Fair play to City. No player in the history of football has ever suffered a long-term injury before... This is unprecedented territory for a football club. A lovely gesture.
Man City players all wearing Gundogan shirts tonight
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Bizarre thread. The players shouldn't show support for one of their own suffering another in a long line of potentially career ending injuries?
Nothing wrong with supporting your team mate with a serious injury. It's not like the Liverpool and Suarez situation.
Somebody could have at least told them that they had the shirts on the wrong way round though.
Somebody could have at least told them that they had the shirts on the wrong way round though.
Meh... I don't see the problem with that. Does every unconventional decision made by our rivals have to be cringeworthy just because they are our rivals?
It's bloody cringe worthy PR nonsense. There's absolutely no reason for the over the top public display of support.
I think it's a pretty nice gesture, anyone finding a problem with it is just being petty.
We did something similar for Alan Smith (I think) can't really criticise City for doing similar.
watch everyone be at it now.
A t-shirt at the end of a cup win and us doing it after another cup win after Jimmy Davis died are a bit different.
I sort of agree. Nice for Gundogan to see I suppose, but does feel a bit cringe worthy.
Did we do it for Smith?
People pick strange things to give out about
It's fair enough imo. Gundogan must be in a dark place with his injury history so this would have hit him harder than most
I've got no problem with the gesture itself but the backward shirt thing looked stupid as feck.
Yeah we did...
Definitely what came to mind for me, however the act of doing this before a game rather than after is a huge mistake IMO. It puts players in the wrong frame of mind for the battle ahead and should be done after a game not before.
Brazil says this isn't the best thing to do...
I guess it was a cup final instead of just a league game, but whatever.
Lovely gesture. Next week we should all wear "Stones' career" on the back of ours.
But they can (and more than likely have) expressed their support and best wishes in private. My issue with it is that by making it public and over the top it cheapens the gesture and makes it look fake. Public support is only necessary when someone receives public criticism.
First thought was 'cringe'. Nothing inherently wrong with it though, just seems a bit unnecessary?
It was after the game too, which we won.
Brazil says this isn't the best thing to do...
Another good example of why this should be done after a game and not before.No mate. We should never ever jinx his career. The lad should play every single minute possible.
What we did for Smith was dedicate a trophy win for him.
Are City dedicating this league appearance to Gundogan? It's a bit weird.
Are City dedicating this league appearance to Gundogan? It's a bit weird.
They dedicated the Walcott goal to him, it was the most PepCity thing they could think of.
Gudogan will be turning in his grave at this performance..
2016 takes another one
i thought they were going to play the game with the backward shirts. Cant like him that much
John Glenn?
Bowie
Prince
Lemmy
Buzz Aldrin
Gundogan
This is very weird alright.
Him too?
People have way too much free time to think and moan about stuff.
It's absolutely pointless. It's not like he had a potentially lethal injury or health issue.
He's a crock on top of it, nothing new.
He's a crock on top of it, nothing new.
It's pretty standard for Spanish teams, I doubt if many of the City players thought it was unusual. A bit like getting cake on your birthday really.
We did that as well when Badstuber got injured last season. I liked it - Badstuber is one of our own and extremely unlucky when it comes to injuries.