I thought only Liverpool fans wore tin foil hats?
Correction: only scousers and thick plastic Chavs ...
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Correction: only scousers and thick plastic Chavs ...
And you support your local club, eh? How are Bath City doing nowadays?
And yes, let's be pedantic. As you've seen the replay, you'll be well aware that De Bruyne did lunge for the ball in an attempt to make a foot in challenge. He missed the ball and blocked off the player. Hard to complain about getting caught in the face when you've just thrown yourself in front of a player at full sprint with your head at elbow height. As I said, nothing reckless about De Bruyne's tackle - a lunge is not by implication reckless, unless it is done without concern for the safety of others. De Bruyne planted his foot before RVP reached him, therefore not reckless and not a yellow card imo. Too difficult to grasp?
Just one more thing to take care of I guess:
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Oh how laughable, at no point did you mention Valencia or Coles challenge, not on this thread anyway sweetheart....
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The only thing laughable about that incident was that it was nowhere near as bad as the two tackles that had just preceded it. But then that's Atkinson for you - consistency and fairness seem to be unfamiliar concepts to him.
Clear enough for you sugartits?
The irony that you didn't read that I was deliberately being pedantic to emulate you does not really surprise, as clearly only pay attention when it suits you. As I said, you never mentioned the COLE AND VALENCIA challenges... Did you mention the COLE AND VALENCIA challenges? Or did you mention "two tackles"? Hence being deliberately pedantic? Thank goodness your wife is the main bread winner, **** me...
As for where I live, I grew up in Bristol, now live in a village between Bristol and Bath, and still follow Bristol City (ironically closer to the ground where I grew up). I cannot believe how populated Manchester used to be though... Goes down with all the other excuses though I guess, such as "actually my dad used to support them, so I do" or "my mum used to be the gardener for Bobby Charlton, THATS why I am a fan ACTUALLY".
Touchy little so and so's when you're wrong.
Ah, I see. You were being deliberately dense to try and make up for the fact you were wrong. My mistake, you must be a Chelsea fan, not an Arsenal one. Well done you
Oh, and there was nothing ironic in your post at all. But don't let that stop you trying
Hardly wrong, I agreed with you, the two other challenges were worse, but again, you fail to take notice of the obvious. I was being pedantic for the sake of being pedantic for no real reason other than you did it first, but AGAIN, that clearly went over your head. It doesn't surprise me though you should say I did it because I apparently "wrong", because it's your hypocritical way of covering yourself for being totally incorrect yourself on the subject of Van Persie vs De Bruyne.
It's also obvious you realise what a total pleb you have been, as you stopped trying to cover up your lame attempts to prove your point, as you all you did in your previous reply, was try and be insulting instead of talking facts, and doing clappy hand symbols with a thumbs up at the end. Oh how proud of yourself you must be.
Seriously, you keep serving em up, and I'll keep knocking them for six.
It's also obvious you realise what a total pleb you have been, as you stopped trying to cover up your lame attempts to prove your point, as you all you did in your previous reply, was try and be insulting instead of talking facts, and doing clappy hand symbols with a thumbs up at the end. Oh how proud of yourself you must be.
Seriously, you keep serving em up, and I'll keep knocking them for six.
Talking facts, eh? I remember talking facts about the challenge a few posts ago. As I recall you posted a deliberately obtuse reply and called me a glory hunter. And now you've decided to call me a pleb, again ignoring all the facts and not even attempting to answer my argument.
Excellent debating skills there mate, that's me knocked for six, no mistake
Oooo more clappy hands! You are clever.
In your previous reply, you gave me nothing to debate. So how can I attempt to answer any argument in which you put forth?
As for the De Bruyne vs Van Persie incident, we clearly didn't see it the same way, and it's a debate neither of us will agree on as you believe what you say is fact, and I believe what I saw in the incident was fact. That a man was elbowed in the face, then subsequently given a yellow card, when he made no other contact with the player who elbowed him. You being a Man Utd fan, may mean you are slightly biased towards the situation, thinking Van Persie did little wrong. Which I don't particularly believe he did myself, but I also don't think De Bruyne doing anything wrong either constituted him receiving a yellow card.
However if you read the original post you will see that that this is coming from an impartial spectator who even stated that if anything he preferred Man Utd to Chelsea in said original post. You are the one who decided to go off on this enormous tangent. Presumably, because you know your wrong, and your view is biased?
In your previous reply, you gave me nothing to debate. So how can I attempt to answer any argument in which you put forth?
As for the De Bruyne vs Van Persie incident, we clearly didn't see it the same way, and it's a debate neither of us will agree on as you believe what you say is fact, and I believe what I saw in the incident was fact. That a man was elbowed in the face, then subsequently given a yellow card, when he made no other contact with the player who elbowed him. You being a Man Utd fan, may mean you are slightly biased towards the situation, thinking Van Persie did little wrong. Which I don't particularly believe he did myself, but I also don't think De Bruyne doing anything wrong either constituted him receiving a yellow card.
However if you read the original post you will see that that this is coming from an impartial spectator who even stated that if anything he preferred Man Utd to Chelsea in said original post. You are the one who decided to go off on this enormous tangent. Presumably, because you know your wrong, and your view is biased?
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Whereas your original post was a fount of factual evidence without a hint of sarcasm, imagined outrage and the usual made up bullshit about referee bias in our favour.
My view of the incident is that De Bruyne was harshly done by, but really has only himself to blame. He made a poor attempt to win the ball, lunging in from the side against a player trying to go round him, and was caught in the face. Absolutely no evidence RVP even knew his face was there, and no sign of the elbow being anything but an accidental collision during a poor tackle.
Not a yellow card in my book, but players always take a risk when they make a challenge like that and get nowhere near the ball. It's happened hundreds of times before, to plenty of different players, and will happen plenty of times again. To suggest some magical Man Utd bias / crowd pressure / blah blah blah has somehow forced the ref to give a yellow card out of nothing is just not credible, and is why no one, even the Chelsea lurkers on our board, took your argument seriously.
Well in that case you clearly didn't take it as light hearted banter, as it was intended, that's not my fault. It's a stereotype that sometimes is true, sometimes it isn't. Same as some of the stereotypes you have labelled Chelsea fans, and no doubt Liverpool fans in the past if I were to dig through your posts.
Again, I see no lunge or tackle, but even if there was, I don't think the way to defend against legitimate attempts to win the ball are to elbow people whether intentional or not. You could argue that Van Persies arm was in an unnatural position, as was Lampards arm during a handball shout.
But I refuse to believe you have never once posted a stereotypical, false "blah blah blah" comment about another team or their supporters. I mean you made 10,655 posts, one of them was bound to been an outrageous antagonistic comment meant to either wind someone up, or part of banter.
Again, I see no lunge or tackle, but even if there was, I don't think the way to defend against legitimate attempts to win the ball are to elbow people whether intentional or not. You could argue that Van Persies arm was in an unnatural position, as was Lampards arm during a handball shout.
But I refuse to believe you have never once posted a stereotypical, false "blah blah blah" comment about another team or their supporters. I mean you made 10,655 posts, one of them was bound to been an outrageous antagonistic comment meant to either wind someone up, or part of banter.
