ManCitizens. said:
flyer said:
Since my post, I've read some very bad things concerning what happened. I've no problem with hunting the scum down that did this but the poster did seem to me to me to be a dencent fan
I agree, he seems very genuine, concerned and unhappy with the incident. Today though a big % of Newcastles attending fans celebrated that incident. Now i would hate to see innocent fans get attacked at St James but City fans wont forget, there will be a backlash. All because of 1 idiot and a few hundred pissed up clowns.
P.s. welcome to the forum degs.mc and unlucky today
I'm frankly embarrassed at the conduct of some of our fans. I'm an honest guy and this is not the first time our away 'support' have got themselves into trouble this year, at Darlington in pre-season some idiots decided to kick off and invade the pitch during the game, and last week at Sunderland more idiots decided to rip up seats and throw things at a reserve fixture for heaven's sake. It makes my skin crawl, and it seems the younger fans are responsible for these actions.
Regarding the events of today I don't think hundreds of our fans noticed and advocated the firework being thrown, it was more the 'crowd mentality' kicking in after they had realised something had happened. I'm not making excuses here, I'm just trying to be rational.
On the topic of the game (something I haven't mentioned yet haha) I didn't think we did too much wrong. The penalties were stonewall but avoidable, we kept the ball well in small parts of the game and looked like we could go into half-time with our goal intact. My heart says that if Ba had put his chance away at 0-0, things could have been different; but my head says that you were always going to score more goals than us.
I'm proud of the team today, we more than gave an account of ourselves today and it was a great lesson for Pardew on how to play against top sides like yourselves. We should feel confident that we could nick a result at Old Trafford, it's unlikely but then again so was our start to the season.