[Albion] Manchester City Team

[Neville's Breakfast]

I’m a big fan of them as a team - or was. Great football, probably the best in the world, work hard etc etc - but I noticed the following tonight:

Arrogance of their player not leaving the pitch and them all moaning at the ref for the sending off and thinking that if they stand there they’ll influence the decision.

Pep on at the 4th official

Several screams and swan dives

More moaning at the ref

They keeper literally time wasting from 20 mins - best team in world 10 men or not?

Moaning for each goal at the ref

The ref giving them the big 6 bias especially no yellow for Silvas foul in the first half when we broke

Foden needlessly giving it the big one to the crowd after toe punting the ball in

Pep at full time - hissy fit at everyone - storm down tunnel - comes back on and aggressively shakes every BHA players hand looking for a reaction, same with ref and more moaning (not a clue why as they got most of the decisions as usual), sulks down tunnel again, has to come out for interview and leans / eats a sound microphone thing - oddball.

Very classless after we gave them a guard of honour and were so good to them when they won the league 2 years ago.

Sore losers, petty, overpaid muppets.

I guess Pep, like Klopp won’t be purring over how good the Albion are - as they LOST to little old Brighton!

Agree with all of that. Your last sentence sums it up nicely. If we are to progress we won’t be getting a patronizing pat on the head from the likes of Guardiola, thanking us for the 3 points.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Guardian comments are full of whining about the red and that Ali should have gone. First one seemed perfectly sensible decision to me. It wasn’t the first time they’d been troubled by Welbeck getting in behind. Second one, I’d need to see again. But, otherwise, I agree with the OP. Red card aside, in so many ways City were allowed to run the game. Imagine the reaction to our players in the ref’s face, or time wasting even after they’ve been told to get on with it, or a blatant trip like Silva’s. At one point, the ref spent about a minute having a running conversation/argument with Fernandinho. They treat the top names totally differently.

Ederson was time wasting almost from the start, yet it was Sanchez who got booked for it. Go figure.