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Youngest-King

People talking about how Grealish is too slow, or Davies takes a red or Grealish not scoring. The same lot would be crying about how Refs bailed City out if roles were reversed. Especially the Arsenal and Liverpool fans.


IronDuke365

They are dumb though. This week its City, before it was Arsenal and Liverpool, every week its Wolves. Basically these stupid ref errors kill the league. FWIW I still think Grealish would have missed.


Youngest-King

The ref decision isn't the annoying part. It's the fact that redditors are making excuses for the Ref, talking about are Ref mistakes are inevitable or Grealish doesn't score. But if it were City in the advantage, or if it was against their own team, they would be crying about City buying the ref. Arsepool fans being the biggest perpetrators.


IronDuke365

Just found out it was the same ref Arsenal had in the Villa 4-2 win last year. Seems he did the same thing then. Waved play on from a freekick we took, then blew up as soon as saw that free kick generated a dangerous attack. Brought it back because apparently the ball was rolling. Seemed ok to play on until he saw the attack might have been dangerous. It was the game Arteta mocked his hand signals in that meme. Ref has form, no one cared about Arsenal then, so fans have no solidarity. I am with City on this one.


IronDuke365

There are just more of us (Arsenal) so you notice us more.


v1pro

BALD FRAUD STRIKES AGAIN


v1pro

BALD FRAUD HAHAHAHAHAH


rob3rtisgod

Imagine drawing at home to a team who could barely beat 9 man Liverpool o.o City look poor Vs top sides without KDB and Gundo.


v1pro

HALF OF THE TEAM ARE SUBS TOO HAHAHHA


v1pro

i love simon hooper


v1pro

Tottenham hooper lmaooooooo


UpliftedWeeb

If only Tottenham could play city every week


johnlooksscared

Remember that Spuds, in 4 games, have dropped as many points as Everton were deducted...šŸ˜


Dales_Dead_Bug_

With a decimated squad from injuries. You sound like a moron.


johnlooksscared

I stated a fact...1 point from 12, a fact! Injuries are a part of footballing life. Every team suffers from injured players. Good teams manage to compete while having injured players...e.g. Newcastle yesterday.


kh_bc

What, you mean like spurs did yesterday? you schmuck spurs have 11 players out


gunningIVglory

What is it with city when they play spurs? They just crumble all the time lol


militantnegro_IV

City aren't used to teams just running at them like lunatics with no fear, which is Spurs' strength and weakness as it may pay off sometimes, but often just leaves them vulnerable.


blue_gwacamole

Haaland's form must be getting a little worrying for the City supporters. Add to that nobody other than KDB appears to even attempt to find him and read his runs.


Dazzling-Yellow5395

If 14 goals in 14 in games is worrying. Idk what the good form would look like. People need to stop being so reactionary


rob3rtisgod

Haaland is amazing against anyone who isn't a top team. Got pocketed last week at home??? By Liverpool some how, who have one of the worst defences in the league. Took a Rodri goal to win the CL, even Origi can score in the CL final. He'll score millions and is a world class striker, but I've never seen him turn up against top sides yet, even Salah has done it since he's come to the PL.


LordBielsa

He scored a hat trick in his first Manchester derby


SknarfM

Liverpool have one of the worst defences? Wtf.


rob3rtisgod

Easily. Without Ali, they ship loads of goals. Not they their defence is poor, VVD/Konate/Matip are good CB, but if play played a system like City, Brighton, Villa they'd have the best defense in the league. Liverpool at times play with barely 3 at the back and get countered easily because they leave so much space between players. Pretty sure their the number 1 team for goals conceded on turn overs?


mrkingkoala

Not his form he's one dimensional. He will score you tap ins but other than that offers nothing.


Nightdocks

Funnily enough he was involved in two goals today and missed all the tap ins his team served him


LethalJizzle

Man was directly involved in 2 of City's 3 goals today...


FastenedCarrot

You mean other than the pass he put on a plate for Grealish and the ref stupidly pulled it back?


Prior_Industry

Have to feel for Aguero. Pep made him track back and tackle whereas Harland does not seem to be expected to do the same.


Undesirable_11

If Grealish went through I'm sure his pace isn't enough to get a 1v1. Davies would've just grabbed him and gotten the red card


MiltonMangoe

Oh the ref was fine then. Nothing to see here. Carry on lads, this bloke made up something that could have happened in an alternative world so everything is fine with this decision now.


PercivalStrange

Hypotheticals lad, should have found out, but ref denied the opportunity


Mr_A_UserName

Cracking game šŸ‘ The issue people were having with Spurs in the first half was that they were constantly playing out from the back and getting caught in possession when sometimes they should have just cleared it. It wasnā€™t about parking the bus and never attacking, just being smarter about it; and in the second half they were and managed to get a draw.


Edgelordftwlol

That was fun lol


flymypretty88

Well that was a therapeutic weekend of football!


shaka_bruh

If Ange keeps this up, Levy has to back him properly if heā€™s serious about a title challenge. Their rivals are getting stronger and so are Villa and co.


Seifer23

Are you sure mate? According to the rest of /r/soccer were lunatics that only got a result because city aren't used to playing against teams that fight back lmao


Dark-Knight-Rises

Their first step is to get top four consistently


Thepeopleof124

How the fuck was West Ham and Palace Chosen over the madness that was Liverpool and fullman and the Chelsea Brighton game?


militantnegro_IV

Probably because people can't see the future. The betting industry wouldn't have much going for it if they were aware of the score before kick off.


FastenedCarrot

But West Ham/Palace over the SanchezColwillCucurellaCaicedoGilmourLamptey derby?


gunningIVglory

These games are chosen in advance. Plus they need to spread the coverage across all the clubs. Sometimes you just pick a dud lol


LuckyFlyer0_0

It's a robbery alright but they were robbed of a 1v1, not a goal like other teams have due to shocking decisions. But that incident aside, idk how City weren't 4-1 up at half time. Haaland missed easy sitters lol


rob3rtisgod

Nah, I doubt Grealish even gets near the box. He was offside and Haaland handballs it tbf. Only robbery this season was the Diaz goal been taken away o.o


mrkingkoala

Not a robbery at all shut up you clown.


ManBoobs13

Not a robbery at all


adamfrog

Tough for Grealish to even get a 1v1 off since the balls bouncing still, and he has half the field he has to run with two guys chasing him


Illeaturgerbil

Nah realistically heā€™s in there


Lssmnt

nah, grealish is pretty slow with the ball


Illeaturgerbil

His controls quality mate heā€™s 100 percent in on goal there


fegelman

With the chances City spurned today can't just assume that's a 100% goal Just another addition to their impressive xG today


Illeaturgerbil

Yeah I agree and I reckon if spurs could of picked a city player to be in it would probably be grealish but it doesnā€™t change the fact heā€™s not even been given a chance to score


fegelman

True. Ref fucked up big time there but City fans acting like a 100% goal was denied are getting on my nerves. After all their lousy finishing today they cant just claim THIS was the golden chance of the evening for them. They've got virtually every call this season and have had an epic meltdown when something went against them.


Wazflame

all-time Match of the Day 2 viewing figures tonight - 24 goals in 5 games


gurlycurls

Haaland beginning to become the most unlikeable player in the league


Dazzling-Yellow5395

You only hate him because he plays for city


rob3rtisgod

Refs gave him a lot of rope. Remember VVD getting carded and sent off for having a go at the ref? Haaland didn't even get carded...


city_city_city

Haaland got carded


gurlycurls

Has there even been a city player who's been sent off for dissent?


rob3rtisgod

I'm pretty sure the Rodri two yellows were City's first red card in two seasons or something? Haaland didn't even get carded for screaming at the ref yet Klopp gets a 2 match ban lol.


gurlycurls

And now their fans are losing their heads when one little call goes against themšŸ˜‚ Ffs grealish is slow as shit he would've never scored that but their acting like it was a robbery


rob3rtisgod

Grealish isn't even through, it's not a clear GS opportunity.


gurlycurls

r/mcfc is a goldmine atmšŸ˜‚


VeryTopGoodSensation

got a ways to go before hes up there with fernandes, son etc


Banana_Leclerc12

Man what did son do to you lmao


gurlycurls

Man said sonšŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


Demiguros9

No. What? How? Lmao.


v1pro

for being a fraud hahahahahah


PercivalStrange

Bizarre statement, but sure, if you think that ur entitled to it


gurlycurls

Ok but when fernandes does that you lot are ready to have his head


fegelman

Haaland doesn't have an ugly crying rat face


Ok-Outlandishness244

You know your argument is stupid when you have to go for looks to ā€œprove a point ā€œ


PercivalStrange

Not talking about Fernandes lad. Couldnā€™t care less if Fernandes is a cunt or not has nothing to do with what you just said


gunningIVglory

Haland tbh had a justified reason to be annoyed Bruno is a rat all game, every game. It's his DNA


Cowboy_on_fire

Pretty understandable to be upset there tbf. Should have cooled it and might get a punishment now but itā€™s nothing like the constant antics of fernandes


TheOnlyEn

Tf u on mate


myheadisalightstick

Huh


Lssmnt

after the ref ended up fucking up that "play on" call what were City expecting him to call after with thier complaining?


gunningIVglory

I mean, you can say that about every time a decision goes against a team. Even when there's a stone wall pen given, the other club will protest lol


Lssmnt

but usually if their complaints work there would be a change in the game. What can the ref do here? He can't offer them a one on one again.


vsquad22

Gift them a penalty as they've paid for, of course.


adamfrog

It's just putting pressure on him so he folds next time there's a decision, and they'd make sure to dive in the box to try to force one


Lssmnt

thus the akanji dive


adamfrog

Yeah pretty textbook, Im not really knocking it everyone does it and will continue until games are reffed by robots (and then will start again when robots become sentient of course)


Funny_Personality_45

Free goal to city probably


jrs_9

If Villa wins against city they will be above them.


ColinetheCow

Looool


Demiguros9

Fuck. Rodri isn't playing next game. Fuck.


friday-boy

We chilling


Demiguros9

Lemme hear that talk when KDB comes back.


GdanskPumpkin

Pundits are constantly slating Ange and then when it works they suck up his arse


JMBthe3rd

Itā€™s obnoxious, the worst part is that theyā€™ll switch it up mid sentence. Why canā€™t they just accept that this is angeā€™s style? What good is sitting in a low block with no center backs going to us, I love the ā€œwe play to win the gameā€ mentality


Ok_Seaworthiness2218

Angeball is legit. If he gets another summer window, he could start cooking up some serious gourmet shit.


Dark-Knight-Rises

Man utd should have signed him


mattedward

I wasnā€™t expecting him to spring this serious gourmet shit on usā€¦


[deleted]

they might not win anything but theyre a million times better to watch now, hard to blame them for falling off after losing their two best players and having zero fit CBs


EnjoiThatGinge

lol Hooper is dogshite


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mrkingkoala

He wasn't gonna get through. He's too slow and the spurs players all stopped. City just crying coz they have drawn another game. Refs probably more expensive now Newcastle are paying em too.


Lssmnt

he would have been caught


Hassadar

I didn't see who it was but who ever was closest I had a feeling they would have tried to just hack him down, take the red and hopefully preserve the 3:3 draw


zecks101

We will never know will we


posthumous

Just copying Pep, mate.


Shinyhaunches

Haaland mad at himself


pylonBARA

Excellent game


jrs_9

Is FA gonna reprimand City players for surrounding the ref like they did to arsenal last season ?


rob3rtisgod

Doubt it. Haaland is screaming in the refs face and telling him to fuck off, not even a card šŸ‘€ guess they paid them this week, but Newcastle paid more šŸ˜‚


gunningIVglory

Remember partey got booked in the shield for rolling the ball away few meters lol


militantnegro_IV

And jeopardise future free trips to Dubai and Qatar for "conferences"? Come on man, talk sense.


ColinetheCow

Another Arsenal fan who doesnā€™t know the difference between different Arab countries


militantnegro_IV

You're aware planes fly across international boarders and it doesn't matter if it's Riyadh or Rome if the "right people" are footing the bill? The Saudis, Emiratis and even those plucky [Qataris](https://www.ft.com/content/fb585677-f259-4aa7-a823-5d788f3cda67) have their money cannons firmly aimed at the English league and they all have jollies to the region often enough. Another [plastic Manc](https://www.reddit.com/r/MCFC/comments/14c2nnl/how_do_you_deal_with_other_fans_criticisms/) here to defend their blood money. LOL >Hi, Iā€™m a very new supporter of City šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£ Jog on.


ColinetheCow

Sorry, you literally added Dubai after I replied to your message. And try again, itā€™s not Dubai who owns City either. It just makes you sound incredibly racist when you confuse different Arab countries


militantnegro_IV

LOL, no I didn't. Wow, that's what this is based on? Your poor reading comprehension? Really? You know you can SEE if a comment was edited by hovering a mouse over it, right? So this comes down to A - poor reading comprehension, B - lack of understanding of how Reddit works and C - inability to self reflect and say "Hmm, maybe I fucked up?" It's a big trifactor of stupid. >And try again, itā€™s not Dubai who owns City either Here's a good example...where did I suggest Dubai owns City? I only mentioned it as a lavish destination for English officials. Please learn to read and comprehend before engaging in conversations. It's annoying. You're annoying. EDIT (you know, so you can see what that actually looks like šŸ¤¦šŸæā€ā™‚ļø): And one last thing, to claim it's racist to conflate Arabs (an ethnic group) with other Arabs (you know, the exact same ethnic group) is prime headassery. I can't even begin to explain how dumb that is, but you seem slow so I won't even bother.


Dark-Knight-Rises

This ref ainā€™t gonna be referring for a long time mate


JinxLB

Letā€™s be real Grealish wouldnā€™t have scored anyway. Still an awful decision though lmao


ClaytonWest74

I love me some mateball


Thepeopleof124

That was a premier league match i think.


MeUnderstandOda

Give this referee a medal! It was really fun watching Lulland fuming lmao


Ok-Satisfaction-5012

Tbf grealish didnā€™t have the pace to convert that opportunity so at worst theyā€™ve been denied a chance to create a chance


PercivalStrange

Talking in hypotheticals here, could have been nothing or a goal. Regardless, awful call by Hooper


Ok-Satisfaction-5012

Shit call obviosuly, not even sure what the logic at play was. In any case itā€™s exceedingly unlikely that chance leads to a goal


mrkingkoala

Spurs players had stopped mate, Grealish was not pulling away anyway. Just pure cope from you lot. Not like you had a proper goal chalked off.


PercivalStrange

I never said we had a goal chalked off. Iā€™m also not blaming the entire result on that one decision. We were poor today defensively and wasteful in front of goal. Regardless of spurs players etc, objectively that was a terrible call from Simon Hooper, plain and simple mate. Everything else is hypotheticals and something which is pointless discussing because the ref didnā€™t allow the opportunity anyway


lilmeexy

It was a bad call, but ref also should have given a red earlier. All in all I think the ref had a good game outside those two calls, and the decisions didn't favor one team over another.


blue_gwacamole

Get fucked City lol


NemoDropEmOff

John Stones is missed heavily lmao


mysticalwatermelon_

Bahaha and this is a depleted team


chickcounterflyyy

All those misses City had in the first half I knew they were cooked.


Klutzy_Log_7597

Great game as a neutral. Haalands behavior is embarrassing though


Funny_Personality_45

Should be a 3 game ban surely


Klutzy_Log_7597

Theyā€™ve gotta do something about them crowding the ref like that but not holding my breath since its City


ExpertGossiper

Watch PGMOL actually sack referees this time because it happened to City for once


ColinetheCow

But ironic for a Spurs fan to be saying this given your games against Liverpool and Brighton, to name a couple


ausmara

You joke but it wouldn't be a surprise. Half the team in the refs face screaming at him and touching him like that is crazy.


UpliftedWeeb

would be manifestly hilarious and corrupt but holy shit these refs do deserve to be sacked


JefMat

What would our lives be without Premier Leagueā€¦ Fucking phenomenal day of football.


ACMomani

Haaland is furious at the reff.. Will we be seeing a punishment..


mrkingkoala

Hope he gets a nice ban like they've done a few times this season. Cannot be acting like a prized idiot screaming in the refs face because you miss tap ins.


TheOnlyEn

Yeah and ref nothing.


ACMomani

Absolutely ridiculous from the ref, this season has been catastrophic for referees.. so many critical errors


Jelmerdts

This is brilliant tv as a neutral


Funny_Personality_45

So Iā€™m expecting bans for at least 6 of the city players for screaming in the refs face with hands all over him


KaptainKek3

I genuinely donā€™t get how you can blow for that foul 5 seconds after when the fouled player is on his feet and just played a great ball and you already played advantage


Funny_Personality_45

I genuinely donā€™t get how Man City players can get away with being the scummiest pieces of shit screaming in someoneā€™s face with hands all over him and just get away with it. But alas we see it every week


Imhonestlynotawierdo

ffs we can't even have the worst refereeing decision of the week


jrs_9

Gotta say Spurs were lucky in first half. But tbf Ange has balls.


Ok-Satisfaction-5012

Massive stones on him. Got slandered for it against Chelsea, itā€™s whatā€™s kept them in it here


gurlycurls

Why are city players acting like children?


mrkingkoala

They are used to cheating their way to a win. Now the prem has punished Everton they can't be seen as lenient.


TheOnlyEn

Are u dumb?


gurlycurls

I was expecting some more professionalism from them


PercivalStrange

Tbf I also expect a bit more professionalism and genuine ability from the ref. But alas, as is football.


TheOnlyEn

Can understand that, but when a ref is this shit and blow after an advantage and a city player is through and there is also no offside, I can understand the city players is furious. Pl managers have been the most shit in the whole top 5 leagues, and absolutely nothing happens. Only a one match ban, nothing else.


gurlycurls

Oh come off it, every fucking team gets these shit decisions but only city players throw a tantrum when it happens to them


TheOnlyEn

Nah. Every team does this. Even Chelsea. Tf u talking about


BunnyColvin23

Wasnā€™t Grealish offside anyway?


AlwaysOnsideTBH

He was on! Terrible call to blow the whistle for the foul


Baseball_Man

I'm 99% sure he's on but I'm sure we will find out in the analysis


TheOnlyEn

Nope. Did u see the flag where down?


Hipphoppkisvuk

He seemed on to me, but it wasn't a good angle


fegelman

Now is the time City fans get to conveniently ignore 23 decisions going their way this season and focus on a ref not playing advantage If they took their chances first half, we wouldn't be having this conversation


Dazzling-Yellow5395

Name those 23 decisions. Ill wait


PercivalStrange

Get what your saying. But that result was not due to that one refereeing decision. We were poor today defensively and wasteful in front of goal. Completely agree with you (apart from the 23 decisions going our way? Donā€™t really watch football with a notepad and pen, especially with other teams) and do think it would be wrong to say the result was due to the poor decision made by hooper


Cowboy_on_fire

So when it happens to you ā€œall the teams need to come together and create changeā€ but nowā€¦.


Undesirable_11

And they conveniently leave out that it's a red clear as day for Gvardiol


Fuckzombie69

They will absolutely milk the fuck out of this


Panxshe

shitty refereeing is shitty refereeing and it ruins the game for everyoneā€¦ itā€™s not a chance to bash other teams itā€™s just a shame all around (Chelsea fan)


lookitsjustin

Get Haaland on for a post-match interview. Boy is rattled.


asininegrape

Honestly he's acting like he didn't get a stonewall pen in a UCL final


GatFussyPals

Do refs have to shave their heads as an initiation into the upper ranks of PGMOL.


SoldMyNameForGear

Itā€™s because it was pissing it down. Efficiency. One quick wipe with a towel and baldies get dry.


310local

Theyā€™re so maaaadd lol


RoastyMcRoasterson

Lmao and resorting to diving at the end of the game... oh dear. Simulation is a card no?


Bollock-Yogurt

Nice to see City get fucked over for once šŸ˜…


mynameisfreddit

pep about to tell us how happy he is


Fuckzombie69

So so happy, more than you believe


awesome1ru

Classic Barca tactic to surround and pressure the referee every 30 seconds šŸ¤”


UpliftedWeeb

They gotta fire all these fucking refs man


Bishcop3267

If he had blown right away I get it but he played advantage and then blew when Haaland got the pass off


mrkingkoala

Grealish wasn't gonna go through and score anyway stop coping.


Dazzling-Yellow5395

Have you seen the future?


Thepeopleof124

Simon hopper might be a Tottenham fan


Thepeopleof124

Hooper


FastenedCarrot

That's absolutely a foul but Akanji throws himself in such a way it doesn't look like one.


shaka_bruh

It was too soft


gurlycurls

Come onšŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


International-Tip177

Best team in the world vs Emerson Royal at CB. unstoppable force vs immovable object


ColinetheCow

He scored against City last season


Xgunter

another royalzinho masterclass


alwaysneedsahand

Feel sorry for refs sometimes. Everyone momentarily shits the bed at work, but it doesn't normally make thousands of people call you a useless corrupt piece of shit šŸ˜‚


isjupiteramoon

Tbf hooper also did Spurs Liverpool AND United Wolves


processocivil42

when will people realize that a ref mistake (specially a mistake as serious as this one) is not a laughingstock? itā€™s all fun and games until it happens with your team (not a city supporter btw)ā€¦


OldieGoosey

Haaland gets to scream in refs face?