Yaya Toure

[Maria]

My god I miss these goals from Yaya! A defensive mid who can do all that! Pep really did go a bit nuts thinking because Busi can play the possession game better he would be better. Busi is one of the best no doubt but Yaya has that extra ummmmfff that you don't get from many players especially on our team these days. Wish we kept him and let Busi be the sub for another year or two at least.

Love seeing the hand shakes today Yaya was personally greeting everyone. Dani and him are tight as you can tell. Always a special place in our hearts for Yaya.

Yaya is anything but a DM these days..so yeah, Busi is better.

And I loved how he was so nice with everyone and then blamed the ref for the defeat..I guess that's the well known english fair-play.

 

[footyfan]

He said the referee was bad which is undeniably true. Why is everyone so butthurt and taking words out of context? For one, do you know what question he was asked?

 

[hulinat]

He said the referee was bad which is undeniably true. Why is everyone so butthurt and taking words out of context? For one, do you know what question he was asked?

He said that City would have beaten Barcelona with a good referee

 

[footyfan]

Really? He said those exact words? I call BS

 

[hulinat]

Well not those exact words.

 

[DonAK]

He said that if it was a good referee then the result could have been different.

 

[Maria]

He said the referee was bad which is undeniably true. Why is everyone so butthurt and taking words out of context? For one, do you know what question he was asked?

He said that they played well, but in the 2 games against us "nos ha faltado arbitro". And then he said that the referees have conditioned the result of the tie. So how am I taking his words out of context? And I wouldn't have said anything but I am sick of seeing the english teams cry about the referees.

 

[Trickykid]

He said the referee was bad which is undeniably true. Why is everyone so butthurt and taking words out of context? For one, do you know what question he was asked?

Yeah, claiming that we are butthurt and taking words out of context, when you don't even know what he said yourself seems like a smart plan...

 

[footyfan]

No I know exactly what he said, it was a rhetorical question. FYI DonAK got it right. The result could've been different if we had a good referee =/= blaming the referee for the defeat and definitely not what Joppe said. He could've been asked "do you think the result could been different if the referee was better" in which case his answer is perfectly OK. That's why there is no need to make presumptuous assumptions and be butthurt just because he plays for an English team.

Especially when you consider this is what he thought of the tie. Forward to the Barca part at 0:50.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HPnn5OGH8W4

 

[Flavia]

The result surely would have been different. 7-2 instead of 4-1.

 

[Trickykid]

No I know exactly what he said, it was a rhetorical question. FYI DonAK got it right. The result could've been different if we had a good referee =/= blaming the referee for the defeat and definitely not what Joppe said. He could've been asked "do you think the result could been different if the referee was better" in which case his answer is perfectly OK. That's why there is no need to make presumptuous assumptions and be butthurt just because he plays for an English team.

Especially when you consider this is what he thought of the tie. Forward to the Barca part at 0:50.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HPnn5OGH8W4

I honestly don't see the difference between your two examples - it's just a question of semantics. In both cases it boils down to the fact, that he believes the ref was the one who decided the tie, and not the obvious difference in quality between the two teams.

 

[Maria]

No I know exactly what he said, it was a rhetorical question. FYI DonAK got it right. The result could've been different if we had a good referee =/= blaming the referee for the defeat and definitely not what Joppe said. He could've been asked "do you think the result could been different if the referee was better" in which case his answer is perfectly OK. That's why there is no need to make presumptuous assumptions and be butthurt just because he plays for an English team.

Especially when you consider this is what he thought of the tie. Forward to the Barca part at 0:50.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HPnn5OGH8W4

He also gave an interview to the spanish TV:

http://www.sport.es/es/videos/barca...altado-arbitro-los-dos-partidos/3048552.shtml

where he made it pretty clear what he thought about the tie. So if I'm butthurt is because of this interview, not because he plays for an english team. And again, what assumptions have I made?

 

[footyfan]

I honestly don't see the difference between your two examples - it's just a question of semantics. In both cases it boils down to the fact, that he believes the ref was the one who decided the tie, and not the obvious difference in quality between the two teams.

Did you watch the video I posted? He clearly says Barcelona deserved to go through and was better in both legs.

 

[footyfan]

@Maria: Can you tell me what the headline means? I don't understand Spanish but the Google translate for that headline says that he said they missed a referee in the two games. I understand that as saying the referee was poor, which is true.

 

[Trickykid]

Did you watch the video I posted? He clearly says Barcelona deserved to go through and was better in both legs.

Yeah, I did now. That interview was made just after the game, where he probably hadn't had his head filled with nonsense yet, and thus he had a fairly sound notion of what had actually happened out there. The other interview, that we're all so unreasonably butthurt over, was made the day after, right? In this interview, I think we can all agree that it was suddenly the ref who was the main culprit. Whatever made him change his mind, I have no clue about. But fact of the matter is that it was an absurd and pathetic excuse.