FA Cup 4th Round thread

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 6:06pm

Elano off, Danny Sturridge. This lad is special. Bagged a hattrick in the FA Youth Cup the other day.

Unearthly · 27-01-2008 6:08pm

Worst celebration ever by Sturridge

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 6:09pm

What a hit! I told ya he was special! Sven the master

Peyton Manning · 27-01-2008 6:15pm

Xavi6 wrote: »

What a hit! I told ya he was special! Sven the master

A Man City mate told me bout that chap nearly 2 years ago, been waiting for him ever since!

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 6:19pm

Archimedes wrote: »

A Man City mate told me bout that chap nearly 2 years ago, been waiting for him ever since!

Yeah he's missed the last 8 months through injury. His first game back was that youth cup game the other day. He's not even match fit!

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 7:11pm

Deservedly out. 'Deflating' performance

And before any smart arse says it, "Balloon, you saw me standing alone".

LostinBlanch · 27-01-2008 7:14pm

Taken from another forum.

To the tune of 99 balloons

99 blue balloons
Floating on a football pitch
Cross comes in, poor Michael Ball
Cannot see
A white football
From 32 to 33
Could only happen, to City
Bertie Magoo starts to cry,
As 33 trophyless years go by

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 7:15pm

And there's the first person to have a 'pop'

LostinBlanch · 27-01-2008 7:19pm

Ah now, there's no need to feel deflated.

I wonder how many balloon related puns this thread will have before it begins to run out of air?

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 7:23pm

LostinBlanch wrote: »

Ah now, there's no need to feel deflated.

I wonder how many balloon related puns this thread will have before it begins to run out of air?

I already used deflated two posts up so looks like you've run out already.

I'm sure more people are going to want to rub(ber) it in

LostinBlanch · 27-01-2008 7:26pm

Apologies Xavi, I missed that.

I won't be rubbing it in.

But you have to admit it was damn funny though.

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 7:30pm

Oh I do. Hilarious and typical thing to happen to us. Difference wit us City fans is that we'll have a laugh about it and take it in good spirit. Can't say the same for fans of some other clubs

kryogen · 27-01-2008 7:45pm

can i see the highlights of todays games anywhere?? with my odd sleeping pattern due to late night poker playing i missed everything and only woke up about 45 minutes ago!

quad_red · 27-01-2008 8:02pm

kryogen wrote: »

can i see the highlights of todays games anywhere?? with my odd sleeping pattern due to late night poker playing i missed everything and only woke up about 45 minutes ago!

Yeah, I just got home to find that Match of the Day isn't on??? There's nothing on ITV or RTE either. Surely someone bar Skysports are showing highlights?!?!

Xavi6 · 27-01-2008 8:09pm

Here's the City goal for you anyway. Counts for f*ck all but great hit from the young lad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A-NTISEVVY

Nunu · 27-01-2008 8:14pm

Xavi6 wrote: »

How did he make a mistake? The ball hit two balloons and bounced awkwardly as a result

Xavi6 wrote: »

So if a ball hits not one but two bobbles in front of you and bounces funny instead of rolling you should be able to judge where it's going with a striker up your arse? Come on now

There's no way a ****ing balloon would deviate the path of a bouncing ball. They were a visual hazard, Ball was put off by the fact the ball bounced through the balloons, not because the ball bobbled when it hit a balloon!

Xavi6 wrote: »

And that was a red there for Martin. Ireland got sent for the same thing against Spurs.

Stephen Irelands tackle was much worse than that - Martin had studs showing alright, but not the same tackle at all.

homerjay2005 · 27-01-2008 8:42pm

even sven seems to agree that it was bad defending and not ballons, taken from BBC -

"But we should not blame the balloons as we should have done better."

simple as this lads, this was balls fault, he miskicked the football completely, i dont care if it was a divot, another player or a f**king balloon, he made a hash of it and will suffer the jokes as a result.

Villain · 27-01-2008 9:34pm

LOL at Homerjay2005 that goal was partly down to the baloons putting the defender off and if wasn't United's rival's and especially Ball you would see that but sadly your post is blinded the red tint.

I know that if that happened to Vidic you'd be blaiming the baloons, rivalary is good but blindness because of Rivalary is just sad.

homerjay2005 · 27-01-2008 9:43pm

Villain wrote: »

LOL at Homerjay2005 that goal was partly down to the baloons putting the defender off and if wasn't United's rival's and especially Ball you would see that but sadly your post is blinded the red tint.

I know that if that happened to Vidic you'd be blaiming the baloons, rivalary is good but blindness because of Rivalary is just sad.

so if im blinded by rivalary, what is sven blinded by? he clearly said in his after match interview that the balloons were not to blame and it should have been defended better. enough said really.

Mikeyt086 · 27-01-2008 9:48pm

Villain wrote: »

LOL at Homerjay2005 that goal was partly down to the baloons putting the defender off and if wasn't United's rival's and especially Ball you would see that but sadly your post is blinded the red tint.

I know that if that happened to Vidic you'd be blaiming the baloons, rivalary is good but blindness because of Rivalary is just sad.

Think you made a mistake there. Vidic could not have made that mistake. Not even hypothetically.

homerjay2005 · 27-01-2008 9:52pm

Mikeyt086 wrote: »

Think you made a mistake there. Vidic could not have made that mistake. Not even hypothetically.

vidic would have slid in, taken ball, balloons, keeper, opposition and avoided the fiasco:)

Villain · 27-01-2008 10:11pm

and Ferdinand would have ran the pitch with the white balloon then passed to Ronaldo who would have stood on the balloon and bursted it and rolled around screaming for a peno!

homerjay2005 · 27-01-2008 10:16pm

Villain wrote: »

and Ferdinand would have ran the pitch with the white balloon then passed to Ronaldo who would have stood on the balloon and bursted it and rolled around screaming for a peno!

but there was definate contact from the balloon, stone wall penalty!!

WhiteWashMan · 28-01-2008 1:24am

Aquos76 wrote: »

FT: Man U 3 Spurs 1

Tevez and a brace for Ronaldo, and Keane for Spurs

still plenty for spurs to do going forward, but a good game against the best team in the league.
still have those defensive frailities

mind you, ronaldo is really playing brilliantly at the moment.

he is on fire. i just hope no one puts him out:)

Xavi6 · 28-01-2008 3:38am

homerjay2005 wrote: »

even sven seems to agree that it was bad defending and not ballons, taken from BBC -

"But we should not blame the balloons as we should have done better."

simple as this lads, this was balls fault, he miskicked the football completely, i dont care if it was a divot, another player or a f**king balloon, he made a hash of it and will suffer the jokes as a result.

You can't beat a bit of selective quoting to boost your argument. The full quote actually reads -

"I've never seen a goal like that before," said Eriksson. "The ball changed direction and the balloons played a one-two with Michael Ball.

"But we should not blame the balloons as we should have done better."

So yes he did partly blame both the balloons and Ball

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