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[Chi-town blues]

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[Vic]

Gosh, how thin would the thread be but for comments about the Neville rants and the crowd behind Haaland?

Great support all through, but I thought we were above the petty nonsense about shouting "handball" for five minutes. Still, two Poznans was a bonus. Or was it one with an interval in case we scored while we were facing the wrong way?

 

[Middedon]

Off topic - Are a group of them off to the Balon D’or today? I saw a charter left Manchester for Paris this AM (app still on my phone from transfer sagas).

 

[Pontypool Blue]

His dad is.

I think he is confused and conflicted.
He should have said My Dad is brilliant but unfortunately a scum supporter.

 

[MadchesterCity]

8 hours on the bus and 135 pages to read

 

[youngbob]

No such thing as a brilliant Scum fan.

Riiight. You're probably joking but here we go anyway. He was born over here but grew up in Australia. When he came back in the late 60s he was basically bullied into supporting United at school and grew to love them during his teens. He started going to Old Trafford in the 70s and stopped going in the mid-80s when he met my mum. He still follows United and was out on our front street in 1999 and 2008 after both final whistles but has simultaneously grown affectionate towards City and was there for all of our lows in the 90s and 00s and all of our highs since the takeover. He drove me and my mum down to Wembley for the 2011 semi-final against United and drove us all the way back after he'd lost - he watched the game in a pub in Pinner. When we beat QPR on the final day in 2012 he was watching our game instead of United's. There's loads of other examples, like the one I mentioned in my previous post, about Istanbul. But I remember speaking to him about the QPR game in 2012 and asking him why he watched us instead of the United-Sunderland match, and he said words to the effect of "United have had our time, more than enough of it, it's City's turn now". It's hard to laugh at him when he's never laughed at City, even through all the shit we've watched from the 80s onwards. Bless him, whenever we win a trophy he always reminds me and my mum of the time we went five months without a goal at home under Pearce and used to come trudging back through the front door afterwards. Says he much prefers seeing us happy and winning trophies over United winning trophies these days - he was obviously a bit giddy when United won the League Cup in February/March but he takes more joy out of seeing me and my mum having the time of our lives following City.

 

[Vic]

When will VAR be used in Premier League matches?​

The VAR is constantly monitoring the match.

VAR is used only for "clear and obvious errors" or "serious missed incidents" in four match-changing situations: goals; penalty decisions; direct red-card incidents; and mistaken identity.

But factual decisions such as offsides, and the issue of whether a player is inside or outside the penalty area, are not subject to the "clear and obvious" test.

If the VAR sees an error has been made in such a situation they will intervene, regardless of how marginal the decision is.

There is a high bar for the VARs to intervene on subjective decisions, to maintain the pace and intensity of matches.

"Serious missed incidents" doesn't mean the VAR asks the referee if he saw something. What if the VAR thinks a player was holding another - he doesn't ask the referee did you see the holding, he should tell the referee "I recommend you review your decision". If the referee then says, "No I saw it clearly and don't need a review", that's the end of it. (At least till the after-match inquests.)

Subtle difference maybe. And without the audio we may never know how they carve it up between them.

 

[MadchesterCity]

Piece of piss...well done blues, enjoy your evening

And well done to the blues in the swamp...loud and proud...fantastic 12th man

Champions again ole ole

 

[I'm With Stupid]

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That's genuinely insane for a midfielder. You could understand a striker having a performance like that, but a central midfielder? Properly awful.

And possession lost 6 times from 15 touches.

 

[flb]

Fucking hell you don’t wanna be on the wrong side of Craig Burley! Nice of them to let Nedum have a word at the end

The press tried to make out that united were even in the first half, as he rightly says, it was Gvardiol suffering a bit of stage fright until he settled down-bar the Mcfuckingwhatsit chance they created absolutely fuck all themselves.

And hearing Neville having a complete meltdown post match in the sky studio was absolutely delicious. Blaming everything on the Glazers and not Ten Haag.