***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby stupot » Mon Nov 10, 2025 10:06 am

carl_feedthegoat wrote:
stupot wrote:What a game that was, joy to be there. Atmosphere was unbelievable and Pep was like a man possessed on the touchline.
That's the best I've ever seen Doku play, heard a dipper say how Bradley was brilliant against Real Madrid- well he got terrorised yesterday and what a goal to cap it off. Both Nico's superb, O'Reilly had Salah in his pocket all game, never seen him so poor against us. Gonzales is getting better every week and this right back of ours- brilliant. What an assist as well. This team is getting better and better. It's got shades of the treble season this with Arsenal's lead and everyone thinking they had it in the bag. If we win at the Geordies next it'll be game on.

Carl's 60th on the same day as Pep's 1000th game in management on a day we stuff the scousers. That's poetic. Hope you had a great day and the same for all the other birthday posters and hopefully he'll still be here on your 70th.


Thanks for the shout-out )) —had an absolute belter of a day!
It’s still early doors, but yesterday gave fans like me genuine hope that Pep might finally be shifting his mindset. The players looked completely in sync, something we haven’t seen for a while, and the intensity was night-and-day compared to recent weeks. I really fucking hope this is the new standard and not just a one-off before we revert to type.
Only gripes - Gvardiol was shocking, gave the ball away at least seven times and put us under needless pressure. Cherki’s got to learn that you can’t be fucking around in possession in the Prem—lose it like that and you’re punished instantly.
Apart from those two, it was an A+ performance all round. If we take that level to Newcastle then I’ll really be thinking pep has changed his mindset and it wasn’t juts him tinkering.

Gvardiol gave the ball away as you say but made a few great tackles as well.
Cherki has done that every game to be fair but more than makes up for it in his all round play and their midfield couldn't cope with the interchange between Foden ,Silva and Cherki. They were pulling them out of position constantly.
Shout out to Bernardo, i didn't want him starting, I've given him loads of grief but he was back to peak Bernardo yesterday.
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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby stupot » Mon Nov 10, 2025 10:07 am

Nigels Tackle wrote:3rd game in a row where we’ve had less than 50% possession

51% I read.
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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby Nigels Tackle » Mon Nov 10, 2025 10:16 am

stupot wrote:
Nigels Tackle wrote:3rd game in a row where we’ve had less than 50% possession

51% I read.


beeb stats (possibly doctored to suit a naritive?!!?)
48.5% yesterday (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/li ... MatchStats)
49.9% v dortmund (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/li ... MatchStats)
48.4% v bournemouth (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/li ... MatchStats)
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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby sheblue » Mon Nov 10, 2025 10:18 am

Nigels Tackle wrote:from an entertainment perspective, doku’s performance was one of the best i’ve ever seen from a city player in a single game. he was such fun to watch, so pleased that he capped it off with a wonderful goal as well. as ratboy said, he’s never given a motm award after 62 mins!


Absolutely fantastic from him. 10 out of 10 performance. I think the freedom he is given to come inside more now is a huge benefit to his game. Of course this is hugely aided by the athleticism, pace and power of O Reilly who overlaps brilliantly out wide. Both of them together playing well is no coincidence. Long may it continue.
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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby stupot » Mon Nov 10, 2025 10:21 am

Nigels Tackle wrote:
stupot wrote:
Nigels Tackle wrote:3rd game in a row where we’ve had less than 50% possession

51% I read.


beeb stats (possibly doctored to suit a naritive?!!?)
48.5% yesterday (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/li ... MatchStats)
49.9% v dortmund (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/li ... MatchStats)
48.4% v bournemouth (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/li ... MatchStats)

The beeb- there you go then.
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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby Mase » Mon Nov 10, 2025 10:24 am

nottsblue wrote:https://youtube.com/shorts/774E1zfpOwk?si=08V8cEzKioGyYGuZ

So Robertson had his hands on Donnarumma after all before ducking


Love seeing Van Dick doing his gay celebration and running to the City fans only for him to be fucked off :lol: off you pop pal
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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby nottsblue » Mon Nov 10, 2025 11:08 am

Nigels Tackle wrote:
stupot wrote:
Nigels Tackle wrote:3rd game in a row where we’ve had less than 50% possession

51% I read.


beeb stats (possibly doctored to suit a naritive?!!?)
48.5% yesterday (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/li ... MatchStats)
49.9% v dortmund (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/li ... MatchStats)
48.4% v bournemouth (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/li ... MatchStats)

We won 3-1, 4-1 and 3-0

I'd possibly suggest as we were comfortably winning in all 3 games, that to conserve energy and minimise injury risk we took our feet off the gas.

A better stat would be the possession stats when we scored our third goals and sealing the win. I'd bet we were ahead then
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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby Sparklehorse » Mon Nov 10, 2025 11:22 am

Indianablue wrote:
zuricity wrote:
Indianablue wrote:Planned corner nearly worked. Robertson goal hanging in front of keeper and Van Dick getting a free header at the back. How do we not pick up that dutch cunt. Lucky to get it chalked off

.not at all he was offside ffs

He was in an offside position but that doesnt fucking matter these days. The question is whether he's actively involved in the play. He didnt touch the ball so did he interfere with our keeper? Not so clear cut, could have gone either way. If it was City i'd be arguing for it. So i'd still say we were smiled on from on high.

If he had to duck to stop the ball hitting him how is he not interfering with play ? If he’d stayed upright the ball wouldn’t have gone in. It might have hit him and gone in and he would have been offside. Either way no goal. Don’t know what all the discussion is about.
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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby nottsblue » Mon Nov 10, 2025 11:27 am

Sparklehorse wrote:
Indianablue wrote:
zuricity wrote:
Indianablue wrote:Planned corner nearly worked. Robertson goal hanging in front of keeper and Van Dick getting a free header at the back. How do we not pick up that dutch cunt. Lucky to get it chalked off

.not at all he was offside ffs

He was in an offside position but that doesnt fucking matter these days. The question is whether he's actively involved in the play. He didnt touch the ball so did he interfere with our keeper? Not so clear cut, could have gone either way. If it was City i'd be arguing for it. So i'd still say we were smiled on from on high.

If he had to duck to stop the ball hitting him how is he not interfering with play ? If he’d stayed upright the ball wouldn’t have gone in. It might have hit him and gone in and he would have been offside. Either way no goal. Don’t know what all the discussion is about.

See the video in my post above. Robertson actually has a hold of Donnarumma before ducking.
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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby PeterParker » Mon Nov 10, 2025 11:30 am

Slim wrote:I think if Robertson is standing on the far corner having a cheeky wank,


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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby Sideshow Bob » Mon Nov 10, 2025 11:40 am

nottsblue wrote:https://youtube.com/shorts/774E1zfpOwk?si=08V8cEzKioGyYGuZ

So Robertson had his hands on Donnarumma after all before ducking


pretty conclusive imo. all those tv cameras, and not one of them caught this??
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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby nottsblue » Mon Nov 10, 2025 11:56 am

Sideshow Bob wrote:
nottsblue wrote:https://youtube.com/shorts/774E1zfpOwk?si=08V8cEzKioGyYGuZ

So Robertson had his hands on Donnarumma after all before ducking


pretty conclusive imo. all those tv cameras, and not one of them caught this??

They will have done. Simply chose not to broadcast them
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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby carl_feedthegoat » Mon Nov 10, 2025 12:11 pm

Bernardo fuckign hates Liverpool - he was having a go at all the players all game long.

Love the little cunt !
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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby Mase » Mon Nov 10, 2025 12:20 pm

My dad uses the lift at City as he struggles to walk. He said the lift coming down was full of Liverpool fans from hospitality after the game and it ended up kicking off.

Wake the fuck up City before someone gets hurt.
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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby sheblue » Mon Nov 10, 2025 1:09 pm

carl_feedthegoat wrote:Bernardo fuckign hates Liverpool - he was having a go at all the players all game long.

Love the little cunt !


A great player with a great football brain. He will be difficult to replace.
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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby gilford » Mon Nov 10, 2025 1:55 pm

Why the hell has the Boss got an LFC branded mic infront of him at the Etihad?!?!

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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby Mase » Mon Nov 10, 2025 3:04 pm

gilford wrote:Why the hell has the Boss got an LFC branded mic infront of him at the Etihad?!?!

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The Liverpool reporter will have put that where so they can record him. The two mics either side and the standard mics
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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby Nigels Tackle » Mon Nov 10, 2025 4:10 pm

victim fc have lodged an official complaint with pgmol
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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby PeterParker » Mon Nov 10, 2025 4:20 pm

Nigels Tackle wrote:victim fc have lodged an official complaint with pgmol


Liverpool have contacted referees’ chief Howard Webb to raise serious concerns about Virgil van Dijk’s disallowed goal in Sunday’s 3-0 defeat to Manchester City.
Liverpool have told Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) that they do not accept that the decision was arrived at for subjective reasons.
They believe that the wording of the law is clear and that no elements of the criteria needed to disallow the goal were met so it should have been allowed to stand.


What a bunch of spoiled cunts.
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Re: ***City v Dippers Official Match Thread***

Postby john@staustell » Mon Nov 10, 2025 4:21 pm

Nigels Tackle wrote:victim fc have lodged an official complaint with pgmol


City Newsnow is awash with complaints, excuses, deflections, refereeing...yaddy yaddy yaddy.

Can't accept they just had a damn good thrashing, in the words of Terry Thomas :D
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