Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [6th - 11th April 2012]
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Ah yeah I keep forgetting that he finally got sent off. I retract my poor attempt at a joke.
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his third red card this season so he gets 5 match ban?
was thinking that only applied to straight red' s , no?
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not sure i have heard and read a few people saying he will get 5 match ban but not sure how that rule works
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Is that Big Ron in the middle making the header motion?Why on earth would anybody want Balotelli in their team? Total liability, doesn't try half of the time he's on the pitch. Just get a grown up in who understands what a team means.
What previous? The previous that he stuck to his guns with tevez and refused to let him play until he apologised. He hardly called him back in a few games and refused to sell him cheaply, I can't see what more he could have done.
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AFAIK, but I expect the FA will have a look on his studs up challenge on Song too.
Look like city fans trying to play it cool.
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Dive is even worse on the TV, as is the linesman not seeing the offside. Commentator is retarded if he thought that was a pen.
They should do without a doubt, but even without that it has been suggested he would be banned for 3+ games anyway - when two yellows is usually only 1 game suspended isnt it (and Im guessing maybe an extra game suspended for how many red's MB has already had this season)
Just a little confusing is all
Without the offside, it IS a penalty (whether its usually given or not for that minimal amount of contact is irrelevant)
Is it a dive if there is (even a minimal amount of) contact? I would say not
Young shouldnt have gone down so easily, no question (even though it looked like he was already off balance, the way he was leaning forward so much), but its not a dive
As Lee Dixon said its all "cheating" whether its for a penalty or getting away with something else in another part of the pitch, either way no reason to give the red card imo (I dont think ref HAD to give the red once the penalty had been given)
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Mancini's press conference was amsuing, he basically said Balotelli should get retrospectively banned for his tackle in the first half that got missed by the officials. Might save him the job of leaving him out when his 2 match ban expires.
Sorry - I nearly forgot
That description has now been trademarked as "doing a Saurez"
(edit - even though Young's was nowhere near as artistic lol)
especially when he subbed aguero instead of him for tevez (who looks about a stone over weight) just what was he thinking even starting him?
the blokes lost the plot. the owners did not look happy and it's probably curtains for him. as someone said, if mourinho was managing city (who has stated balotelli is unmanageable) they'd have had the league wrapped up 2 months ago.
man city are a team of individuals, the only city players i have any respect for are kompany and hart as i honestly believe they have the commitment and desire riding over a pay cheque.
**** 'em.
oh, and ashley young's dive lol pathetic
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Not read whole thread, anyone else think Mancini left Balotelli on purely to get a red so he had someone to blame? he managed to blame Balotelli last week as well despite getting two goals.
His sub's were pathetic, Koralov, just to try and score from a freekick, who was abysmal. Taking off a ineffective Nasri for a left back and playing him out of position, taking off Aguero who had zero service, and leaving on Balotelli who should have been sent off twice?
Either he wanted the excuse or he's an inept manager. The lack of tactical change, offensive substitutions from Mancini was just embarassing, I think while he wanted Balotelli to take the blame he also didn't want Tevez to come on and be a hero again. No reason at all Tevez couldn't have come on for probably Milner who was utterly ineffective, or Barry for the same reason, and gone all out attack.
City should be embarrassed to have him as a manager, when everythings going fine, doesn't do anything spectacular, when the wheels come off he sacrifices players to the press to excuse himself.
Balotelli wasn't even slightly to blame for last weeks performance, he calmed down one fight and the only "bad" thing he did was not want a left footed guy who doesn't score very much at all to take a freekick that no left footer should ever take(if they only ever shoot). This week, bad tackle, should have been red carded, for an early tackle, he was walking the line from that second, every single second he stayed on the pitch after he actually got a yellow was 100% Mancini's fault.
Utd deserve the title, I still don't think they've come anywhere near City's form in the first half of the season, but it doesn't matter, City were tearing people apart, but winning 6-1 against Utd is still only 3 points. Utd haven't won many games as well, winning to games by 1 goal is obviously better than winning one 6-1, and losing one by a single goal.
City have been well below title winning form for 4 months now and Mancini has done smeg all except watch the performance get worse and more players drop out of form.
The daft thing is, Balotelli getting a red had no bearing on the game, he brought on a guy to hopefully win a freekick rather than improve how the team was playing, this is a freekick taker who in the league has had 24 shots, 5 on target, and 2 goals, a pathetic return for a "specialist", 55 shots total in all competitions and only 4 goals for him, this is who Mancini decided to rest the title on? De Jong on the bench who should without question have come on instead of Pizzaro, Richards for some attacking pace.... nope. He went with a midfield of Nasri, Milner, Barry and Balotelli, with no real pace, when Richards has been one of their best players all season and one of their only good players in the past 3 months? He got almost every last decision wrong about this game, and gave up and went for a 1/1,000,000 shot when he decided to bank the season on a woefully non prolific free kick taker.
His sub's were pathetic, Koralov, just to try and score from a freekick, who was abysmal. Taking off a ineffective Nasri for a left back and playing him out of position, taking off Aguero who had zero service, and leaving on Balotelli who should have been sent off twice?
Either he wanted the excuse or he's an inept manager. The lack of tactical change, offensive substitutions from Mancini was just embarassing, I think while he wanted Balotelli to take the blame he also didn't want Tevez to come on and be a hero again. No reason at all Tevez couldn't have come on for probably Milner who was utterly ineffective, or Barry for the same reason, and gone all out attack.
City should be embarrassed to have him as a manager, when everythings going fine, doesn't do anything spectacular, when the wheels come off he sacrifices players to the press to excuse himself.
Balotelli wasn't even slightly to blame for last weeks performance, he calmed down one fight and the only "bad" thing he did was not want a left footed guy who doesn't score very much at all to take a freekick that no left footer should ever take(if they only ever shoot). This week, bad tackle, should have been red carded, for an early tackle, he was walking the line from that second, every single second he stayed on the pitch after he actually got a yellow was 100% Mancini's fault.
Utd deserve the title, I still don't think they've come anywhere near City's form in the first half of the season, but it doesn't matter, City were tearing people apart, but winning 6-1 against Utd is still only 3 points. Utd haven't won many games as well, winning to games by 1 goal is obviously better than winning one 6-1, and losing one by a single goal.
City have been well below title winning form for 4 months now and Mancini has done smeg all except watch the performance get worse and more players drop out of form.
The daft thing is, Balotelli getting a red had no bearing on the game, he brought on a guy to hopefully win a freekick rather than improve how the team was playing, this is a freekick taker who in the league has had 24 shots, 5 on target, and 2 goals, a pathetic return for a "specialist", 55 shots total in all competitions and only 4 goals for him, this is who Mancini decided to rest the title on? De Jong on the bench who should without question have come on instead of Pizzaro, Richards for some attacking pace.... nope. He went with a midfield of Nasri, Milner, Barry and Balotelli, with no real pace, when Richards has been one of their best players all season and one of their only good players in the past 3 months? He got almost every last decision wrong about this game, and gave up and went for a 1/1,000,000 shot when he decided to bank the season on a woefully non prolific free kick taker.
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