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?'