Sporting CP (A) - Post-Match Thread

[Danny Hoekman]

There’s some weird hot takes in this thread but that’s right up there lol.

;-)

 

[Aba452]

It really is,queued for two hours to see something that looked like a christmas postage stamp.
Didn't find her enigmatic either to be honest.

No eyebrows either!

 

[BringBackSwales]

Loved the game last night. Fair play to the sporting fans who were very loud towards the final whistle despite being 5 nil down. Respect to the players as well who walked around the ground at full time and applauded the fane. Wish we could see the same at the etihad. Unfortunately though, it's half empty at 80 mins (or half full if you're an optimist)

Half full is pushing it mate. Me and the kids stay to clap the players off and there’s deffo nowhere near half the crowd left, especially as the players leave the pitch. I would say that as the final players leave the pitch there’s a max of 2k to 5k

 

[shevtheblue]

For the people that went to the game, one of my mates who's from Portugal originally, went back there as a Sporting fan. He sent me a video saying that the City fans are kicking off and throwing stuff. The video is outside the ground and from what i can see, the police or security are segregating the away fans by creating a barrier while Sporting fans are just running about everywhere. Can hear the City fans chanting "what the fucking hell is that" at something but it doesn't seem that bad to me.

For me, this is mostly due to how European clubs view and handle away fans. What i gather, from what he has told me anyway, is that when you have away fans in the league, they can sit wherever they want. You can go to the Sporting game with your Porto supporting mate and be sat right next to each other with your shirts on. They don't understand the segregation at all, outside the ground they all just walk around with their shirts on bantering each other. So when the English fans come over, their security and police have no idea how to deal with it and just go all out attack. This is a policing issue IMO, take the fans directly into the ground but away from any of the home fans, and there is no issues. Don't pen them in like cattle and then beat the shit out of them when they act out, because you're treating them like animals. He's coming to the game at the Etihad as well, i told him he will be pretty shocked at how different it is when they are marched directly into the away end without hardly any contact with home fans. Even when the Ukranian team came a couple seasons ago (Dinamo something i think?), they walked from the city centre to the ground but had police escorts who just politely ushered them along. We were all just stood there watching them march down outside the ground to their meeting point, literally no trouble at all and i even shared some of my fucking chips with one of em as they walked past!

Anyway onto the game. I agree with Bernie, we weren't great in the first half, well not as great as we know we can play, but fuck were we clinical (not something you can always say about this side). That is something that experience brings in the CL, something that Sporting are lacking of recent times. Their manager is really young and a lot of their team is inexperienced in such situations. It seems like the night got to them and our boys just beat the snot out of them as payment.

 

[CSBlue]

Wonderful scenes. Not a soul leaving early for the tram

We weren’t allowed to!

 

[Citizen Mike]

yes and you forgot John who had a very good game.
Stones that is, not Bernardo's dog

it could be any of them to be fair , including Bernies dog

 

[Chi-town blues]

come on city

 

[Vialli98]

Too good, sadly.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

For the people that went to the game, one of my mates who's from Portugal originally, went back there as a Sporting fan. He sent me a video saying that the City fans are kicking off and throwing stuff. The video is outside the ground and from what i can see, the police or security are segregating the away fans by creating a barrier while Sporting fans are just running about everywhere. Can hear the City fans chanting "what the fucking hell is that" at something but it doesn't seem that bad to me.

For me, this is mostly due to how European clubs view and handle away fans. What i gather, from what he has told me anyway, is that when you have away fans in the league, they can sit wherever they want. You can go to the Sporting game with your Porto supporting mate and be sat right next to each other with your shirts on. They don't understand the segregation at all, outside the ground they all just walk around with their shirts on bantering each other. So when the English fans come over, their security and police have no idea how to deal with it and just go all out attack. This is a policing issue IMO, take the fans directly into the ground but away from any of the home fans, and there is no issues. Don't pen them in like cattle and then beat the shit out of them when they act out, because you're treating them like animals. He's coming to the game at the Etihad as well, i told him he will be pretty shocked at how different it is when they are marched directly into the away end without hardly any contact with home fans. Even when the Ukranian team came a couple seasons ago (Dinamo something i think?), they walked from the city centre to the ground but had police escorts who just politely ushered them along. We were all just stood there watching them march down outside the ground to their meeting point, literally no trouble at all and i even shared some of my fucking chips with one of em as they walked past!

Anyway onto the game. I agree with Bernie, we weren't great in the first half, well not as great as we know we can play, but fuck were we clinical (not something you can always say about this side). That is something that experience brings in the CL, something that Sporting are lacking of recent times. Their manager is really young and a lot of their team is inexperienced in such situations. It seems like the night got to them and our boys just beat the snot out of them as payment.

It was noticeable on some of the replays last night you could see City fans, maybe foreign ones, jumping up in the home ends when we scored.

I saw a video of someone in the home end showing off a United/Ronaldo shirt which seemed to annoy blues on the other side of the fence. I wonder if that was the "that" you refer to being sung about? As an aside, i've never understood why football fans go so mad when they see a rival shirt on an opposition fan. They might walk past dozens of United shirts throughout the week but then they see that one, which is obviously a pure wind up, it's like it provokes them into full on rage. That actually caused a load of trouble and bottle wars in Amsterdam: City fans chanting "Feyenord" at Ajax fans.

 

[Gremlin]

For the people that went to the game, one of my mates who's from Portugal originally, went back there as a Sporting fan. He sent me a video saying that the City fans are kicking off and throwing stuff. The video is outside the ground and from what i can see, the police or security are segregating the away fans by creating a barrier while Sporting fans are just running about everywhere. Can hear the City fans chanting "what the fucking hell is that" at something but it doesn't seem that bad to me.

For me, this is mostly due to how European clubs view and handle away fans. What i gather, from what he has told me anyway, is that when you have away fans in the league, they can sit wherever they want. You can go to the Sporting game with your Porto supporting mate and be sat right next to each other with your shirts on. They don't understand the segregation at all, outside the ground they all just walk around with their shirts on bantering each other. So when the English fans come over, their security and police have no idea how to deal with it and just go all out attack. This is a policing issue IMO, take the fans directly into the ground but away from any of the home fans, and there is no issues. Don't pen them in like cattle and then beat the shit out of them when they act out, because you're treating them like animals. He's coming to the game at the Etihad as well, i told him he will be pretty shocked at how different it is when they are marched directly into the away end without hardly any contact with home fans. Even when the Ukranian team came a couple seasons ago (Dinamo something i think?), they walked from the city centre to the ground but had police escorts who just politely ushered them along. We were all just stood there watching them march down outside the ground to their meeting point, literally no trouble at all and i even shared some of my fucking chips with one of em as they walked past!

Anyway onto the game. I agree with Bernie, we weren't great in the first half, well not as great as we know we can play, but fuck were we clinical (not something you can always say about this side). That is something that experience brings in the CL, something that Sporting are lacking of recent times. Their manager is really young and a lot of their team is inexperienced in such situations. It seems like the night got to them and our boys just beat the snot out of them as payment.

I went to a 6-nations rugby match a few years agao and all of the fans were mixed in together which was quite an eye-opener but all very good-natured and no trouble at all.