Liverpool FA Cup s/f (N) | Post Match Thread

[blue ranger]

Allison regularly makes mistakes and gave the ball away a few times today. Our keeper made a mistake and got punished. All other things aside they always seem to be lucky that way.

The difference is that our back up keeper has now cost us 2 successive FA Cup semi finals. Yes he is ok for the early games of the cups but not good enough at the highest level.

 

[bluetonium]

Do I even bother writing to the club/FA about the Scouse scum who infiltrated the block above us, spat at us and threw stuff, eventually injuring a young girl who left Wembley in tears with a suspected fractured arm? We were in 109. There was about 20 of them above us waving flags, not even subtle.

My instinct tells me it is a thankless task complaining because the scousers are untouchable and trademarked the word ‘victim’.

If that has happened then I would strongly encourage you to do so. The girl and her family should be contacting the police and the fa should be helping by investigating how they were in possession of tickets, who they were and what checks were in place to allow them to be there. It could be fatal, as our esteemed opponents yesterday should well know.

I get your concerns completely, but they also do have a well earned reputation for being unable to behave themselves at a big occasion. It would also give balance to the current flavour in the media that city are always the bad guys.

 

[Fordyboy46]

I agree with your point overall but Grealish played ok and Foden had his worst performance in a city shirt.

Yeah, I would say all three were piss poor really

 

[Rammy Blue]

Just glad I didn’t waste my time and money going to the game, yet bizarrely we nearly got back in the game.

If Jesus had done what he’s paid for and slotted that chance on 70 mins who knows how the game would have gone.

Oh, and just been told the corner for their 1st went out of play first, irritating if true.

 

[Rammy Blue]

First half was an embarrassment, as people have said it was easy to see that we just didn’t want to be there and pretty much threw the game, some appalling performances from people who needed to stand up.

Raz, Grealish, Jesus, Bernie - all dreadful.

 

[Grassland Blue]

surely not, they're saints aren't they, i blame chelsea fans for throwing those flares on the pitch as well

How do they manage to smuggle those flares in?
Especially the one at the Etihad.

 

[Vic]

Let's not forget the FA did us no favours on the date.
Had the game been today the outcome could have been different.
Twats

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[Father Paul]

What an absolutely shit day that was!

Liverpool took it more seriously than we did. We treated it like a friendly and got what we deserved.

The fans… We didn’t bother selling out, even in the blocks that were available to us, there were empties everywhere. Before everyone comes up with their excuses, I know loads of people who just couldn’t be arsed so the excuses won’t wash with me! People within my group couldn’t fill a minibus (when we’re normally turning people away), a local pub that usually runs a coach couldn’t fill a coach, people who sit around me in the ground who pulled their faces about going when I asked them last Sunday, spoke to others in the free coach on the way down yesterday who said the coach they normally go on wasn’t run because there was no interest.
Liverpool fans filled their end and some in our end.

And why the fuck are our fans so averse to getting to our seats early? Fans still filtering in in their hundreds minutes after kick off, while their end was full minutes before.

Not one ounce of atmosphere came from us. Oh apart from the shameful cunts who booed and shouted comments during the Hillsborough moment of silence. Never felt more embarrassed to be a Blue at that moment. Anyone who has a problem with Liverpool and Heysel, bring that up with LFC and the governing bodies and the media in an email or something, don’t go and fucking boo during a moment of respect for people who died you fucking disrespectful thick cunts! We deserve every bit of criticism coming our way for that.
We weren’t arsed in the stands during the game at all. Liverpool fans were well up for it. That was the best atmosphere from them that I’ve heard from any game we’ve been to Wembley (including any of ours). Their whole end stood up, even in the top tier, they were starting songs off in all areas, we just had a load of people who looked like they didn’t want to be there all sat down contributing fuck all. Fucking embarrassing from our fans! We acted like we had absolutely no ounce of belief that a treble was on the cards for us whatsoever.

The amount of our fans who left early was shit n’all. What’s the point in going all that way if you’re not going to stay to the end? As bad as we were, we very nearly took it to extra time… have some fans never learnt anything from being a City fan and the amount of come backs and late goals we’ve scored?

The team… We started like we couldn’t be arsed. Slow ponderous boring as fuck football by a team who - seemingly just like the fanbase - had absolutely no ounce of belief that a treble was on the cards for us whatsoever. Against a team who were well up for it, who responded to their fans, who looked like they believed that an historic quadruple is on the cards for them.
Okay we grew into the game a bit but let’s be honest they took their foot off the gas at 0-3 and had the rest of their season in mind, and they still looked as likely to make it 1-4 or 2-4 at any point we could have made it 2-3 or 3-3.

Why is it, that players who look good when others are around them, shrink like dying flowers anytime de Bruyne Gundogan Dias etc. aren’t on the pitch? I have never seen Sterling step up in the usual leaders’ absence and drive this team on to anything, it’s about time Foden started doing it as he’s experienced enough now, what a game for Grealish to show us that he’s worth picking for the run-in… they, along with others, were all fucking shit!

Is Pep allergic to making subs? Mahrez was his master stroke was it? He’s been stinking the place out over the last few weeks with meek as fuck performances. Get fucking Delap on, try it, it might have worked.

That was one of my least favourite days ever being a blue! Our fans were shit and some were a disgrace to the club. Our players were woeful for the most part. Manager had a poor day. Fucking wank day out, now I’ve fucked off home.

That is a tad over the top pal. Knew nothing about this minute of silence until it was upon us and many others it appears never knew at all. We should have been more respectful but the media reaction in line with your own is excessive. The grief of those who suffered a loss that day is real and the authorities clearly fell way short of the mark but the behavior of the dipper fans also played a role and this has been airbrushed out of history.
The City support base while substantial and growing is not as large as their lot particularly in the category often termed tourists. We do not have a huge reservoir of Cockneys to fill those gaps you seem embarrassed about and for many of our hard pressed fans it was financially a bridge to far. Also because the dippers under Bingo have only this season started taking the domestic cups seriously a trip to Wembley is something of a novelty for that lot.
The team Pep selected was given the circumstances a reasonably competitive 11 but a slow start compounded by a massive error saw us out the door. We still managed to eventually get our act together and the dippers were mighty relieved to hear the final whistle.

Your attack on the players is also over the top and while I agree that Pep was yet again slow to make changes we have to respect his opinion that Delap is not ready to play more than a peripheral role yet. Yes it was not a great day for players, fans and manager alike but your hysterical rant borders on shithousery.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

How do they manage to smuggle those flares in?
Especially the one at the Etihad.

Kids don’t get searched.

 

[balotellishaircut]

We're not going to do this dance again where losing to our main rivals is a good thing and all part of masterplan? We shit the bed, pure and simple.

Let’s all hope we win the league, get to the final of the EC and Pep doesn’t overthink his team selections, I was there yesterday along with 33k others and I just think Weds night had a big impact on our players, if you think differently fair enough.