FA Cup Final - Post Game thread

[lazerblue]

Did our players actually give them twats a guard of honour, I turned it off at the final whistle

 

[vanchi]

Firstly I had no idea you were Croatian or not even from the UK. Your English is very good. You just seemed to be obsessively protective of Gvardiol that's why I called you a fanboy, I'll amend that to fangirl now I've been corrected. It's a okay we have our own born and bred Mancunians who are the same with a certain player.

Now you've told me you are Croation it makes sense. We had the same when Edin Dzeko played for us. Loads of Bosnians joined only because he played for us, not because they supported Manchester City. When he left the majority if not all of them left too.

Personally I find such behaviour odd but each to their own. I support my football club not an individual because he plays for a certain club. Of course you may be a long standing City fan who just happens to be Croation. If you're not and are here only for Gvardiol I'd like to ask why? It genuinely interests me.

ha i shouldv’e saved this reply and just copy paste it now, but here we go:

i’m a dinamo zagreb fan, my whole
family are, 4 generations now (i think), we are born with blue blood in our veins.
tiny country, tiny league, we have to sell our players, and if they’re absolutely sensational they get sold super mega uber quickly :(
so, like you love foden cause he’s one of your own, joško’s one of our own, zagreb and dinamo academy kid.
he also single leggedly took us to the world cup knockout stage in qatar, i was on the brink of death when that green boot made that ball disappear. plus he’s an incredibly nice polite person, he is incredibly loved here. i think joško’s ceiling is incredibly high and he hahaha saved my life probably. i am not a calm football fan. :D

i found this forum during the transfer saga, saw that i’m allowed to join if i write that i’m a dinamo zagreb/croatian national team supporter in my profile, and the early days were actually fun.

i love pep so i watched a lot of city games anyway and i was hoping joško would end up in sky blue one day. many people in small countries actually support their local club plus a big club somewhere else. i’m not gonna call myself a long standing city fan just cause i liked watching city though of course. i don’t know which label fits me, i don’t personally think i need a label.

oh and i don’t just go around and post gvardiol’s the best he can do no wrong, i saw many, many people comment that it was ortega’s mistake. on the other hand, many on twitter are now back on the joško’s useless garbage train.

 

[come-on-barney]

I honestly don't know what to make of that yesterday. The only highlight I can think of it that I didn't spend a small fortune on tickets, travelling down, hotel for the night, food, bear, programme etc.

Look, I know the 4 titles has never been done before and I'm a massive Pep fan but that yesterday was really poor. I don't expect to win every game, but I at least expect the team to try their best.

I was surprised at the line up that we seemed to be very cautious. United haven't tried to out-football us for years now and I fully expected them to sit back and counter which they did to the script that we've all seen before. Did we really need 2 holding midfielders in there? Even if the 'trick' was that Fernandes was a false 9, the plan was still to counter. Why play Stones and Ake when we didn't need to is beyond me.

The first goal was laughable really - literally a ball over the top and neither the full back or keeper shouted. Would Ederson have done anything different? Possibly, but even so that type of error is inexcusable at this level. The second goal was from a counter and we just had people practically free in our box.

The overall approach from us stunk the place out - slow, predictable, pedestrian and to be honest it was boring. We were close several times to losing the ball around our area. I honestly don't know what Pep was expecting as we couldn't find Foden, KdB, Bernardo and especially Haaland. Only when Doku came on did we have anyone who fancied winning that game. Kovacic did well but he nothing to work with.

I really don't mind losing games to anyone if we do our best, but yesterday we didn't. We were a LONG way off our best. It rankles me a bit that we save these performances, cock ups and strange changes for big games - United in the FA Cup Final, Lyon in the CL, Liverpool in the CL, Chelsea in the CL final etc. Just play the best team that's available when we need to.

I don't know if people were hungover or what, but those celebrations could've waited a week. I know they need to let off steam, that's fine, but not when you have the chance of another double against a poor United side with no morale and a manager who's about to be sacked. If we just didn't fancy the game, why not put the kids out in the 3rd round or something? We did something similar against Liverpool I think a few years ago, just put barely any effort in.

Hopefully we will beat them in the Community Shield. However, after a brilliant and unprecedented season it does feel a bit flat to miss out on a double given the way we approached and played the game.

Fair play to all of you who went down.

I was going to avoid the shield after being there on Saturday, but I’m right up for it now. Pep will sort it in August!

 

[cleavers]

My mate got scammed on Booking.com.

He booked an apartment in London for 3 of us.

Got to the apartment, rang the person who owned the apartment, not reply.

We drove around Harrow trying to find parking.

My mate rang the owner of the apartment again. This time he answered.

My mate told him he had booked the apartment last month on Booking.com.

The owner said the apartment hasn’t been on Booking.com for over a year . The lying ****!

We had no option but to book the Travelodge in the centre of Harrow. Two rooms for £360!

My mate has sent emails to Booking.com to report the apartment owner, to get his money back, and to get compensation.

This has been going on a while now with a few sites unfortunately, he should get his money back from booking.com, assuming he has proof of booking through them.

 

[cleavers]

Did our players actually give them twats a guard of honour, I turned it off at the final whistle

Yeah.

 

[Franny 1234]

Rest assured I will be at Wembley in August for the charity shield.
I fully expect whoever we face in the curtain raiser to win. Pep doesn't take it seriously.
But being there supporting my team is what matters most.
Keep the faith CTID

 

[NI Blue]

My view on yesterday.
Scum fans are absolute bellends, on tube from Waterloo a group were singing and trying to provoke myself and a group of blues who got on together. They were simply ignored and soon got fed up.
Tube was way too hot!
Was concerned when I saw John stones playing.
Simply way to slow in our passing and movement.
Ortega at fault as he came way outside his area so could never have used his hands.
Gvardiol lost on left wing first half, needed Doku to work off.
KDB not at it at all (having said that most had off days but I think a lot was to do with way scum set up)
Second goal everyone wasn't tight enough.
At least when Doku came on there was unease in their defence.
Frustrated but not overly upset strangley. 4 in a row compensates.

 

[jaiguruKun]

Yeah.

Oh FFS. I didn't know that.
I'm starting to wonder if Pep actually wanted to lose.

 

[lazerblue]

Yeah.

Ffs

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Eh leave them to it, if they continue to hype up players like those 4, they'll continue to finish around 8th.

Hojlund is awful and will never be anything other than that. Mainoo and Garnacho wouldn't even be talked about if they played for anyone else, as both are playing at the right level for their ability.

Mainoo is a bizarre one, I've still not worked out if he's any good or not. I feel like he's alright, but he's getting so many plaudits for yesterday, and yet I thought he was average aside from his finish.

I thought was ok but nothing special. Rashford was absolute gash. Completely invisible. It makes the score even more difficult to understand as they didn’t really play that well yet managed 11 attempts!

I guess without watching it back, the big difference for them was the two CB’s and being able to drop that useless bastard Casemiro.