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The other big appointment for me today are some of the bogus criticisms on here of City and Pep today. If there ever was a day to stick together it was this, especially after what happened. I thought we played really well in terms of game management today. Nothing stupid in the first half...

If that's the case then that's all we need to know about was is going on at the moment. Same as Liverpool vs Wolves last week. If certain sides can be favored by twisting the rules then its going to happen. In the Liverpool game the referee signaled to the linesman to raise the offside flag...

Remember the Odyssey song "if you are looking for a way out?" Well after the insult that was the game management for the Leeds fixture followed by the insult that was the Chelsea fixture in the FA Cup this weekend - I was starting to get a bit fed up anyway. Its great that City bust the...

For me Stoke Away at Xmas under Mel Machin - massive turn-out in fancy dress .. all ready to go. Mel Machin dropped Paul Moulden. You know the rest. On Saturday we saw a modern update on that. The manager needs to prove that he is the master tactician and that the players can be switched...

I'm a Kyle Walker fan - so not really understanding why City fans are having so much of a go at him. A 'go,' = yes, so much of a 'go' = no. Do I think he is perfect - no? Have I seen him make a mistake that gave away a goal - yes. Have I seen him go in a bit rash and give something away -...

IMHO its considered to be 'fun' because it is associated with taking a 'liberty' (in football hooligan speak)- the thrill of doing something you shouldn't: its nothing to do with saying thanks to the players etc, that's an after-thought, an excuse for doing it. The people on the pitch can...

I haven't watched the TV highlights and likely I won't - as a 'neutral' what did you think of the various penalty appeals on Saturday?

Funnily enough, yesterday I was thinking that one positive about football that is often overlooked by people who 'don't get it' is that it teaches you how to take a defeat right on the chin and deal with it. Its not often in life you can be taught that in a way that, 'by Monday', doesn't really...

Another thing from yesterday, is that we have to remember that its the kind of crazy thing that makes football great - even when you are 2-0 nil up at home at half time, on the back of a great league run and everything going in your direction - the gods of football can and still make you pay...

Starting to come round again and I'm looking for positives from yesterday. First of all, we as fans were tempting fate big style yesterday: "stand up for the champions" and "ole, ole and ole", and singing "ole' on every completed pass: I hate all of that nonsense. These are worst things we...

On the whole, when you get to our (giddy) level of performance that Pep has brought in this season you sometimes forget that a Derby is a Derby and that anything can happen: today was just crazy and a reminder to Pep to not take anything for granted in this league, ever. And as for the...

Are you kidding? The atmosphere in the first half was great in the South Stand - we pretty much sang the whole half and we went in buoyant. Had we not a complete breakdown right at the start of the second half, I'm sure it would have been a great party. The thing is when you watch your side...

We learned today that the footballers that you carry who cannot strike the ball cleanly most of the time will cost you big time in the heat of the moment. Away at Cardiff in the Cup I saw Bernado pull a ball out of the sky and kill it dead: that's how its done. Sane is the same, at 90 miles an...

My take is that UEFA are hoping that City fans retaliate on Tuesday, so that they can switch the investigation to one which looks at the 'systemic' causes of such instances, avoids them the job of needing to punish one of the European Cup 'royal family', and bonus, it allows them to get at City...

One other things is that we are yet again the underdogs to the whole world and won't have any of the media BS bigging us up in such a crucial fixture against our bogeyman team at our bogeyman ground (karma will turn this around I remain certain...). Instead Liverpool have everything to lose...

I'm hoping that karma steps in for the 2nd leg - we really need it to. It is interesting to see that Jordan Henderson is suspended for the return leg - that could be important. When people look back at the 2-3 reverse at Anfield in the 2014 'Gerard Slip' season, they overlook that Henderson...

No. We cannot play Sterling at Anfield because the officials will just let the Liverpool players clean him out any time they like, and then book him if he complains. Chances are he could get taken out in the penalty box and no one will even notice....... just fancy that.

I'll raise on that - if Aguero had been on the pitch during that performance (no matter what he did) then there'd be tons of abuse being heaped on him - I honestly don't get it.

That's right - people are commenting here like we usually turn up at Anfield and boss the game - well news-effing-flash people - we don't. I'm not happy, but it could have been far worse. Even more annoying, if you cancel out both of the offsides, and their usual 'worldie' strike against us -...

Well that was a disaster and just think how well we've been playing at Anfield this last four decades - so where did that performance come from? The thing is, given how bad that first half was, we are lucky to still be in this tie and as ever there is a chance that Pep will have learned...