It was a great game and anyone who thinks Hull were bad sports for not turning up and trying to play like Barcelona is an idiot. The ref had an absolute shocker - any issue anyone had with how the game was played should be directed at him.
FA Cup 2013/14
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It was a great game and anyone who thinks Hull were bad sports for not turning up and trying to play like Barcelona is an idiot. The ref had an absolute shocker - any issue anyone had with how the game was played should be directed at him.
The Hull fans were great. One of the best things I heard all day was a group of them sing 'you're rich and you're miserable' to a fairly quiet Arsenal lot passing them on the way in
Manter
Lunch Mob
That sounds *very* like themThe Hull fans were great. One of the best things I heard all day was a group of them sing 'you're rich and you're miserable' to a fairly quiet Arsenal lot passing them on the way in
There are some epic hangovers in this house today, bless 'em. And some incredulity they now get to play in Europe- this lot are all fans man and boy who remember when the club was locked out of the ground and looked like it was going to the wall- they can't quite believe where they are now
tommers
It was... Rebekah Vardy's account
I watched most of the game yesterday and didn't see any thuggery or violence.
You gave them a scare in a game they expected to win. They don't like it so somehow need to justify how you matched them for most of the time.
Must be cos you were cheating. 19th century football.
Betsy
Well-Known Member
Michael Thomas is on 5 Live now, sitting on the Sports Panel.
Summed up perfectly.
As we were waiting to get on the tube after the game on Saturday the Hull fans and Arsenal fans unified with a rousing chorus of "we all hate Leeds scum".
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
you obviously missed, as did the referee, the at least two fouls by hull players in their own penalty area. while i don't think the hull team are thugs (i've seen considerably more fouls and cheating by such teams as benfica, and by such luminaries of the game as vinnie jones or alan shearer) i don't think that the antics of eg huddlestone - noted by the commentators during the game - should be swept under the carpet as hull fans pretend their team's all sweetness and light. btw making out hull are some little side with no international players ignores the contribution e.g. maynor figueroa has made to the honduran team (100+ appearances), robert koren (60+ appearances for slovenia), robbie brady (ireland under-21s), paul mcshane (ireland squad for euro 2012) etc. please don't make out that hull are some tu-penny-ha'penny side with nary an international in the squad because that's a lie.
Manter
Lunch Mob
I didn't suggest Hull were sweetness and light, nor that they had no internationals. Time to read again without your partisan hat on, eh?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
you said arsenal are "the sort of club who can bring out internationals as substitutes in extra time". what was there stopping hull doing the same? why did you say it, if not to create the impression that hull are some poor team who only have homegrown players, as though those are always inferior?
Manter
Lunch Mob
Read the first two clauses of my original post
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
no, for the hard of reading WHY did YOU say it?Read the first two clauses of my original post
Manter
Lunch Mob
I said it because it is the narrative I saw developing on Facebook. As I said. In my original post.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
yes. and yet you don't seem to see that as worth challenging. why not? the answer, it seems to me, is because it suits you to accept that image of hull as plucky underdogs without the advantages of arsenal.
Manter
Lunch Mob
Yes. Whatever you say.
The fact I raised the narrative to make the point I disagreed with it is neither here nor there, eh? And I'll not even bother to get into your contention that Arsenal and Hull are comparable teams
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
of course they're fucking comparable - but they're not equivalent. i hope that isn't too hard for you to get your head around. i never said you agreed with the narrative you put up, i said you hadn't challenged it because it suited you to be seen as the underdogs without arsenal's advantages.Yes. Whatever you say.
The fact I raised the narrative to make the point I disagreed with it is neither here nor there, eh? And I'll not even bother to get into your contention that Arsenal and Hull are comparable teams
Manter
Lunch Mob
God, you'd pick a fight with your own reflection. Let's just say I agree with you, I bow down to your superior knowledge, or testosterone or something. I really CBA to deal with you, I'm off to enjoy the sun!
