Manchester City* - 130 charges (and counting...) (Part 1)

Would love to see this every time city concede a goal … Without the risk of being booked

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Man City star Rodri’s worst fears confirmed after crushing knee injury against Arsenal

Rodri is expected to be ruled out for the remainder of the season after suffering a devastating knee injury in Manchester City’s Premier League draw with Arsenal

Manchester City’s title hopes have been dealt a huge blow following the news Rodri has torn his ACL and could miss the rest of the season.

The midfielder collapsed in agony during Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Arsenal after jarring his right knee in the turf. He limped straight down the tunnel before undergoing scans.

And it has emerged Rodri has torn the cruciate ligament in his knee. It’s understood he will travel to Barcelona to have an operation to repair the damage.

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Ruh Ruh

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Going to Barcelona, huh. For “surgery”

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Zubimendi incoming.

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Just gently bounce the ball off the back of Haaland’s head, apparently that is fine.

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It would be hilarious if this becomes a running joke in the league that happens after every goal City concede. Especially when Haaland gets wise to it and starts running away immediately.

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It’s worth pointing out that Oliver has only refereed one game in UAE. That was the game the day before Darren England gifted Spurs an extra 2 points against us.

Not that it makes it much better. He can and should be forever tainted for the potential vested interest he created by doing that, even just once.

It fucking funny to watch though Arsenal fans creating conspiracy theories based on the (deserved) second yellow of Trossard and how a football team with such integrity as one led by the great Count Arteta should be treated like this by a ref on City’s payroll. I’m glad the two shithouses shared the spoils on Sunday.

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Oddly we’ve got an Opinion article about Rodri’s injury and what it means for Man City.

I can’t remember the articles about our injuries but then again as Gary Neville said, it’s no excuse.

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I’m convinced that winning 26 and drawing 1 of our first 27 matches played a bigger role in winning it.

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It certainly helps :wink:

https://x.com/TrollFootball/status/1838337909298205174

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I know it’s not appropriate to wish season ending injuries upon players, but, by happy coincidence, if any player is going to pick up a season ending injury, without my wishing for it, I would wish it were Rodri.

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In this day and age, that would probably massively increase football revenues too, with all the meme potential…

Debatable I guess, because I presume the argument is that those injuries prevent City from matching that…

For some reason, that made me picture every future game turning into a Benny Hill skit

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My impression is that City dont perform quite that strongly during the first half of the season, it’s the second half they steamroller to the titles?

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It’s really sad for Rodri that he’s done his ACL. It’s similar to Van Dijk, in that he is, by some margin, the best in the world in his position.

I think the biggest issue is that there is a difference between doing you ACL as a defender and a midfielder. Rodri is going to be impacted by that loss of mobility as a midfielder more than Van Dijk was. He is going to be into his thirties before he has properly recovered, and he won’t be the same player again.

Aside from that, City are long overdue a bad injury. They’ve had a really good run.

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I am sure he hasn’t done his ACL and will be back before the end of the season.

Put playing in Non-League should be less taxing on his knee than if he were still to be playing top level football

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