Well taken goals by Man utd, the forward players are having a good game. In terms of the officiating i think Man City have every right to appeal Kompany's red card and i have to agree with the commentators i don't even think it was a foul.

Anyway, Mancini has to replace Nasri and Kolarov if he wants to get anything from this game.

as a liverpool fan, i am just enjoying the match.

True, great game of football for a neutral!

City were ROBBED by the referee! I will say this again, as I had said it before, the refereeing this season has been ATROCIOUS!

Anyway, City played their hearts out! Kudos! Kudos! Kudos! Mancini made the right changes in the second half. But IMHO, he should have taken Nasri off instead of Silva.

Men of the match: De Jong and Milner. Outstanding. Jones and Lindegaard are over-rated. And should Scholes and Giggs still be playing at 37 years of age?

Can we have another match like this in the Europa League? Over two legs? That would be brilliant.

The only thing that made this game interesting was Man City's attempted come back otherwise ref aliharibu game. Kompany won the ball and he didn't catch Nani because he managed to avoid the tackle, nothing wrong with that. In football hakuna "what if", Nani didnt even claim anything....we've seen worse tackles getting away with a yellow card or warning.

@Jus....true the ref was pathetic because he also denied City a penalty after Jones clearly handled the ball. Good goals by Man Utd but very poor officiating. Btw isnt this the same ref who cost Spurs points against Stoke!

4th Round draw
Brighton or Wrexham v Newcastle

Sunderland v Middlesbrough

Dagenham & Redbridge v Southampton

Hull City v Crawley

MK Dons or QPR v Chelsea

West Brom v Norwich

Blackpool v Sheffield Wednesday

Arsenal or Leeds v Aston Villa

Stevenage v Notts County

Watford v Tottenham

Liverpool v Manchester United

Derby v Stoke City


Everton v Fulham

Macclesfield or Bolton v Swansea

Sheffield United v Birmingham or Wolves

Nottingham Forest or Leicester v Swindon

Round 4: LIVERPOOL vs MAN UNITED!!!!!

watu wa man-city tunalilia chooni

c & p

"The biggest criticism you can make of a referee, is that he overshadows games that he officiates. Chris Foy, through that phenomenon, is becoming the poster-child for the introduction of video technology.

Two red cards in the QPR against Chelsea game, a clusterf*** of ineptitude through Stoke/Tottenham, and today’s series of poor decisions at Etihad Stadium. In all of those fixtures, the points were decided by the referee rather than the players. Yet again in a match overseen by Foy, we’re talking more about him than we are the football.

It’s not the pace of the game that’s rendering officials in this country so inept, nor is it a lack of understanding of the rules; instead, it’s a lack of common sense in our referees combined with there being too much scope for objectivity in the rules.

Vincent Kompany’s tackle of Nani wasn’t the product of malice, because frankly he’s not that stupid. A Premier League defender and a captain of a club doesn’t make a ‘reckless’ tackle inside the first half-an-hour of a cup tie against his side’s most bitter rival. Now, he may very well mistime a tackle, but that’s a yellow card – unless he’s using ‘unnecessary aggression’ or denying a clear goalscoring opportunity, he should be staying on the pitch.

Spare a thought for the players – one game’s fair tackle is another’s straight red card. When pundits and fans talk about consistency, this is what they mean. Given how low the footballing IQs of our referees seem to be, surely it’s time to take the interpretation element out of the rules that govern contact between players.

On a side note, I thought the way in which Vincent Kompany reacted to his red card was outstanding – a captain’s example. Other City players may have bawled and screamed over the decision, but the Belgian just accepted it – regardless of its controversy. That’s quite rare in football now."

Today will be the D day.

King Henry will be dribbling against Leeds. RvP isn't playing instead the King will play his position. I expect the King to connect well with Theo James and Park.
I expect a 3-0 to Arsenal.