Bobby's Imaginary Card Waving

[Douglas Higginbottom]

The media/press/radio whatever have currently got a thing about Mancini for this and are going way OTT which is what they are good at. There should be more balance thrown in to reflect that all managers appeal to the ref and 4th official for all sorts of things even if not by waving an imaginary card.

If something gets done about Mancini I needs to be done for more of the bad outbursts to 4th officials.Will it happen ,I doubt it. Do I care,not really as it's just not a big issue imo.It will be interesting to see how much of a campaign is made of it though and for how long.

[ashton287]

I will happily spend every second of Sunday's game waving an imaginary red card in support of bobby.

We keep getting fucked over by refs and he is just supposed to sit there tickling his balls and ignore it. It's got beyond a joke now and he is well within his rights to ask what the fuck is going on because he knows if it was lescott he would of received a straight red and a 3 game ban.

Who said he is even gesturing for a red, could of been gesturing for a yellow. Sky and the rest of the media cunts can just fuck off.

[ashton287]

Also watch the players reactions, they all know it is a red card. Do they run up to the ref and surround him? Do they start screaming at him and pointing and gesturing?. Do they fuck, they walk off and expect the ref to do his job.

Trying to influence the ref is "not acceptable" in the English game. Watch a fucking rag game and then try and find the media outrage when Rooney is screaming in the refs face, while that camel face coke head cunt does the same and 2/3 other players stand on the other side of the ref.

Yet Mancini is soooo wrong we should be fucking deducted just enough points to let the rags win the league. Teach him a lesson.

[bernabias_right_boot]

He wouldnt have to wave his bastard hand if the fucking Ref actually did what hes paid to do.

The refs the WANKER here not Mancini.

This

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Waving an imaginary is not trying to influence the refs decision as by that time the decision is made.Shrek screaming in the refs face ( and other players ganging up) is trying to influence as it's done before the decision is made.

On that red card last night has there yet been a non city fan who thought it should have been a red?


Just heard Dermot Gallagher say it was a red and then even tosser Irani said he thought it would be red.

[Goaters 103]

He wouldnt have to wave his bastard hand if the fucking Ref actually did what hes paid to do.

The refs the WANKER here not Mancini.

SPOTFUCKINON!!!!

Nail on the head. If Referee's stopping stiffing us on a regular basis then he wouldnt have to do it. Another jokeshop Yellow last night for a stonewall Red Card.

You can easily see why Wigan are at the bottom as Martinez said that wasnt a goal-scoring opportunity - clearly he couldnt recognise one if it slapped him in the face.

I await Dave Whelan's verdict in all the papers and on the radio today, as we always have to hear Dave Whelan's thoughts on every effing subject known to man.

[david yearsley]

I hope he doesn't do it anymore otherwise it would mean another inept fucking performance from a ref !

This ^ all day fuclin long!

Pissed off with Martinez´s comments as well as I thought he was better than that. Not a goalscoring opportunity? Who are you kidding ? Maybe it was the disappointment.
Managers cannot influence the refs in the same way as players out there can.
I would prefer Bob didn´t do these sort of things but when you have imcompetent people seemingly making the rules up as they go along, week after week masquerading as officials then I can begin to forgive such a "dastardly" crime

Week after week!! 3 games in a row - all invoving us !! Get the picture?

TOTAL SHAMBLES

[Hazy2]

Fergie time Mancini's card, whatever he does fuck em, it is us against the Fergimedia.

[sandman]

He wouldnt have to wave his bastard hand if the fucking Ref actually did what hes paid to do.

The refs the WANKER here not Mancini.

SPOTFUCKINON!!!!

Nail on the head. If Referee's stopping stiffing us on a regular basis then he wouldnt have to do it. Another jokeshop Yellow last night for a stonewall Red Card.

You can easily see why Wigan are at the bottom as Martinez said that wasnt a goal-scoring opportunity - clearly he couldnt recognise one if it slapped him in the face.

I await Dave Whelan's verdict in all the papers and on the radio today, as we always have to hear Dave Whelan's thoughts on every effing subject known to man.

You know face to face Dave Whelan is a good man talk to, I have met him on about 5 occasions, he is surprisingly grounded and realistic for a football club owner.

I think either he gets excited when talking to the media or more likely they probably get excited when editing what he says?

[Beefymcfc]

Personally I couldn't give a flying fuck. Plenty of other managers do much worse and nothing gets said.

Same here mate. I think last nights card waving was for the camera's, basically telling everyone to fuck off. As he said afterwards, him waving an imaginery card does not influence the referee, it's the players actions that do that. Can't be any worse than having Bacon Faces vile breath screaming and shouting in your face.

[Beefymcfc]

He wouldnt have to wave his bastard hand if the fucking Ref actually did what hes paid to do.

The refs the WANKER here not Mancini.

SPOTFUCKINON!!!!

Nail on the head. If Referee's stopping stiffing us on a regular basis then he wouldnt have to do it. Another jokeshop Yellow last night for a stonewall Red Card.

You can easily see why Wigan are at the bottom as Martinez said that wasnt a goal-scoring opportunity - clearly he couldnt recognise one if it slapped him in the face.

I await Dave Whelan's verdict in all the papers and on the radio today, as we always have to hear Dave Whelan's thoughts on every effing subject known to man.

You know face to face Dave Whelan is a good man talk to, I have met him on about 5 occasions, he is surprisingly grounded and realistic for a football club owner.

I think either he gets excited when talking to the media or more likely they probably get excited when editing what he says?

You're dead on there mate, he's a decent bloke but does have a passion for Whiskey soaked Bacon.

[Goaters 103]

Just to recap, in the past 5 games in order we have had

Sunderland (A) - Late goal for Sunderland, clearly a yard offside
Liverpool (H) - Multiple fouls by Adam, penalty foul by Skrtel who also commits multiple fouls in a game yet no card. Barry gets two yellows and gets sent off.
Man U (H) - Kompany sending off
Liverpool (H) - Johnsion two footed challenge, nothing given
Wigan (A) - Deliberate Handball denying goal scoring opportunity - Yellow card! Unreal.

Im amazed Mancini has been so reastrained tbh.

[Rag_hater]

Have a fucking word with yourselves. All managers shout for red cards in these situations. There is absolutely no difference in what Mancini is doing & what any other manager does in the same circumstances. He is not a player on the pitch trying to get a fellow pro sent off, he is a manager complaining, just like Harry & Dalglish & McCarthy & ONeil & of course Ferguson will do every single fucking time. There is no difference making a gesture & shouting 'red card' like every single one of them would do. You are being brainwashed with some phoney etiquette which doesn't exist.

Allison would have been going fucking spare demanding a red in the same position.

Spot on.
Hope he does more of it.
Every time the ref fucks up Bobby should let them know.

[dick dastardley]

The reason we have been dire coincides wuth our backbone of the team not playing. Until they return to the squad we have to scrap for everything. By the way the handball was a deffo red another balls up by an incompetant ref. We seem to get them all

[MARKMAKAVELI]

I know that it's respect to your fellow professional not to do it but what I don't get is, if the player has purposefully cheated like he did last night, he has disrespected you and the rules of thegame, why should there be that much of a big deal if you want a cheat punished?

[feedthegreek]

if the ref was the one spurs v bolton maybe a red cahill sent off we all said no way, it was rescinded too late for bolton though.
it was on the halfway line hes gotta run 50 yards and maybe round the keeper to score,if it was just outside the pen area maybe.
auguero could well have done so i was at the match and shouted red at the time but when you think about it ,was it really,
and you cant keep comparing our bad decisions with what others get away with or dont , bobby as got to forget about kompanys red card now ,we all know it was wrong hes made his point get on with the next game. although at the same time weve been harshly treated lately to say the least, but its time to move on imo.ashton makes a great point about either red or yellow after all it was an imaginary one.

[Ted Hughes]

The media are looking for any scrap of shit they can get to City with. We were supposed to fuck up last night, as we were v Liverpool. Ferguson had scripted for it. They are sweating & getting desperate, because if we don't fuck up soon, Utd will actually have to earn their title in order to win it, rather than having it handed to them on a plate & Spurs will disappear along with the other London clubs & their beloved scousers. They HAVE to stop us now or they know it's too late.

This is the only thing they can find. Pathetic isn't it ?

[BobbyJ1956]

Yes Mancini was entitled to think it was a red card, yes some people have got it in for City. All true. But he made himself look daft, "soft" as they used to say, and he needs to keep the dignity that's been such a big part of the man so far. Sign of pressure getting to him? Probably yes to that too.

[Rag_hater]

Yes Mancini was entitled to think it was a red card, yes some people have got it in for City. All true. But he made himself look daft, "soft" as they used to say, and he needs to keep the dignity that's been such a big part of the man so far. Sign of pressure getting to him? Probably yes to that too.

I'd say it's more a case of having been pushed far enough

[Beefymcfc]

Listening to TS this morning you can really hear the anger in their voices. Irani is currently on his jack because Brazil's on his jollies and the amount of sniping that comes from him is amazing. They were talking about the game and every other word out of his mouth would be about how much we've spent or Mancini Card Waving, no indepth analysis or talk of the game, just bullshit.

Even worse was todays journo, only talking of the card waving and how Mancini should be reprimanded. It was only Ray Stubbs who understood the point and had the balls to shoot the 2 fukcers down. Shame it wasn't literally.