2018/19 FA Cup

Argh. No point getting worked up. But still has to be said, City already have an unfair advantage of having unlimited funds, the best coach in the world and on top of that, on rare occasions like these, when they do falter, the refs help them in every way possible to snatch lucky wins.

Hope they indeed go and win the quadruple this season tho, so that the footballing bigwigs, not just in England but rest of Europe too can finally open their eyes and sense the malice money is bringing to football. (PS: strictly aimed at City's corrupted owners and not at the club as such and their fans, so please dont find offense, their fans have every right to enjoy this golden period tho.)

Any sensible individual would retort City never had the use of VAR along with Swansea but they did benefit from poor officiating (not along with Swanse) which VAR would have really been helpful in. In theory lol.

I don't hate City, don't particularly like them either, more concerned that the use of VAR is for one group and not the other.

@Doc wrote:Upon checking, AGAIN, yeah, it's actually true. The 3rd round, only the clubs that are in the PL had VAR used. Well, here's me thinking it was just a room where the other refs watch replays from a teleprompter at different angles. Word.

DFB-Cup has implemented VAR from the quarters on, and they actually have deviced a mobile solution in a van used in case the game is played in a stadium that hasn't VAR technology implemented in itself.
Mind you, in DFB-Cup teams from non-professional leagues (4th  and downward) get the home advantage by default, so there are routinely some games played in small stadiums.

Because noone with a sane mind would actually introduce VAR into a competition when it isn't evenly used in all games of a round. This is so absolutely crystal clear that I don't really know what to say? What the actual fuck?

That's pretty clever and it makes sense the German FA (or whichever group is in charge of such things) would cover the cost of VAR technology in a National Cup tournament. Supporting your grass roots and all that. Not sure what the English FA was thinking but on an unrelated note, they got that PL team to boost ratings for the next round.

Yeah well the German FA is the DFB (meaning German Football Federation) and hence the name DFB-Pokal for the FA Cup

@Unique wrote:

@Vlad the Impaler wrote:So, basically City went through with the help of the referees?

yes.

And did you see that goal after the penalty?
It makes me wonder how much is Zidane selling a gram of luck for and how much did City buy from him?

Lindelof has quietly developed into a very good CB

@Vlad the Impaler wrote:

@Unique wrote:

@Vlad the Impaler wrote:So, basically City went through with the help of the referees?

yes.

And did you see that goal after the penalty?
It makes me wonder how much is Zidane selling a gram of luck for and how much did City buy from him?

wolves are a tidy team tbh. we have to play them in the last game of the season i hope we dont have to beat them to win the title.

Pogba keeps getting wrestled to the ground every time he's on the ball

liverpool missed a trick with neves. should have signed him before he went wolves

great save that.

This cup game between Yellow and Red is really a good cup match.

wolves 1-0 up

deservedly so too

been by far the more threatening team, they're a handful for anyone in the league tbh

That was a very good finish from Jimenez. Now it's going to be an interesting 20+ minutes.

@Firenze wrote:deservedly so too

been by far the more threatening team, they're a handful for anyone in the league tbh

Yep. But somehow, we still look much better than we did under Mourinho. Not a surprise anymore, right? However, I've been saying for the last few weeks that we still need to fix a lot of things.

2-0

This is entirely on Shaw.

wolves fans deserve this win. They been great.

whew game over

congrats to Wolves

If only Swansea hadn't have had them two decisions go against them earlier this could have been the most open FA Cup semi final in sometime, now with united going out it should be Man City's to lose.

Rashford has been incredibly awful today and against Arsenal.

Utter shambles. Lol. Rashford's dip in form is worrying.

Well Wolves knocked us out of this cup as well, anyways that was god awful from Shaw.

thats a bad challange