The Liverpool games in particular. It sounds stupid when we lost 5-1 on aggregate to blame decisions, but if the legitimate away goal is given and the legitimate goal at the end of the first half, we go into halftime in the second game in the lead. Obviously you can never say that, because if we had an away goal, Liverpool might have played differently. But to get two wrongly disallowed goals in a knockout game against the same opponents is ridiculous.
Decisions in both CL games v Liverpool were at least incompetent, but bordering on corrupt, as was the selection of officials.The Liverpool games in particular. It sounds stupid when we lost 5-1 on aggregate to blame decisions, but if the legitimate away goal is given and the legitimate goal at the end of the first half, we go into halftime in the second game in the lead. Obviously you can never say that, because if we had an away goal, Liverpool might have played differently. But to get two wrongly disallowed goals in a knockout game against the same opponents is ridiculous.
No-one to blame but ourselves for the rag game though, even though we had at least one clear penalty. It was our own fault that we were in a position where we were relying on that for a draw.
Great post, well said mate. The officiating in all three games was, indeed, “somewhat eccentric” to say the least.Decisions in both CL games v Liverpool were at least incompetent, but bordering on corrupt, as was the selection of officials.
First game we had a legitimate goal disallowed, a cast iron penalty ignored and they had an offside goal allowed.
Second game we had another legitimate goal disallowed as well as a penalty. Uefa really don't want us to win the CL.
Against the rags there were 3 strong penalty claims ignored, including a blatant handball that prevented Sterling tapping in and a leg breaker on Sergio that should have seen a red card. We did miss chances but if the officials had done their job competently the game would have been over.
Agree with everything you say, although iv only watched the first one, the only thing I don't agree with is you using the word "crocked" to describe a City player being injured, that's a word the gutter press use, and we all know what them scumbags are like.Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done. Done.
Very, very enjoyable and insightful.
Pep appears solidly on the spectrum and I feel like he has such a large staff, including his water polo buddy, to help him to concentrate on one thing, and one thing alone...football!
The camaraderie is mind blowing. But, it will be interesting to see what happens if we have any kind of bad patch. I have a feeling there are a few lads in that dressing room who know how to speak up, and (thankfully!) we appear to have quite a few leaders who can keep that positive and constructive.
Pep’s team talks were the best part for me, and the Silva video at the end was a gulper. Need him to step up this season, especially now KDB is crocked.
9/10...-1 because there were only 8 episodes and the season had just too much going on to get it all into the series!
Interesting as I took it another way,I think you've got that backwards, security guy to me seemed to say if it happens, it happens, and Ferran wanted to be 'vocal to our fans and say this can't happen' / 'have other teams that have won the leage managed to not have an invasion?'
Just finished episode. Loved Pep's warning at HT in the farce at Wigan re. not making bad faces! Aimed at Leroy, presumably.
Nope, it was 100% targeted at Sane. Couple days back BBC interviewed Kevin about the documentary and one of the questions was regarding leadership and stuff. He said that he felt responsible for helping the young guys and then specifically talked about the Wigan match where Sane was subbed early on (because of Delph's red card) and he was pretty annoyed by that. So Kev consoled him and told him that it was nothing personal, just tactical and for the betterment of his own career, he should avoid being negative about such things in front of the manager because some managers don't like to see that. Those are his direct words from the interview. And then if you watch the episode again, you can see in the background just before Pep starts speaking, Kev is consoling Sane who seems pretty pissed. So the story aligns really neatly.Yea but he didn't once look at Sane whilst he was saying it.
I remember one of the Utd players talking about how Ferguson used to do similar with one of his players. He'd basically batter Giggs at HT yet everything he was saying was obviously aimed at another player, maybe Cantona, I dunno, can't remember.
Ferran continues to be completely out of touch with fans (can we physical stop a pitch invasion?!)
- I can't fucking stand Braydon Bent, he gets everywhere.
I'm only up to episode 3 so no spoilers please. I absolutely love this club, i think the documentary is superb so far - and what a season to chose to do it. Editing may not show all the warts but it's fairly well balanced i'd say. Hoping it will sway neutrals and Raheem haters.
Fuck me; we've got an ex water polo player as Fraudiola's chief confidant. It should be someone like Pearcey, a good, honest, proud Englishman and a football person. Get these Spanish chancers out of the club.