Comments on: Match Report: Birmingham City 1-1 Manchester United

By: Kevin Ball

Kevin Ball — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:15:26 +0000

Thanks for your response yolkie, and I don’t think you’re being patronising. Let’s hope we can keep it going.

By: yolkie

yolkie — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:00:38 +0000

Your match report seems pretty accurate to be fair. And of course I’m not labelling all fans “bile spewing morons” – you only really go on what you see, which is why I raised the question about whether fans are starting to care more about hating United than supporting their own team.

It was a good game; and more than that, it was not a bad result for us, without being patronising that shows how far Brum have come in the last 6 months.

By: Kevin Ball

Kevin Ball — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:52:49 +0000

I find this sort of thing frustrating, when fans are labelled as all speaking bile or are all from Surrey etc.

The truth is, it was a really good game full of incident, good football and chances.

To be honest on my forum most people recognised that the United goal was ok and we just had a laugh about the 6 minutes. As you rightly say, at the time we were on top. Please don’t say we are all speaking bile!

I will say, not defending or attacking people’s reactions to the 4th officials board – you must know that the emotion of being at a game does get to people and they may well react in a way that they wouldn’t on reflection.

ESPN made me laugh though, just before the board was shown they said I see Old Father Time is hovering around the 4th official I wonder what he’ll get!

You will also find that most Blues fans don’t really care one way or another about United, we have another team that is the top of a list of one to hate.

In the end the right result prevailed which is good – of course both sets of fans would like to have won it, but a draw was the right result.

Kev

By: yolkie

yolkie — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:00:31 +0000

Blue Nose I wasn’t defending the added time. I thought it was extraordinary and definitely a bad call. Are you seriously suggesting that the fourth official changed the board as a result of Ferguson having a word?

If you are (seems a bit unlikely) but I can’t see why your anger is directed at Ferguson and not the official who has broken a very serious rule. If your allegation is true and is not just misdirected bitterness I would expect to see that official thrown out of the game.

Richard, strange that you would yourself question the identity and then criticise someone different for the things that other person has said.

I’ll stand by my comments in the match report. Uneducated bile? Strong perhaps but there were clear images of, shall we say, disgruntled supporters when stoppage time went up.

Are we now watching a sport where stopping Manchester United winning is more important than trying to win yourself? As an opposition supporter you would be better placed to answer that than me but given the ridiculous reaction yesterday it would seem so.

By the way I’m quite anal over the accuracy of my own spelling and grammar, feel free to let me know where I’ve made such glaring errors..!

By: Stretford-end

Stretford-end — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:28:31 +0000

blue nose – I had no idea where the six minutes of injury time came from to be honest, no idea. However, as the home side playing against ten men surely you would have preferred the game to go on a little longer, no?

By: Stretford-end

Stretford-end — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:27:28 +0000

Richard – You were speaking with someone else and Yolkie wrote the article not me. Other than speaking about another random fan do you have any other comments regarding the report OR your thoughts on the game?

By: Richard Cooke (The Grumpy Old Git)

Richard Cooke (The Grumpy Old Git) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:27:48 +0000

Is this report from the same ‘Stretty’ that earlier this week stated that his team were playing at St. Marys on Saturday? I pointed out to him that the game was being played at St. Andrews, he admitted his error claiming ‘he’d had a long day’. And then he has the effrontery to write about ‘uneducated bile’ coming from home supporters. Uneducated? Really? ‘Stretty’ ought to look at his own level of education including spelling, grammar and geography before he talks about other fans. Many years ago Jasper Carrott spoke of those on the Stretford End being ‘neanderthal men’. That comment is just as valid today.

By: blue nose

blue nose — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:21:29 +0000

of course as this is a manc supporters site bias is to be expected and i wouldn’t mind if you had questioned any other decision but to defend the 6 minutes of extra time simply cries ignorance, fergason spoke to the 4th official who then changed his board, all on camera not just imagination, which is a disgrace, hopefully he gets a proper ban this time

By: elvido

elvido — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:36:08 +0000

we did not play well at all. Constantly over run in the mid field and Park should not be playing at all! Would rather have had Fabio on the left. All in all, hope Diouf can actually play, we sell Berba, cut our losses with Nani too. I know it sounds silly and knee jerk but I have been big supporters of these players since the start, even telling off people who complained about them. I think the United style of play is just not agreeable to a few “important” players in the squad and i hope we genuinely use this season to fix whatever needs to be for the next.

By: john page

john page — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:22:05 +0000

to be honest, kuzak kept us from being defeated