it's called 'parking the bus' but when ManU do it it's called 'the home side's fierce discipline and sheer bloody-mindedness'. Unbiased media my arse.
Well isnt Jose a 'tactical genius' and Moyes not? You cant have it both ways With your huge squad and multi million £ players you are expected to have a go at teams at least
Ah, but it's all true. We're just a small club with no history, full of nasty players, are incapable of changing our style of play to beat specific opposition, can't play attacking football and always win 1:0 or draw 0:0 and only successful because we have money - unlike Man United, City & Liverpool who all have 500 years of history, don't and have never had glory-hunters, always play the beautiful game, have never had injections of money or bought any players (all home-grown) and have never-ever had any of their players ever involved in anything other than being a perfect individual. #sarcasm
Well when we won the Champions League in 2012, we were pretty much in the exact same situation as United are now, yet got berated for playing defensively against much better opposition.
thought pretty much the same thing on a slightly different note when we are at home in Europe lots of camera shots of away fans making a lot of noise last night hardly any shots of munich fans despite them singing for most of the match
Dont remember the Media saying that when you played barca it was more a case of fans on here , just the 2 0 0 draws at OT and Emirates this season the Media had a field day.
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The op didn't mention 2012....I think he was referring to every other week when you park it In fairness though (and it's not often I agree with CRofL) the op has a point. United were more negative than any team I've seen in Europe this year and yet get lauded for having sheer bloody mindedness. Basically Bayern were **** in front of goal last night and were trying to walk it in every time they came forward. I very much doubt they'll have the same problem at the Allianz but footy is a weird game sometimes.
Who are you referring to when you mention the media? When Chelsea won the Champions league all the media was going on about was the brilliant defending and backs to the wall single mindedness that saw you through. It was us fans who said it was negative football. Personally negative football (for lack of a better term) is a legit tactic if your normal game won't be effective against a superior team. Don't have a problem with what Jose, or Chelsea in general, has/have done, as I'm sure if Liverpool grind out 1-0 wins with heroic defending till the end of the season I'd give less than a **** about what people said.
