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Spurge and Foreverinbluedreams. I am not saying these couldn't have been awarded. Indeed if we played in a different colour shirt or if we had different match officials they may well have been awarded. Indeed, if a different City player had been involved the decision may have been different, just opened a separate thread about that as it goes.

May personal take on it was that although there was contact, in the main Sterling was just outmuscled and out manoeuvred. I am of the age where when I grew up watching football, defending was more physical than it is today and I still have that mentality even though the game has changed since then. Maybe my opinion is skewed by that, I don't know but I always think on a penalty decision whether I'd be disappointed if we conceded it. And for the first two, I would be. But I can understand why folks are disappointed not to be awarded them.

My biggest gripe, as with a large number of fans, is the consistency between decisions

nottsblue wrote:Spurge and Foreverinbluedreams. I am not saying these couldn't have been awarded. Indeed if we played in a different colour shirt or if we had different match officials they may well have been awarded. Indeed, if a different City player had been involved the decision may have been different, just opened a separate thread about that as it goes.

May personal take on it was that although there was contact, in the main Sterling was just outmuscled and out manoeuvred. I am of the age where when I grew up watching football, defending was more physical than it is today and I still have that mentality even though the game has changed since then. Maybe my opinion is skewed by that, I don't know but I always think on a penalty decision whether I'd be disappointed if we conceded it. And for the first two, I would be. But I can understand why folks are disappointed not to be awarded them.

My biggest gripe, as with a large number of fans, is the consistency between decisions

Understood Notts, yeh I know what you're saying about how the game was played when you were growing up (my era as well) it really annoys me when a player concedes a free kick in the modern era having won the ball first and his momentum then takes the man, back in the day a challenge like that earned you a contract extension now its a red card!

FA cup winners 2006 wrote:

johnny crossan wrote:

phips wrote:i pity you guys that have to watch biased television coverage.

you're a bit of a blott on the landscape phips, you don't seem to understand that city being robbed and cheated week in and week out doesn't stop us being the best team in the league, these words are my last concession to your unfortunate continuing presence on the board btw, cheerio.

That's a bit delusional. Even on top form 5 players of that spurs team would walk into our team, maybe 6 or 7. We are rebuilding and will be the best team again but we are not now

On yesterday's performance the only ones I would take would be alderweireld and (even though he had rare howlers) Lloris. We made rose and Walker look ordinary yesterday but they're still better than our full backs especially clichy who is worse than dog shit

freshie wrote:

FA cup winners 2006 wrote:

johnny crossan wrote:

phips wrote:i pity you guys that have to watch biased television coverage.

you're a bit of a blott on the landscape phips, you don't seem to understand that city being robbed and cheated week in and week out doesn't stop us being the best team in the league, these words are my last concession to your unfortunate continuing presence on the board btw, cheerio.

That's a bit delusional. Even on top form 5 players of that spurs team would walk into our team, maybe 6 or 7. We are rebuilding and will be the best team again but we are not now

On yesterday's performance the only ones I would take would be alderweireld and (even though he had rare howlers) Lloris. We made rose and Walker look ordinary yesterday but they're still better than our full backs especially clichy who is worse than dog shit

Clichy has been bad for a number of years now - in fact I believe his only good season with us was 11/12. Yet people still pretended he was a better defender than Kolarov. They're both terrible at defending.

I'm sick of seeing Clichy back off the attacker until they're at our penalty box!!

I actually thought kolarov had a great game yesterday (apart from the alli goal which was mainly Clichy's fault)

This one was a bitter pill to swallow. We've already been screwed by refs this season before this game. To think it's still happening makes me think this is just something we're going to have to live with. Our players get 0 protection and we're constantly being kicked to death without even a yellow card being shown. I firmly believe the refs have an agenda or a mandate to make life as difficult as possible for us. At the very least it's a subconscious disliking of the city project which has placed city in a box that we will not get out of for a number of years to come. They know we want to play great football and improve the level of English football but they're dragging it back to the dark ages with this reverence towards outdated and agricultural "underdog" style of play. The offensive team should always have the benefit of the doubt and not the defenders. This is why our league is described as "physical" and another reason why England won't be winning anything any time soon. Stick with it lads, when we win the trophies at least we will know it will be fully deserved.

MUS wrote:This one was a bitter pill to swallow. We've already been screwed by refs this season before this game. To think it's still happening makes me think this is just something we're going to have to live with. Our players get 0 protection and we're constantly being kicked to death without even a yellow card being shown. I firmly believe the refs have an agenda or a mandate to make life as difficult as possible for us. At the very least it's a subconscious disliking of the city project which has placed city in a box that we will not get out of for a number of years to come. They know we want to play great football and improve the level of English football but they're dragging it back to the dark ages with this reverence towards outdated and agricultural "underdog" style of play. The offensive team should always have the benefit of the doubt and not the defenders. This is why our league is described as "physical" and another reason why England won't be winning anything any time soon. Stick with it lads, when we win the trophies at least we will know it will be fully deserved.

This is what I think. Not sure if it's rasicm or jealously, I suspect a little of both.

london blue 2 wrote:

MUS wrote:This one was a bitter pill to swallow. We've already been screwed by refs this season before this game. To think it's still happening makes me think this is just something we're going to have to live with. Our players get 0 protection and we're constantly being kicked to death without even a yellow card being shown. I firmly believe the refs have an agenda or a mandate to make life as difficult as possible for us. At the very least it's a subconscious disliking of the city project which has placed city in a box that we will not get out of for a number of years to come. They know we want to play great football and improve the level of English football but they're dragging it back to the dark ages with this reverence towards outdated and agricultural "underdog" style of play. The offensive team should always have the benefit of the doubt and not the defenders. This is why our league is described as "physical" and another reason why England won't be winning anything any time soon. Stick with it lads, when we win the trophies at least we will know it will be fully deserved.

This is what I think. Not sure if it's rasicm or jealously, I suspect a little of both.

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