manimanc
Well-Known Member
Some of the posts on here are comedy gold.
It's the hope that kills you.Yes, it's worse. With relegation you deserve to go down - crap results over the season. You finish in the Prem exactly where you deserve to finish. And with relegation you're always optimistic about coming back up - albeit for us we went down to the third tier. I was at Halifax/York etc. Believe me, last night was worse than all our previous nightmares combined.
A few folk find this hard to accept, but that is the reality. Stunned at how we ballsed up in the last few minutes.Nothing to do with booing the anthem, yet another smokescreen of convenience. Unfortunately we put our own brick walls to winning up.
I cannot see any single issue in the game that will ultimately drive me to the armchair I'm sitting in now than amount of two 45 minute halves that are swindled to ridiculous proportions. Refs do fuck all to remove timewasting from the game, in fact, their lack of a response just encourages teams. Has anyone been cautioned for timewasting in the first half, for doing exactly what they might be cautioned for on, say. 87 minutes. I've often thought of taking a stop watch to a game to see how much playing time is delivered. The reasons for the added time continue to remain a mystery to anyone sitting or standing on the terraces. We might be told that it accommodates goals, VAR checks, and subs - but a kid in primary school could do the maths and see that it never fits.
That I'm not paid £300k a week and I don't have people touting me for the ballon d'Or?You've never had a bad day at work?
What was your 'excuse'?
I'm telling you the truth. I was there in our 60s glory days - 70s we had a brilliant team but not much trophy glory, and then the 80s/90s dark days. I never thought we'd have a team like we do now. We were brilliant first leg (just a few seconds of madness) and pretty good last night for 88 minutes. I feel that last night was a combination of us being unlucky, and a biased ref - e.g the Casemiro shirt pull on Phil amongst other factors. Casemiro should have been off. The ref let things go early on, but when players were tiring he got the yellows out. Cheated - and there is a history of it - Llorente for example.
I'm not blaming Grealish and maybe in future seasons he will shine, but that money should of been spend on a proven forward first. We only ever needed to break the bank for a top forward, You didn't need to be a rocket scientist to know that, yet we still went into the season without a centre forward and its biting us on the arse big time. I call it complacency.Yes the striker problem has hurt us, but I feel the left/back and cover is what we miss the most this season.
But it's not the right time to point fingers and play the blame game ? Losing does happen