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Post by EspadaIII on Feb 14, 2021 11:06:59 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2022 11:16:11 GMT
Well that's my team both through to the next round, and knocked out of it in the same weekend! What magic. How is it we always get drawn to play Man C/Man U/Liverpool etc away, and our dear neighbours always get Plymouth/Barnsley/West Allotment Celtic at home.
I'm looking forward to the inevitable Monday evening match, to be shown live on Sky, in which Fulham concede a comedy goal in the first 10 minutes, and we are then treated to City completing 1,247 passes and eventually winning 4-0, in front of 300 travelling away fans who will be subjected to utter mockery despite having travelled all that way in sideways rain at 2 degrees in the full knowledge that the team is going to get spanked.
Who wouldn't love the Cup. At least I haven't even got any hope to suffer this year.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jan 10, 2022 13:42:08 GMT
Al, we have a phrase up here.. "Typical City". Admittedly not used as often as it used to be, but still we have slipped on a few banana skins of our own making in the past, the most obvious one was not playing a proper holding midfielder in the Champions League final last May.
Anyway, you'll want to come to the Etihad.. We have great locally brewed beer and good pies as well I am told. And we are friendly.. unlike our no longer so noisy neighbours. Anyway you never know, you could play like Notts Forest last night and grab a win...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2022 13:45:38 GMT
The last time I had any confidence we'd beat you was when we were both in the third division and we had Peter Beardsley.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jan 11, 2022 21:04:49 GMT
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Post by EspadaIII on Feb 7, 2022 11:35:47 GMT
Crazy results this weekend. Notts Forest v Leicester was a great game..
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2022 11:50:22 GMT
Not a particularly crazy one at Emptylands, sadly. I knew we were finished as soon as we took the lead in the 3rd minute. Lesser team scoring that early always loses.
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Post by EspadaIII on Feb 7, 2022 12:06:38 GMT
Full stadium according to the BBC. A rather odd statistic to put into the report but maybe there to stop the usual slur of lack of supporters... But City rarely lose when a lower team give us a scare early on. But we need to play a bit better for the remainder of the season to give us some breathing space later on when Champions Leasgue games get harder.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2022 12:34:14 GMT
Of course it was full on Saturday, Fulham were in town.
I would like to wish your club all the best in the League and Europe, if it means Liverpool and Chelsea don't win anything.
We'll be back at yours for another pounding in the League next season, shortly before our next inevitable relegation.
What competitive times we live in.
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Post by EspadaIII on Feb 7, 2022 15:12:52 GMT
I spent from about 12 years old to 47 years old hoping for some silverware. I spent many years in despair with awful owners who wouldn't spend a bean. It took a lot of time and effort (yes and some money) to become really successful, but it's not just about money as United have shown and on a purchase price basis City are by no means the most expensive squad or the largest.
It is a different game to what we grew up with, but the experience is better. Better stadia, better pitches, better football. The home match against PSG last year was an evening's wonderful entertainment worthy of the ticket price; the football was only part of it. I was really pleased with Notts Forest result yesterday as it showed that big teams can be beaten (just as City have this year).
Having watched several demolitions before Christmas (especially against Leeds and Newcastle), I realised that whilst a 7-0 victory is great, the more exciting football is when we are 1-0 down and need to score two, or we are 1-1 and need to win to keep our chances of a title alive. Fulham are a team with history and no City supporter treats you casually. Hope you come up and stay up. You deserve to.
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Post by bpg on Feb 26, 2022 19:31:54 GMT
Stuck in here due to no thread for PL but such a shame Man City had to win that way tonight. Blatant handball and the VAR team could not see it. If that is the difference between two teams at the end of the season then football is finished.
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Post by bpg on Feb 27, 2022 0:37:04 GMT
Even the empty lands couldn't fill up with the biggest metal band in the world:
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Post by EspadaIII on Feb 27, 2022 11:04:44 GMT
I didn't watch the game but if even that arch City supporter Micah Richards reckoned it was a handball then it was.
The definitions of this and offside which require very fine margins of error but at high speed are unreasonable on a football pitch.
However I reckon Liverpool will also have a few decisions go their way which perhaps should not so it balances out in the end.
Besides most of Everton wanted to lose...ABL..
Anyone but Liverpool
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Post by bpg on May 11, 2022 6:44:52 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2022 7:48:09 GMT
Thanks. It's likely to be a short and painful experience, again.
It's all a bit self-deprecating, that cheeseboard stuff. A couple of photos on soshul meejas of Fulham fans eating cheeseboards on a train to an away game, and a guy cutting a Victoria sponge cake in the stands at Craven Cottage, gave rise to a wave of mickey taking, which we have responded to by adopting these memes as part of our fan culture. Rather than than Millwall's rep.
I'll wait until the cheeseboard is discounted to £7.99 in a few months, then I'll get one.
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