City vs CSKA Pre Match Thread

[chris85mcfc]

The lad is on the cup scheme and had £25 taken for this match, the club then announced the 2 for 1 deal, ( I said I would go at that price ) he rang up 10 times in the space of 5 days on his breaks at work only to be in the queue and had to hang up to get back to work, when he eventually got through it was sold out, he then asked if he would get a 50% refund. No chance, you have had ample time to get the extra ticket. Not happy about this, anyone else had similar ?

Why would he get a 50% refund?

The tickets are £25 with one free, their not £12.50 each

 

[kippaxblue76]

The lad is on the cup scheme and had £25 taken for this match, the club then announced the 2 for 1 deal, ( I said I would go at that price ) he rang up 10 times in the space of 5 days on his breaks at work only to be in the queue and had to hang up to get back to work, when he eventually got through it was sold out, he then asked if he would get a 50% refund. No chance, you have had ample time to get the extra ticket. Not happy about this, anyone else had similar ?

Why would he get a 50% refund?

The tickets are £25 with one free, their not £12.50 each

Because the club have cocked up with the selling, took £25 then announced 2 for 1, tickets not available online only by phone ( we all know what that can be like ) or at the ticket office, very poor imo.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Lampard and Kolarov didn't train today, so presumably won't be available for selection.

No problem at all with that.

 

[kippaxblue76]

Good read this.

Derby win can boost Manchester City's progress in Champions League







Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini believes his side's UCL clash with CSKA Moscow is not a must-win and that their group will be decided on the last match of the group.

When Woody Allen said "I don't believe in the after life, but I'm bringing a change of underwear" he almost certainly wasn't thinking about the Champions League group stages, but supporters of Manchester City will prepare for this week's match with CSKA Moscow with a broadly similar mindset. It could well be drifting away towards the eternal blackness of early elimination, but we'll bring along the usual gallows humour and see what happens.

Fresh from the gigantic boost of winning the Manchester Derby, morally, spiritually and actually out there on the pitch, it will be fascinating to see how this influences the next phase of City's season.

While many have seen in City's unconvincing start to the season a stuttering title holder, frightened of the bright lights of European competition, the club is still ahead of the league points total garnered after the same number of games last season. Add to that a record number of attempts onto the goal frame (10 at last count) and a raft of seemingly obvious penalty decisions that have not been awarded and you could build a reasonable argument that City are not in the terrible shape that some are making them out to be.

Poor form has certainly blighted a number of players so far and it is to be hoped that the sparkling derby performances of Gael Clichy and Yaya Touré, who had hitherto been two of the main culprits in this respect, can be taken as clear and constant light at the end of a relatively short but narrow tunnel.

While Chelsea's leaden performance against Queens Park Rangers at the weekend will have given City in particular and the chasing pack in general a fillip, it is European combat which once again is providing the Blues with seemingly insurmountable hurdles to vault.

Again, the doom mongers may not be entirely right even here. City, once more catapulted into a tricky group thanks to UEFA's fantastically anachronistic and protective seeding process, lost to an injury time goal in Munich, drew with a frisky Roma and then threw away a clear advantage in Moscow. Careless, certainly, but still close in each game to getting what was needed. Thus nine possible points quickly disintegrate into the stark reality of just two.

An upturn in form from the likes of Gael Clichy should help City's Champions League campaign.
An upturn in form from the likes of Gael Clichy should help City's Champions League campaign.

What has gone largely unsaid since the cave-in to CSKA is that Roma, sprightly and bushy-tailed in smashing five past the Russians, then made the mistake of shipping seven at home to Bayern. They now travel to Munich with another potential pasting facing them. If this comes to fruition, then a City victory over Leonid Slutsky's side will leapfrog them into second place in the group.

As Clichy said: "It is still possible for us to qualify, but we have to take three points against CSKA on Wednesday because if we don't, it will be really difficult to progress, no matter what happens in the other games."

City's run-up to Christmas serves up a steady flow of winnable domestic matches. Only an away trip to Southampton features an opponent in the pecking order for top six positions at present. There is a clear path towards the top of the table, an obvious springboard into the New Year. With critical European games against Bayern in Manchester and the final match in Rome in December, it could be argued that, as was made obvious before the season started, all eyes will begin to be turned towards the Champions League. While this may be the case, some backs may also be turned away from it on Wednesday, as a large number of City fans plan to make public their distaste of how UEFA is treating their club, by showing their backs to the pitch when the famous anthem sounds.

For all the talk of ambivalence towards the competition, however, there will be some fluttering hearts and well bitten fingernails during the next three games. Judging by Slutsky's 90 minute impression of a man sat upon a rocking horse in the first encounter, those following City will not be the only ones feeling nervous about it all.

As Woody Allen might have said, "If City's days in this tournament are numbered, perhaps CSKA's are lettered."

What goes without saying is that this is the moment to stand up and be counted. The boost of a derby win must now be employed to channel focus and energy into a strong run domestically and internationally, before lost ground becomes a real issue.





Simon Curtis


Euphoric miserable Northerner, glass both overflowing and half-empty, Simon Curtis writes for Down the Kippax Steps, which according to The Guardian is the "best City blog around," and the Manchester City programme. Follow him on Twitter @bifana_bifana

 

[kun]

Hart
Zabaleta Kompany Demichelis Clichy
Yaya Fernando Dinho
Nasri Aguero Jovetic

Willy, Sagna, Mangala, Milner, Navas, Pozo, Dzeko

 

[FantasyIreland]

An article in the Mail is stating the Russian wankers refused to adequately feed the players after the game,apparently they served the bare minimum leaving our squad hungry,angry and,most importantly,insufficiently refueled.

 

[kippaxblue76]

An article in the Mail is stating the Russian wankers refused to adequately feed the players after the game,apparently they served the bare minimum leaving our squad hungry,angry and,most importantly,insufficiently refueled.

We should give the twats the old Plough lane treatment, flood the dressing room, no hot water, no food, no heating, block the toilets etc etc..

 

[aguero93:20]

An article in the Mail is stating the Russian wankers refused to adequately feed the players after the game,apparently they served the bare minimum leaving our squad hungry,angry and,most importantly,insufficiently refueled.

We should give the twats the old Plough lane treatment, flood the dressing room, no hot water, no food, no heating, block the toilets etc etc..

UEFA would love that.

 

[FantasyIreland]

An article in the Mail is stating the Russian wankers refused to adequately feed the players after the game,apparently they served the bare minimum leaving our squad hungry,angry and,most importantly,insufficiently refueled.

We should give the twats the old Plough lane treatment, flood the dressing room, no hot water, no food, no heating, block the toilets etc etc..

We'd do much better by serving the cnuts the best banquet they could ever eat,dont sink to their depths...... just shame the smalltime fuckers

 

[aguero93:20]

An article in the Mail is stating the Russian wankers refused to adequately feed the players after the game,apparently they served the bare minimum leaving our squad hungry,angry and,most importantly,insufficiently refueled.

We should give the twats the old Plough lane treatment, flood the dressing room, no hot water, no food, no heating, block the toilets etc etc..

We'd do much better by serving the cnuts the best banquet they could ever eat,dont sink to their depths...... just shame the smalltime fuckers

Then lock the dressing room just before the final whistle and turn on the sprinklers on the pitch, meant to be fairly cold tomorrow.

But only if and after we win.