***Champions v rags Official Match Thread***

[gmercer1]

Ref is a joke…:but we knew he wound be as soon as he was announced

[john@staustell]

Shoulder charges are now not in the rules of the game

I thought that in real time too

[john@staustell]

Ref is a joke…:but we knew he wound be as soon as he was announced

Soooooooooo biased

[Nickyboy]

Need to get a second. They are fucking terrible but our confidence is so brittle if they equalise I'm scared we'll crumble. Id rather had Grealish than Doku, he keeps losing the ball after Nunes has over lapped him and it really leaves us exposed.

Nunes been alright to be fair to him

[Harry Dowd scored]

Is it me or is the crowd a bit flat seems a poor atmosphere

[city72]

Walker pure cringe

[PaulieIrish]

Ever since the first corner, where they showed Hojland bear hugging Haaland, we've played every corner since short. Now Hojland is booked, why are we not exploiting this???

[sheblue]

Decent enough first half considering.
Still worried about older players fading in the 2nd half especially last 15, hopefully they'll be OK.
Nunes doing well.

[blues2win]

COME ON CITY!!!!!!!!!

[nottsblue]

Is it me or is the crowd a bit flat seems a poor atmosphere

Thought exactly that HDS

Though if course, Sky could simply have turned down the mic volume

[Kippax Sean]

Going ok. Taylor will be itching to give walker another yellow hopefully he doesn't do something stupid and let them back into this.

[zuricity]

Shoulder charges are now not in the rules of the game

I thought that in real time too

He charged him in his back , nothis shoulder.

More disturbing is that he watched Hojlund wrestle Erling to the ground stopping him getting to a corner for a header and nothing .

another they wanted to enforce at the season start and have ignored.

[john@staustell]

Ever since the first corner, where they showed Hojland bear hugging Haaland, we've played every corner since short. Now Hojland is booked, why are we not exploiting this???

....especially since they are worst in the league defending corners

[Mase]

Going ok. Taylor will be itching to give walker another yellow hopefully he doesn't do something stupid and let them back into this.

Catch 22. We’d go down to 10 men, but actually, if it’s Walker would that be that bad?

[Blue Jam]

We will lose 1 :6 with 0161 on our arms

[Kippax Sean]

Going ok. Taylor will be itching to give walker another yellow hopefully he doesn't do something stupid and let them back into this.

Catch 22. We’d go down to 10 men, but actually, if it’s Walker would that be that bad?

Probably not

[Beefymcfc]

Not the greatest quality in that half but a lead nonetheless.

Come on City!

[john@staustell]

Get Doku off the cunt. Only ever any good as a sub

[Nigels Tackle]

neville is a twat but i have just chuckled at his donkey derby comment

[nottsblue]

Given how shit the rags are at defending corners, why are we persisting with short corners that never work. Beyond baffling