[Albion] Brighton & Hove Albion vs Manchester City *** Official Match Thread ***

[Is it PotG?]

Well 'booed' Sir

 

[cjd]

I don't understand why everyone was surprised by the lack of sportsmanship by Pep. I think it was a Cup game ( Newport v Man City ? 2019 ) where Perp showed his true colours with an altercation outside the changing rooms at half time. A TV camera caught the action and I thought at the time he was a thoroughly two faced prick.

 

[KeegansHairPiece]

Well 'booed' Sir

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and what about that Foden-****. Guard of honour, roundly applauded by all the home stands, no abuse whatsoever toward him or his team at all first half, scores after HT and cups his ears!?

I don't normally get that wound up by that pantomine sort of thing, but the long absence of fans, getting back to the grounds, just seemed a really, well pathetic thing to have done to a team or set of fans that have never given you anything but respect generally, including a large portion of the ground applauding your last title win.

"Foden Foden what's the score, Foden what's the score?" enjoyed that though.

 

[Driver8]

Just remembered I put £5 on us to win last night [emoji41].

 

[The Clamp]

Dear Lord! I’ve not been that drunk in a pub since before March 2020. This is going to be a long day.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Dear Lord! I’ve not been that drunk in a pub since before March 2020. This is going to be a long day.

I've just made what can be described as a full English baguette

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[Stato]

Had a browse through this thread on City's forum: https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/brighton-a-post-match-thread.350774/

I was expecting the usual mix of moaning about the officials and about their scapegoat player (Eric Garcia it seems) peppered with some wiser heads saying that Brighton played well and that City will need to be more at it in the CL final. Instead, there is a just stunning amount of entitlement and conspiracy theory bordering on institutional insanity. A huge number of them really seem to believe that the only way that they could have lost was for the FA and the officials to have planned it. There are loads of complaints about Potter sending us out to 'kick them off the park'. (As the foul count was 13/11, I think that this can only be their description of Biss winning every challenge he made.) I do wonder why they think we felt the need to kick them when we had the ball for two thirds of the game.

They are also moaning about us booing the guard of honour (Didn't happen. There was a chant of 'Albion, Albion' which annoyingly drowned out 'Sussex By The Sea') and about us booing Phil Foden, who they argue we should not give any stick too because he is a great young player. (Missing the point that in football fan terms he is a great young player who plays for the opposition!) I also didn't notice much of this. There was more booing of Gundogan after The Amex decided that he made a meal of AJ's late challenge on him. They have that down, not as an overstretch for a ball he couldn't reach, but as an automatic red and possibly the most despicable tackle ever made. (I see MotD didn't bother showing it. Although they could also be in on the conspiracy).

Apparently, any radio or TV pundit who didn't call out the imagined extreme anti-City bias of the officials is also in on the conspiracy. Ex City player Joleon Lescott in particular seems to be getting the full Liz Cheney treatment. None seem to wonder why, if the ref and VAR were so keen for us to win, they didn't take the obvious opportunity to give us a penalty for Garcia's handball. Quite a few seem to claim to know nearly everyone who goes to the Amex and are sure that we are all Man Utd/Arsenal/Liverpool fans and that is the only reason we wanted our team to beat them. (Yes, we fought all opposition for a decade to get our club back to Brighton because we're all Man Utd fans.)

Its an interesting read, as it seems to show the psychological impact on fans of their team winning and winning on a long term basis. The level of delusion on show is such that you stop getting angry about their wrongness, you go past the stage of feeling like Cartman drinking Scott Tennerman's tears and you get onto bafflement. Reading it seems like sticking a toe in one of those dodgy fifties human psychology experiments. You come away just wondering if they're alright.

 

[The Clamp]

I've just made what can be described as a full English baguette

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Good man. I’m in my local cafe with the full order. Then I think it’s treats from the shop and a long day on the couch for me!

 

[Weststander]

Trevor Sinclair such a biased wnkr. On TS just then, putting our win down to awful decisions by the officials and he listed them. Going on and on about it.

Said with a token bit of praise "delighted for us", so that he doesn't come across as the very bitter Danny Mills last night.

Then ..... Sinclair moved on again to blaming Attwell for the robbery.

Also making an accusation that something (unknown) went on way beyond GP's goal celebration, to make Guardiola angry with us.

 

[BBassic]

Had a browse through this thread on City's forum: https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/brighton-a-post-match-thread.350774/

I was expecting the usual mix of moaning about the officials and about their scapegoat player (Eric Garcia it seems) peppered with some wiser heads saying that Brighton played well and that City will need to be more at it in the CL final. Instead, there is a just stunning amount of entitlement and conspiracy theory bordering on institutional insanity. A huge number of them really seem to believe that the only way that they could have lost was for the FA and the officials to have planned it. There are loads of complaints about Potter sending us out to 'kick them off the park'. (As the foul count was 13/11, I think that this can only be their description of Biss winning every challenge he made.) I do wonder why they think we felt the need to kick them when we had the ball for two thirds of the game.

They are also moaning about us booing the guard of honour (Didn't happen. There was a chant of 'Albion, Albion' which annoyingly drowned out 'Sussex By The Sea') and about us booing Phil Foden, who they argue we should not give any stick too because he is a great young player. (Missing the point that in football fan terms he is a great young player who plays for the opposition!) I also didn't notice much of this. There was more booing of Gundogan after The Amex decided that he made a meal of AJ's late challenge on him. They have that down, not as an overstretch for a ball he couldn't reach, but as an automatic red and possibly the most despicable tackle ever made. (I see MotD didn't bother showing it. Although they could also be in on the conspiracy).

Apparently, any radio or TV pundit who didn't call out the imagined extreme anti-City bias of the officials is also in on the conspiracy. Ex City player Joleon Lescott in particular seems to be getting the full Liz Cheney treatment. None seem to wonder why, if the ref and VAR were so keen for us to win, they didn't take the obvious opportunity to give us a penalty for Garcia's handball. Quite a few seem to claim to know nearly everyone who goes to the Amex and are sure that we are all Man Utd/Arsenal/Liverpool fans and that is the only reason we wanted our team to beat them. (Yes, we fought all opposition for a decade to get our club back to Brighton because we're all Man Utd fans.)

Its an interesting read, as it seems to show the psychological impact on fans of their team winning and winning on a long term basis. The level of delusion on show is such that you stop getting angry about their wrongness, you go past the stage of feeling like Cartman drinking Scott Tennerman's tears and you get onto bafflement. Reading it seems like sticking a toe in one of those dodgy fifties human psychology experiments. You come away just wondering if they're alright.

Their local rag is getting in on it too:

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/mancity-brighton-highlights-red-card-20627073

Including this delightful bit about the potential for City fans to volunteer in trying to break the BT Sport studio ref Peter Walton's leg:


He claimed that because the Brighton man’s leg was bent, the challenge did not have enough force to damage Gundogan.

If Walton fancies it, I’m sure there is more than one City fan out there willing to demonstrate that a bent leg can deliver enough force to inflict serious injury, if the ex-ref wants to bare his knobblies. It was an abysmal challenge, a red card all day long.


D'yknow what? City have long occupied a low level of regard in my head. They are the embodiment of the greed and avarice in modern football. But I'd always given the fans a pass because, hey, it's not their fault the club they support is nothing more than a PR mechanism for an oil state with despicable human rights records. Not after this though. They can all get straight in the sea.

I hope Chelsea bend them over backwards in the CL final. Bunch of no mark, pathetic, whinging little piss stains.

 

[KeegansHairPiece]

Trevor Sinclair such a biased wnkr. On TS just then, putting our win down to awful decisions by the officials and he listed them. Going on and on about it.

Said with a token bit of praise "delighted for us", so that he doesn't come across as the very bitter Danny Mills last night.

Then ..... Sinclair moved on again to blaming Attwell for the robbery.

Also making an accusation that something (unknown) went on way beyond GP's goal celebration, to make Guardiola angry with us.

This is where the unconscious bias in officiating comes from though I think.

No one is talking about a dodgy decision or 2 in Brighton v Burnley a day or so later, but as an official, make a perceived incorrect call against one of the big boys and you're filling air time on radio, TV, social media with pundits and professionals in the game throwing you to the wolves.

What you've described is the pressure they are put under.

Take Dion Dublin last night in his 'interpretation' of the rules. He seemed to be certain it was a foul by Cancelo on Welbeck. The foul did deny Welbeck a goal scoring opportunity. The severity of the foul is irrelevant, as we know with Dunk's slight pull on a shirt pretty much edge of the centre circle. Dublin appeared to want to re-write the rules so that Atwell could give a foul but not acknowledge it prevented Welbeck a clear chance to score. Ashley Williams seemed to think it was fair game to foul a player when you got wrong side.

 

[schmunk]

Dublin appeared to want to re-write the rules so that Atwell could give a foul but not acknowledge it prevented Welbeck a clear chance to score.

That was a possibility, and what the VAR was checking for - whether Welbz had a clear opportunity to score when fouled, to determine whether the card should be yellow or red.

 

[Stato]

Their local rag is getting in on it too:

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/mancity-brighton-highlights-red-card-20627073

Including this delightful bit about the potential for City fans to volunteer in trying to break the BT Sport studio ref Peter Walton's leg:


He claimed that because the Brighton man’s leg was bent, the challenge did not have enough force to damage Gundogan.

If Walton fancies it, I’m sure there is more than one City fan out there willing to demonstrate that a bent leg can deliver enough force to inflict serious injury, if the ex-ref wants to bare his knobblies. It was an abysmal challenge, a red card all day long.


D'yknow what? City have long occupied a low level of regard in my head. They are the embodiment of the greed and avarice in modern football. But I'd always given the fans a pass because, hey, it's not their fault the club they support is nothing more than a PR mechanism for an oil state with despicable human rights records. Not after this though. They can all get straight in the sea.

I hope Chelsea bend them over backwards in the CL final. Bunch of no mark, pathetic, whinging little piss stains.

It's tempting to go on either site and poke the bear. Perhaps reminding them that the officials didn't give us the decision when Maguire obviously fouled Welbeck in our game at Old Trafford. That should have been a red and a penalty. Far easier decision than the one given in Danny's favour last night.

 

[Originunknown]

Had a browse through this thread on City's forum: https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/brighton-a-post-match-thread.350774/

I was expecting the usual mix of moaning about the officials and about their scapegoat player (Eric Garcia it seems) peppered with some wiser heads saying that Brighton played well and that City will need to be more at it in the CL final. Instead, there is a just stunning amount of entitlement and conspiracy theory bordering on institutional insanity. A huge number of them really seem to believe that the only way that they could have lost was for the FA and the officials to have planned it. There are loads of complaints about Potter sending us out to 'kick them off the park'. (As the foul count was 13/11, I think that this can only be their description of Biss winning every challenge he made.) I do wonder why they think we felt the need to kick them when we had the ball for two thirds of the game.

Wow, what game were they watching. We were strong in the tackle but didn't even cross my mind that we had "kicked f*** out of them" as one of their simple fans so eloquently puts it.

What did stand out was their constant berating of the officials, their moaning, their time wasting and sheer petulance not retrieving the ball for the KO. They are terrible loosers.

 

[BNthree]

Had a browse through this thread on City's forum: https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/brighton-a-post-match-thread.350774/

Its an interesting read, as it seems to show the psychological impact on fans of their team winning and winning on a long term basis. The level of delusion on show is such that you stop getting angry about their wrongness, you go past the stage of feeling like Cartman drinking Scott Tennerman's tears and you get onto bafflement. Reading it seems like sticking a toe in one of those dodgy fifties human psychology experiments. You come away just wondering if they're alright.

Superb, hope they're really sad and annoyed about it as they are obviously twunts of the highest order.

Really, really want them to lose at home at the weekend in front of their fans for added laughs.

 

[jabba]

GP said something about over-celebrating our first goal. Anybody see this?

 

[GT49er]

Had a browse through this thread on City's forum: https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/brighton-a-post-match-thread.350774/

I was expecting the usual mix of moaning about the officials and about their scapegoat player (Eric Garcia it seems) peppered with some wiser heads saying that Brighton played well and that City will need to be more at it in the CL final. Instead, there is a just stunning amount of entitlement and conspiracy theory bordering on institutional insanity. A huge number of them really seem to believe that the only way that they could have lost was for the FA and the officials to have planned it. There are loads of complaints about Potter sending us out to 'kick them off the park'. (As the foul count was 13/11, I think that this can only be their description of Biss winning every challenge he made.) I do wonder why they think we felt the need to kick them when we had the ball for two thirds of the game.

They are also moaning about us booing the guard of honour (Didn't happen. There was a chant of 'Albion, Albion' which annoyingly drowned out 'Sussex By The Sea') and about us booing Phil Foden, who they argue we should not give any stick too because he is a great young player. (Missing the point that in football fan terms he is a great young player who plays for the opposition!) I also didn't notice much of this. There was more booing of Gundogan after The Amex decided that he made a meal of AJ's late challenge on him. They have that down, not as an overstretch for a ball he couldn't reach, but as an automatic red and possibly the most despicable tackle ever made. (I see MotD didn't bother showing it. Although they could also be in on the conspiracy).

Apparently, any radio or TV pundit who didn't call out the imagined extreme anti-City bias of the officials is also in on the conspiracy. Ex City player Joleon Lescott in particular seems to be getting the full Liz Cheney treatment. None seem to wonder why, if the ref and VAR were so keen for us to win, they didn't take the obvious opportunity to give us a penalty for Garcia's handball. Quite a few seem to claim to know nearly everyone who goes to the Amex and are sure that we are all Man Utd/Arsenal/Liverpool fans and that is the only reason we wanted our team to beat them. (Yes, we fought all opposition for a decade to get our club back to Brighton because we're all Man Utd fans.)

Its an interesting read, as it seems to show the psychological impact on fans of their team winning and winning on a long term basis. The level of delusion on show is such that you stop getting angry about their wrongness, you go past the stage of feeling like Cartman drinking Scott Tennerman's tears and you get onto bafflement. Reading it seems like sticking a toe in one of those dodgy fifties human psychology experiments. You come away just wondering if they're alright.

Can you post that on Blue Moon (or whatever sire you were looking at) - the responses could be even more hilarious/demented!

 

[eaglesdan]

There's nothing quite like beating a PetroState team.

There's also nothing quite like beating a gambling funded team

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

Had a browse through this thread on City's forum: https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/brighton-a-post-match-thread.350774/

I was expecting the usual mix of moaning about the officials and about their scapegoat player (Eric Garcia it seems) peppered with some wiser heads saying that Brighton played well and that City will need to be more at it in the CL final. Instead, there is a just stunning amount of entitlement and conspiracy theory bordering on institutional insanity. A huge number of them really seem to believe that the only way that they could have lost was for the FA and the officials to have planned it. There are loads of complaints about Potter sending us out to 'kick them off the park'. (As the foul count was 13/11, I think that this can only be their description of Biss winning every challenge he made.) I do wonder why they think we felt the need to kick them when we had the ball for two thirds of the game.

They are also moaning about us booing the guard of honour (Didn't happen. There was a chant of 'Albion, Albion' which annoyingly drowned out 'Sussex By The Sea') and about us booing Phil Foden, who they argue we should not give any stick too because he is a great young player. (Missing the point that in football fan terms he is a great young player who plays for the opposition!) I also didn't notice much of this. There was more booing of Gundogan after The Amex decided that he made a meal of AJ's late challenge on him. They have that down, not as an overstretch for a ball he couldn't reach, but as an automatic red and possibly the most despicable tackle ever made. (I see MotD didn't bother showing it. Although they could also be in on the conspiracy).

Apparently, any radio or TV pundit who didn't call out the imagined extreme anti-City bias of the officials is also in on the conspiracy. Ex City player Joleon Lescott in particular seems to be getting the full Liz Cheney treatment. None seem to wonder why, if the ref and VAR were so keen for us to win, they didn't take the obvious opportunity to give us a penalty for Garcia's handball. Quite a few seem to claim to know nearly everyone who goes to the Amex and are sure that we are all Man Utd/Arsenal/Liverpool fans and that is the only reason we wanted our team to beat them. (Yes, we fought all opposition for a decade to get our club back to Brighton because we're all Man Utd fans.)

Its an interesting read, as it seems to show the psychological impact on fans of their team winning and winning on a long term basis. The level of delusion on show is such that you stop getting angry about their wrongness, you go past the stage of feeling like Cartman drinking Scott Tennerman's tears and you get onto bafflement. Reading it seems like sticking a toe in one of those dodgy fifties human psychology experiments. You come away just wondering if they're alright.

I've noticed this when I look at the comments under articles on the Guardian website (which I stopped doing after I realised that there's about 10 regular and coherent contributers and 90% of the rest only post under Liverpool or Man U results).

Basically:
Nobody gives them enough credit
Everybody's against them.
Their team doesn't cost any more than anybody else's because they've never spent £80m on a single player.
They're not financially doped because their accounts show they make a profit.

I don't get the impression that winning actually brings them any satisfaction at all. It's mostly negative "take that UEFA/FA/United/Liverpool" rather than any positive reaction.

And yes, the City fans I know personally are lovely, but I could say that about almost any club.

 

[Stato]

Can you post that on Blue Moon (or whatever sire you were looking at) - the responses could be even more hilarious/demented!

I think I'll leave them alone with their grief. Blimey, if losing a dead rubber to no-marks like us causes that kind of psychological meltdown, I hate to think what will happen if they don't win the Champions League Final against one of the teams they see as rivals.