carling cup football thread 22-23 *spoilers*

[syke]

Oh dear..

Man City: Given, Zabaleta, Toure, Lescott, Bridge, Wright-Phillips, De Jong, Barry, Ireland, Tevez, Bellamy.
Subs: Taylor, Garrido, Sylvinho, Petrov, Vidal, Weiss, Ball.

Fulham: Stockdale, Stoor, Baird, Smalling, Kelly, Davies, Greening, Riise, Gera, Seol, Eddie Johnson.
Subs: Zuberbuhler, Watts, Saunders, Dikgacoi, Elm, Anderson, Smith.

 

[Shamikebab]

Man Utd:

Kuszczak
Neville
Brown
Jonathan Evans
Fabio Da Silva
Welbeck
Carrick
Gibson
Nani
Owen
Macheda

Subs: Amos, Ferdinand, Tosic, Valencia, De Laet, King, Eikrem.

Strong team from us, would liked to have seen Tosic start though.

 

[Rich]

He was wriggling free of Beckford, spun and caught him accidentally. Whatever way you look at it, it wasn't the monstrous crushing elbow it was made out to be. He didn't even hit him with an elbow as I mentioned.

A yellow card for carelessness would have probably been fair. A red card or subsequent 3 match ban would have been nonsense.

LMFAO. Wriggling free. He swung his arm into Beckford's head intentionally. Elbow or not that is a straight Red. The .gif above should prove beyond a doubt what it was all about. So what if Beckford made a meal of it, it still should have been red.

 

[Furton]

Looks like Man City are aiming to win the carlng cup this year.

Phil Brown gone by the morning? 3-0 already

 

[CliffyG]

Silly way to get red carded there.

 

[Slogan]

LMFAO.

Easily amused.

To be fair on viewing the gif it does look a lot more cynical than I had originally thought. It had seemed like he was trying to shake off Beckford but it's clear he's not actually going anywhere when he flings his arm round. I do concede that much.

At the same time, it's clearly not an elbow like everyone was proclaiming before I posted the image so I don't think I'm alone in revising my opinion.

 

[Weebull]

I can't see why a manager would get fired for losing a Carling Cup game. Are Everton's reserves better than Hull City's? Well duh.

Plus he's too pally with the chairman. Brown's definitely got a couple of months left, at the very least.

 

[jakeke]

They'll go down unless they sack Brown

 

[Rorschach]

I think I am a better crosser of the ball than Nani is.

 

[BaZ87]

Has it even been mentioned anywhere? I haven't seen any articles that mention it's being looked into.

Nope and if the FA are being consistent then nothing will be done about it either.

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

Carelessness my ass! The ball was nowhere near them.

You can clearly see the Leeds player grab his shirt and spin him around. The arm was obviously used to balance himself and it's an unfortunate accident that it caught him in the process.

 

[jakeke]

I think I am a better crosser of the ball than Nani is.

It's amazing how few good crossers of the ball there are in the premiership at the minute

 

[Weebull]

They'll go down unless they sack Brown

Most likely, but as I said, he's too chummy with Duffen. If they're still faltering terribly in December, then I think he might get gutsy enough to sack Brown, and give the new manager the Jan window to make any changes.

 

[Peg]

I can't see why a manager would get fired for losing a Carling Cup game. Are Everton's reserves better than Hull City's? Well duh.

Plus he's too pally with the chairman. Brown's definitely got a couple of months left, at the very least.

Tangos time is running out. 3 wins, 10 draws and 22 losses in their last 35 league games.

 

[BaZ87]

You can clearly see the Leeds player grab his shirt and spin him around. The arm was obviously used to balance himself and it's an unfortunate accident that it caught him in the process.

Beckford's a bit of a **** too so who cares

 

[Weebull]

You don't have to tell me, I've been arguing this with City fans for a while now. Since they drew 2-2 at Anfield, they've gotten twelve points in the league, and the worst points-per-game of the entire 23 teams who've been in the Premiership these last two seasons.

But then, as has also been pointed out, Stoke had the same number of points this time last season. You did alright, didn't you?

 

[Peg]

You don't have to tell me, I've been arguing this with City fans for a while now. Since they drew 2-2 at Anfield, they've gotten twelve points in the league, and the worst points-per-game of the entire 23 teams who've been in the Premiership these last two seasons.

But then, as has also been pointed out, Stoke had the same number of points this time last season. You did alright, didn't you?

But we had Tony Pulis and they don't

 

[Shamikebab]

God even Wolves are diving in this world

Nani and Gibson are playing well.

 

[Greenlizard0]

City 0-1 Fulham.

 

[red11]

You can clearly see the Leeds player grab his shirt and spin him around. The arm was obviously used to balance himself and it's an unfortunate accident that it caught him in the process.

Yeah and Scholes was swotting a fly in front of Alonso's face.