Man City vs Reading - Post Match Discussion

[Skashion]

I know better than to expect honesty. Being a football fan is an irrational business and to expect rationality is irrational.

I watched it with several neutrals (including a couple of rags) who didn't see anything wrong with it. The two pundits on AD Sports (can't for the life of me remember who they were this weekend) didn't think it was a foul either. I presume they were being honest, as why would they possibly lie?

Ah, but you could of course, be being dishonest about all of that. ;-)

 

[Dubai Blue]

I know better than to expect honesty. Being a football fan is an irrational business and to expect rationality is irrational.

I watched it with several neutrals (including a couple of rags) who didn't see anything wrong with it. The two pundits on AD Sports (can't for the life of me remember who they were this weekend) didn't think it was a foul either. I presume they were being honest, as why would they possibly lie?

Ah, but you could of course, be being dishonest about all of that. ;-)

You've got me there!

 

[Pigeonho]

Nothing wrong with what Rekik did, nor with what Barry did. I can see why people would say though that it shouldn't have stood. If that was us v United and Rooney scored that, people would say he was climbing, purely because it was him and them. I also think that if the refs have been told to have an agenda to stop us gaining points, that is an incident where he could have blown for a foul and not given the goal. It wasn't a foul though, it was a legit goal and common sense prevailed.

 

[stonerblue]

Rarely have i seen a more one sided match. We could have had ten but one will do.

 

[moomba]

The anti agenda lot are getting way more obsessed than the agenda lot ever were.

 

[fathellensbellend]

it wasn't vintage, but who cares, playing reading on the back of them shipping loads of goals was always going to equal them parking the bus, and in fairness they defended well, but their time wasting got right on my tits.

we have now shifted some pressure to utd, and going to swansea will be difficult, despite not being our best performance, it could turn out to be an excellent weekend.

 

[the talisman]

It was a foul. How can anyone say that wasn't a foul.

They showed it from a few different angles on the stream I was watching (Fox USA I think).

If you look at the header in close-up on it's own it looks like a foul, but when you see a wide angle shot it's definitely not a foul. Gaz Baz runs in, eye on the ball, and attacks the ball. Shorey looks at Barry, and stops dead to impede him. What was Gaz Baz supposed to do? give up.

A great goal and no foul from me.

 

[citytill1die84]

It was a foul. How can anyone say that wasn't a foul.

Who gives a flying f**k? It counted and we got 3 points foul or no foul.

 

[Pubteam Lomas]

How many times do you see a free kick given against the attacker when the defender falls over the back of him? It happens all the time with the ref claiming forward 'made a back for him.'
This is what Shorey did:
He ducked to let the ball go over his head but then Barry arrived and scored.
McDermott should bollock his player for taking the wrong option, not the official.
Oh and not one of their defenders appealed for a free kick until about 30 secs later.

 

[Blue Elmo]

There was no doubt we deserved to win the game, but its ironic that after everything, we get a goal from a cross. All game long, we're playing tikka takka football in and around the box and it gets us nowhere. Fair enough, Reading had 10 men behind the ball and practically a solid line of 8 defenders when we came forward, but still we just pass, and pass, and pass. I wanna see one of our players run at someone and not just play a square ball just cause they might lose possession. When Sinclair came on I was chuffed cause I thought finally, someone was gunna have a go at their average full backs. At one point he had a shot and it went miles wide, but I applauded him anyways. I would rather see us have a shot every now and again as opposed to watching the ball go from left to right infront of a sea of yellow shirts. When the tikka takka football comes off, it is world class, but we need something else in our game. Today would have been good to have stuck a big man in the box and put some crosses in. Or if we had a world class winger, let him run at them and get some joy. The rags get a lot of joy because they have 2 ways of playing. They can interlink the midfield and the strikers with Shrek and Van Persie, but then they can shift it wide and let the wingers run at the defence. It was the same against Everton a few weeks ago, we struggle against teams that sit, and we need something to counter that. Grateful for the goal from Barry though, thought he had a top game in midfield.