who allowed 6 fouls to go uncarded (from Foden in the 2nd minute) til finally booking... a PSG player, was unedifying to put it mildly.
 
I just don't regard City as a proper football team. They are just an ego trip for one of the most disgusting group of humans on the planet. I refer to Saudi. The commentators fawning over them is quite sickening and usually results in me turning the game off. As you say they are not content to buy up all the best players they can, they then employ a manager whose tactics include very cynical fouling of any opposition team trying to move into their half. They have taken diving to new levels and officialdom rewards them for doing it. The pursuit of money is reaching new depths. They have stolen the game of football and the FA has enabled it to happen.
Football is a business at this level, masquerading as sport, but what a strange business it is. Can you think of another business that would be so eager to employ a manager, and now I am talking Jose, who has been fired from his last 3 jobs with huge pay offs because he produced such poor performances from talented players who clearly play better when he has gone. Crazy.

What have Saudi Arabia got to do with Man City?
 
Thinking about it, is that really the point you want to pick up on when we are talking about City and football?

Yes, of all the club that flout financial fair play you seem to focus on Man City because of their owners and then wrongly bring up Saudi Arabia when Saudi Arabia have nothing to do with Man City.