[Irish Jet]

[Bubzeh]

Bore draw today please. Can feel a comfortable City win, though.

[Chain Gang Soldier]

Originally Posted by united_07

Apparently Fergie has said he will go with a experienced midfield






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Still reckon you guys match will end in a draw anyway. Although City's unispiring team mixed with you guys sucking in defence but attacking well could potentially lead to a decent match.

[Nige™]

Got a feeling this could be a draw with the way both teams have been going this year. All week I've thought City would scrape it but I don't know now. Hopefully United can get a point, three's a tad unrealistic me thinks.

I wish Everton/Spurs was televised after and not West Ham/Liverpool.

[Seabs]

1-1 stalemate. Dull match most probably. Take a point though.

The Stoke/Villa ref :daglish Not a single booking for Shotton and Herd arguably should have been sent off but got GIVEN a free kick. Where the fuck do they find these refs from? There's human error and then there's total incompetence. There's much better refs in the lower leagues. The ref for the MK/AFC match last week for example was faultless and handled a potentially tricky match with no problems at all.

[Bubzeh]

West Ham 1-0 Liverpool - 7/1

[Nige™]

Originally Posted by Lord Santa Claus IV.

1-1 stalemate. Dull match most probably. Take a point though.

The Stoke/Villa ref :daglish Not a single booking for Shotton and Herd arguably should have been sent off but got GIVEN a free kick. Where the fuck do they find these refs from? There's human error and then there's total incompetence. There's much better refs in the lower leagues. The ref for the MK/AFC match last week for example was faultless and handled a potentially tricky match with no problems at all.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing this morning. I recorded MOTD last night and the two Arsenal pens were a disgrace. First was a blatant dive with no contact, then the second one, Popov should've got a free kick before AOC got brought down in the box. There was a clear handball by Mertesacker too in the first half that wasn't given.

The Villa one was awful. How Shotton got a second yellow I don't know. He just pulled his body away and Bale Delph went down really easily. There were some horrible tackles in that too that didn't even get yellows.

Swansea had a goal disallowed for a 'foul' on Mark Bunn that would've made it 3-3. He came and missed it, ball went it and free kick was given. Norwich went up the other end and scored, and maybe there could've been a red card for the foul on Holt for being the last man. Anyway, 4-2 game over when it should've been 3-3.

Pulis hit the nail on the head though in his interview, saying that he can't take about the decisions made, how wrong they were because he didn't want any more money taken off him. They need to do something about it because the standard of refereeing was as low as I've ever seen it yesterday, but they're never held accountable. That & diving really needs to be sorted out because it's becoming a joke.

[Snowman]

Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany (c), Nastasic, Clichy, Yaya Toure, Barry, Nasri, Silva, Aguero, Balotelli.

City XI

[united_07]

team

De Gea, Rafael, Evra, Ferdinand, Evans, Valencia, Rooney, Carrick, Young, RVP, Cleverley
subs- Johnston, Jones, Giggs, Smalling, Hernandez, Welbeck and Scholes

cleverley and valencia both back from injury

[Richard Keys]

Originally Posted by Nige™

The Villa one was awful. How Shotton got a second yellow I don't know. He just pulled his body away and Bale Delph went down really easily. There were some horrible tackles in that too that didn't even get yellows.

Even though it doesn't look like much, when you are sprinting like Delph was and you get your ankle tapped like that from behind you go flying. I know because it happened to me playing hockey once and the guy who did it to me should have been put in the sin bin imo but we only a got a free hit. It was more clumsy from Shotton than anything, but that still means it was his fault.

Btw it was Clark not Herd Seabs who did the tackle that could have been a red. The reason Villa got a free kick is that Clark was fouled just before he charged in.