No I include myself in the people that didnt know the rules but Im not a premier league referee I expect people who are in charge of the game to know every rule afterall thats why they are proffesional referees and get paid as much as they do!!

City splash out on new striker

When is this ever gonna end

Burnley have the joint best record at home, winning all 4 of their games. They have the worst record in the league away, losing all 5 of their games.

In the Carling Cup they lost away to Barnsley and needed extra time to beat Hartlepool away.

all these editing people and things into photos is getting funnier and funnier.

already seen it many times but have to tune into match of the day 2 to watch it again.

So Poll is not 100% sure then?

According to [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/8312966.stmthis[/url, Jeff Winter states it definately should have been disallowed. That's more damning.

Still, no use crying over spilt milk. We had a further 92 minutes to equalise and it never happened. We probably could have continued playing into next weekend and still not scored a goal, that's how poor we were.

Will Torres and Gerrard be back next week?

Hope so, pal. Three big games coming up in the next couple of weeks (2 PL, 1 CL) Benitez seems to think they will be back.

Hope so, for my fantasy football team at a least


If it gives you any heart, Lyon lost at home to Sochaux yesterday.
Can't see you not winning at Fulham and I fancy a draw in the big one.

[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/8313058.stmGiggs in running for Euro award[/url

Veteran Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs is one of five British footballers nominated for the 2009 European Player of the Year award.

To be fair to Poll, and considering he's a **** I don't want to be, I think it was the BBC Live Scores ticker which quoted him as saying it probably shouldn't have been given. The BBC aren't exactly reliable when it comes to the instant updates and they could have been harshly editing him.



But Winter might have been saying that so the Liverpool supporters gave him an extra long applause, like when the Kop applauded his reffing career rather than the 4-0 victory they'd just won.





TBH that's pretty much how I felt over the "ghost goal" that Jose kept on bitching about.

Benitez reacted with good grace to this decision.

I forgot to change mine. Torres was my bloody captain too.

I had Kenwyne Jones



Great turnout by the City fans, shame the same can't be said for Wigan Latics.

Some poor ones on here this is the best though.

Hmm wonder what will be in the away end next week..

Don't get any points for your crowd

Good job too. You not there today?

are my eyes decieving me or was the goal Wigan scored an own goal. it looked to come off the city defender

I was too busy laughing at the comical defending to notice.
I'm guessing that quite a few of the Latics crowd go to Wigan matches. Some of those chants sound rather familiar

Working

Think they do it on purpose

yeah City are struggling defencively at the minute.

they atrted off the season not conceding in there first 4 games and since they conceded there first goal they havent kept a clean sheet since.

Match of the Day 2 then


Seriously don't know why this isn't a sell out. The City end is full so if Latics can't fill the rest of the ground why don't they have a section in one of the other stands for more City fans?

Watching on Sky



They can't segregate the concourse area as there's no doors to block an area off and the facilities aren't split up in the same way. Bad planning tbh.

United, Liverpool, City should be sell outs every year.
Chelsea, Everton should get close. Imagine if Latics had a proper derby!


Six defenders in the box AND Kirkland. Good to see Robert Martinez playing that Barça/Arsenal style free flowing football

Zabaleta red card. Some bad tackles going in from City.