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The Manchester Derby

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,895 ✭✭✭Harpy


    well that didn't go according to plan at all!! that wasn't a good performance at all!! Have to hand it to city though they did very well..as much as i hate to say it..come on liverpool!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Well where do I start?!

    What an unbelievable win, the best I have ever seen from City.

    All this b*llox about a minute's silence. Our fans were a credit to the club and kept our good name intact. The blue and white scarves were a superb idea.

    As for the game, there are heroes all over the park and in the dug out. Dunne and Richards proved their quality once again. Didi and Gelson were outstanding in the middle. Was Scholes playing?

    Stephen Ireland played quality, the full backs didn't give Nani or Giggs a sniff. Petrov's crosses were stunning and Vas played unusually well. And now we have a new hero up front. Benjani looked well up for it and caused all sorts of problems for a very ordinary Ferdinand.

    Sven Goran Eriksson is a legend. He had his tactics right and picked the perfect team (although I did predict it too earlier in this thread :D).

    34 f*cking years we've waited to win there and finally it's happened. We are a club on the up and Sven is going to take us even further.

    Blue moon,
    You saw me standing alone,
    Without a dream in my heart,
    Without a love of my own.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,044 ✭✭✭Sqaull20


    I did not get to see the match, but where was the mighty Cristiano Ronaldo today?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,049 ✭✭✭✭adox


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Well where do I start?!
    All this b*llox about a minute's silence. Our fans were a credit to the club and kept our good name intact. The blue and white scarves were a superb idea.


    I think the concerns were perfectly justified. City fans have been very disrespectful before about the Munich disaster as have other fans (including United) about other tragedies. Anyway respect to them. It was a great moment and renewed my belief in common decency being alive and well in todays society.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,176 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    Sqaull20 wrote: »
    I did not get to see the match, but where was the mighty Cristiano Ronaldo today?

    Had a bad game


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    As I have already said, if we play Ireland off Robbie Keane with Andy Reid and S.Reid in the middle we will qualify for the World Cup.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 14,803 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dcully


    Hamman made a show of Scholes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,895 ✭✭✭Harpy


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Well where do I start?!

    What an unbelievable win, the best I have ever seen from City.

    All this b*llox about a minute's silence. Our fans were a credit to the club and kept our good name intact. The blue and white scarves were a superb idea.

    have to agree with what you said it was a great performance by city..
    and credit to their fans they were brillaint, don't think you'd get a better minutes silent there's usually at least one person during minutes silences that roar something but city were very respectful during it they did themselves proud and then to top it off with a win..not so happy about that part but they were by far the better team, we just didn't perform today


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Unlike the game at Eastlands, City looked stylish and brilliant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    No Rooney gives United no shape, no structure. No striker at all just magnifies that problem. The result is disappointing but not unsurprising. Without a striker on the pitch, I don't know what people expect. This wasn't helped by the shambolic defending from Brown and O'Shea. Personally I think Vidic and Ferdinand were very good.

    Petrov though, clearly MOM, was absolutely amazing.
    Ireland looks such a talent, if only he'd ****ing play for us.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    What a beautiful picture -

    http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44417000/jpg/_44417055_fans2_pa416.jpg

    That's what football's about


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Harpy wrote: »
    , there's usually at least one person during minutes silences that roar something but city were very respectful

    Well done to city fans, the media blew it up really that problems would exist, Minute silences are usually 100% respected at Premiership grounds from my experience.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Stephen Ireland played quality
    The 15 minutes I watched convinced me that he's gonna be a class act. We've (Ireland) so many gifted attacking players now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,820 ✭✭✭grames_bond


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    What a beautiful picture -

    http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44417000/jpg/_44417055_fans2_pa416.jpg

    That's what football's about


    i agree great picture!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Ireland is currently streets ahead in the MOM poll on the City forum and got it on the official site too. Fully deserved and he got my vote.

    From the match report on the official site -
    The first dive from Ronaldo was timed at 17 minutes as Hamann got close in the penalty area

    :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭sligobhoy67


    I was at the match today - in a directors box dont you know - the build up in Manchester this week was very strange - like a bit of a Mexican stand off.

    Fair play to the blues for holding the minutes silence (apart from the guys outside - possibly behind the south stand who were letting off fireworks)

    United run the first half with the Citeh back four working really hard - how the went in at half time behind I will never know, never mind two down - Ronaldo was great.

    In the second half United were awol and Citeh dominanted - Dunne and Onhoua were great and Giggs faded badly - Nani should have been taken off early.

    Verdict - Citeh just too good.

    MOTM - Dunne


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,828 ✭✭✭gosplan


    Ronaldo was great.

    just shows how different it all appears on TV


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Yep, my dad was talking to a few guys from Newcastle on Friday and they say Duff is brilliant, even though its a common conception that he has struggled.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭LostinBlanch


    Personally speaking I don't understand how Hamman didn't get a yellow for that two footed lunge into Nani's back in the first 20 minutes. He then went on to commit at least 3 other fouls with no sanction. And SKY then give him MOM now that is just taking the piss.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭sligobhoy67


    gosplan wrote: »
    just shows how different it all appears on TV

    Just to clarify - I was talkin about the first half and problem the first half hour of that. Him and Giggs ran Michael Ball and and Micah Richards in circles


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,745 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    Just to clarify - I was talkin about the first half and problem the first half hour of that. Him and Giggs ran Michael Ball and and Micah Richards in circles

    only problem is neither Ronaldo or Giggs had the ball at the time :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    Yep, my dad was talking to a few guys from Newcastle on Friday and they say Duff is brilliant, even though its a common conception that he has struggled.
    Kevin Doyle vs Slovakia (at home) was one of those performances which couldn't be appreciated from the TV screens. Top class.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭homerjay2005


    kensutz wrote: »
    Wasn't it a gun salute.

    lads, what the hell was it?? other forums are claiming all sorts, some are saying fireworks for other celebrtions, others are saying fans leaving off bangers outside the stadium....all i say is that its very weird and does not make sense that there would be an event DURING a minutes silence. surely when placing the wreaths would have been the time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,392 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    wow, city had a great defensive display today.

    by the time carrick slotted home they didn't care. Pld Sven.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭shane86


    eirebhoy wrote: »
    Kevin Doyle vs Slovakia (at home) was one of those performances which couldn't be appreciated from the TV screens. Top class.

    Indeed. As were Duff and Hunt on the night (which as Dunphy mentioned after the Slovak away game made his ommission all the more bizarre, the Slovaks must have been bricking it at the thought of the caveman coming on, yet he never did), the Slovaks defended their arse off that night, otherwise it could have went 3-0.
    quarryman wrote: »
    hilarious stuff, united fans; always entertaining :)

    Indeed :D

    Its never particularly nice to see a team lose in a "tribute match", be it for a recently deceased player or an anniversary, but well done to Man City. Hope it keeps Man U from winning the prem and somehow simultanouesly hope it doesnt cost Liverpool their CL spot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 729 ✭✭✭scruff321


    really enjoyed that match today :D

    btw who got man of the match?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    I heard it was Dunne, but imo it was defo Petrov


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,803 ✭✭✭✭Paul Tergat


    MOM was didi hamman


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,399 ✭✭✭✭Thanx 4 The Fish


    Not deserved TBH, Hamann did play well but so did Petrov. I think dunne was certainly a contender mind. Anyway, well done City, better team and deserved the win on the day.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    Dunne 36%
    Ireland 17%
    Benjani 9%
    Petrov 8%
    Richards 8%
    Hamann 6%
    Fernandes 6%
    Onuoha 3%
    Vassell 3%
    Hart 2%
    Ball 2%

    http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/manchester_city/


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