Man City - League cup final

[Sugar Ape]

Bit cheesy like at the end but love the old footage.

 

 

The Kings of the Cup: Liverpool FC’s 8 League Cup wins! #TBT

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[Creator Supreme]

We'll get bum raped 6-0, hat-trick for the greedy rat, 2 for Aguero, late penalty for Yaya after Kolo fouls him and gets sent off!

[Arl arse]

[mouse1989]

Play the kids

[Paco]

Did we win 4 years in a row?

[ZonkoVille77]

Did we win 4 years in a row?

Yes we did.

[ZonkoVille77]

I meant to add, that we're fucking shite.

[Tony Moanero]

Extra time.

[Tony Moanero]

Did we win 4 years in a row?

81 West Ham

82 Tottenham

83 Manchester United

84 Everton

[Tony Moanero]

87 Lost to Arsenal (First time we lost a game when Ian Rush scored)

95 Bolton

2001 Birmingham City

2003 Manchester United

05 Lost to Chelsea

12 Cardiff City

[FanchesterCity]

Two teams,, each with split personality disorder. From one match to the next, both can be riddled with mistakes, or capable of stunning performances.

 

It's too close to call. Experience as a team is probably in City's side. Experience as a club is definitely on Liverpool's side.

 

One thing's for sure - it's got goals in it. Neither side is cut out for defending. 

[Arl arse]

Two teams,, each with split personality disorder. From one match to the next, both can be riddled with mistakes, or capable of stunning performances.

 

It's too close to call. Experience as a team is probably in City's side. Experience as a club is definitely on Liverpool's side.

 

One thing's for sure - it's got goals in it. Neither side is cut out for defending.

 

Nil -Nil, extra time & pens it is then.

[Tony Moanero]

Two teams,, each with split personality disorder. From one match to the next, both can be riddled with mistakes, or capable of stunning performances.

 

It's too close to call. Experience as a team is probably in City's side. Experience as a club is definitely on Liverpool's side.

 

One thing's for sure - it's got goals in it. Neither side is cut out for defending.

City are clear favourites.

[LFC 6 Times]

Aguero and Silva obviously frighten me. Stage is set for Sturridge though, I can't wait for this.

[Paco]

more likely to be 2-2 than nil.

 

always goals in this.

 

city go toe to toe.

[Gym Beglin]

Pellegrini will want to get a trophy in his last season, and this is on a plate if he gets his tactics right.

[The Golden Eel]

Two teams,, each with split personality disorder. From one match to the next, both can be riddled with mistakes, or capable of stunning performances.

 

It's too close to call. Experience as a team is probably in City's side. Experience as a club is definitely on Liverpool's side.

 

One thing's for sure - it's got goals in it. Neither side is cut out for defending. 

 

Speak for yourself

[G Richards]

If Man City are to get a trophy this season I hope it is the Champions League. Pellegrini strikes me as a decent fella, and it would be a great way to sign off, especially given all the disrespectful fuss over Guardiola coming, all while the quiet Chilean tries to get on with the job in hand. 

 

I hope we put in a performance and beat them on Sunday. Obviously they are favourites. Look at the teams and their current standing. With that said, we have some match winners coming back into the fray, so I can see a high scoring game where hopefully we run out as winners. 

 

It might remind us of those 4-3 Newcastle games. So long as we are on the winning side I won't care. 

[moof]

Pellegrini will want to get a trophy in his last season, and this is on a plate if he gets his tactics right.

Is it fuck. I'm fairly certain Klopp will ensure that.

[Grinch]

Depends what City side show up. If Aguero, Toure and co turn it on, they'll win easily. Theyve plenty if form for not giving 100% and thats what gives me hope of a huge upset.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Penalty win

[Oh Buoy]

Firmino show is overdue.

[moof]

Firmino show is overdue.

I think he'll revel in the big, open spaces of the wembley pitch

[Sugar Ape]

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/647723/Liverpool-Manchester-City-John-Barnes-Shaun-Goater-Capital-One-Cup-final-news
 

Exclusive: Liverpool and Man City legends reveal all on Capital One Cup final showdown
 


And it is not too long ago that Liverpool would normally kick off their cup campaigns after City had been knocked out – so great has the gap between the clubs been.

But the tables have turned as the two approach what is a deeply sentimental occasion for both sides.

For City, it represents the first leg of an unlikely treble which would be the perfect parting gift for Manuel Pellegrini who will make way for Pep Guardiola this summer.

And it is not too long ago that Liverpool would normally kick off their cup campaigns after City had been knocked out – so great has the gap between the clubs been.

But the tables have turned as the two approach what is a deeply sentimental occasion for both sides.

For City, it represents the first leg of an unlikely treble which would be the perfect parting gift for Manuel Pellegrini who will make way for Pep Guardiola this summer.

Both are worshipped by season ticket holders and armchair fans alike but standing their records alongside each other tells you all you need to know.

Goater scored 84 goals across three different divisions and helped City into the Premier League with back-to-back promotion campaigns.

Barnes won two top-flight titles, two FA Cups, a League Cup and scored at the Maracana to beat Brazil.

And the pair watching the game will probably have two very different experiences

“They’re playing for me as a fan now,” says Goater, who only ever reached Wembley as a Man City player when they played Gillingham in the Division Two play-off final.

“It’s very special for Manchester City to be making finals now.

“The players in the last few years have been winning finals and trophies and now they have a great opportunity to win another.

“They face great opposition in Liverpool but it’s still a chance.”

Barnes meanwhile was part of that Liverpool side that Goater could only have dreamed of playing in.

The fact that the 1995 League Cup final against Bolton does not live particularly long in Barnes’ memory is a testament to his success in a Liverpool shirt.

On the day Liverpool turned over Bolton of Divison One without much fuss.

“The favourites tag didn’t weigh heavy on us because we were confident in our ability,” Barnes says.

“You'd always rather be favourites because it means you’re in a better team.

“I remember it as the Steve McManaman cup final [he scored twice in a 2-1 win].

“I don’t think we played particularly well.

“Bolton made it hard for us but Steve pretty much single-handedly won the cup final for us.”

Goater’s Wembley experience was rather different

The game was goalless until the 81st minute when Gillingham took a lead which they doubled six minutes later.

But Kevin Horlock got one back in the last minute of normal time.

“Normally you’re in the zone and you don’t necessarily notice the fans but I have to say at Wembley, there was that period in the game when City looked out of it,” Goater said.

“But then we scored a goal to get to equalise and then I think five minutes of added time went up and the crowd just lifted.

“People started coming back to their seats.

“Every ball that we controlled, that we passed or that we moved forward got this positive surge from the crowd.

“It was like they grabbed the ball and socked it into the goal.

“Certainly we heard them at that point because every touch, every tackle and every move got that extra bit of noise.

“It made such a difference.”

It must have done as Paul Dickov scored in the dying seconds to equalise and City went up on penalties.

Even the most excitable of fans on that day cannot have dreamed that less than 20 years later they’d be flying back from a Champions League Kiev to go to the cup final at Wembley before resuming their title race.

Of course, there is the small matter of Liverpool’s 4-1 win at the Etihad, one of the early triumphs of the Klopp era.

“I’m sure Man City won’t go into that game and underestimate Liverpool,” Barnes says.

“People may look at the Capital One Cup as the third trophy but it’s still a trophy.

“And I think it’s taken on added significance and the fans have shown that.

“When Arsene Wenger was under pressure because Arsenal hadn’t won a trophy, what he wouldn’t have given to win the Capital One Cup or indeed any trophy.

“Clubs are taking it much more seriously because the fans have made them take it seriously.”

And it is now the fans in red who will be desperate to disturb the gathering dust in their trophy cabinet.

One major trophy in ten years - the League Cup itself - is not what Liverpool fans are used to.

“It’s two attacking sides and two defences you can get at so I can see it being a high-scoring game or at least a very open one with lots of chances,” Barnes says.

“Of course the fans will have a big part to play because Jurgen Klopp has been talking about the Liverpool fans ever since he came.”

They are the words of a champion. One who knows success and failure and treats those two imposters just the same.

Goater meanwhile cannot shake the feeling of disappointment.

The paranoia that haunts football fans that even when it’s all going well, disaster is just round the corner.

“Liverpool in recent games have started to put together some good results and wins and of course they dismantled us 4-1 at home,” Goater says.

“And we’re a little bit wounded having played Tottenham and lost a huge game in the league. This is where the doubt comes from.

“We certainly have to raise ourselves for this game and prove why we’re favourites to win the Capital One Cup.”

John Barnes and Shaun Goater alongside Capital One will be helping fans make ‘the difference’ at the Capital One Cup Final at Wembley on Sunday, February 28

[Dr. J]

We're playing at Wembley for a trophy. That's a really good thing to say and think about. I'm not brimming with confidence but I'll be singing the songs along with the traveling supporters even if only watching the match on my computer screen.

 

I do think we just might nick it.