The Emirates FA Cup 2023-24

Hotblack Desiato · 21-04-2024 8:51pm

Well if lots of posts online say it it must be true 🤣 meanwhile the penalty Coventry got was complete BS, short of amputating his own arm there was nothing more Wan-Bissaka could have done there.

chicorytip · 21-04-2024 9:11pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047245#Comment_122047245

I'll bet Robins and every Coventry fan would sacrifice an FA Cup final at Wembley for another play off place and chance of promotion. They've fallen away badly in the Championship at a crucial stage and are now too far adrift.

Fitz* · 21-04-2024 11:41pm

Seems to be a bit of discourse throughout the weekend of which referees took charge of the 2 cup semi finals. With an all-Manchester cup final, and the English referee pool being very weighted towards Manchester referees, who takes the final? Taylor, Tierney, Oliver all can't take it. Atwell surely cant, and the same with Hooper. Probably leaves Madley, Gillet or Chris Kavanagh. Kavanagh had the league cup final though, so that might rule him out but he has taken charge of a few big games this season.

It's not right that these things are highlighted, but they are these days because of the tendency to put Manchester referees in charge of games where Manchester teams are playing. That, and the referees that were paid to go to to the UAE to referee games there taking charge of the teams owned by the UAE.

dfx- · 22-04-2024 12:16am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122047572#Comment_122047572

that's probably debatable, especially where they are right now outside the playoff for most of the season and very few cup runs in recent years.

The success in the Checkatrade final in 2017 at Wembley is seen as their rebirth. The 1987 run is still legendary and it is a fanbase used to milling about the lower end of the Premier League and more recently league one, points deductions and misery, a cup final and the whole day would be at best a tough sacrifice.

Not everything is about the Premier League.

BorneTobyWilde · 22-04-2024 1:40am

United player was rushing back, so it was important for VAR to draw the lines before the ball was kicked, as to make him offside. Ball is not even played at this frame, it was a scooped ball, and as for the line, it's drawn over the United players boot, to gain another few mm, total farce.

Drawing over the boot, SAD

BorneTobyWilde · 22-04-2024 1:42am

It was a perfectly good goal, and some FA Cup magic, which now never was, football has lost its soul.

Also with line of sight, the point at which you begin to draw the line will determine the outcome, you can draw a straight line across the pitch and have him 2 foot on side, a line is a line, like a lazer, it'sall depends on the starting point.

kowloonkev · 22-04-2024 8:27am

Seems this result hurt Liverpool fans more than Coventry.

y0ssar1an22 · 22-04-2024 9:30am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122048082#Comment_122048082

toddle along and analyse the peno in as much detail

Hotblack Desiato · 22-04-2024 3:38pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122048083#Comment_122048083

Pathetic stuff.

jacool · 22-04-2024 5:31pm

Yet another thread showing the insecurities of those rivals in red.

The big news for Man Utd is that Chelsea have shown that it is possible to beat Man City, IF, you have a finisher in your team. The question is can Man Utd take their chances, while hoping that their defence somehow or other can keep Man City quiet. Can't see it myself, so I think it'll be 2-1 or 3-1 to Man City.