Where would you rank last night in terms of disappointments?

LangleyBlue1970 said:
I always think coming out top after 38 hard games is a mark of huge success. It’s relentless.

Of course winning more on top just adds to that level of success, but the CL aside for a sec, I’d much rather see us lifting the league title than lifting one of the other domestic cups. They’re a mark of luck primarily, and deemed some success as a result.

Champions of England though? Huge.
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Yes I agree it's a great achievement for sure.

But I feel the players will be feeling a tad disappointed at the end of the season that the CL has eluded them once again.

Players like KDB are running out of time to win it.
 
I was stunned more than disappointed. I was at the swamp when Owen got that late winner and that was horrific. Neville was giving it large warming up and goading us down the touchline all game, we kept pegging them back and then that happened. Fucking awful.

But fancy waking up and knowing you are 4 wins away from the league title? Most disappointments over my lifetime supporting City haven't had such an amazing thing to fall back on. We've had the prospect of playing in a lower division. There have been plenty of disappointing and humiliating defeats. Last night was just a real shock ending. We've had our Gillingham and QPR moments that brought late ecstasy and that's why I knew we'd lost as soon as it went to ET. The same way Gillingham were never winning once they let that 2-0 lead in the 89th minute slip away, we were beaten there and then.

Just remembered the Wigan FA Cup final as well. That was painful. Such a weird day hearing Mancini had been sacked whilst in the Green Man. City fans battered and fighting in the ground. Then that late winner from Watson. I'd missed the Stoke FA Cup final as I was in Australia so this was my first chance to see City left a trophy at Wembley...extra pain.
 
Luton will always be the worst for me - think it’s the only time i ever cried after a match

The last minute loss to the rags when Scholes scored was horrible as was the 2nd leg SF loss at their place
 
SSL2 said:
Yes I agree it's a great achievement for sure.

But I feel the players will be feeling a tad disappointed at the end of the season that the CL has eluded them once again.

Players like KDB are running out of time to win it.
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Ok, in that regard then it was Fernandinho I felt for. He knows that’s it done now.

We’ll win it and when we do we will go on a spree of winning it imo. It’s just proving really tough to crack. Fine margins.
 
Kazzydeyna said:
I honestly and with 100% truthfulness can say that I am not arsed in the slightest. Not even a tiny bit.
This whole charade of a competition is a farce, and always has been. It is peopled by yesterdays men, yesterdays clubs, and is a cartel of, and for, the history clubs, and the acceptable (white) face of ‘new money’.
I won’t lie, seeing the acceptable face of mainstream racism handing over the prized trophy to a club with owners who look like ours, would have had a certain feeling of poetic “fuck you” to it, but even that would never, could never, come remotely close to the feeling of us handing them their arse in a courtroom. THAT was the fight the club could not afford to lose, or there would have been little or no club left to pick the bones out of afterwards.
Last night, and all the other nights in their fancy competition, are a necessary evil the club has to participate in, in order to sign the players we sign who regularly deliver the real prize. Champions of the worlds most prestigious and hardest to win league anywhere in world sport - the premier league.
The aftermath begins at weekend. I have nothing but absolute faith in this manager and this group of players to deliver the real prize. Champions of England and breaker of murderous hearts. Again.
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Could not have put it better myself, well done.
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
Ok, in that regard then it was Fernandinho I felt for. He knows that’s it done now.

We’ll win it and when we do we will go on a spree of winning it imo. It’s just proving really tough to crack. Fine margins.
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Hopefully the last thing Dinho will do in a City shirt is lift the PL trophy. Not a bad way to go out
 
Bar having to listen to the usual ill informed bellends spouting their goading toss, I really couldn't care less. Even then, I've mastered the art of sitting quietly and nodding along with whatever they say with a smile on my face

...and if they question further "so do you want Pep out then?" I resort to the "Do you know, I hadn't even thought about that, but I will do now and get back to you".

Seems to deflate them somewhat - to the point where not one of them has ever enquired about my considered opinion of whatever they spouted off about was.
 
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I was distraught last night as I was contemplating going to the final again to get the Porto result out of my system but this morning the pain had subsided a little and I’ll consider it a game of very fine margins (e.g. the Grealish attempt that was only stopped by a stud).

As long as we win the League and the cult are prevented from doing the unthinkable then I’ll be happy
 
Luton by far !

Already knew we were down in 98 with a few games to go, even before watching Pollocks own goal unfold before my eyes on the Kippax level with the 18 yard line.

Last night, knew as soon as Madrid equalised we were done and would have happily gone to bed and put my house on the result.
 
This is worse than last year as then we were beaten by the better team on the night. To outplay your opponents over two legs and lose in that manner is totally sickening. I rank it alongside '96 as the worst moment (I was too young in '83).
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
This was bad but not as bad as the Luton relegation match in 1983.
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This.

Every single relegation was a bigger disappointment. Plus the FA Cup 4-2 loss against Spurs at Maine Road in 91 or 92. We didn't often get chances to win something and I thought that could have been our year.

We know now we'll get another chance at the Champions League next year. Plus the league is still doable!
 
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