FA Cup 4th Round thread

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 05:26PM

Lovely

Aquos76 · 27-01-2008 05:27PM

The irony of it all was City fans lauched all the balloons in the fist place. Sure its all the one now as SU have gotten a second

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 05:28PM

And that was a red there for Martin. Ireland got sent for the same thing against Spurs.

Peyton Manning · 27-01-2008 05:28PM

Goalkeepers fault. Its common knowledge that 'keepers must stamp on balloons when the ball is up the other end.

Villain · 27-01-2008 05:29PM

I think the biggest problem wasn't the two BLUE baloons it hit but the WHITE one it rolled passed very hard to judge the ball beside a white baloon.

Martin should have seen red very lucky to be on the pitch.

homerjay2005 · 27-01-2008 05:30PM

Xavi6 wrote: »

So if a ball hits not one but two bobbles in front of you and bounces funny instead of rolling you should be able to judge where it's going with a striker up your arse? Come on now

yes....u should always be in control of the ball, these players are professional footballers and should be able to deal with things like this, simple as that. all he needed was to get his foot behind the ball and in all fairness, it wasn exactly a big switch in movement.defensive error, full stop. if it happened to a united player, i would be very unhappy with him.

2-0 anyway, stead.

Villain · 27-01-2008 05:32PM

LOL yea professional footballers work on dealing with baloons beside the ball every day in training, ffs seriously!

homerjay2005 · 27-01-2008 05:36PM

Villain wrote: »

LOL yea professional footballers work on dealing with baloons beside the ball every day in training, ffs seriously!

oh cos that is what i said ya? read my post again and you will see that we are talking about a basic bobble or movement of direction, i never mentioned baloons in the post, neither did xavi. if ur defending a player in this suituation, then its u that needs to get serious.

Villain · 27-01-2008 05:39PM

Well as I said it wasn't a bobble that caused the problem it was having a White baloon beside the ball. Pretty easy to see it on the replay really

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 05:51PM

homerjay2005 wrote: »

oh cos that is what i said ya? read my post again and you will see that we are talking about a basic bobble or movement of direction, i never mentioned baloons in the post, neither did xavi. if ur defending a player in this suituation, then its u that needs to get serious.

Eh I did. They caused the bobble. The ball was running fine til it hit them so of course they played a part.

Anyway we've been a bunch of prima donnas and deserve to be losing.

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 06:06PM

Elano off, Danny Sturridge. This lad is special. Bagged a hattrick in the FA Youth Cup the other day.

Unearthly · 27-01-2008 06:08PM

Worst celebration ever by Sturridge

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 06:09PM

What a hit! I told ya he was special! Sven the master

Peyton Manning · 27-01-2008 06:15PM

Xavi6 wrote: »

What a hit! I told ya he was special! Sven the master

A Man City mate told me bout that chap nearly 2 years ago, been waiting for him ever since!

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 06:19PM

Archimedes wrote: »

A Man City mate told me bout that chap nearly 2 years ago, been waiting for him ever since!

Yeah he's missed the last 8 months through injury. His first game back was that youth cup game the other day. He's not even match fit!

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 07:11PM

Deservedly out. 'Deflating' performance

And before any smart arse says it, "Balloon, you saw me standing alone".

LostinBlanch · 27-01-2008 07:14PM

Taken from another forum.

To the tune of 99 balloons

99 blue balloons
Floating on a football pitch
Cross comes in, poor Michael Ball
Cannot see
A white football
From 32 to 33
Could only happen, to City
Bertie Magoo starts to cry,
As 33 trophyless years go by

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 07:15PM

And there's the first person to have a 'pop'

LostinBlanch · 27-01-2008 07:19PM

Ah now, there's no need to feel deflated.

I wonder how many balloon related puns this thread will have before it begins to run out of air?

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 07:23PM

LostinBlanch wrote: »

Ah now, there's no need to feel deflated.

I wonder how many balloon related puns this thread will have before it begins to run out of air?

I already used deflated two posts up so looks like you've run out already.

I'm sure more people are going to want to rub(ber) it in

LostinBlanch · 27-01-2008 07:26PM

Apologies Xavi, I missed that.

I won't be rubbing it in.

But you have to admit it was damn funny though.

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 07:30PM

Oh I do. Hilarious and typical thing to happen to us. Difference wit us City fans is that we'll have a laugh about it and take it in good spirit. Can't say the same for fans of some other clubs

kryogen · 27-01-2008 07:45PM

can i see the highlights of todays games anywhere?? with my odd sleeping pattern due to late night poker playing i missed everything and only woke up about 45 minutes ago!

quad_red · 27-01-2008 08:02PM

kryogen wrote: »

can i see the highlights of todays games anywhere?? with my odd sleeping pattern due to late night poker playing i missed everything and only woke up about 45 minutes ago!

Yeah, I just got home to find that Match of the Day isn't on??? There's nothing on ITV or RTE either. Surely someone bar Skysports are showing highlights?!?!

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 08:09PM

Here's the City goal for you anyway. Counts for f*ck all but great hit from the young lad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A-NTISEVVY

Nunu · 27-01-2008 08:14PM

Xavi6 wrote: »

How did he make a mistake? The ball hit two balloons and bounced awkwardly as a result

Xavi6 wrote: »

So if a ball hits not one but two bobbles in front of you and bounces funny instead of rolling you should be able to judge where it's going with a striker up your arse? Come on now

There's no way a ****ing balloon would deviate the path of a bouncing ball. They were a visual hazard, Ball was put off by the fact the ball bounced through the balloons, not because the ball bobbled when it hit a balloon!

Xavi6 wrote: »

And that was a red there for Martin. Ireland got sent for the same thing against Spurs.

Stephen Irelands tackle was much worse than that - Martin had studs showing alright, but not the same tackle at all.

homerjay2005 · 27-01-2008 08:42PM

even sven seems to agree that it was bad defending and not ballons, taken from BBC -

"But we should not blame the balloons as we should have done better."

simple as this lads, this was balls fault, he miskicked the football completely, i dont care if it was a divot, another player or a f**king balloon, he made a hash of it and will suffer the jokes as a result.

Villain · 27-01-2008 09:34PM

LOL at Homerjay2005 that goal was partly down to the baloons putting the defender off and if wasn't United's rival's and especially Ball you would see that but sadly your post is blinded the red tint.

I know that if that happened to Vidic you'd be blaiming the baloons, rivalary is good but blindness because of Rivalary is just sad.

homerjay2005 · 27-01-2008 09:43PM

Villain wrote: »

LOL at Homerjay2005 that goal was partly down to the baloons putting the defender off and if wasn't United's rival's and especially Ball you would see that but sadly your post is blinded the red tint.

I know that if that happened to Vidic you'd be blaiming the baloons, rivalary is good but blindness because of Rivalary is just sad.

so if im blinded by rivalary, what is sven blinded by? he clearly said in his after match interview that the balloons were not to blame and it should have been defended better. enough said really.

Mikeyt086 · 27-01-2008 09:48PM

Villain wrote: »

LOL at Homerjay2005 that goal was partly down to the baloons putting the defender off and if wasn't United's rival's and especially Ball you would see that but sadly your post is blinded the red tint.

I know that if that happened to Vidic you'd be blaiming the baloons, rivalary is good but blindness because of Rivalary is just sad.

Think you made a mistake there. Vidic could not have made that mistake. Not even hypothetically.

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