Villa Vs City Post Match Thread

[Prestwich_Blue]

The Villa player ? Why should he have been booked ? he threw the ball towards Hart who f**ked up, Hart should have just gone behind the line, picked the ball up, and got on with a quick goal kick, instead tried to control it, and gifted them a goal scoring opportunity, idiotic in my view.

At the match in real time it looked like he threw it at Hart but I think he tried to throw it out for a goal kick and Hart fucked up. That was his third fuck up in that incident, as I said earlier in the thread. First, just play on until the ref stops the game. That's the rule. On the TV, N'Zogbia was clearly play-acting by clutching his face as it happens. Second, given that they were intent on wasting time, punt it out well down-field instead of in the corner, where they can waste more time in trotting down to take it. Third, stand by your near post or on the corner of the six yard box and let him throw the ball to your feet.

That why he will never be a great keeper rather than a very good one because he's fucking brainless.

 

[hutton who blue]

Correct. He was trying it on. Then took their corner garnished from ungentlemanly, unsporting conduct when they were time wasting through unsporting conduct in the first place. Nothing against their new man in charge but I hope the fuckers stay in the bottom three the rest of the season.

 

[Mr HJ]

Firstly I think we left our legs in Spain. I really think it was more important to win in the CL this week. Villa are dreadful, but we will not win every game. Secondly I don't want our players to stoop to the low of Gestade, hopefully karma will come around. The guy was faking the injury in the first place but I was proud that Joe put it out. The throw to supposedly give us the ball back says all there is to know about the sportsmanship of Villa. Micah as captain should have instructed the player who took the corner to just kick it out - that would have got a lot of other fans behind Villa's escape, but now quite frankly I hope they go down with less than 20 points! For the first time the break has come at a good time for us. Fernandinho looked knackered today especially with Yaya strolling about.

 

[steviemc]

At the match in real time it looked like he threw it at Hart but I think he tried to throw it out for a goal kick and Hart fucked up. That was his third fuck up in that incident, as I said earlier in the thread. First, just play on until the ref stops the game. That's the rule. On the TV, N'Zogbia was clearly play-acting by clutching his face as it happens. Second, given that they were intent on wasting time, punt it out well down-field instead of in the corner, where they can waste more time in trotting down to take it. Third, stand by your near post or on the corner of the six yard box and let him throw the ball to your feet.

That why he will never be a great keeper rather than a very good one because he's fucking brainless.

I don't think you were stood where I was then? But take your opportunity whilst it's there bud. You don't get many though do you? So make it count. And did you see the way he dropped a ball the other game as well? Wow, slightest opportunity get in there pal. He's holding this team back that's for sure. FFS, you must wait for these 'moments'.

 

[chedinho]

A referee with even half a brain would have given it as a foul throw, given that both his feet were on the pitch and he let go of the ball from in front of his head (only the 3 reasons it was a foul throw tbf). To deliberately throw it awkwardly and then charge him down when he is supposed to be just giving the ball back is a cunts trick and I think everyone knows it. It's pretty much the only fair play line that no one crosses, I'm pretty sure I remember a cup tie being replayed because of Arsenal doing that.

Out of interest, was there ever an explanation as to why on earth we had that attack stopped where the linesman seemed to give Sterling offside from a throw in, then pretended it was a foul throw to try and cover his fuck up?

the lino told sagna it was a villa throw-in. but he ignored him.i thought he had got away with it for a moment.

 

[NorCalBlue]

A referee with even half a brain would have given it as a foul throw, given that both his feet were on the pitch and he let go of the ball from in front of his head (only the 3 reasons it was a foul throw tbf). To deliberately throw it awkwardly and then charge him down when he is supposed to be just giving the ball back is a cunts trick and I think everyone knows it. It's pretty much the only fair play line that no one crosses, I'm pretty sure I remember a cup tie being replayed because of Arsenal doing that.

Out of interest, was there ever an explanation as to why on earth we had that attack stopped where the linesman seemed to give Sterling offside from a throw in, then pretended it was a foul throw to try and cover his fuck up?

On the US coverage, I think they suggested that it should have been a Villa throw in the first place (at least that's what the ref thought).

 

[cleavers]

At the match in real time it looked like he threw it at Hart but I think he tried to throw it out for a goal kick and Hart fucked up. That was his third fuck up in that incident, as I said earlier in the thread. First, just play on until the ref stops the game. That's the rule. On the TV, N'Zogbia was clearly play-acting by clutching his face as it happens. Second, given that they were intent on wasting time, punt it out well down-field instead of in the corner, where they can waste more time in trotting down to take it. Third, stand by your near post or on the corner of the six yard box and let him throw the ball to your feet.

That why he will never be a great keeper rather than a very good one because he's fucking brainless.

Agreed, he's never been the brightest footballer, it could have cost a goal, luckily it didn't.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I don't think you were stood where I was then? But take your opportunity whilst it's there bud. You don't get many though do you? So make it count. And did you see the way he dropped a ball the other game as well? Wow, slightest opportunity get in there pal. He's holding this team back that's for sure. FFS, you must wait for these 'moments'.

Give over. I was in the upper tier and saw it clearly. As I said, it looked deliberate at first but when I saw it on TV I could see Hart move towards the ball. And I think that Hart is a very good keeper who has had some great games for us but has too many mental lapses to be a truly great keeper. I don't see anything wrong in saying that. The near-deification of Hart in some quarters is overdone. He's 17 months off turning 30 and shouldn't be having those lapses.

 

[Ray78]

It would of been one of the most strangest of goals to concede but I wouldn't of held Hart fully responsible if we had.

 

[NorCalBlue]

The Villa player ? Why should he have been booked ? he threw the ball towards Hart who f**ked up, Hart should have just gone behind the line, picked the ball up, and got on with a quick goal kick, instead tried to control it, and gifted them a goal scoring opportunity, idiotic in my view.

This whole 'sporting gesture' of giving the ball back really winds me up. If there's no specific rule to cover it, it's open to exactly the kind of thing that happened today - their player acted like a tw*t, but was totally within his rights as far as the rules of the game are concerned. How about "if the referee decides a ball was put out of play to allow an injured player to be attended to, play is restarted by the goalkeeper of the team putting the ball out having the ball in hand". That's pretty much what happens when they do 'the sporting thing' anyway, and it stops incidents like the one today.