Mancini is a 'disgrace' - The Guardian

[blue_soundwave]

I was just reading through the Guardian's minute by minute commentary of last night's match and was suprised by the level of vitriol and bile aimed towards the club and Mancini. Anyone who regularly listens to Football Weekly will know that Glendenning is no fan of Mancio but this really took it to a new (and surely unprofessional) level.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jan/05/premier-league-arsenal-manchester-city-live

75 min: [Minute-by-minute reporter clambers on soapbox and clears throat] While I have no particular love for Arsenal, I really hope they win this match because Manchester City's negative tactics are appalling. I know football's a results business, but surely a team assembled at such huge expense has some sort of duty to entertain and try to score a goal at least, if not win. Roberto Mancini's going to have a pain in his shoulder from waving his arm to instruct his players to defy their natural instincts and hang back defending for 90 minutes. He's a disgrace.

89 min: Ha ha, you couldn't make this up. From the array of defensive midfielders and defenders on his bench (there are no strikers among City's subs), Mancini sends on Jerome Boateng in place of Carlos Tevez. "Boring, boring City! Boring, boring City!" sing the Emirates crowd, rounding off their sing-song with a chorus of "You're shit and you know you are!" Far be it from me to condone effing and jeffing, but I couldn't disagree with much of that.

90+5 min: Peep! Peep! Peep! It's all over. Arsenal's players walk off shaking their heads in disbelief, while some of City's trudge off to a chorus of boos from the home crowd. They look - dare I say it - embarrassed; Joe Hart certainly does. That was a disgracefully negative and cowardly effort by the world's richest football club. If their die-hard supporters can honestly say they're genuinely happy with that rubbish, they really need to reassess why it is they started going to watch football in the first place.

 

[Marvin]

The journos just pander to what they think will be the prevailing opinion whilse some strike a contrarian view.

I don't think any of them really give their own opinion, and why worry about what other people think anyway? What we think is far more important

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

I'd class myself as die hard and I'd say I was very happy.

We're not here to entertain the Sky mongs, we're here to please ourselves and we are pleased so fuck anyone who feels the need to have a pop.

Shove it up your arse.

 

[deano ou812]

he clearly cant remember arse playing like that EVERYgame under george graham,what a fcuking nobhead...

 

[blue dallas]

one of their main 'writers' is banned from eastlands,

Daniel Taylor i think the turd is called.

do the math.

 

[samharris]

Most City fans are well pleased with the point last night and tbh does owt else matter. ??

Its when the pundits start thinking for us that winds me up...

"City fans wont be happy with a display like that yada yada yada..."

wrong.

 

[MCFC BOB]

Embarrased to be in 2nd? Okay.

 

[Kaini Industries]

I've noticed "cowardly" being used quite a bit to describe OVO this morning. So the back four played like cowards? I think they'll find it was anything but.

I'd class myself as die hard and I'd say I was very happy.

We're not here to entertain the Sky mongs, we're here to please ourselves and we are pleased so fuck anyone who feels the need to have a pop.

Shove it up your arse.

Exactly. The "they really need to reassess why it is they started going to watch football in the first place" comment is bizarre, because I started going to watch football because my dad took me, and it's now to support City.

 

[C_T_I_D]

Results 1st.
Entertainment 2nd.

They say the rags have been winning and not been playing well. Where is the entertainment in that?

City are right up there with them and have played well quite a lot of the time. Why are we not excused like the scum are when they are simply playing for a result?

Negative display, positive result >>> positive display, negative result.

Fuck off you biased media bullshitters!

 

[glen quagmire]

We were a fucking disgrace last night! How dare we defend well and try to nick a goal on the break! How dare mancini to play nige, milner and barry to stifle and break up their midfield!

I am wounded because we did not let arsenal play around us and score 5 or 6. What bobby should've done is follow taggart's example at coms this year and all out attack.......................!