Town v Man City match thread

theo_luddite · (This post was last modified: 27-11-2017, 21:14 by theo_luddite.)

We went into the game fearing a hammering. That we came out nearly snatching a point and having been on the end of some blatant gamesmanship, that we shouldn't be too surprised about, added to the frustration. It looked for all the world that it was play on when City were stopping our breaks and a whistle with a card if it happened the other way round. Having said that, it was a blast making Pep sweat again. Roll on Wednesday.

**Lord Snooty** · (This post was last modified: 27-11-2017, 21:39 by Lord Snooty.)

De Bruyne not booked a minute after Malone booked for exactly the same challenge.

Fernandinho had to make the most ridiculously outrageous dive to get booked.

Terrier1987cas · 28-11-2017, 00:53

(27-11-2017, 21:38)Lord Snooty Wrote: De Bruyne not booked a minute after Malone booked for exactly the same challenge.

Fernandinho had to make the most ridiculously outrageous dive to get booked.

The De Bruyne foul is what I mentioned earlier - completely incomparable with Malones foul. Malone sprints to make a challenge & gets it completely wrong, De Bruyne is stood still & VLP runs into him from a yard away.

I haven’t seen a full replay of the game but for me VLP ran straight into Walker who simply protected himself & didn’t purposely stick an elbow in his face.

Williams’ dive on the edge of their area surely evens up the Silva one? The referee had zero impact o the outcome because he got all the major decisions correct.

**Lord Snooty** · 28-11-2017, 09:29

No. De Bruyne stepped in front of him. It was a deliberate block. The attitude of the referee was pathetic, particularly in the second half, it was like somebody had had a word with him. I have watched the full replay and you can clearly see, when he did finally agree to book one of thiers, he mouths to Silva "David. David, sorry" as he holds up the yellow card. It's like they're all part of this big boys club and the likes of us and Burnley are not welcome. Angry

Terrier1987cas · 28-11-2017, 11:25

I personally think that's a bit of a small club mentality coming out - the entire world's against us because we're little old Huddersfield. All opinions of course, but for me the referee had zero impact on the outcome of the game, unlike last week whereas the referee completely screwed us.

SHEP_HTAFC · 28-11-2017, 11:53

Well I'll put my tuppence worth in.
Hugely proud of our boys....we almost pulled off the near impossible and held them to a draw. After about 80 minutes I seriously thought we would...they had run out of ideas.
Yes their goal was a fluke....but it was deserved. They were by far the better team. And we all knew they would be.
I'm disappointed but not surprised.

As for all this hulabaloo about the ref....yes he got a few minor decisions wrong, but got all the major ones right (with the exception of sending VLP off....a yellow for each player would have been enough).
Wagner got his tactics spot on....and but for a fluke goal we could have held them.

We should take a lot of positives from that game and take it into Wed v Arsenal. Another performance like this and Arsenal might well struggle to break us down.
At last I think Wagner has finally got a plan B. Been saying it for months on here that he hasn't got one. Now he has.!!!

Terrier1987cas · 28-11-2017, 12:54

I don't care about the result tomorrow, I just want to celebrate an away goal FFS if feels like it's been years!

**Lord Snooty** · 30-11-2017, 08:42

Did you see all the empty seats at the Etihad last night when Sterling curled in the winner?
Has there ever been a more undeserving of success set of supporters than them?