Its funny that Jon Stones was talking about how much he wanted to test himself against Messi. Well....
Watching the Spurs-Bournemouth game, and quite frankly, I'm not sure how Sissoko and Lamela haven't been sent off. How on the Spurs board they have an article about our lucky decisions is majorly hypocritical, as they've benefited from some dodgy decisions this season as well.
And Walker probably should have conceded a penalty for that obstruction on Gradel, but the referee doesn't give it. I wonder who they've paid off... If I hear another Spurs fan moan about how we get all the luck and they get nothing, they can get to ****.
And yet the BBC say it wasn't a penalty. You mention our yellow cards but the ref was just card happy at the beginning and then bottled it with 2nd cards. For us and Bournemouth. Arter should have gone by the standards of this ref. Brunel, get to **** (whatever that means)
Having watched it again, I don't think it was a penalty, but there's no way in hell Sissoko or Lamela should have stayed on the pitch. In fact, three of your players could have been sent off. So as I said - don't bother moaning about us getting dodgy decisions when you lot have benefited from some already this season. And if you are going to moan about us getting dodgy decisions, at least acknowledge you guys have had some in your favour too.
Southampton leading 1-0 at The Etihad. They've been defending very resolutely, whilst looking a potent threat on the counter, with Tadic and Redmond causing problems. Been impressed with them since their loss to us. Come on Saints!!
Spurs have only lost games in the last 5 years due to the referee, they always whine about referees on there board, absolute paranioa to the max. Go onto there match day threads and ask them what referee they would like for there game, and they probably would not answer you as every ref has apparently done then wrong at some stage, absolutely embarrassing.
Man City 1-1 Southampton. FT. Saints deserved that at the very least. Guardiola's admission that he will quit management before he will ever change his style of play is going to hinder City in games like today, when you come up against a team who close down spaces very well and have two dominant centre-halves. If you have tricky, pacy players like Redmond, Boufal and Tadic, it means they can also hurt you at the other end of the pitch. Southampton's display was a blueprint of how to get one over a team like City, especially away from home. They may not have won in the end, but you couldn't have begrudged them all 3 points if they did get them and their tactics were clearly very effective.
When did I blame the referee for you not losing? I said you could have easily had two men sent off (possibly three). That would have put you at a disadvantage, but that doesn't necessarily mean you would have lost the game. I also retracted what I said about the penalty.
Splitting hairs a bit. You were certainly saying the ref helped us, while Enigma was saying we always blame the ref (not true, btw)
Yeah - by not sending a couple of your players off. That did help you. I certainly didn't say that the referee was the reason you didn't lose the game. There have been countless occasions where teams who've had a numerical disadvantage have gone on to win or not lose a game.
Gonna catch up with the games on MOTD in a bit. Good to see City dropping points today, kind of makes yesterday's draw a bit more palatable. Funny to see Maureen getting tonked 4-0 by his old club. Good to see the Spuds sliding further down the league
It's amazing how tight it is at the top. Personally I think the top 4 as they are will all finish there, not sure in which order though.
http://bbc.in/2eIrqaI Maureen doing what he does best, makes a nothing incident into something else by deflecting attention from his woeful showing. So Conte trying to whip up passion from his supporters is trying to humiliate manure? Maybe he's trying to get them to cheer rather than sit like corpses after they routed manure.
If the story is true-and I'm not saying it isn't-then either Mourinho is trying to manipulate media attention away from his/his team's poor performance, which is understandable and relatively clever, or he's losing the plot and potentially creating a rather large rod for his own back, which is not so clever but highly amusing to those of us who would like to see the little fisherman fail and cause United even more problems. He is a spectator sport all by himself.
