The Official Man Utd & Liverpool plus Chelsea, Everton and City Banter Thread!

It's how they make sense of their bandwagon jumping going horribly wrong.

 

See rio is celebrating in style in the audience of X factor final...

 

You ****ers won and Spurs threw it away, what on earth!

 

Ignore him please chaps.

 

Ah yes. He was trying to get back in SAF's good books by allowing Torres to get away with an outright assault on Cleverley. Damn, what a clever conspiracy this is. They should remake Xfiles with Mulder and Scully investigating paranormal goings on in the PL.

And how clever of him to know that today he could wrongly disallow our goal, fail to send off Tevez, and add on seven minutes of injury time and we'd still win. Remarkable prescience to only give us the decisions when we need them. Whatever we're paying him, it isn't enough

 

Only just seen the highlights of the City/United game...

What on earth was Nasri doing in the wall for United's winner?

Looks scared of the ball... Which isn't too good considering he's a professional footballer!

 

I posted on the Arse board that I have newfound respect for Wenger after that game. The man's ability to turn tubby wasters like Kolo and Nasri into real footballers is pretty outstanding.

 

Nope: only in your little head. I thought he'd been a bit thick running towards city fans to celebrate: along the lines of if you'd been a united supporter in among city supporters dancing for joy. Either way you don't deserve to be physically assaulted but you're still a bit thick under the Darwin awards.

Anyway on replay I saw that he didn't even do that. He went to his own supporters.

But because you're a bit slow I'll repeat for a fourth time. No footballer be they Man United or anyone else deserves to be physically assaulted for celebrating a goal. Unless he's ran into the crowd & started humping your wife! but in that case that's just being humane to Rio.

 

Or along the lines of Balotelli parading around in front of the Utd fans after the FA Cup semi? Don't remember many LFC fans, or fans of anyone other than Utd, condemning him for that. In fact I remember a large amount of people praising him for winding up the Utd fans and players and saying it was perfectly understandable given the emotion of the situation etc etc. And I can guarantee that had Balotelli been coined there would have been unanimous cries for Utd to play matches behind closed doors as a penalty.

Tho' to be fair they were among the more 'special' LFC fans....

 

Ok Frank, I have to also say that even if you don't condone it you certainly came across as finding it funny. That's how your text looked in black and white.


One twat who certainly does condone it is good old District Line. Yeah, Rio incited that coin by daring to celebrate a winning goal in the last minute of a derby game. What he should have done is juts walked, head down, quietly back to his position and wait for the match to restart.

Truly staggering some supporters attitude, one Swansea fan said, on this website, Bassong also deserved the monkey gestures because he celebrated a goal in the wrong place.


I guess Rooney deserved his coin attack because he dared to try to take a corner.

 

Bizarrely it's the Chavs who are the greatest supporters of the coin chucker. But then again Rio is Anton's brother and Anton got their leader a 4 game ban by being provocatively black. Chav logic and Chav justice.

 

Why is that bizarre? If the chavs condemned the coin attack by the City fans, they would also have to condemn their own scummy fans for the similar attacks on Hernandez after he scored the winner against them.

But of course Drogba was completely not at fault for getting coined by Burnley fans after celebrating a goal. Ain't no hypocrite like a plastic hypocrite...

 

Celebrating with his own fans would've been a start.

Everyone seems to be getting the wrong end of the stick, nobody is condoning coin throwing ffs, it's just something I'd expect to happen if you celebrate in front of your bitter rivals after scoring the winning goal.

 

He was celebrating with his own fans. So with that in mind, what's your take on the incident?

 

Fair enough Rush: as I said it was more amazement at his idiocy from a self preservation point of view (when I believed he'd ran at City "fans". )

I heard people on the radio debating it & using examples like Adebayor/G Neville running the length of the pitch as "crossing the line"

Personally? Unless a player starts chucking stuff (or say jumping into them two footed ) at the fans there's no justification for a physical reaction from the crowd.but like having the right to keep your door unlocked because burglary is against the law, you won't find much surprise or sympathy if it doesn't end well.

But Rio didn't, he celebrated with his own fans & got assaulted. Now they're talking about nets at Games: nothing like moronic self defeating behaviour eh?

 

Some posters are demonstrating how alien a real life football stadium is to them by insisting that Rio must have been celebrating in front of the home fans to have been hit by a coin.

 

regardless of who he was celebrating with the people who threw coins are complete idiots, but I'm pretty sure he was goading the City fans and as I've said previously, them being angry with that is to be expected.

 

That would be an idoitic solution to the problem, as it avoids the root cause, it's dealing with the result of the mindset rather than challenging the mindset.

A bit like when they installed railings in the 70's. It would create an atmosphere of 'containment' & would make the throwing of objects more not less likely imo.

 

Exactly Tobes: am I right in saying that your point is proved at some grounds in Italy. Could have sworn they have nets & the stuff still rains down at corners?

 

He was very clearly celebrating right in front of the Utd fans. Check the pics below - directly in front of the three sections containing the away fans:

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Problem is the Etihad has a bit of a bowl shape at the ends, so when you get close to the home supporters you end up flanked by away supporters on both sides.