A referee has kept them alive in that group with a wrongly given penalty against Dortmund. Tonight they can have no legitimate complaints about the decisions. And they're crying about a UEFA agenda against them. It's better than any Twitter parody.
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A referee has kept them alive in that group with a wrongly given penalty against Dortmund. Tonight they can have no legitimate complaints about the decisions. And they're crying about a UEFA agenda against them. It's better than any Twitter parody.
was great to hear Chiles, Keane and co question the City fans - what was the official attendance?
lots and lots of empty seats at the etihad tonight
lots and lots of empty seats at the etihad tonight
SAF must have some special Airmail brown envelopes for when he wants to feck City over in European games
Ok Which one of you is the WUM.
Think I heard 42,000 announced over the tannoy
Wasn't a freekick that led up the penalty call... in fact, it was a freekick to Ajax and a booking for Aguero. But will that mention that? Will they feck.
"I'm watching wrestling from now on."
Rawkmoon. Blawk. That would be fecking amazing, Steve. You know people. Get on the blower.
They were denied stonewall penalty and ref wrongly disallowed their goal tbf.
Talking about conspiracies, last week we were denied for two offside goals, and both were wrong decisions. Last year in CL we conceeded at least two offside goals, Vidic got ridiculous red card, and we were denied for one or two penalties too. We conceeded also against Ajax in europa league goal from offside, and conceeded that ridiculous goal against bilbao when ref said our players that Bilbao players would give us the ball, after we played fair play or something like that.
When I see how Real Madrid and Barca get pretty much every decision in their way in CL, it's hard to believe that uefa likes English teams at all.
Talking about conspiracies, last week we were denied for two offside goals, and both were wrong decisions. Last year in CL we conceeded at least two offside goals, Vidic got ridiculous red card, and we were denied for one or two penalties too. We conceeded also against Ajax in europa league goal from offside, and conceeded that ridiculous goal against bilbao when ref said our players that Bilbao players would give us the ball, after we played fair play or something like that.
When I see how Real Madrid and Barca get pretty much every decision in their way in CL, it's hard to believe that uefa likes English teams at all.
Ah Jaysus would ye stop?
ITV showed it was techincally offside but criticised the assistant for calling it correctly.
Also the freekick up to the peno should have gone the other way.
Not sure if serious but...
Also, Kolarov was offside. By about three inches, but offside nonetheless.
Ballotelli dropped like a ton of shite when he felt that shirt being pulled, but yes technically it was a penalty. Laughed my bollocks off that the ref blew the whistle.
WASAGOAL
WASAGOAL
Someone doesn't know about the coefficients.
Ok, you're not all bonkers.
What?
But the PL is bent too.
Ungrateful feck
That thing about Eriksen and the Danish ref, surely in today's football, with multi-national squads, you can't look at the players on each team and base the referee around that?
I mean, the referee in the Arsenal game was Italian, and they had Vito Mannone playing.
I mean, the referee in the Arsenal game was Italian, and they had Vito Mannone playing.
If linesman from another side saw that thee inches offside, fair feck to him. Eventough, when there are tough calls, ref needs to give advantage to attacking player, it's the rule.
And just saw that incident on Yaya Toure in the first half, it's 50/50 and 5 out of 10 refs would give penalty to city, it's soft one, but toure was definitely clipped.
I don't care about city, I would rather see them struggle in CL, but that is three big calls that went against them, It's funny seeing them blaming Fergie for that, but someone is to blame for sure. I know I would go mad also if we didn't win our last game in CL after two goals that were wrongly ruled out.
Well maybe if players stopped acting like their opponents had urinated on their children, refs wouldn't be so pressurised into making snap, poor decisions.
Maybe Liverpool supporters are on to something then. Doesn't every Brit hate Scousers? All the refs in the PL are English!
Eriksen was also probably making some sort of joke and something is lost in translation (btw how good was he in both City games).
See I'd rather penalties go back to being clattered and chopped to feck to be given. These days to many soft pens are easily justified by 'slowed down to 12,942 frames per second there was a ripple of flesh therefore contact and penalty..'
It's getting to be ridiculous to be honest.
In the end the ref makes a decision and it's final. Good bad or ugly. Fans having a moan can get to feck..
Did I use that correctly..
I agree, but we are also getting some soft penalties recently, and I don't see anyone having something against it. If it's a penalty, then it's a penalty and should be called.
Of course ref decision is final, but that doesn't mean it's correct.
Couldn't agree more so true!
If people think that football is corrupted why do they even bother to hope for a result ? I mean it's all fixed anyway ? Stupid fans who do not how to handle their anger issues
Yes but the referee isn't an interpreter to explain what really happened on the pitch. He is the law in the game, that's what the rules say. Something happens on the pitch, and he decides what the consequences of that will be.
So if he's made an incorrect call you can't see any reason for them to be angry? (Not you in particular, some of the general consensus appearing in the thread)
We get that it's an impossible job and that technology has to be implemented to lessen the load, but who are you kidding? If your team gets a decision against them, you're hardly going to love it are you? They're voicing their own outrage which they are entitled to feel if they have a point.
I don't agree with the whole thing being fixed and some of the bitter vitriol they spill out, but I'm with them on the right to voice a feeling of injustice. Yes, they're only human, but that's why we point out mistakes.
I'd say it was a pen even tough he went down easily. Too bad for them that Fergie has control over every ref in Europe
Kolarov was offside for the Aguero non-goal. That is a FACHT. Balotelli was tugging on the defender's shirt before he took a blatant arch-backed dive. Another FACHT. Of course, if Balotelli hadn't been the one to start (and finish) the shirt tugging, then it's a stonewall penalty with or without the dive, but that's not how it happened.
Apart from failing to give Ajax the free kick in the lead up to the second controversy, what's the ref got feel ashamed about?
Apart from failing to give Ajax the free kick in the lead up to the second controversy, what's the ref got feel ashamed about?
But....but....all of football is corrupted and controlled by Fergie
To explain any defeat, goal conceded or decision against Manchester City the order of likely outcomes goes like this:
1) It was SAFs fault - he paid the ref
2) It might have been a correct decision
Do you see any discrepancy between those two opinions?
They give advantage to the attacker if they absolutely don't know. Not if the attacker has only broken the rule 'a little bit'.
It's only corrupt when results don't go their way. Last season when United pulled out a nice gap in the PL and it all but looked over, apparently it was corrupt then?
Not much was said from that lot when they eventually won the league though.I can't believe how many people honestly believe whenever they get a bad call by a ref that it's Fergie's doing, however I can understand them venting their frustration.
If we were in their place we'd be pissed off as well.
If we were in their place we'd be pissed off as well.
We would , it's true, but would we be blaming a particular person for it?
Nope, I'd like to think we're better than that.
You think he saw that 3 inches offside?
I get so impressed by Vincent Kompany - the entire team is screaming and shouting at the referee and he is calm and simply states "we can only blame ourselves"
Is this guy for real ? Surely he deserves something better than City ?
Is this guy for real ? Surely he deserves something better than City ?
Madrid or Barca may come calling at some point.
We should have gone after him when Rio had a lot of back issues when Kompany was still in Germany.
He's been pretty shit this season.
There is that.
They seem to forget the Aguero studs showing over the ball tackle that was somehow not given to Ajax in the build up.