did anyone actually enjoy saturdays game

[bluenova]

What a crock of shit!

IF we would have won all our games we lost last season we would have been champions. So your point is what?

Live in the real world we can't win away or at home we cant finish off teams at home or away we are sliding down the league and hoping Liverpool dont win or we will be 7th.

You suggested that we were a laughing stock which is truly bizarre unless you are worried by a few comments from Alan Hansen (not disimilar to ones he's recently made about Utd, Liverpool and Arsenal). The only people laughing would be rival fans who came on this site and saw how pathetic we were all being.

At this stage last year the rags had 21 points and went on to be Champions. We've got 20 and are apparently the worst team in the league.

One goal in any of the last five games would have us in the Champion's League spot with a game in hand. ONE GOAL over five games. That's how close the margin is between success and failure.

So. For all those who think we are doomed, please repeat the following words over and over till you feel a little more relaxed.

Overreaction.

Panic.

Lack of perspective.

 

[PaulPowerShower]

3-2 up still going for more goals = entertainment

or sit back bore everyone
know which i'd pick

Sit back and bore everyone but still take 3 points and qualify for Europe you mean

 

[Chris in London]

There is a rule in sport about taking the result out of the official's hands. I'll explain what I mean.

Anyone else see the rags lose on Sunday?

Notice how after 5 mins went up on the board the whistle was blown by Mr Atkinson after EXACTLY 5 minutes of added time? (The idea of adding 30 seconds for substitutions seems to have gone out the window, then, unless I dreamed the Chelseas sub... BTW notice Taggart biting the hand that fed him his Derby win?)

Notice how Lampard went up to block a cross and no foul/penalty was given when the ball hit his arm? (unlike Lescott...)

Notice Drogba not given offside for Terry's goal?

If United are 3-0 up, it doesn't matter if Chelsea get a dodgy goal. It doesn't matter how much time the ref adds on. It doesn't matter if the ref doesn't give a penalty. We all know that in football decisions can go against you. Over the course of a season, they probably balance each other out but in any given game if a number of things go against you, as they did against United, you won't win a tight game.

On Saturday, a number of things went against us that on another day wouldn't. I didn't think Sweep was offside in the first half even though his goal was not given, and there were fractions of a second in the Burnley player being offside for their second. On another day, our goal is given, theirs is chalked off. On another day, a ref doesn't give the penalty against Lescott or decides its just outside the area. On another day, we are given an extra 90 seconds at the end of injury time and score the winner.

I did enjoy the game - I thought it was a cracker, apart from the sloppy goal at the end - what disappoints me is that we let Burnley get close enough for the refereeing decisions and a sloppy goal to make a difference. Against Arsenal, we gave away a sloppy goal at the end but had stuffed them over the course of the previous 85 minutes. We gave away a sloppy goal against West Ham but did enough to win. We need to take the result of the game away from the hands of the referee and the linesman more often.

 

[Trigger]

Can't say I enjoyed it, but at least I was paid for being there ;)

 

[u2fme2]

nope,
and it still pissis me off to think about it

 

[bainy]

I hate it everytime city lose...still after 35 years watching i cant get use to it.
However, i enjoyed saturday.....great football game, suicidal defending. A year ago we would of lost the game and several years ago under psycho we would not of had a shot!!
This is a new team, who cannot defend at the moment...not had the same 4 defenders playing together in majority of games!!! we have lost once all season....
IMO no need to panic, plenty of time to get it right.
Keep the faith everyone and enjoy the ride, we have come along way in a short time.

 

[PaulPowre]

New super rich owners, new manger and total change top to bottom backroom staff, over £200m spent, some quality premiership players bought and were still as incosistant as we ever was.

 

[Citytillidie1]

I thought that our attacking play was top draw, yet we were pitiful in defence!

What we need, is someone who is able to organise the defence... I don't think that many people will agree with me but there are a couple of people on the other side of Manchester that could do the job... what would people think if we bought Ferdinand or Wes Brown... We have the money and there aren't many better defenders in the league. I think that O'Shea could do a better job than Lescott at the moment!!

I look forward to your replies....

 

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

Agreed - even when Burnley went 2 up and we were playing absolutely gash, I still thought we'd get back into it so wasn't panicking. You could tell they were going to get one back though - the team just stopped playing when we'd had a really good spell, and you just knew our defence wasn't going to last til the final whistle. Bad game overall though - a bit like a pearl sanwiched in shit, if you like.

Yeah, agree Prime, First goal doesn't faze me, it's just the last ten minutes if we haven't got a four goal lead.

Exactly right - if we're one goal up with ten minutes to go, I would be prepared to offer a cash guarantee that we'll concede and draw the game the way we're playing at the moment - we are completely incapable of seeing a game out and sitting on a result. We need a cushion, like we had against the Arse, so that when we do inevitably fall apart at the end of the game, we can still just about hang on for a win. Otherwise we're fooked.

 

[Newlunar]

Complete over reactions to Saturdays result. The small minority of fans on here with the Hughes out agenda try and support their arguments with outrageous exagerations. Too numerous to mention.

Describing our form as relegation material when we've only lost once all season. And then by the narrowest of margins.

Stating that Burnley played us off the park when actually the second half that I saw on Saturday we out played Burnley in every department.

We weren't breathtaking but we were better than them in every position FACT. That is why we came from 2:0 down in the space of 20 minutes to lead 3:2. If any of the numerous chances that we created had ended up in the net to make it 4:2, then Burnley would have been dead and buried. But that is what makes football such an edge of the seat game. If you can't cope with the permatations and probabilities of football then you should consider another pastime. Or sod off and watch Rangers/Celtic.


Stating that City are incapeable of holding onto a lead. What? Because we've drawn 4 games in a row? Erm, we came from behind in two of them.

I've read on here that it's all about opinions, well that's true but FFS keep it objective people, don't start egging the pudding to orchestrate another damaging sack the manager campaign just because of who he used to play for.

You 'Hughes out' people are the main reason the rest of football takes the piss out of Manchester City, not the f'kin manager or his tactics. Your hysteria turns us into a joke.

I hate to use them as an example but I had the radio on for the Chelsea/ Rags match on Sunday. I listened to some of the aftermatch phone in and bearing in mind they've lost three matches already this season,(We'd be calling that relegation form probably) there was not one call slating the manager, team or his tactics. Just the usual garbage about referees. That doesn't make them right but they never seem to turn in on themselves and it's about bleeding time we stopped, with this 'Sky is falling' shit every six months and help drive the team on.