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

[Gazza]

I also think it’s worth remembering that Ederson almost ’did a Steffen’ last week, under no pressure and, if he’d been a Liverpool player, he’d have had multiple death threats by now, as Karis did.

Concussion.
and then repercussion.

 

[Hung]

We have lost a fair few FA Cup semi-finals lately, I am surprised so many keep going. The FA making two NW teams trek down to London is also a bloody good reason for not going.

…last one for me if we are chasing the League/CL as well. We just don’t take them seriously. The team and the support were poor yesterday and I think it’s about general disinterest in the competition and the frequent trips to Wembley. That said, I can’t say that I’m looking forward to the CL Final if we get there and it’s against Liverpool. We’ll be outnumbered again (although since we’ll get less than 20,000 tickets, we should easily sell them all and keep Liverpool fans out of our end). However, every corporate and ‘neutral’ seat will have a red shirt in it.

 

[Gray]

…last one for me if we are chasing the League/CL as well. We just don’t take them seriously. The team and the support were poor yesterday and I think it’s about general disinterest in the competition and the frequent trips to Wembley. That said, I can’t say that I’m looking forward to the CL Final if we get there and it’s against Liverpool. We’ll be outnumbered again (although since we’ll get less than 20,000 tickets, we should easily sell them all and keep Liverpool fans out of our end). However, every corporate and ‘neutral’ seat will have a red shirt in it.

Perhaps RM might stop that happening.

 

[Gazza]

Perhaps RM might stop that happening.

Roberto Mancini?

 

[M18CTID]

Why is everyone surprised that the atmosphere was poor in our end yesterday? We went 2 goals down after less than 20 minutes so it was bound to be like that. Guaranteed that if it was us that went 2-0 up, you wouldn’t have heard a peep from the Liverpool fans and our end would’ve been popping.

As for the shenanigans around the minute’s silence, I don’t know where the thread from last night has gone but I posted in there that it seemed to me that it was City fans singing coming off the concourse and not knowing about it. To be fair, I don’t think any of us who were in our seats knew in advance and only found out when it was announced. Any booing seemed to come from the Liverpool fans who thought City fans were deliberately disrespecting it.

It seems I’m in a minority of fans who actually had a good day out yesterday and it was only really the football that spoiled it. It was a long arse day - up at 4.30 and out at 5.30 to get into town for my train to Leeds and then on to London, and back the same way, finally getting home just before 1 this morning and drinking enough beer to sink a battleship in the process.

Coming out of the ground, I was surprised at how many Liverpool fans were on the tube back to London at the same time as me, considering they were at the opposite end of the stadium and had won the game. Oh, and I think I heard about 4 or 5 scouse accents all day!

 

[SidJames]

 

[jockblue]

I think you've been a bit blinded by the reaction to the "storm in a tea cup" here mate.

Nobody on here is really saying that the people who died don't deserve any respect, not really; they're just reacting to the over the top condemnation that we're receiving.

The main difference between the 50th anniversary of Munich and the 33rd anniversary of Hillsborough is that one was planned and known about for weeks in advance, whilst the other seemed to be sprung on people out of the blue.

I was at Molineux near the end of the 2001/2 season when both teams were pushing for promotion. The Queen Mother had just died and there was an impromptu minutes silence prior to the game. Just like yesterday, nobody knew it was planned; and just like yesterday people who were on the concourses were singing before and during the "silence", unaware that it was even happening. That day the Wolves fans booed us and spat on us from above and after the match the Wolves fans that I knew at the time gave me loads of shit and asked me what our problem was with the Queen Mother.

Do you think we honestly had a problem with the Queen Mother to disrespect her in such a way?
Do you think we honestly have a problem with the Hillsborough victims to disrespect them in such a way?

Like I said, people, you included, are getting carried away with the reaction; it wasn't disrespect it was oblivion.

Disagree mate. I was in that section behind the goal. I saw the players line up for the silence, I heard the announcement, as did the vast majority of the city fans. The ones who shouted weren’t on the concourse unaware, they knew bloody fine what they were doing. Worth saying that it was a small but significant minority, immediately made worse by the noise of others telling them to shut up. But still.

and you don’t need advanced warning - we’ve all been to matches where suddenly the players gather round the centre circle in memory of the Chairman’s late Aunty who we’ve never heard of, but there you go…

As it was, they did say this would happen - I heard a couple of days before…but it shouldn’t and doesn’t matter.

 

[dad1971]

have a pop at me but start on others and i'll have you.
your genius manager can and does get things wrong . deal with it

Haha course you will.
No one says he doesn’t get things wrong. You said he threw the game on purpose, that’s a shit house comment.

 

[Otamendi's Beard]

Out of about 20 Liverpool fans I came across, only two were actually scousers.

The rest were from places like Cardiff, Dublin, Singapore and even Manchester.

Bunch of wankers.

 

[bernard o'silver]

Perhaps RM might stop that happening.

Mmmmm