FA cup against United

[mancunial]

This for myself showed how manipulative united were towards the officials, how on earth that decision that foy and Rooney manipulated between them was not investigated was a disgrace, they are the biggest pair of c--ts on this planet, cheats and shysters? Foy should never officiate a city game ever, he is unscrupulous disgrace to his profession, I don't have to say anything about Rooney we all know what he is! Stick his twitter tight up his arse? I never look at a defeat as glorious especially in those terms, we have to be uncompromising if we are to retain the title!

 

[MC ID]

I remember the match well, especially for the absolutely huge balls Mancini showed when we became a man down from a good tackle (Nani of all people got straight up to win the ball back instead of diving) to change the formation to three at the back, a formation we had never played and we almost staged an amazing fight back.

 

[1.618034]

Nope. I don't remember feeling fantastic after it at all. I was raging at the ref for a ridiculous decision to send VK off, and I was raging at some of our piss poor defending (we were already 1 down when the red card happened). At the end the feeling was more of relief, and pride in the spirit we showed in that second half, that the vermin hadn't matched the 6-1 (and being 3 down at HT and down to 10 men, it was a real possibility).

Only this.

 

[fatbloke]

I just felt utter pride after that game, yes we lost but we showed so much passion and fight it just brought the players and fans even close together. There's a genuine respect between the players and fans at the moment as shows with the players doing the Poznan and that's why we create atmosphere's home and away that no team in this country can rival (slightly biased I know but fuck it). The "we fight till the end" song was born and the players, fans and everyone connected with the club did until AGUEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BillCarlisle]

It was the first time in my life I've walked away from a derby defeat without feeling absolutely gutted. Unhappy - yes, but with the referee. Proud - yes, with the fight back and the way we hammered them in the 2nd half with 10 men. We were well worth a draw that day, and the Rags knew it.

I think that the way we turned them over after HT was very much in Ferguson's mind when it came to the April derby and that's why he didn't play an attacking formation that night.

 

[leenik]

i walked out feeling like we'd won the game, then on the way home i started getting pictures sent to me from people watching on the telly! screaming to get it in the box when Costel came up for the corner!!!

 

[ForzaMancini]

I was proud and almost cheered at full-time. On the bus back to the train station I had to keep reminding myself we had lost and I think you could tell by the way the players walked off the pitch and applauded they were proud to play for City and have us as fans. At half-time I thought it was gonna be worse than 6-1 so I was thrilled to just lose 3-2 and see the rags bricking it.

 

[njmcfc1894]

obviously gutted at half-time and me and mates were just saying we'll go back to seat and see how it goes,got back to 3-2 then as we were right next to scum there faces were a picture when kolorov had the free kick in last minute, went back to the shakespeare and everyone was seeing it as a moral victory, myself included.

 

[Tourist since 1971]

I remember the match well, especially for the absolutely huge balls Mancini showed when we became a man down from a good tackle (Nani of all people got straight up to win the ball back instead of diving) to change the formation to three at the back, a formation we had never played and we almost staged an amazing fight back.

This was the game when it struck me just how good a team Mancini had put together. As noted by MC ID, the move to three at the back was a masterstroke - it seemed like adding a defender but actually released the two full backs to get forward. Pretty much like his subbing of Tevez and bringing on Nige during games at the end of the season which released Yaya to go forward. Bloke is a genius. That, combined with the balls shown by everyone that day had me believing we were true contenders, not just Blackburn one-offs.

 

[bert's broken neck]

At half time I feared the worst and thought we'd be on the end of a sick swan ourselves. My mind was thinking back to the 5-1 win we had which was quickly followed by a 5-0 defeat at the swamp.

By full-time it felt like we'd won.

I think this was the game where nat had her rant on the big screen as I was herading for the car?

They're a strange breed rags, at the CS last season they came back from 2-0 at half time to win in the last minute and I swear that walking down Wembley way a neutral would have thought we'd won rather than the miserable rags.

Same feelings as me, I thought only city could smash them 6-1 and then let them do the same or worse to us so soon after. Would have been fantastic though if big Joe would have scored the equalizer

Think you're getting mixed up with Sporting Lisbon, mate!

Joe was "rested" for the Scum tie, but he did put a header inches wide in injury time vs Sporting!