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+++ Birmingham City v NUFC FA Cup Fourth Round BBC One BBC iPlayer BBC Sport Website +++

Shandy drinker said:
Brum doing what Newcastle have bragged about snce Howe took over when playing arsenal etc
Roughing up the better team
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Unfortunately cheating (regardless of team) is an accepted part of the game.

Till it's called out by pundits and commentators it won't changed.

Fans call it timewasting, professionals call it "time management"

Fans call it diving, professionals call it winning a foul"

Fans call it "dirty" professionals call it "a tackle he needed to make"

It's all cheating, regardless of team. And until its called out as such players will do it.

Bring in stats for cheating and the game changes pretty damn quick
 

Martinez73 said:
Plenty of people gave them plenty of credit over the years. It’s only in the last couple that the media have started questioning them. There’s even plenty on here that wanked themselves silly over Pep and the players they were bringing in. It’s only when the mags got taken over and it hit close to home that people started opening their eyes to the sportswashing.

If City were in a title race with Liverpool you’d still have a good chunk of people hoping for City to triumph, just as last season when it was Arsenal and City
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One or the proper clubs for me, thamks
 
gatopreto said:
You don't acknowledge that Newcastles wage bill was 30 times Birmingham? Therefore it shouldn't have been a sporting contest? Fortunately for the viewers it was
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That's not how it works. The gap between Leyton Orient and Man City is far bigger than Birmingham and the mags but that was also a tight game. Tamworth v Spurs another recent example. There's loads of levellers in football. That's what's so good about it.
 
Whilst it was great to see some “blood and thunder” challenges going into the mags, and fouls, the downside is that there will be even less interest in the FA cup by Prem teams, top 6 etc.
They won’t want their £100m show pony getting snapped by a L1 clogger.
Can only get worse for the Cup.
 
Wearson said:
Whilst it was great to see some “blood and thunder” challenges going into the mags, and fouls, the downside is that there will be even less interest in the FA cup by Prem teams, top 6 etc.
They won’t want their £100m show pony getting snapped by a L1 clogger.
Can only get worse for the Cup.
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Only get better as worse squads win games imo
 
Still no idea how the assistant gave the first one. Can’t be anyway at all that he could be sure it was over the line. Disgraceful
 
Brian Griffin said:
Only get better as worse squads win games imo
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But devalued if the U21s become the prem cup teams.
First move I’d make is to take the prem out of the League cup, then the Championship teams have a chance to win something at Wembley. It would give the FA cup more significance.
The top teams have too many games if they are in Europe.
 
Wearson said:
But devalued if the U21s become the prem cup teams.
First move I’d make is to take the prem out of the League cup, then the Championship teams have a chance to win something at Wembley. It would give the FA cup more significance.
The top teams have too many games if they are in Europe.
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It’s a squad game. Birmingham could have won last night and the Mags team probably cost £100m.

Birmingham May have beaten some other PL teams last night too
 
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