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Ok until yesterday, up all night, ill (I won't give you the graphic detail), unfortunately, I had to go into work today as got people of either on holiday or ill .... Great...
we were the better team, fact. we bossed the whole game,fact. fletcher should have been booked, fact (for the penalty alone!) (anyone notice how he hammered the ball away into touch angry with himself for putting in such a silly tackle? even he thought it was a stone waller.) roonys (clever play) was identical to eduardos (cheating/bringing the game into distribute/conning the ref/causing world hunger etc) the difference in the challenges was the keepers. Burac pulled his hands away and made a point of doing so, eduardo couldnt see this or even react because he had his back to him and was heading for the turf. So its bad play from almumia but the dive is still a dive! dont really understand why wenger has apparently made the 'anti' football comment, I think he is talking about the reffing rather than the man utd team. they played the way they did because it worked (stop/starting the game) and the ref allowed them to do it. even eboues ridiculous dive was brought about by frustration at the constant fouling, he still shouldnt have done it. it bodes well if after the game we are just talking about how utd just kicked us around, they didnt create anything and looked poor yet all the idiot pundits will comment on how they ground out a result and thats what 'champions' do. the actual fact is that we lost the game because it was at old trafford. i dont blame fergy or his team but the refs seem to double bluff themselves, they seem determined not to be swayed by the reputation that refs bottle it at old trafford and make a point of always staying strong on big decisions, just so happens that all those decisions go against the opposition. i was gutted saturday and really angry whist still very proud of our team. the next game is massive but i'm looking foward to it.
franksav63 wrote:Ok until yesterday, up all night, ill (I won't give you the graphic detail), unfortunately, I had to go into work today as got people of either on holiday or ill .... Great...
franksav63 wrote:Ok until yesterday, up all night, ill (I won't give you the graphic detail), unfortunately, I had to go into work today as got people of either on holiday or ill .... Great...
we were the better team, fact. we bossed the whole game,fact. fletcher should have been booked, fact (for the penalty alone!) (anyone notice how he hammered the ball away into touch angry with himself for putting in such a silly tackle? even he thought it was a stone waller.) roonys (clever play) was identical to eduardos (cheating/bringing the game into distribute/conning the ref/causing world hunger etc) the difference in the challenges was the keepers. Burac pulled his hands away and made a point of doing so, eduardo couldnt see this or even react because he had his back to him and was heading for the turf. So its bad play from almumia but the dive is still a dive! dont really understand why wenger has apparently made the ‘anti’ football comment, I think he is talking about the reffing rather than the man utd team. they played the way they did because it worked (stop/starting the game) and the ref allowed them to do it. even eboues ridiculous dive was brought about by frustration at the constant fouling, he still shouldnt have done it. it bodes well if after the game we are just talking about how utd just kicked us around, they didnt create anything and looked poor yet all the idiot pundits will comment on how they ground out a result and thats what ‘champions’ do. the actual fact is that we lost the game because it was at old trafford. i dont blame fergy or his team but the refs seem to double bluff themselves, they seem determined not to be swayed by the reputation that refs bottle it at old trafford and make a point of always staying strong on big decisions, just so happens that all those decisions go against the opposition. i was gutted saturday and really angry whist still very proud of our team. the next game is massive but i’m looking foward to it.
Posted by peter stoery | September 1, 2009, 7:24 pm
Cheers, I hope the Mods finally kick this sod off, even the other serial cutter and paster (if they're not the same person of course) has started giving credit to the ORIGINAL poster...
Thought id put forward some views of the game from one of the resident rosetinters !!
First thing to say is it was hugely disapointing, to have a lead in any game and not take anything from it is obviously not good. Personally I thought the penalty decision was very debatable, Sky obviously assumed it was a clear penalty and didnt offer any other opinion, but personally I see little difference between what Rooney and Eduardo did, other than Almunia left his hands in a position which enabled Rooney to go down, wheras Boruc took his away, thus making Eduardo look a bit foolish! I digress, the second was terrible, again you could say Almunia was at fault, but personally if you have a 6ft plus player in front of you and the ball is heading for him its no suprise he left it for Diaby to deal with, what the heck was he doing?? Two goals conceded which could so easily have been avoided.
On the plus side, the above apart, i thought although indivduals could be critised for under-performing (Eboue particularly), the way we were set up and the way we played I thought was very good, the midfield three looked solid and launched a lot of our attacks, up front Arshavin was quiet for me but still produces magic, Eboue was poor and Van Persie looks like he should be playing off Bendtner - who incidently I cannot believe didnt start. However, we controlled the majority of the game and I don't think its unfair to say we should have won that game, or at least earnt a point. Had Foster not saved at point blank from VP, we would all be cooing at a 3 or 4 nil win, them's is the margains!!! Im not too concerned about that defeat, compare it to similar defeats early in the season over the years, im nowhere near as dispondent. In fairness to United if they have a defeat that never snowballs into 2 or 3, so that is the challenge for the squad now.
A word for Sky who I thought were appauling, where was the condemnation of the United fans singing their sick songs? When Fergie got annoyed at the Emirates it was all over the news, why not now? It wasnt just a section either, it was 60,000 idiots. The way they then went on about Giggs 'changing the game', absolute rubbish from them as usual.
Bring on City, a massive challenge, but a win there and then we will really be back on track, and I saw nothing from Saturday that shows me we dont have what it takes to get a result up there, and it would be nice to stop this little 1-0 run they are on!
Cheers, I hope the Mods finally kick this sod off, even the other serial cutter and paster (if they're not the same person of course) has started giving credit to the ORIGINAL poster...
Yes Frank, well played finding it 51 MINUTES AFTER I had!!
Cheers, I hope the Mods finally kick this sod off, even the other serial cutter and paster (if they're not the same person of course) has started giving credit to the ORIGINAL poster...
Yes Frank, well played finding it 51 MINUTES AFTER I had!!
Oi..... I had only just logged on, you bounder, I didn't see your post mentioning it either..... Have you just added that....???....