stonerblue said:
Just had a read of the sun's reports on last nights game. The match report was surprisingly fair and says we were 'robbed'. They even had a pic showing how the 'goal' was onside.
Then the twat Custis does a match report saying we were shit, goal was offside and Mario is a dick. He also has to get in the cost of Ajax's team, Bobby 'ranting' and says we were an 'embarassment'.
No agenda there then eh?
Patrick 'cnut' Barclay makes Custis look like Mike Summerbee mate. Check this out...... (there's no agenda of course)
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Patrick Barclay: Mancini looks like the irate boss of a pub side
07 November 2012
What is to be done about Roberto Mancini? He had barely half an argument on behalf of Mario Balotelli’s penalty appeal and none to support the beautiful but offside “goal” by Sergio Aguero that he wished had given Manchester City a thrilling victory over Ajax — and yet he took to the pitch to berate the referee as if the victim of football’s greatest injustice.
City are getting exactly what they deserve in the Champions League. Indeed you could contend that two points, the latter obtained through a fightback after Ajax had been gifted two goals from corners, slightly flatter their performances this season, especially in defence.
You feel sorry for Vincent Kompany and Joe Hart and wonder what professionals like them are doing in rearguard like this.
As we have also seen in the Premier League, the teamwork that carried City to the title in the closing phase of last season has all but evaporated.
You read between the lines of the players’ interviews and discern a seething discontent that must have Sir Alex Ferguson, whose United look best equipped to take advantage on the domestic front, chortling with merriment: the noise from the neighbours is no longer celebration but strife.
While the City players must take some responsibility for what, at best, seems likely to be a second consecutive relegation to the Europa League, the finger cannot simply be pointed at a dressing room whose inhabitants appear more capable of picking up vast wages than a tactical tweak. Mancini, too, is lavishly paid. It is his job to organise the team and running on to the pitch at the end like the irate manager of a pub team fools no one.
At least Kompany had the sense to restrain Balotelli as he railed at Danish referee Peter Rasmussen.
True, the final whistle had come at a strange time, with a decision to be made in the penalty area, but Balotelli had shoved out an arm to prevent Ricardo van Rhijn from challenging him before the retaliatory shirt tug and so it should, if anything, have been a free-kick to Ajax. As for the offside, Aleksandar Kolarov was a couple of feet ahead of the last defender when the ball was slipped to him.
So why did Mancini lose control? Maybe he was eager to join a popular cause, having spent most of the past couple of months answering awkward questions about the City squad’s discipline and morale.
Ryan Babel, Ajax’s former Liverpool forward, astutely observed after the clubs’ first meeting in Amsterdam: “You could see the perfect example of the real team effort by Ajax against a team of individuals.
“We saw how frustration got the better of them and how the players were directing those frustrations towards each other.’’
Perhaps because he doesn’t see City week by week, Babel didn’t mention how Mancini too frequently exhibits his frustrations with those players.
It is sad, because they deserved the title last season and, for neutrals, a new champion club was a breath of fresh air. But it has all gone stale at the Etihad and, if it becomes clear that an all-too-familiar name is to be etched on the Premier League trophy at the end of this campaign, the loyalty and gratitude of the blue support will be withdrawn.
