City in the Europa League

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  1. JuveleoRules Member

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    I guess you will just wave off the dive for the PK that led to your second goal as "fair play" It's laughable some of the reactions here.

    I understand it's difficult to accept defeat at the hands of what your lot deems as inferior competiton. But please tell me what Man City has ever done in European Competition?

    Answer = nothing

    I know it hurts, but it's the truth.

    Cheers.
    JuveleoRules, Mar 16, 2012
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  2. StuMCFC Moderator

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    The same as you, won the UEFA Cup Winners Cup. Trying to be smarmy and clever only works when you know the facts.

    And no, most City fans don't deem the Europa League inferior at all. I live in Manchester, go to every game, and not one person I've spoken to in person or online has demeaned the Europa League - if the club itself did, why didn't we play the reserves when we had a fair few injuries (including our centre back pair) and risked others by playing a decent strength side? While I'm disappointed we're out of it, it will help us focus on trying to win our first league title since 1968.

    It's easy to form instant stereotypes about a club and its fans based on the wealth of the owners but quite often untrue. I've been watching City all my life and the fans are exactly the same as they always have been - and that includes the majority of them taking nothing for granted, Europa League included.

    The loudest song last night was one which shows our fans are the same as always and still have the same sense of humour and identity of always despite the "City fans are ex-Chelsea fans" idiots seeming to think we're suddenly a plastic fanbase (NO we're not)...

    We never win at home,
    And we never win away,
    We lost last week and we lost today,
    But we don't give a f*ck,
    'cos we're all p*ssed up,
    MCFC OK...
    StuMCFC, Mar 16, 2012
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  3. el travieso Member

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    Idk what you call it, city lost and the fans will get over. But what pissed me off was the sporting players falling over themselves wasting time. Unsportings time wasting was much more angering than the mc penalty
    el travieso, Mar 16, 2012
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  4. JuveleoRules Member

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    Keep thinking that and I'm sure you will sleep better.
    JuveleoRules, Mar 17, 2012
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  5. JuveleoRules Member

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    JuveleoRules, Mar 17, 2012
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  6. StuMCFC Moderator

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    That doesn't correlate with this trollish comment:

    "But please tell me what Man City has ever done in European Competition?

    Answer = nothing

    I know it hurts, but it's the truth."

    When the answer is we've done as much as Lisbon, both teams winning a single European trophy is more than 98% of teams in European football have done, so isn't "Answer = nothing".

    Anger at time wasting tactics isn't an excuse, people pay money and/or invest time to watch a football match and when players go down for 3 minutes regularly just to waste time, they have a right to be enraged at these unsportsmanlike tactics.

    It's not a tough pill to swallow at all, if you claim to know about City's history you should know that losing a game at a competitive level is just something that happens. Now, losing to Rochdale from League One would be a "tough pill to swallow".
    StuMCFC, Mar 17, 2012
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  7. Chess_Panther Member

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    Wasting time is pretty much normal and I highly doubt that City or any other team in this world has never pulled it off at one point. I would even go far as saying that it's part of human nature.

    Calling it a lack of fair play sound like sore words from a sore loser - you must understand this. But I will also add that Sporting fans came here trolling unnecessarily since this draw came out. I haven't read anything cocky from the M. City fans in this forum to justify such a nasty attitude.
    Chess_Panther, Mar 17, 2012
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  8. StuMCFC Moderator

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    Of course, teams take it to the corner flag to kill the game or pass it around, but there is nothing technically wrong about that because they're using the football to do it, not using fake injuries. Faking injuries like that is quite rare in the Premier League and when it does happen it doesn't get a nice response - look at how unpopular blatant cheat Luis Suarez is and was even before the racism stuff.

    I paid £25 to see that game and most of the last 10 minutes seemed to be Sporting players rolling around on the pitch, pretending to be injured, and if City players did that (but they don't) I'd be pissed off too and the fans would get restless as it isn't part of our club culture to employ tactics like that, even when we were rubbish.
    StuMCFC, Mar 17, 2012
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  9. vilafria Member+

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    I guess I feel compelled to drag this on only because you insist on emphasizing the pretend injuries as if you had any true understanding of what actually happened to the players that demonstrated injury , Rui Patricio and Pereirinha as I recall.

    The first was kicked by a City player in a corner ball sent into the area which he defended and let the ref know it. The second, Pereirinha fell awkwardly on his shoulder. He has a history of recurrent shoulder injuries and it's no surprise that he has been diagnosed since returning from Manchester with aggravation of that old injury.

    You might be pissed off because ManCity lost, but don't try to sweep their problems for losing in what was an accessible elimination round under the cover of blaming faking injury by players that didn't. Look at Mancini and the City players for that blame instead.
    vilafria, Mar 17, 2012
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  10. el travieso Member

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    anyone with a pulse can see what sporting was doing. it killed time and momentum for city and was enough for their team to go through to the next stage. but its obvious they were just wasting time, not injured. porto did the same thing against city the previous round. ill get over city getting knocked out, but im gonna call the other team on their bs play too.
    el travieso, Mar 17, 2012
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  11. vilafria Member+

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    If that works for you, go ahead. :)
    vilafria, Mar 17, 2012
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  12. JuveleoRules Member

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    As a side note to all the whining about time wasting....

    Bruno Pereirinha will be sidelined for 3 weeks with a shoulder injury. this is the player that the buffoon Nigel De Jong wanted to carry off the field.

    there goes your theories about time wasting with fake injuries...
    JuveleoRules, Mar 19, 2012
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  13. JuveleoRules Member

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    Nice to know that you show such respect for a buffoon like him...read my post above that is all you need to know.

    Time for you to take the elimination like a sportsman and move on.
    JuveleoRules, Mar 19, 2012
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  14. el travieso Member

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    portuguese players are soft
    el travieso, Mar 19, 2012
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  15. heavy1981 Member

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    But Better!!!

    Who's your best player in England, Rooney? :rolleyes:
    heavy1981, Mar 20, 2012
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  16. MVF Member

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    Can we shut this thread now?

    Nothing but enmity and frustration is left here.
    MVF, Mar 22, 2012
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  17. StuMCFC Moderator

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    Agreed. Closing the thread, Sporting CP fans will have to wait another year to come and taunt us.

    That's if City drop out of the Champions League next season to Europa League.

    Oh, and if Sporting actually make the proper Europa League having dropped to 5th place now which I think would take them into one of the Europa League qualifying rounds.

    :)
    StuMCFC, Mar 22, 2012
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