Michael Ball, remember him? The day before United won the league the season before last, United travelled to Far East Lands (formerly known as Wastelands) knowing that a win would mean Chelsea had to beat Arsenal the following day to still be in the running.
In the first half, with Ronaldo lying on his back following a challenge, Ball stamped his foot in to Ronaldo’s chest. The bitters booed furiously, telling Ronaldo to get on his feet. It was only when they watched Match of the Day that evening they realised they had a thug in their midst.
It was rather fitting that it was Ball who gave away the penalty, fouling Ronaldo, that won us the game, and essentially, the Premier League title.
Looks like he’s blown it again…
Whilst United got their 3rd Round game out of the way yesterday, beating fellow Premiership side Middlesbrough, our east Manchester friends saw their team knocked out at the 2nd Round by Brighton. Yes, that’s right, Brighton & Hove Albion, some two divisions below City.
The bitters started Dunne, Jo, Kompany, Ireland and Johnson, and things seemed to be going to plan for Mark Hughes when his side took the lead with just over an hour played.
However, with less than two minutes to go, Brighton pulled one back, taking the game in to extra time. Things went from bad to worse for City, with Brighton then taking the lead a few minutes later. Steven Ireland saved the blues’ blushes, temporarily mind, with a goal ten minutes later.
The game went to a penalty shoot out, with the first three penalty takers on each team scoring. Brighton made it 4-3, before Ball stepped up. Striking the ball to the left of the goal, the Bright keeper, former Dutch marine Michel Kuipers, saving. City’s fate was sealed when Brighton scored their 5th penalty, winning the shoot out 5-3.
“We are going to be the biggest club in the world, bigger than both Real Madrid and Manchester United,” said the new City owner, Dr Sulaiman al-Fahim, a few weeks ago.
“We consider Mark Hughes to be one of the prime assets of the club,” he said today. “We will back his judgement and we look forward to working more closely with him in the future.”
“We are really looking forward to our next few games coming up with the form that we are in,” Steven Ireland said two days ago. “At the moment we feel we are invincible, we are going from strength to strength and we’re in great form.”
Back to the drawing board, eh bitters?
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all i can say is what goes around, bitters
laffin my nads off at the blue noses… stick that up ya arab arses n smoke it… you av had ya arses kicked by a flock os seagulls….. and what did Eric say about the seagulls lol….
We’llllllllllll drink n drink n drink to eric the king the king the king lol
Champions !!
That has made me laugh.
They scored 3 Penalties and conceded 5
They scored 3 Penalties and conceded 5
They scored 3 Penalties and conceded 5
Oh City are a massive Club
Aww, how stupid of Hughes thinking he had a decent reserve and decided not to play Robinho. Oh well I’m sure theres still the CL and the EPL up for grabs…Man City for the treble, lmfao
should we really reply to them? sorry i can see Huges being out in one year or so,and about being bigger than us oh well they must be think they bought United and not city cos there’s nothing bigger than United
and this is a club that will be in the UCL next season along with competing for the league? me thinks citys owners have mistaken city for a club with potential!
Drawing with Brighton in the cup?
Oh the ignominy.
To be fair, we were knocked out by Coventry last season and against Southend in 06/07 in the Carling Cup. We also drew against Burton and Hove Albion away (some three seasons ago) in the FA Cup. Them wanting to be a big club has little to do with getting knocked out of a Mickey Mouse cup. Of course unless this was written with the sole intention of winding them up — in which case it’s ok
I’m just aghast that the new owners of city didn’t buy Brighton instead. Who knows could Brighton be the next chelski or city ? In case they buy Brighton next, I predict that Messi will be playing for them.lol
that video made me fucking sick. what a cunt of a human
One ‘star’ player & Hughes rest him and see what happens!
The Carling Cup was possibly the only cup they can hope to win.
This will take them dowm 2 rungs at least.
RR – In the past we’ve usually relied on our reserves, which at United is still no excuse.
However, City have come back to earth with a huge bump because that was the only realistic chance of them winning anything this year. Well, apart from the Premier League and Champions League of course
Tom, they are a big club (snigger)
Tom – yeah, this cup was their route into Europe. I mean, the CL is at least two years away for them (probably more like twenty), and they’re not going to beat more solid teams like Villa to the real UEFA places.
Must have been a nice dream for that lot…shame for them it only lasted a month…
When’s our games against them so we can really rub their noses in it?
Michael Ball is full of shit and the stamping should have been a red card.
Ball is a fuckin thug..fuckin shite player and thug. And its great they got knocked out…was following it closely on gillette socs special. Some payback for their lucky crappy last ditch fluke v fc midgetland.
shitty..fuckin man shitty
i was at the game last night, as i live near brighton, and the best bit had to be the pitch invasion quickly followed by taunting the citeh fans!
and as for michael ball, couldn’t have happened to a better player!!!
Is it possible that now they will be saying it wasnt an important competition anyway ???
funny how you united fans care about the carling cup this season.
^^^^I’ve always cared, i don’t know about others, but yes the Carling Cup does not mean as much as the others to me, but i still care about it. You wouldn’t be a sour City fan, would you?
Eric always said about the seagulls etc etc…. well the seagulls defo did some damage on citeh this week ha ha… blue now twats
No, an Arsenal fan actually. And I remember many conversations with Man U fans who discredited our young teams performance because no one cares about the Carling Cup. But hey, any cup that Spurs can win isn’t exactly the pinnacle.