United (N) | FA Cup Final | Post-Match Thread

There's a manager cam video on you tube right now which I highly recommend. Watching Pep is incredible. The guy lives each moment, its as if he's on the pitch and part of the team! Hes like one of us watching the team!! He's gonna give himself a heart attack if he isn't careful!
 
bennyboy said:
See what happens when you get decent callers in and the presenters listen and take it on board.
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I listened to that, brilliant.

The question was who is the first name on the teamsheat for Saturday?

Andy said Haaland then they opened it up to the callers.

Blues rang in with proper Manc accents (they do this stuff for Rags or Dippers and it's callers from anywhere but Manchester or Liverpool ringing in)

Anyway, the 3 callers I heard all made cases for different players and you couldn't argue with any of them.

Fucking brilliant, what a team we have.
 
adr2.8i said:
There's a manager cam video on you tube right now which I highly recommend. Watching Pep is incredible. The guy lives each moment, its as if he's on the pitch and part of the team! Hes like one of us watching the team!! He's gonna give himself a heart attack if he isn't careful!
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Yes, I have watched that as well. I agree with you.
 
kippaxkid74 said:
Thanks for the good wishes everyone. Sat with mum now showing her the movies we took, though she's mostly asleep and the quick visit from the carers is soon. She stood up briefly with the home physio team today which is brilliant, her first time out of bed since rushed to hospital February 15th. It's still a few days at a time, but there's hope there will be more months left, and it's still two fingers to that hospital who moved her to end of life care telling us she had days to live - in March. Lay in bed on oxygen in a hospital bed in her own lounge is better than being in that place.. 5 weeks in that place and condemed by them to "hours, days a week left at most" after 4, but now had 10 weeks at home with her. Though me and my sister never expected to be live in carers... But here we are.. So time with my boy and my "normal" life is precious, as is being with mum.. I wish there were two of me.. And I'm trapped between looking to the future for my son and seeing the past all the time as my mum fades, whilst trying to be in the now without having a breakdown.. And so desperately trying to get into the "treble" feeling as city have been my life, this is huge huge, it matters so much to me.. But cos of it being right now, it's just spinning my head. And I know I'm mentioning it in many of my posts, but we're deeply traumatised really.

Anyway, enough doom. Just wanted to say thanks. My son says he didn't "repeat any bad words" at school today so that's good! He enjoyed the final and I was so proud to take him, so proud, I missed mum with me, but cried for many reasons when it sunk in we were going to win. I was his age for the 81 final (no one took me but I remember the day clearly) and here I was with my longed for much loved son at the fa cup final (my 16th trip, his 1st). Wish it was him WITH my mum rather than instead of her, wish they were either side of me, but mum was in my head and heart. We had a brilliant day though, I felt truly happy.

Long shot I kniw, but does anyone have one of the official all blue city cup final scarves they were selling in wembkey, they were £20. I got one for my 6 yr old but mum wants one and I messed up by not bringing one home. She could have his, but having it in bed it will get stained with food and probable wee, so even when washed he doesn't want it back, so I think I've failed as a daughter AND as a Mum in one go there! :(

What a way to win though. And that goal, that start - fuck me! And laughing at the rags will never get old :)
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Feel for you, I really do. It’s great what you and your sister are doing - absolutely the right thing. Your mum clearly has wonderful children. We will all pass and you and your sister should take great comfort that you’ve done everything you can for her. My own beloved Mum (a Gorton girl) passed nearly 20 years ago, it will always hurt and I’ve tears now writing this to you. Be strong and laugh whenever you can. And let’s hope the boys bring it home for us all.
 
Kunlover said:
Worst player from City obviously. And yes, it was clear penalty, no one will convince me it wasn't a handball. Grealish made a move with hand, obvious penalty.
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Oohhh got a live one here.

Obviously is such an over used word. Pisses me off.

You say obviously to justify that piling steam of shit that was your first post.

Beep, beep, beep Idiot reversing.
 
madloaf said:
Man City (xg 1.22) 2-1 (xg 1.89) Man Utd

Anyone who watched that game knows what complete fucking nonsense this xG lark truly is.
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That's pretty easy to explain.

A lot of our "control" involved being ahead for nearly 75 minutes of the game, so we didn't need to attack as much, but we were ahead because of two goals with a very low xG - the kind of shots that go in once in a blue moon. Even then, the first one went in because Gundo struck it absolutely perfectly, the second, because he mishit it. Both shots had an xG of about 0.04 (i.e. if an average player had those changes 25 times, he'd likely score once).

The penalty came from nothing, but once it's given it's likely to be scored, and has an xG of 0.79 - which makes up nearly half of United's xG.

Occasionally xG says something significant about an individual game, but it's more likely to give you an idea of how a team is performing over time.
 
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