Manchester City v Celtic post match thread

SebastianBlue said:
Jokes about #PepOut aside, the one real criticism I would levy at last night has nothing to do with the team performance (it was as expected in my mind, and I thought the young lads did fairly well, given the circumstances) and everything to do with the amateurishness of the overall production of the match.

From the prematch coverage (including truly uncomfortable to watch interviews with local fans) to the half-empty stadium (partly due to it being too big for the nature of the match, partly due to the less-than-ideal location for putting on a football match, and partly due to the overpriced tickets) to the sod turf over tarp over Astro turf pitch laid a week ago to pitch mics picking up constant booing of our players (particularly Grealish) on the match broadcast to the truly awful commentators on ESPN that couldn’t even get our players’ names right (and the co-commentator using words like “helper” to describe an assist) to the very difficult to watch post-match interviews, I do hope the club take stock of how badly it was produced. I said in the match thread it reminded of some of the friendlies we had in the late 90s where everything looked to have been arranged the day before.

Most of it was no doubt out of City’s hands and down to the “FC Series” organisers but I don’t think it was a worthy showcase of the club, which is the main point of this sort of friendly, so hopefully Soriano et al take note and avoid this in the future. Or at least give a kick up the arse of the organisers to do better in the future.

Hopefully the next match in NYC will be put on with substantially more polish and professionalism.
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I didn’t mind the British main commentator, but the American co-commentator was abysmal.
 
Jack74 said:
Nearly everyone who lives in Boston
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Haha, you beat me to it.

Any time you are in a pub in Boston that is showing football (literally any match in any league or competition) you have a 50% chance of finding at least one person wearing a Celtic shirt and one person wearing a Liverpool shirt (if you go enough, you’ll often see the same person wearing one and then the other on different days).

The Banshee, the official MCFC Supporter’s Club pub in Boston (Dorchester), always had at least one on match days!
 
Blu3m00n91 said:
My concern is that we are not developing good defenders in the academy. Rico Lewis exception who let’s be honest has practically played midfield. Can’t think of any we’ve developed.
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In our first team? Not gonna be trusted but we have players all over the top leagues that came through.
 
Vienna_70 said:
I didn’t mind the British main commentator, but the American co-commentator was abysmal.
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I actually muted the commentary about 70 minutes in because I couldn’t take any more.

Him calling Ndala “Susoho” for the fifth time was the final straw.
 
I Have A Question

Why don't City ask the Premier League for an extra week off and postpone the first game, City has had most of the squad playing deep into the euros, I think it was 17 players (Major Players) involved at the euros

Ok Pre-season games don't mean much other than getting game time and fitness back, But what is missing because of the euro's sends the alarm bells ringing, We are asking about 10 first-team players coming back without a pre-season to play straight away, ITS NOT RIGHT
 
ancoats said:
I Have A Question

Why don't City ask the Premier League for an extra week off and postpone the first game, City has had most of the squad playing deep into the euros, I think it was 17 players (Major Players) involved at the euros

Ok Pre-season games don't mean much other than getting game time and fitness back, But what is missing because of the euro's sends the alarm bells ringing, We are asking about 10 first-team players coming back without a pre-season to play straight away, ITS NOT RIGHT
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Why don't City ask the Premier League for an extra week off and postpone the first game, City has had most of the squad playing deep into the euros, I think it was 17 players (Major Players) involved at the euros

It would be pointless mate as there is zero chance of the premier league saying yes
 
ninjamonkey said:
88 minutes it took for the commentator to stop calling ndala susoho, and he called him Hamilton instead!

All he had to do was look at his fucking shirt once for his name and number. I'm not one for throwing around race accusations, confusing 2 unfamiliar black guys with similar haircuts at a glance is a perfectly forgivable mistake to make, even doing it more than once is fine but it is hard not to think it's a race issue when he gets it wrong for the entire 45 minutes! Even when he finally realises it's not susoho in two places at once after 88 minutes, he refers to him as Hamilton, the other black kid with a similar haircut.

The other commentator did refer to an assist as a "helper" which was the first time ever hearing that and that somehow wasn't the worst thing of the night.
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I,m guessing you watched it on ESPN like I did. That commentator was shocking, it's not even a race issue he called Perrone, Oscar Bobb at one point. I have a moan about our usual commentators over here at times but he was the worst I have ever listened to.
 
DallasMCBlue said:
I was there last night. 80% City fans. They did surprise me how many they had though. Who the hell follows Celtic from the US? Not even sure they’re on TV much other than CL.
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Black&White&BlueMoon Town said:
I was there and think you got it right. I'd say it was about 70% City, 20% Celtic, 10% other/couldn't tell.

The Celtic group behind the goal was well organized and had some good cheers. Their team gave them much to cheer about the first half.

Wish them well going forward and hopefully enough there for our team to learn from.

The 2 intruders on the field and the length it was allowed to happen was totally uncalled for. Maybe this was mentioned prior, but I did question the Secret Security presence when that happened.
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City sold 25,000, Celtic 700, yet Andy Townsend still says they are bigger
 
eyalluvitt said:
City sold 25,000, Celtic 700, yet Andy Townsend still says they are bigger
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Celtic historically are huge. And are also huge around the world given the historic emigration of Irish and Scots. They would have been a bigger supported club than City for 9/10ths of our history.

But currently it's changing given the growth of City within the growth of the Premier League. City are a runaway train within a runaway train. Times are changing fast and last night showed that.
 
liongard82 said:
Celtic historically are huge. And are also huge around the world given the historic emigration of Irish and Scots. They would have been a bigger supported club than City for 9/10ths of our history.

But currently it's changing given the growth of City within the growth of the Premier League. City are a runaway train within a runaway train. Times are changing fast and last night showed that.
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A bit of a myth, we have more supporters clubs around the world than Celtic and Rangers. Most of the Irish diaspora support United or Liverpool. 40M yanks claim Irish heritage and they sell 700 tickets.I saw them play Madrid in Philadelphia years ago and it was 90% Madrid fans
 
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