Really disappointed and angered by the MOTD discussion over Aguero's first goal. The pandering to the bigger clubs is clearly in force when a clear offside and handball are diminished by repeatedly referring to them with terms like as 'little' and emphasising the finish rather than the actual poor performance of the officials. The fact is that the game was directly effected by this decision, and it was glossed over completely. I can't imagine that happening if the same happened to one of the big 4. Dean was very poor, card happy and very nearly ruined a great game. A striker's finishing is bound to be made easier if he gains advantage by means of his hand - even inadvertently! Let's not compound the insult by lavishing praise on him - it stinks.
There was very little discussion of Charlie's performance, in the first half he was awesome and could easily have had a hat-trick. His performance was far more important in the context of the game than Aguero's, one goal, two disallowed, one assist and several great saves from Hart. It was one of the best striker performances I can remember from a Rangers player for a very long time...
Im happy to tooddle along quietly in the background nicking points off the big boys without getting noticed. Means they will underestimate us. MOTD coverage has always pandered to the big clubs. couldnt care less as long as we get the points. Thier heads are so far up some arses.....
Half inclined to agree, however I think we, and all the 'smaller' clubs, deserve more respect - the big clubs get an idiotic amount of coverage as it stands - the least that Gary et al. can do is to provide a fair and balanced assessment of the actual talking points of the game before the arse licking starts
Agree I would of also liked to have seen a few slowmo cameras to see is Charlie had chested that ball to take him clean through on goal as this was also a turning point as the resulting free kick gave them the second equalizer
The BBC website is also crap......says we leapfrogged Burnley with the point but we were already above them.......They said Vargas passed for Charlie's goal when it was Isla and on the live text of the match had a photo of MC in the champions league! Come on Beeb get your act and facts together. Last few performances have been good and give a lot of hope for the future
I was thinking the same when I was watching it, Seagull. Piss poor from Neville in particular. Maybe he should take a few tips from his older brother?
I couldn't agree more. The goal shouldn't have counted, no argument. It was clearly both offside and handball, so the technique and first touch are simply irrelevant. The referee made a huge and decisive error there, but rather than even acknowledging this they instead decide to spend a couple of minutes cooing over him "spotting" the double touch from Hart. Ridiculous.
Couldn't agree more! It annoyed me no end when Aguero's first goal was described a "a bit" offside. Then in the same clip they said "it just took a slight touch off his hand there." It doesn't matter how offside you are, or much it touches your hand. If it does or you are, it's a free kick the other way.
Recorded MOTD to see our great display again but wont bother now. Im sure if Green had done the 2 touches Dean wouldnt have seen it!!!
They did a feature on him in FF on Saturday at lunchtime so they have reinforce their subject of the day ... Come what may ... They made him look good ... Now they need to tell the nation exactly how clever they were highlighting a great talent The bbc do that on everything You end up thinking the bbc own him It brainwashes this country Watch country file tonight ... I do it's the best entertainment on tele It's complete rubbish ... Clean animals clean 4x4s and clean wellies each shot sequence has been scripted to **** ... The bbc represents a false world and I hate them ... They wouldn't last five minutes in the real countryside I can't stop pissing myself
Amazing really that a game (actually more an industry now) with hundreds of millions, indeed billions invested can allow such pi55poor game invigilation. Last week, I remain of the view that the Hazard penalty was never a penalty, despite the motd pundits as ever kissing the ar5e of the Chelsea player. Yesterday, we lost a win and a valuable extra two points to another wrong refereeing decision. That's 3 points overall lost through no actual matchplay. I also recall that one of the Liverpool goals was as a result of a rapidly taken, highly questionable free kick, which was rushed whilst our players were remonstrating with the ref. This 5hit just does not seem to happen to the top clubs.
Another annoying thing is how they keep saying chelski are 8 points clear of citeh, yet only 4 from Southampton, annoying for the south coast fans perhaps
The way Southampton are going they remind me of Burnley last season, everyone saying they'd fade away yet they kept going and finished second. Saints are quietly tucking the points away and are currently 8 clear of Arsenal, 9 clear of ManUre and 11 clear of Liverpool and Spurs. They are fast becoming an attractive bet to make the Champion's League places...
And we should have had a penalty and their player sent off against Liverpool. If that had happened we could well have won that game. So looking at the Liverpool, Chelsea and Man City games with better refs (or not biased) we could be 6 points better off. I think we will be okay this season but if we do finish in the bottom three these lost points could have been crucial.
Yes, lazy stuff, I caught that error as well yesterday - they probably thought, Chilean player, what's the difference!
Another couple of titbits from Mr Neville Jnr: * His fawning praise of the ref having seen Hart's foot touch the ball from 40 yards away. He even highlighted two players in front of the ref which made it impossible to see and said "look how he managed to see it from that distance and through those players - great decision". It was nothing to do with the Ref. During the game the cameras highlighted that it was the linesman who notified the Ref through his earpiece. * He said Aguero's 1st reminded him of Bergkamp's control against Leicester a few years back..... right after he said he'd used his hand to control it. He's out in front for the dumbest football analyst of the year award.
