You don't have to pick one trophy,as a serious team you go for the lot
Community shields are counted in answer to your little swipe,it is a competitive game between the 2 top domestic teams,well we couldn't play ourselves so you were invited,having said that i am with our chairman 3 plus one
Tinpot pre-season friendly trophies on an other continent nobody counts as that would be ridiculous as that is pre-season and not in any way a competitive game
But if you had to pick just one, both teams would say the league. Imagine it comes down to last game and you're playing in the FA Cup final the weekend after.
Of course you want to win both. But nobody is picking the FA cup over the league. That's my point.
Whether you want to big up the community shield (which at times early on was a bananas game. In 1970-1971 Arsenal won the double. So the charity shield at the start of the 71-72 season? Liverpool the FA cup runners up against Leicester who won the second division the previous season. Leicester won the game 1-0 at Filbert Street).
It's a game with a trophy. It's an invitational game, much like the European Super Cup and the World Club Cup. You only want to count the trophies you seem to win as important. I'd love nothing more than to see Liverpool win everything on offer all the time. That's simply not how things work.
Whether City fans want to admit or not, this Liverpool side (with the refs, and the media and the FA and everything else) are a real challenge to City and makes last seasons efforts by City all the more remarkable.
If City finished last year on 98 points and the nearest team was on 80 then everyone would be saying how easy it was. I seriously doubt anyone apart from City or Liverpool are winning this league this season. I also seriously doubt they'll be a massive points difference between the teams.
On Mane, of course he does go down easily (as do the overwhelming majority of players in the league) but is it any wonder. Week in, week out every fan (who watches their own club, through their own lense much more than they do other clubs) sees a foul, a tug, a pull where a foul isn't given. The standard of refs is the real issue.
We saw in the World Cup how they clamped down on ridiculous fouls in the box at a corner. Fast forward to a Newcastle player having a Liverpool player in an actual headlock and it's waved away. I tend to not watch games unless it involves us. I'm sure most city fans could point to a decision they think was more than generous to the opposition. But can you say you've never been given anything that's more than a little generous to City?
