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

[Vienna_70]

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Might as well be Motherwell!

 

[manimanc]

Does anyone know where I can get 2 programmes from Saturday or anyone selling one please? Nothing on the FA or City website

Men's FA Cup Final | Haymarket Media Group

Official England Football Association - Men's FA Cup Final.

www.themagazineshop.com

I ordered one. £10 plus £3.99 postage and packaging.

Good luck.

 

[Leeky]

Does anyone know what happened to Rodri here? He just pulled up and seemed dead on his feet.

Think he’d been on a couple of lung bursting runs leading up to the one where he ran from his own half and ran out of legs and got the ball knicked off him

 

[kinky's boots]

Got home and watched the whole game again over a few beers. These days are to be enjoyed and cherished.

Still annoyed by the stupid handball rule, but completely baffled the KDB non pen.

Best team still won. Comon you blues , lift that third !

The ref was clearly under instruction to make it interesting

 

[CTID1977]

 

[Grassland Blue]

I only heard them when they realised their best player var was going to help them again and when rat face scored. Those hats were a massive own goal it made them look even more stupid than normal.

I guess when the crows fly over, the hat is a decent size bullseye target for them to hit.
Joking aside, the hats could make useful window cleaning cloths, or dog poop scoops.

 

[Easy]

First Manchester derby in a FA cup final and WE WON IT.

Gundogan’s first goal was not only the fastest ever in the final, it was a banger and will be forever remembered. What a goal

Now on to the CL!!

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

Does anyone know what happened to Rodri here? He just pulled up and seemed dead on his feet.

Think it was in the moment fatigue/low blood sugar, the kind sorted out with a mars bar or energy gel these days

 

[JASR]

Gundogan’s first goal was not only the fastest ever in the final, it was a banger and will be forever remembered. What a goal

After 40 years of Ricky bloody Villa, being the 'goto' goal when TV want to show a montage/talk about the FA Cup, it will be nice to have the 20 seconds (including part of celebration) on instead.

It's a handy, short, all encapsulating piece with a marvellous strike in it.

Bonus: As per the PL repeated Agueroooooo moment, it's at the expense of united.

 

[Dribble]

It would have been interesting to know which United players were targeted by WB's header since there are none in any kind of range. The penalty area was peopled by blues, so Jack was not seeking to gain an advantage. Nor was it a penalty by the letter of the law, because the law still requires handball to be deliberate. As I have said earlier Jack was not trying to cheat nor was he trying to gain an advantage by breaking any rule: he was not looking at WB or the ball but simply trying to turn to see the play and THE BALL HIT IS HAND. VAR chose to reach the perverse conclusion that Jack had handled the ball deliberately. Those who seek to justify such stupidity are ruining the game and trying to make the outcome of cup finals dependent on nothing more than chance. Surprisingly enough it has been suggested that it would simplify the game if ball to hand were classed as deliberate handball. It would certainly simplify the game, but it would also ruin it. Funnily enough there has been less discussion of whether a stud stamping tacle on the ankle should be a mandatory red card or not. I wonder why.

As I said: "By the letter of the (current) law it was a penalty. Now whether the law is fit for purpose, is another matter altogether. Both Alistair Mann & Michael Brown thought the same as me as soon as they saw the replay."

It is what it is, but luckily for us Mr Whippy stepped up to save the day again... \0/