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Gunnarsson was quite quick back in the day wasn’t he
What a day out .
Just switched it over and got a lump in my throat ..
Its in 2-2 .................................................. ............
I cried ..
would VAR have disallowed it ?
Bastard Gerrard. Sure he missed on purpose.
Kenny Bloody Miller 🙄
I missed his chance on the day in the toilet, then when I saw it the next day!
One of the best days following City ....so proud that day , we gave it a real go !
When Heaton saved Gerrard's penalty I was convinced we'd win it, then Adam missed aswell!
I'm not sure Miller's chance was as easy as a lot of people make it out to be, he was on the turn with defenders closing in up against (at the time) one of the best keepers in the country
Serious?
Think about how ambitious and single minded you have to be to become a footballer, particularly a non technical one like Gerrard.
His only chance to win something (his only game at Wembley?) and he'll give it up to let Liverpool win what is for them a minor trophy (even if it was their first for a while).
And in all the emotion, he'll make the decision to deliberately miss; but not just that. To miss by a tiny margin just so that it 'looks' as if he's tried to score.
Really? Come on.
Isn't it more likely he was trying to put it in the corner?
I was just thinking the other day: if I could reverse three results (or outcomes) of any games what would they be? That would certainly be one of them.
The others would probably be one of:
Blackpool playoff final, FA Cup Final, Euros semi final. Maybe the Stoke playoff game. Any others?
Mason's opener probably next on the list.
I find it curious that time hasn't been all that kind on Malky. That season was one that brought City fans together in a similar way to Warnock coming in. Jones had divided opinion and when he was sacked, we lost so many players. We didn't have the flair that Jones's sides had but we had a manager who would change tactics depending on the opposition and had a team that worked its socks off. We were unfortunate that we came up against a very strong West Ham side in the playoffs. That season ranks among my favourites of all time.
Yes I really enjoyed that season but unfortunately by the end our squad seemed shattered and it was no surprise we lost in play offs . Malay got a lot of praise from pundits and media for his efforts that season in particular the League cup final
I still think he did a good job as manager but the football at the end had started to become very dour in particular the away performances at Palace and Stoke just before he was sacked.
I've posted about this before and I think there are reasons for it.
The club (Tan) had a 3 year plan when Malky took over to win promotion. After we did so well in that first season, the expectation from the board was promotion the next season, ripping up the plan. Money was thrown at promotion. We started that season playing some good attacking stuff but we were leaking goals. We'd lost 5 out of 8 on the road when we lost 5-4 at Charlton and conceded 18. In context, this season we had only 16 after 8 aways. Malky's response was a more negative game based on being difficult to break down. It worked but it was not often exciting.
We won 14 of the next 18 games, all bar 1 by a single goal, scoring more than 2 in a game once. That dour run won us promotion but it was a war of attrition at times. The expectancy of the board and their demands of promotion meant we threw plans out of the window.