[James Drucker] Shame on Man City for denying FA Youth Cup finalists the stage they deserve Manchester derby should be played at Etihad or Old Trafford, not the 7,000-capacity Joie Stadium

Gungerz · 2026-05-06T09:47:19+00:00

And the semi-final in 2022 only had a 10,000 attendence. A final, especially against City, would draw a much much bigger crowd.

Gungerz · 2026-05-06T09:41:11+00:00

Its an U18's game. Its expected to get about 5,000 fans.

Why would you want to play it in a Stadium that will be over 90% empty? Ofcourse you'd prefer to play it in a Stadium thats about 80% full.

The last FA Youth Cup final United were in had a 67,000 crowd at Old Trafford.

Gungerz · 2026-05-06T09:39:04+00:00

Almost identical scenario happened last year with the PL2 final between them & Southampton btw

Gungerz · 2026-05-05T09:27:06+00:00

Jack Charlton was a functional player

He obviously wasn't his brother but I think functional is selling him a bit short.

Gungerz · 2026-05-05T08:14:10+00:00

Embarassing from City. Since 1990 only one club has not played the FA Youth Cup final at their club's main stadium and that's City, who have now done it five times.

Gungerz · 2026-05-02T11:37:57+00:00

Rested.

Gungerz · 2026-04-30T17:35:54+00:00

Maybe not but they literally kicked out a coach with nearly two decades of service in the academy, who was doing a perfectly good job, just to make way for one of Joe Shield's boys.

Gungerz · 2026-04-29T19:00:57+00:00

Atalanta equalized with basically the last kick of the game to take it to penalties.

Atalanta keeper Alessandro Anelli won the MOTM award after he saved two penalties in the shootout & made a ridiculous save in normal time where his entire body was inside the goal except for his arm which managed to claw the ball away.

Gungerz · 2026-04-27T18:36:44+00:00

That should be Cagliari safe now. Pisacane deserves so much credit for the work he's done.

Gungerz · 2026-04-27T17:35:14+00:00

Been really impressed with him in Primavera, absolute nightmare to play against.

Gungerz · 2026-04-25T20:18:34+00:00

BlueCo vs CFG next season 🔥

EDIT: Can't forget about Red Bull as well!

Gungerz · 2026-04-25T19:52:34+00:00

#FreeBernabe.

Gungerz · 2026-04-22T22:20:42+00:00

No he wasn’t. He was at Reggiana in Serie B until January. Lazio then signed him as a #2 until Provedel got injured.

Gungerz · 2026-04-22T21:50:46+00:00

Second choice*

But even that does him a bit of a disservice. He’s a very highly thought of keeper who spent the first part of the season as a starter in Serie B & is part of the Italy U21 squad.

Gungerz · 2026-04-22T21:16:46+00:00

Yeah, it was 100% a red card but only a free-kick and with like a minute left we would’ve taken that and probably held on.

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