Vieira Sees Red As Inter Crush City

About somes it up 8th - thought Yaya Toure looked a class act though.

Yaya was worth the ticket cost, for sure. Just got back from the game, the ref was favoring Inter the entire night. It was a joke.

A red card in a friendly? Someone is having a larf and it ain't Vieira! Anyone know if the card wil resut in a ban for the start of the season? Any sight of Balotelli?

Good old Inter... won me some money, as did the Toffees!

No, TheFamous7, obviously you didn't realize that the ref sent off Vieira due to Italian acting 22 minutes into the game. It's not moaning if you have a point. I was at the game, there was no contact with the player. Vieira went straight up for the ball, the ball hit the Inter player in the head, he went down like he got elbowed, and the ref sent off Vieira. It was pathetic.

Last year's pre-season in South Africa wasn't great either. It didn't prevent us from having a flying start to the real season. We're still not playing with the best 11 and to lose 3-0 against the European Champion with a man down after 22 minutes in a friendly is not a disaster.

That's not the case at all, VI. Each time City dazzle in pre-season, histoprically we start the season poorly. Time will tell when we wheel the big guns out this week.

Sharing the straws with the rags now are we VI? I suppose it makes sense from a financial point of view, but does smack of desparation.

Spot on Philly, we were never going to win with that referee in charge. I can't believe Inter players were play acting in a friendly- especially to get a former team mate sent off. No class.

Haha bunch of over paid players with overhyped fans simply glory hunters not trophy no top[ 4 this season !!! Wislilly03 yesterdays boyyzz still yesterdays boyzz.LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

Notwithstanding the fact that this was a preseason friendly (meaningless in other words) against the European Champions and we were down to 10 men, I have to chuckle at all the cretins crawling out from under their rocks to have a dig at us over the loss. To the rags - we lost against Inter, not some two bit Mexican side. To any Tottenham fans having a go(if you are) you just got dicked by the team that finished 7th in La Liga. And to our friend Vanilla Ice - you beat Norwich from the Championship. That would seem to be about your level. Still, the increasing desparation of your attempts to have a pop at ANYTHING that gives you hope we're not the real deal is filling me with mirth. Keep up the good work chaps.

Yes well said... but makes **** all difference to the score and to our 100% start to the season. You come on our site talking absolute BS and then complain when we come on here to have a laugh. Until City win something you haven't got anything on any of us. If you win something then you can have a go at us, until then... Your nobody's!

Why would I care what you think??? Your obviously an idiot if you think City can achieve anything!

City have achieved nothing in years (except for bouncing between leagues) and that won't change this year. Money can't buy instant success, especially not for a team like City... But if I'm wrong I'll be the first one here to say I WAS WRONG!

Which is it VI? City can't achieve anything or City cant achieve anything instantly? I don't believe a lot of us fans expect instant success but we expect its not too far off cos we jumped up 5 places last season and even a 4th spot this season will be an improvement. Dont get it twisted, money will get you quality players who will help push for titles so indirectly money can give you a very good chance of success, i know it s*cks but theres no denying it. Dont kid anyone, if you're proved wrong you wont be here to admit anything, and oh thefamousno7, your club's debt is the real joke!

It may be old but its still a joke and surely you're not going to tell me that its an ideal situation. We lost a pre-season match to the current Euro Champs after going down to 10 men on 20 mins and rival fans are having a party?

The euro champs second string team without a Mourinho with you playing a much more experienced and better side to that of other pre-season matches. Face it, you really went for the win, the team selection says it all, the excuses and moaning about a red card meant you will doomed to lose says it all.

fcb, you've got me wrong, pre-season friendlies don't matter, i've never said a thing about any of your other pre-season friendlies. This one however is very different from the others. Look at the team selection in comparison to your other friendlies why the sudden change? At looks as if Mancini went from getting players fit to really wanting to win the game. All i done is point this out and said that City still aren't ready to play and compete against the likes of Inter, Barca and etc. I also stated that you didn't play against the European Champions, you played against the European Champions second string team. Also going on to state the fact that during the second half of the season, after your good start, you had to rely on Tevez which might not happen again. All facts so why im being treated with such hostility and resentment i don't know.

To all you City fans... come on Vital Everton and have a look at the ***** your fans have been posting the talk to me about posting on here. Your not all idiots but some are **** retarded. And yes me_innit, you might win something one day... but most of your lot are talking about every other club "sinking" and City being crowned champs of the world! At least you seem to have the sense to know you can't win straight away. And even having money doesn't guarantee you'll win anything ever.

I don't deny we over-relied on Rooney me_innit and from a neutral perspective after reading the report i assumed you went out for the win to make a statement. Very true JT_daniel.

I watched it on ESPN. Couple of obvious things. The ref perhaps, at a stretch, would have been able to handle a friendly, but this game soon went beyond his capacity to be able to manage. After all, there's nothing like this on show in the USA outside of WWF, and that's clean. The game over there is a lot cleaner. There is obviously no love lost between Vierra and Materazzi, and, if you noticed, a lot of the Inter team were down on Vierra. There were old scores being settled. And we all know that he's not a saint on a football field. On this occasion he was 50% in the wrong, and what no one's really commented on yet is that I genuinely thought it was 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. The ref only saw the backs of both men. When you looked at it from where the tv cameras saw it, you could see that Materazzi caught Vierra with HIS elbow, whereas Vierra caught Materazzi with his arm. Materazzi went down like a road-kill because he knew he was as guilty, if not more guilty, so he knew he had to play Serie A style and look as though his next stop was A&E. He's then delighted in the knowledge that Vierra's got a red card... and he's not even got a yellow. At which point he's on his feet again raving, miraculously.. Vierra's a bit-part player, and was going to be subbed anyway, but as we know 10 against 11 in a 'friendly' that was supposed to be a test.. suddenly became an experiment that no-one on the City staff had forseen or remotely wanted. It then became a game where Inter knew they could get the first blow in; of what could become an annual contest. It also became a game City had to extricate themselves from.. and they made a pigs ear of it, because they were unprepared for that circumstance. Yaya and Boyata played as well as they could. Micah tried hard, and his confidence has improved. Kompany almost lost it, and Lescott might as well have done. Alan Johnson was being asked to do things that he would never have dreamed of doing in an average game, and he quite quickly became a fish out of water. Adebayour was totally exposed as someone who could never play the Heskey role in a month of Sundays, and Ireland was impotent in the new circumstances. There was no-one in midfield once Yaya was forced to defend. In fact, there wasn't even a dream of a midfield. The only man who had any idea, when he came on was, as usual, SWP, and it'll be a huge mistake to get rid of him. But we were systematically taken apart, in the best of cynical Serie A traditions, purely because the ref had swallowed the Italian bait. He wasn't experienced enough in European football to see what was actually happening. City probably would have lost in any case to the European champions, but to take away any hope they might have had of making it a contest, after 21 minutes, was a travesty. Not one that matters, but a travesty, none-the-less. This was compounded in my own mind by the Eurocentric commentary provided by ESPN in the form of a nameless English pr**k who obviously knew much more about 'The European Champions' than he did about Manchester City, and provided the kind of one-sided commentary that you'd expect from a complete europhile. His comments on City were in the main pulled from a long list of misinformation influenced by seriously tainted British tabloid sensibility. All in all, a really wonderful night if you REALLY wanted to see NEARLY ALL of what's wrong in football, on the same pitch, on the same night. What a wonderful early morning that was!