The Manchester Derby Match Thread 25/3/'14 K/O 19.45 Sky.

Ernest Oreo

C'mon Scholesy!!

Pudsy33

rarnes1 wrote: »

It's actually mental that Kagawa is on the bench and Cleverly on the pitch

Could you put that on a postcard and send it to Moyes please? He is failing to realise what is obvious to everyone else.

Nalz

kingshankly wrote: »

Wellbeck makes djimi traore look like messi

Bullshít

Agueroooo

Worst person on the pitch in the first half is by far the Ref.

eigrod

smileyj1987 wrote: »

I have to say the referee has been very good tonight .

Been generous to the home side on 3 occasions wrt dealing with the Wellbeck, Fellaini and Rooney fouls.

blueser

Now Rooney gets away without a card. The ref is having a real shocker out there tonight.

LostBoy101

smileyj1987 wrote: »

I have to say the referee has been very good tonight .

Indeed, giving red cards in 1st half spoils the game.

Fudge You

smileyj1987 wrote: »

I have to say the referee has been very good tonight .

I agree with you. But you just said this as the ref made a mistake. Defo a yellow for Rooney

Eight Ball

Fellaini should be off and Rooney booked. Welbeck is a footballer?

blueser

smileyj1987 wrote: »

I have to say the referee has been very good tonight .

What game are you watching?

ScummyMan

Surprised reading through this thread, I thought Fellani was uniteds best player in the first half.

Knex*

LightningBlue wrote: »

Rooney gets away with murder with refs.

Big English players always do, and always have.

Mickalus

Another new record for Moyes.

Knex*

blueser wrote: »

What game are you watching?

Manchester Derby. Its in the title lad!

Eight Ball

Agueroooo wrote: »

Worst person on the pitch in the first half is by far the Ref.

He's having a stinker.

Darkglasses

It's hard to know who's being serious here sometimes.

blueser

Scandalous that he's still on the pitch.

Paully D

LostBoy101 wrote: »

Indeed, giving red cards in 1st half spoils the game.

If players put themselves in a position to warrant a red card then they should be sent off, regardless of whether it spoils the game or not. The rules can't be adjusted based on the entertainment value implementing them will bring.

michael999999

blueser wrote: »

Scandalous that he's still on the pitch.

That's fu£kin disgraceful!

yomtea98

blueser wrote: »

Scandalous that he's still on the pitch.

What? Zabaleta deserved it and Kompany elbowed Welbeck

brevity

Ya, the ref has been good. No yellow for Rooney is a bit strange considering he had just booked Fernadinio

Edit, that elbow was awful. Should have been off.

windy shepard henderson

Knex. wrote: »

Big English players always do, and always have.

it saves them from getting slated for weeks afterwards unfairly in the media, my first interduction to this was over 20 years ago when paul gascgoine got away with murder in the fa cup final against nothingham forrest

the ref said afterwards that it would have been unfair to ruin his big day given all he had done with england before hand

Knex*

yomtea98 wrote: »

What? Zabaleta deserved it and Kompany elbowed Welbeck

Don't ever change. Bless.

Darkglasses

Referee directly in front of that. Bottler.

smurfs5

Fudge You wrote: »

And Nev isnt biased???
He loves utd and anything England.
Also, he sits on the fence quite often when an incidence happens, And the latest example is Fellini's elbow. He could have said, I agree with the ref, or I think its a red. But he wont make up his mind...
And by the way, I said quinner cause his voice is annoying but Nev is way worse. Nails on the black board. Unnnnnnbelievable!!!!

We'll agree to disagree cause its not a thread bout Gazza Nev.
But keep an eye/ear out for an incident in this match and see what Neville says or doesnt say. He'll be on that fence I tells ya!!!!

Well there's a reason he is widely respected and praised for his punditry. Also, he said that both Welbeck and Rooney were lucky to get away with a yellow. Not really sitting on the fence.....

Anyway , United have improved a bit but some changes are needed. Get Valencia on to run at City's defence and create some space for Rooney and Welbeck. Silva needs to be shut down and United's defence has looked weak.

United lucky to still have 11 men though.

IamtheWalrus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgFyi74DVjc

blueser

yomtea98 wrote: »

What? Zabaleta deserved it and Kompany elbowed Welbeck

Yeah; right. Funny there's no mention of it on the Sky or BBC sites. And how did Zabba deserve it? Serious question.

ctrl-alt-delete

blueser wrote: »

Scandalous that he's still on the pitch.

And that is near enough the view the ref will have had,

Regardless of how tall you are, or how small the other player is, you don't shield the ball like that.

Darkglasses

Darkglasses wrote: »

Referee directly in front of that. Bottler.

Yep, simple as that.

Agueroooo

Bizarre. ..really really is.

_Kaiser_

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

And that is near enough the view the ref will have had,

Regardless of how tall you are, or how small the other player is, you don't shield the ball like that.

That's not shielding the ball. It's a deliberate lunge.

Blatent red. Ref bottled it

Knex*

blueser wrote: »

Yeah; right. Funny there's no mention of it on the Sky or BBC sites. And how did Zabba deserve it? Serious question.

You'd get more of a serious answer from John Cleese on acid, than him.

Nalz

Awful stupidly by Fellaini

Should be off

City too good for United but there's a goal in this united side if City don't up the tempo.

WoollyRedHat

Yeah Fellani will surely get banned for that retrospectively no?

That was vicous, and you can't say "well x player elbowed y earlier, so Z deserved it"... cop on, that's child like mentality. Your man applauding is an idiot.

ctrl-alt-delete

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

That's not shielding the ball. It's a deliberate lunge.

Blatent red. Ref bottled it

That is what I am saying.

Liam O

brevity wrote: »

Ya, the ref has been good. No yellow for Rooney is a bit strange considering he had just booked Fernadinio

Edit, that elbow was awful. Should have been off.

Don't know why so many people are confusing a forearm with an elbow...

MagicMarker

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Yeah Fellani will surely get banned for that retrospectively no?

That was vicous, and you can't say "well x player elbowed y earlier, so Z deserved it"... cop on, that's child like mentality. Your man applauding is an idiot.

He was given a yellow so nothing more will happen.

Darkglasses

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Yeah Fellani will surely get banned for that retrospectively no?

Nope, because the referee gave the yellow I'm pretty sure they can't go back and ban him.

yomtea98

blueser wrote: »

Yeah; right. Funny there's no mention of it on the Sky or BBC sites. And how did Zabba deserve it? Serious question.

I dunno probably said something racist

blueser

Knex. wrote: »

You'd get more of a serious answer from John Cleese on acid, than him.

Yes; he does seem to have a warped view of things. Ah well; c'est la vie.

Hank Scorpio

Hes dirty, was the same at Everton with his elbows. He went to do Zabeleta there

Mickalus

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Yeah Fellani will surely get banned for that retrospectively no?

That was vicous, and you can't say "well x player elbowed y earlier, so Z deserved it"... cop on, that's child like mentality. Your man applauding is an idiot.

Don't think he can cos the ref saw it and gave a yellow

Agueroooo

Trilla wrote: »

Awful stupidly by Fellaini

Should be off

City too good for United but there's a goal in this united side if City don't up the tempo.

He bottled the Rooney one on the stroke of HT.

yellow all day.

rebeve

Fellaini is useless ,never a Utd player .How Utd paid 27 million for the clown is beyond me .

LightningBlue

Phil Jones never seems to be in the right position defensively. He was horribly exposed on the 1st goal.
He just seems to drift around aimlessly and has to fling himself into a recovery tackle every single time.

WoollyRedHat

Ha are refs having a competition of can make the most controversial and stupid calls this weekend with each other?

Van.Bosch

Cleverly is far from the worst midfielder on the pitch.

Never thought I'd say it but I'd leave him on!

brevity

Liam O wrote: »

Don't know why so many people are confusing a forearm with an elbow...

It think it's the intent more that anything else.

Johner

Harsh enough on Cleverley.

smurfs5

Kagawa ON, Cleverley OFF.

Probably one of Cleverley's better games but he's not a big match player