Of course it is! It's also their biggest game despite what the media says about Liverpool. Listen to their songs, other than the ones about themselves the make-up of the rest of them goes 95% about City, 3% about Liverpool 1% about Leeds and 1% about a few others.It's not our biggest game anymore, particularly in this competition.
Of course its our biggest game..Its a proper derby, forget what they say on ragcafe... it has the biggest build up of any game by the press and media.
That goes without sayin' fella.. who would you rather have in the next round ??, after we beat them 3 weeks ago its going to be fun to see what all the dinosaur scum pundits say in the build up this time...It might be for the fans but I doubt it is for the club.
Im with the stick with the B side for this one. We brought Pep here to give us a chance of winning the CL not a cup that we have won twice in the last three years. Topping the group gives us the best chance of doing that. The Barca games are much more important financially and prestige wise. We have moved on from the season being defined by beating united (which we have already done in the one that matters) and to be honest we have as much chance with any side because they are not very good.
I would rather take the risk in this one.
We'll get 9,000 for this !League Cup rules are now 10% so 7,500 tickets minimum. It used to be 15% but they did a deal with police and never offered that many - and don't start complaining as neither did we in the past.
The difference in the reactions from the semi draw in 2011 is palpablefirst time i can ever remember that i'm really not bothered about drawing them, would of been more worried if it had been liverpool or spurs
Scum cant field a strong enough side for this ;)think the schedules favour us slightly but my concern is that he won't field a strong enough side for this.