Match Day Thread Vs Man City (A)

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I am well aware of what all players are capable of and have never have sympathy for one of ours if sent off.
Do you blame the ref or Mane for spoiling the game with the red card?

I'm on about when your players deliberately set out to injure opponents but DONT get punished.<laugh>

You know, like the Rooney elbow at Wigan, his excuse...."I knew he was coming up behind me, so I got him before he got me"

His defence?, clairvoyance.:emoticon-0105-wink:
 
Even Diego knows that. He's just being contrary - like a female version of Julie Burchill 'I'll say something completely different to get attention'. My sister was like that until she reached 12.
Did you see the Busst incident? it was a total accident where several players went for the same loose ball, not at all like two players going for a 50/50 and one going studs first.
 
I don't think there was any intent or malice in Manes challenge. He's not that sort of player.

It was reckless though, and in all honesty the keeper was lucky just to take a knock on the jaw. It could have been a whole lot worse than that.

That is the only reason I believe it was a fair red. He should really have been more aware that the keeper would have been rushing out.

I do agree, but as was just said by three ex strikers on MOTD, had he not gone for that ball he would have been shot.
 
Nope, reckless and dangerous which is why it was a definite red <ok>
Well how about you just leave it at that instead of trying to make something more of it? Because your earlier posts really do read like you're suggesting it was deliberate - have a little read back if you've already forgotten.
Not for the first time, you're knocking down an argument that you yourself have set up. In this case, I think it's a really ****ty trick to try and score points over such a scenario.
 
The point is, Busst's injury like the City keeper's injury was accidental and non malicious.<doh>
The point is it could have been avoided if a leg had been bent so studs weren't showing.
I will ask again, if a defender hit your striker in the ankle studs first with a straight leg and both feet off the floor after your striker beat him to the ball, would you still say there was no intent or would you claim he could have pulled out?
 
The point is it could have been avoided if a leg had been bent so studs weren't showing.
I will ask again, if a defender hit your striker in the ankle studs first with a straight leg and both feet off the floor after your striker beat him to the ball, would you still say there was no intent or would you claim he could have pulled out?

Diego, two footed tackles were part of Scholes's and Keano's MO.

This ain't about hypothetical questions it's about what happened at the Etihad today, if it wasn't I'd ask why things like this go unpunished despite being deliberate.

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True. It is just one of those unfortunately.

I say again, what gutted me about today was not just the 'misfortune', but how we reacted to it. City faced down their adversity a fortnight ago against Everton - we just completely folded. In the CL, especially away fro home, we're going get decisions go against us. It's the way it is. This team are just so intrisincally insipid that I really fear for us.
 
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True. It is just one of those unfortunately.
No, it's not. If a defender goes off the floor with a straight leg and studs first to make a tackle and catches the opposition because he is a fraction slower to the ball is it "just one of those"?
Defenders are expected to try and make tackles and are slated if they don't but still have to take other peoples safety into account, why should strikers be any different.
 
The point is it could have been avoided if a leg had been bent so studs weren't showing.
I will ask again, if a defender hit your striker in the ankle studs first with a straight leg and both feet off the floor after your striker beat him to the ball, would you still say there was no intent or would you claim he could have pulled out?

Why would he bend his leg to reach a head high ball if he didn't know the goalie was there? If he did know the goalie was there before him, it's intent.He SHOULD have realised the goalie was there, so therefore it's reckless and uncontrolled. Really not sure what you're struggling with in this.
 
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Diego, two footed tackles were part of Scholes's and Keano's MO.

This ain't about hypothetical questions it's about what happened at the Etihad today, if it wasn't I'd ask why things like this go unpunished despite being deliberate.

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You would have to ask the ref on that particular day, we all know things get missed/let go, it shouldn't be used as an excuse for other things though.
 
Why would he bend his leg to reach a head high ball if he didn't know the goalie was there? If he did know the goalie was there before him, it's intent.He SHOULD have realised the goalie was there, so therefore it's reckless and uncontrolled. Really not sure what you're struggling with in this.
So you think it was intentional then?