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[bigblue]

Genuine question. Explain the username? It's does confuse. Cheers

What are you confused about?

FA Cup Winners 2006

Ah I see. Well that definitely makes it sounds like he has a gerrard picture hanging on his wall

[ruralblue]

Genuine question. Explain the username? It's does confuse. Cheers

What are you confused about?

FA Cup Winners 2006

Dippers? But there's an explanation.

Which is?

[FA cup winners 2006]

Genuine question. Explain the username? It's does confuse. Cheers

What are you confused about?

FA Cup Winners 2006

Dippers? But there's an explanation.

I went through this year's ago. Shite username, I know. Nothing to do with Liverpool. Even a shite story with how I came up with the username. I'm brutal at picking things like this. Can never even come up with a pub quiz team name

[bigblue]

I went through this year's ago. Shite username, I know. Nothing to do with Liverpool. Even a shite story with how I came up with the username. I'm brutal at picking things like this. Can never even come up with a pub quiz team name

Well between that and your recent posts, perhaps you should leave the thinking up to others

[ruralblue]

Genuine question. Explain the username? It's does confuse. Cheers

What are you confused about?

FA Cup Winners 2006

Dippers? But there's an explanation.

I went through this year's ago. Shite username, I know. Nothing to do with Liverpool. Even a shite story with how I came up with the username. I'm brutal at picking things like this. Can never even come up with a pub quiz team name

Fair do's but why not change it? Fa Cup Winners 1904. Thinking back I may have commented when you explained it before. Though in my defence I cannot remember what I had for breakfast.

[FA cup winners 2006]

Dippers? But there's an explanation.

I went through this year's ago. Shite username, I know. Nothing to do with Liverpool. Even a shite story with how I came up with the username. I'm brutal at picking things like this. Can never even come up with a pub quiz team name

Fair do's but why not change it? Fa Cup Winners 1904. Thinking back I may have commented when you explained it before. Though in my defence I cannot remember what I had for breakfast.

I can't change it myself. Someone told me I'd need to email a mod but to be honest I couldn't be arsed. It goes back to when Stuart Pearce was our manager. I doubt I even have the email address I had when I joined the forum

[Dimples]

Agenda against us - if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck - it is a duck

I think it is just business - nothing more than that.
PL is a billon£££ industry. PL is a product. Need to keep it competitive. Simple as that.
(Talking about us missing chances today is a red herring. Totally irrelevant to the decisions taken by the authorities today.)

Key decisions in key matches go against us:

Today two decisions against us:
1. VAR did not give us a stonewall penalty (Spurs player swinging from our players neck)
2. VAR disallowed a goal for us (handball by the tiniest of fractions)

CL Vs. Spurs last season two decisions against us:
1. VAR allowed a Spurs handball goal to stand (not all angles shown to the Ref)
2. VAR disallowed a goal for us (offside by the tiniest of fractions)

CL Vs. Dippers season before last (NO VAR but key decisions still go against us):
1. Anfield: City had a good goal disallowed, then Dippers first goal was offside
2. Etihad: Leroy had a good goal disallowed for offside even though it came of a Liverpool player, etc....

VAR is now being used in our matches to influence the results.

Lets see if they are as harsh on the Dippers and the Rags - I know the answer to that.

[s1ty m]

Well I am a city fan and I am extremely pissed off that we dropped points today. I think Pep is the best coach in the world and some of our play is unbelievable. I want to see us competing with the best in Europe and dominating them. All the best teams go through bad patches in a season. Today was not a bad patch for us, we played with energy and tempo. There is no way a Barca, Madrid, Liverpool etc lose that game.

Through Pep's methods and training, we are creating unbelievable chances and the players are in tune with each other. Bernardo, Gundogan, Ottamendi, Zinchenko, Silva, Sterling, Aguero and KDB all had clear cut chances that you expect them to hit the back of the net but not one of them really troubled Lloris

There is no way that Barca, Madrid, or Liverpool don't get that penalty in the first half.

Nail on head.

[Dimples]

Well I am a city fan and I am extremely pissed off that we dropped points today. I think Pep is the best coach in the world and some of our play is unbelievable. I want to see us competing with the best in Europe and dominating them. All the best teams go through bad patches in a season. Today was not a bad patch for us, we played with energy and tempo. There is no way a Barca, Madrid, Liverpool etc lose that game.

Through Pep's methods and training, we are creating unbelievable chances and the players are in tune with each other. Bernardo, Gundogan, Ottamendi, Zinchenko, Silva, Sterling, Aguero and KDB all had clear cut chances that you expect them to hit the back of the net but not one of them really troubled Lloris

There is no way that Barca, Madrid, or Liverpool don't get that penalty in the first half.

Nail on head.

Exactly. Lack of a level playing field is the topic to discuss and resolve - not us missing chances.

[littlebig]

Poor finishing and poor ref decisions cost us yesterday. Doesn’t have to be one or the other.

How the penalty shout on Rodri was 1/missed and 2/ not reviewed is a joke. Referees should be made accountable for poor decisions.

This site should facilitate debate between different opinions. Attack the argument not the man

[zuricity]

Poor finishing and poor ref decisions cost us yesterday. Doesn’t have to be one or the other.

How the penalty shout on Rodri was 1/missed and 2/ not reviewed is a joke. Referees should be made accountable for poor decisions.

This site should facilitate debate between different opinions. Attack the argument not the man

Attack the argument you write. The foul on Rodri was reviewed and they said no penalty . According to press reports.

[Outcast]

Is there any chance we can take positives from the game and move forward, its starting to depress me thinking about our finishing and decisions going against us? I'm sure there is an agenda to slow us down and make the league more competitive. However, had we converted our chances or at least defended better, it would have eliminated any chance of controversial decisions going against us. I'm not worried about us scoring goals for fun, in big tight matches we need to be more clinical, its something we need to work on along with controlling the match and complacency , maybe we were over confident yesterday?

[ayrshireblue]

Poor finishing and poor ref decisions cost us yesterday. Doesn’t have to be one or the other.

How the penalty shout on Rodri was 1/missed and 2/ not reviewed is a joke. Referees should be made accountable for poor decisions.

This site should facilitate debate between different opinions. Attack the argument not the man

Attack the argument you write. The foul on Rodri was reviewed and they said no penalty . According to press reports.

I would dispute whether the penalty incident was even reviewed by VAR as anytime I've watched a game and there has been a review it has been declared even if the incident was not clearly known however yesterday you just had Mike Oliver pointing at his earpiece as if to say it hasn't told him there was a penalty.
The other thing is about the ref on the pitch having the final say. Oliver did not on the disallowed goal as he was told it had hit Laporte's arm nor last week when the ref was told that Sterling was offside as a matter of fact. Before the decision is made final the match referee should review the incident if he's going to change the decision.

[littlebig]

Poor finishing and poor ref decisions cost us yesterday. Doesn’t have to be one or the other.

How the penalty shout on Rodri was 1/missed and 2/ not reviewed is a joke. Referees should be made accountable for poor decisions.

This site should facilitate debate between different opinions. Attack the argument not the man

Attack the argument you write. The foul on Rodri was reviewed and they said no penalty . According to press reports.

Oh! Didn’t know it was reviewed by var, that makes it even worse.

I did call out bad decisions above

[zuricity]

Poor finishing and poor ref decisions cost us yesterday. Doesn’t have to be one or the other.

How the penalty shout on Rodri was 1/missed and 2/ not reviewed is a joke. Referees should be made accountable for poor decisions.

This site should facilitate debate between different opinions. Attack the argument not the man

Attack the argument you write. The foul on Rodri was reviewed and they said no penalty . According to press reports.

I would dispute whether the penalty incident was even reviewed by VAR as anytime I've watched a game and there has been a review it has been declared even if the incident was not clearly known however yesterday you just had Mike Oliver pointing at his earpiece as if to say it hasn't told him there was a penalty.
The other thing is about the ref on the pitch having the final say. Oliver did not on the disallowed goal as he was told it had hit Laporte's arm nor last week when the ref was told that Sterling was offside as a matter of fact. Before the decision is made final the match referee should review the incident if he's going to change the decision.

Agreed, but Oliver was also not allowed to see any video evidence . It wouldn't have mattered , this snivelling little git has always had a thing about City. How he could call for a foul on Bernardo when he was ganged upon by three spuds is beyond belief.

[FA cup winners 2006]

Is there any chance we can take positives from the game and move forward, its starting to depress me thinking about our finishing and decisions going against us? I'm sure there is an agenda to slow us down and make the league more competitive. However, had we converted our chances or at least defended better, it would have eliminated any chance of controversial decisions going against us. I'm not worried about us scoring goals for fun, in big tight matches we need to be more clinical, its something we need to work on along with controlling the match and complacency , maybe we were over confident yesterday?

Lots of positives we can take from the game.

Rodri is settling in nicely and looks like he will be able to dictate the tempo of our games.

Ottamendi and Laporte had fine games and marshalled Kane well and were excellent playing out from the back.

Gundogan was very good in large patches of the game. His movement to get away from the spurs press really opened up the attacking space for us.

KDB was orchestrating everything and will only get sharper as the season goes on.

Walker looks reborn. He looks faster, stronger and more importantly seems more concentrated.

Stones was dropped from the squad and will know he needs to come back stronger than ever. We have serious competition for all places on the field and each and every player knows that if they are not at it 100%, they could be watching on tv next week.

[Hutch's Shoulder]

Is there any chance we can take positives from the game and move forward, its starting to depress me thinking about our finishing and decisions going against us? I'm sure there is an agenda to slow us down and make the league more competitive. However, had we converted our chances or at least defended better, it would have eliminated any chance of controversial decisions going against us. I'm not worried about us scoring goals for fun, in big tight matches we need to be more clinical, its something we need to work on along with controlling the match and complacency , maybe we were over confident yesterday?

Lots of positives we can take from the game.

Rodri is settling in nicely and looks like he will be able to dictate the tempo of our games.

Ottamendi and Laporte had fine games and marshalled Kane well and were excellent playing out from the back.

Gundogan was very good in large patches of the game. His movement to get away from the spurs press really opened up the attacking space for us.

KDB was orchestrating everything and will only get sharper as the season goes on.

Walker looks reborn. He looks faster, stronger and more importantly seems more concentrated.

Stones was dropped from the squad and will know he needs to come back stronger than ever. We have serious competition for all places on the field and each and every player knows that if they are not at it 100%, they could be watching on tv next week.

I thought KDB was some way off his best but otherwise agree with you.

[Nigels Tackle]

Is there any chance we can take positives from the game and move forward, its starting to depress me thinking about our finishing and decisions going against us? I'm sure there is an agenda to slow us down and make the league more competitive. However, had we converted our chances or at least defended better, it would have eliminated any chance of controversial decisions going against us. I'm not worried about us scoring goals for fun, in big tight matches we need to be more clinical, its something we need to work on along with controlling the match and complacency , maybe we were over confident yesterday?

Lots of positives we can take from the game.

Rodri is settling in nicely and looks like he will be able to dictate the tempo of our games.

Ottamendi and Laporte had fine games and marshalled Kane well and were excellent playing out from the back.

Gundogan was very good in large patches of the game. His movement to get away from the spurs press really opened up the attacking space for us.

KDB was orchestrating everything and will only get sharper as the season goes on.

Walker looks reborn. He looks faster, stronger and more importantly seems more concentrated.

Stones was dropped from the squad and will know he needs to come back stronger than ever. We have serious competition for all places on the field and each and every player knows that if they are not at it 100%, they could be watching on tv next week.

I thought KDB was some way off his best but otherwise agree with you.

his running style looks really odd these days

[zuricity]

Is there any chance we can take positives from the game and move forward, its starting to depress me thinking about our finishing and decisions going against us? I'm sure there is an agenda to slow us down and make the league more competitive. However, had we converted our chances or at least defended better, it would have eliminated any chance of controversial decisions going against us. I'm not worried about us scoring goals for fun, in big tight matches we need to be more clinical, its something we need to work on along with controlling the match and complacency , maybe we were over confident yesterday?

Lots of positives we can take from the game.

Rodri is settling in nicely and looks like he will be able to dictate the tempo of our games.

Ottamendi and Laporte had fine games and marshalled Kane well and were excellent playing out from the back.

Gundogan was very good in large patches of the game. His movement to get away from the spurs press really opened up the attacking space for us.

KDB was orchestrating everything and will only get sharper as the season goes on.

Walker looks reborn. He looks faster, stronger and more importantly seems more concentrated.

Stones was dropped from the squad and will know he needs to come back stronger than ever. We have serious competition for all places on the field and each and every player knows that if they are not at it 100%, they could be watching on tv next week.

I thought KDB was some way off his best but otherwise agree with you.

his running style looks really odd these days

It's the tight trousers

[FA cup winners 2006]

Is there any chance we can take positives from the game and move forward, its starting to depress me thinking about our finishing and decisions going against us? I'm sure there is an agenda to slow us down and make the league more competitive. However, had we converted our chances or at least defended better, it would have eliminated any chance of controversial decisions going against us. I'm not worried about us scoring goals for fun, in big tight matches we need to be more clinical, its something we need to work on along with controlling the match and complacency , maybe we were over confident yesterday?

Lots of positives we can take from the game.

Rodri is settling in nicely and looks like he will be able to dictate the tempo of our games.

Ottamendi and Laporte had fine games and marshalled Kane well and were excellent playing out from the back.

Gundogan was very good in large patches of the game. His movement to get away from the spurs press really opened up the attacking space for us.

KDB was orchestrating everything and will only get sharper as the season goes on.

Walker looks reborn. He looks faster, stronger and more importantly seems more concentrated.

Stones was dropped from the squad and will know he needs to come back stronger than ever. We have serious competition for all places on the field and each and every player knows that if they are not at it 100%, they could be watching on tv next week.

I thought KDB was some way off his best but otherwise agree with you.

We seemed to be playing a 4-4-1-1 at times with kdb playing behind Aguero. It was a different set up than the one where himself and Silva are in the midfield 3, where both of them get on the ball alot deeper. Yesterday he was getting on the ball closer to the spurs goal and he was very influential in bringing other players into the play. The only real negative was his shooting. I fully expected him to rattle the net with a couple that sailed wide