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Surprised they didn't take a closer look at that handball shout against Maguire. Not sure "pushing an opponent to the ground" would automatically be classed as a natural position for most teams defenders.

Whoever is the commentator doesn't know how to tell if the officials have given a free kick for offside or handball. Which is poor really.

Is it? Oh fair enough. For some reason I normally get Goodman confused with Alan Smith and his gloomy Midlands accent so thought it was the other dimwit

Hinchcliffe claiming every decision for them

Thought Pope was gonna decapitate Botman there. Camera angle deceptive

Not sure if it's missing Bruno or that we're already focused on the final but I can't see us winning another league game until Wolves. Just lacklustre

Fucking irony that the tube station he's clearly on about ("take the steps down") isn't Wembley Central 🤦‍♂️ Familiar though.

Fatigue or Casemiro not being fit an available are your two main obstacles iro the final. I'd love to be wrong but I think Man Utd at Wembley will be a bridge too far for this team. Hope we give you a proper game this time though.

Boro will class anyone from Berwick Rangers to Sheffield United as a "derby" game. They don't have the numbers of support that Newcastle or Sunderland do, so I just put it down to marketing, trying everything to get as many bums on seats as they can. Can't say I blame them really. Fuck knows what the pyro is about the night before an away game but each to their own innit.

Been going on for as long as I can remember to some degree. Google Grobelaar spaghetti legs for example. All part of the penalty psychology for me. Don't see why anyone should be told where they can or can't stand while the penalty is being prepared, but if the keeper is still standing after the ref has told him to move back to his line then aye, a yellow card is clearly appropriate then. Same topic but slightly different- saw an interesting video last year about Chelsea and Liverpool countering the defending team's attempts to put the taker off by having one player grab the ball and pretend he is taking it, takes all the verbal, then someone else actually takes it. Clever. Putting my pedant hat on I think Krul was 2014 wasn't it?

I'm not sure, I'm guessing Tindall. Didn't understand what was going on at the time, just thought the ref was being a fussy sod.

Spectacular lack of self awareness as well

I actually think pretending that the opposition had 12 players on, in order to get the ref to stop the game while he counts them is better. Like a really shit April Fools gag and completely shameless 😂

And was genuinely incapable of picking the ball up

Is that what sent Fulhams bench off the deep end at the end? They were going ape shit about something. Not sure if it was just before or just after the "12th man" carryon.

I thought Eddie has had a word about joining in the shithousery. When he announced half a substitution before the penalty I was sure he was going to suddenly shout the second bit during Mitrovic's run up!!

Sounds like a bit of a fanny anyway

Must be said mind, that tweet is written in the hysterical shrieky manner normally seen on the front page. Substitute "Sheffield Wednesday" for "the left" and "horror crush" for small boats. Hysteria like that doesn't really help anyone.

The immediate reaction on twitter atvthe weekend was grim like. Blame the fans, was their own fault, they're only saying this because we beat them etc. If there was one fucking club that you'd think would be sensitive to it, it would be them.

Remember after a couple of weeks living in Leeds I saw a lad in a Man Utd top walking through town. Literally froze, waiting for mass public disorder after everything I'd heard about how toxic and nasty their rivalry is. Was amazed that he was able to carry on shopping in peace

I lived in Leeds from 2008 to 2015 and a few miles away since then so 14 years in total in and around the Leeds area. Until Bielsa you used to see more Man City tops around than Leeds. All of a sudden people who I'd known for the best part of a decade and had never mentioned football before were striding around in Leeds tops. Probably helped that having been mint for years the Rhinos suddenly turned shit around the same time.

Also worth noting that Cup winners qualify for Europe regardless of league position.

It's maybes a generational thing, but to a lot of us middle-aged/older folk the FA Cup is important. By all means mess about with the League Cup team if you must, but we should be giving ourselves the best shot we can at the FA Cup. Especially this season. For the last f**k knows how long I've been told by "sensible" people that the Cup must be sacrificed because being in the Premier League at the end of the season is the most important thing. I'm sure if we so get European football in future the same people will be telling me we have to throw the FA Cup for that reason. No relegation worries this season, only the league and a quarter final in a cup that Man City always win anyway. By all meand use frimge players, just not 7 at once. It pisses me off that we didn't play a stronger team.

Was brought in (admittedly at a right premium) to do a job which was help keep us up. More than contributed to it and can be thanked for his efforts, but don't want or expect to see him starting many more games for us. As others have alluded to above, when he played for Burnley and Leeds he seemed to be a decent finisher if nothing else, but appearances can be deceptive and in reality he's a bit of a donkey at this level.

I know we're not allowed to take the piss out of him for being a gloryhunter Man U fanboy, but he doesn't help with things like not updating his twitter bio. Got changed within seconds when he went the other way.