Hamburg v City

he wasn't gettin to the ball and in my opinion he stopped him from getting to do the dead ball... maybe i'm wrong, IMO.

It was a sending off but the players did Manchester City proud.

The single last tackle wasn't a Red, All of his fouls together earned him a Red, he was warned.

City have been using them bananas for years, Not recently. About time we got them back.

Matty, Where you get that green thing i only got a flag and banana.

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Originally Posted by AlexOC

The single last tackle wasn't a Red, All of his fouls together earned him a Red, he was warned.

which is why the ref showed two yellows and not a straight red...

The referee clearly warned Dunne before half time. Hughes should've taken him off, he was always going to pick up another yellow the way he was playing.

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Originally Posted by Andys

yeah what was with all the bananas....

They were symbolising that they wanted City to pull off an upset over Hamburg as they were regarded to be the stronger team in the tie (I think) and that meant Hamburg slipping up (thus having the banana peel).
Most lower/non league clubs have them when they're playing against higher league opposition in the FA Cup.

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Originally Posted by Jack.Lfc

Nice banana, anyway you should be proud of your teams performace, they where great tonight. I was proud of liverpool the other night.

I'm proud of the players and the fans which made it a top night out.

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Originally Posted by Implement

What a game by City! post twice, ball in the net twice was it? (disallowed goals that is) - two other great chances, and btw Elano was immense, sending off wasn't a sending off. City played with so much passion and grit/determination, that you can only respect them.

Fair play to ya.

Put the ball in the back of the net three times, hit the wood work twice and missed two virtually open nets after we could of had another goal if Micah isn't a lazy mug.

And how can you say it wasn't a sending off? As soon as he got booked we knew he would be off, the last "challenge" he did was idiotic, it was right in front of me. He came flying into a player which is half the size of without getting the ball which is always going to be a booking, add the fact that Hamburg are a team of divers who also wanted to waste time.

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Originally Posted by AlexOC

What a game and what an atmosphere, We all had flags and bananas haha.

But yh we were all jumping around, And well we could of won it by a long shot, that Caicedo goal (unallowed) was really unlucky, he went past the keeper and scored without a player too close to him, if only he was 5 inches behind the front man he would of still picked up the pass and run round the keeper and scored, And Caicedo missed that open net, but easier said then done it did come at him fairly fast.

Elano's two free-kicks, Post and Cross-Bar, Them would of won it for us, it was unlucky though, I don't know why elano came off, he was the playmaker of the game, he scored the Pen and he kept chipping over balls to create great oppurtunities, like Robinho's chance unluckily he chested it too far and could only toe-poke it into the keepers reach.

But Caicedo kept drifting offside and well could of cost us the game.

Also there were some great chances, which were put wide/high by like richards, fernandes, sturridge, i just think if Elano was still on he would of got there and put it in.

Also bridge needs to take a leaf out of zabaleta or kompany's book, and not get scared and pull out of the challenge, he give them some good chances.

And likes always Given kept us in it, apart from that early and likely unstoppable goal he made some good saves, Hamburg weren't Given an easy win. :P

And thats why Hughes is going next season.

OK, so you want an injured Bridge to take a leaf out of a injured Zab & Kompanys book? They were all playing with injuries, all three of them. This makes it very unfair to single out Bridge, Hughes could of chosen Garrido if he wanted to make sure nobody would get such an easy time down the left. I believe it's very unfair to single Bridge out, his was most probably one of the worst out on the pitch.

Why should Hughes leave?

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Originally Posted by Implement

he wasn't gettin to the ball and in my opinion he stopped him from getting to do the dead ball... maybe i'm wrong, IMO.

It was a booking...

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Originally Posted by AlexOC

The single last tackle wasn't a Red, All of his fouls together earned him a Red, he was warned.

City have been using them bananas for years, Not recently. About time we got them back.

Matty, Where you get that green thing i only got a flag and banana.

Which is why it was a yellow card...

I didn't get it at the ground, I got it before I went to shambles off of eBay, £8.

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Originally Posted by Twist

They were symbolising that they wanted City to pull off an upset over Hamburg as they were regarded to be the stronger team in the tie (I think) and that meant Hamburg slipping up (thus having the banana peel).
Most lower/non league clubs have them when they're playing against higher league opposition in the FA Cup.

You couldn't be further off the fact aha!

We've got two stories, one was a bloke took an inflatable banana to an away game, this coursed histerics in the crowd with a big yellow banana wearing a City top. The banana went to every game with this fan and at an away game at West Brom Imre Varadi came on as a substitute, this sounded like Imre Banana over the tanoy so this got turned into a chant of "Imre Banana". More bananas followed City until a game against Stoke, I wont tell you the story I'll just post a picture...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Wp101tUIam...00/bananas.jpg

We've had loads of inflatables like paddling pools, lilos and the greatest and newest of all...

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o...7/CIMG1701.jpg

Caicedo, piss poor. If you had Bellamy I cant help but think you might've won.

i saw the paddling pool, it looked like one big rolled up condom.

I think Caciedo did ok, he let himself mess up a few great chances by drifting offside, And i suppose Bellamy might of scored a few of them, but i don't think anyone can blame Caciedo for missiong that open net, The ball came at him so fast he didn't have time to react.

And i saw that giant penis floating around, it was in the stand opposite the tunnel when i saw it.