We got stuck into them

Indeed, if you watch the game, as City defender Micah Richards did later, you will see that City did get stuck into United:

"I watched the match again before training on Monday morning and I noticed a couple of tackles that myself and Richard Dunne made - we definitely made sure we got stuck into them!"

And in terms of Richards and centreback partner Richard Dunne, almost every tackle was fair. Though you couldn't really say the same for City midfield man Dietmar Hamann, who was looking like he could get sent off--before he was substituted by Sven Goran Eriksson.

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