Favourite ever season.

The Centurions season of 2017-18 was the best.

That’s the closest any team has ever got to the quality of Pep’s Barça or Enrique’s Barça teams.

Some of the football we played and goals we scored that season with each of our midfield bosses bang in their prime (Fernandinho, DSilva, and de Bruyne) was absolutely untouchable.

We were magnificent that season.

Record points, record wins, record away wins, record successive wins, record goals, record goal difference, record gap to second…

The media don’t make enough of that season, but, worse, WE don’t make enough of that season. That we don’t have a “Centurions” chant is criminal (“Centurions Centurions ole ole ole”, would do!).
 
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dennishasdoneit said:
1987/88 season for me.
My first full season watching The Blues.
Everything was new and exciting. Away Blue crowds were bouncing and very very loud.First memories of the Kippax.watching Paul Lake play in every outfield position for City.
Going to Merseyside against Everton in the league cup quarter finals and having to duck as the coach got bricked as soon as we got off the motorway...I still shudder as I go under the bloody bridge where it happened all those years ago
Going to Leeds elland road as a somewhat naive teenager ...that was an experience...
Beating Huddersfield 10-1 ....Wow.just Wow
Going to Leeds rd road for my 1st ever fa cup match.watching a disabled supporter throwing his crutches at the ref for some reason..and
Wondering why Mel Machin our manager at the time was sent off..

Dancing with joy on the away terrace as John gidmans( iirc?) last min equaliser from a free kick, right in front of the away end made it 2-2!!

Being on the kippax on boxing day for the visit of Leeds...they brought thousands to Platt Lane and Kippax was in full voice..Xmas football was absolutely magic in those days.. the atmosphere natural and electric with everyone in a good mood( we lost 2-1 of course )
Drinking cider in the old supporters club bat..chatting to older Blues about Bell Lee Summerbee.

Travelling to Maine rd with forest fans for the league cup game midweek...Paul Lake absolutely destroyed forest the league cup holders and our team eam of home grown kids from the old 2nd division dumped 1st Division Forest out the cup.complete silence in the car on the way back....

Playing for City supporters club against quite a few teams that season..

Attending the Crystal Palace match at selhurst park for last match of the season,both sets of supporters singing anti man Utd songs as palace faced them in the fa cup final the week after( we,d been knocked out by redscouse in the quarter finals)

We finished well adrift of the promotion places.we had no money. Swales was chairman,the kippax was still a terrace and as a 2nd division team punched well above our weight in both domestic cups.

My favourite season bar none watching The Mighty Blues.
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That was one great season
I was 17/18 did 52 of the 58 games including all three Huddersfield cup games and the 0-1 loss at Leeds Rd (18th Birthday) after beating them 10-1 and the famous trip to the old den on the service train
Missed Bradford Bournemouth Hull Sheff Utd all night games
Plus Boro & Plymouth

Still addicted at 52!!!
 
Maccblue said:
That was one great season
I was 17/18 did 52 of the 58 games including all three Huddersfield cup games and the 0-1 loss at Leeds Rd (18th Birthday) after beating them 10-1 and the famous trip to the old den on the service train
Missed Bradford Bournemouth Hull Sheff Utd all night games
Plus Boro & Plymouth

Still addicted at 52!!!
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I missed Bradford and hull night games..
Went to bramhall lane ,had a drink in the cricketers next to ground and emerged unscathed.went Millwall away at old den...been 3 times to old den,never bothered with the new ground..

I saw 3 out of the 4 Huddersfield games,Inc the 3nil 2nd cup replay at Leeds rd in the pouring rain on the away terrace without a roof,absolutely soaked but loved it

Modern day younger fans have no idea what that was like..back in the day .

Missed the 1st replay at Maine rd,nil nil I think,but chose to go there in the league after the 10-1.. of course we lost 1nil.typical City.

I can't remember any average 2nd division team getting to the quarter finals of both domestic cups,at a time when both were taken deadly seriously by all clubs..not just teams who were unable to / not good enough to win any other trophy.........; )

We of course only got knocked out by Liverpool in the fa cup.. and Everton in the league cup..both powerful,canny ,hard running,skilful and
experienced 1st Division teams at the time..both were leagues above us on the day altho taking on Liverpool wih matk seagraves in our defence was a handcap and at everton ,iirc ,we had no 1st choive strike force as imre varadi was injured and Paul Lake at centre forward was out of his depth ..in front of 54k vociferous Scousers..

All in all a fantastic season.imaybe if we had not ventured so far in both domestic cups we could have got promotion ,but I wouldn't have swopped those cup runs for the world.. the match at Blackpools Bloomfield road was legendary...pitch battles on the away car park before k.o
A brilliant away crowd squeezed into the side terrace..and..after an average display....a last min scuffed equalising goal by Paul Lake following a 20 man free for all on the mud bath of a pitch ...thats what cup football used to represent ...pure excitement.

It was my first trip to blackpool and far from visions of beaches Blackpool tower and the sea,I experienced a clever robbery as City fans snatched the cash till from behind the bar in Yates...the experience of being immediately pissed when leaving a pub and the sea air hitting you..
And the thrill of vintage fa cup violence when I arrived at the ground.

The last min celebrations were prob the best I've ever had ..on par with brightwells equaliser at Stretford two seasons later...

Mel Machin was a decent guy,played bright attacking football with a very inexperienced team..but when Howard Kendall took over the next season I started to learn what football management was all about...

They always say 1st love never dies and the 87/88 Was truly unforgettable for me.
Travelled to Ipswich on the weekend of the famous storms which battered
Britain Oct 87,want alone by train ,arrived at ground at 4.30pm after having to swop trains 6 times on the way there due to cancellations..it should have been a direct service arriving at 1.30...City got beat 3nil.
I almost forgot the few matches where we went goal crazy just after the 10-1 win,putting 6 past Plymouth,and 4 past Swindon at the county ground..another two matches I missed that season.
The important thing was I decided to travel up for the 10-1 ...after debating weather to bother..ended up seeing history in the making.

Great season.
 
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dennishasdoneit said:
I missed Bradford and hull night games..
Went to bramhall lane ,had a drink in the cricketers next to ground and emerged unscathed.went Millwall away at old den...been 3 times to old den,never bothered with the new ground..
I saw 3 out of the 4 Huddersfield games,Inc the 3nil 2nd cup replay at Leeds rd in the pouring rain on the away terrace without a roof,absolutely soaked but loved it
Modern day younger fans have no idea what that was like..back in the day .

Missed the 1st replay at Maine rd,nil nil I think,but chose to go there in the league after the 10-1.. of course we lost 1nil.typical City.

I can't remember any average 2nd division team getting to the quarter finals of both domestic cups,at a time when both were taken deadly seriously by all clubs..not just teams who were unable to / not good enough to win any other trophy.........; )

We of course only got knocked out by Liverpool in the fa cup.. and Everton in the league cup..both powerful,canny ,hard running,skilful and
experienced 1st Division teams at the time..both were leagues above us on the day altho taking on Liverpool wih matk seagraves in our defence was a handcap and at everton ,iirc ,we had no 1st choive strike force as imre varadi was injured and Paul Lake at centre forward was out of his depth ..in front of 54k vociferous Scousers..

All in all a fantastic season.imaybe if we had not ventured so far in both domestic cups we could have got promotion ,but I wouldn't have swopped those cup runs for the world.. the match at Blackpools Bloomfield road was legendary...pitch battles on the away car park before k.o
A brilliant away crowd squeezed into the side terrace..and..after an average display....a last min scuffed equalising goal by Paul Lake following a 20 man free for all on the mud bath of a pitch ...thats what cup football used to represent ...pure excitement.
It was my first trip to blackpool and far from visions of beaches Blackpool tower and the sea,I experienced a clever robbery as City fans snatched the cash till from behind the bar in Yates...the experience of being immediately pissed when leaving a pub and the sea air hitting you..
And the thrill of vintage fa cup violence when I arrived at the ground
The last min celebrations were prob the best I've ever had ..on par with brightwells equaliser at Stretford two seasons later...

Mel Machin was a decent guy,played bright attacking football with a very inexperienced team..but when Howard Kendall took over the next season I started to learn what football management was all about...

They always say 1st love never dies and the 87/88 Was truly unforgettable for me.
Travelled to Ipswich on the weekend of the famous storms which battered
Britain Oct 87,want alone by train ,arrived at ground at 4.30pm after having to stop trains 6 times on the way there due to cancellations..it should have been a direct service arriving at 1.30...City got beat 3nil.
I almost forgot the few matches where we went goal crazy just after the 10-1 win,putting 6 past Plymouth,and 4 past Swindon at the county ground..another two matches I missed that season.
The important thing was I decided to travel up for the 10-1 ...after debating weather to bother..ended up seeing history in the making.

Great season.
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Great post pal
 
dennishasdoneit said:
1987/88 season for me.
My first full season watching The Blues.
Everything was new and exciting. Away Blue crowds were bouncing and very very loud.First memories of the Kippax.watching Paul Lake play in every outfield position for City.
Going to Merseyside against Everton in the league cup quarter finals and having to duck as the coach got bricked as soon as we got off the motorway...I still shudder as I go under the bloody bridge where it happened all those years ago
Going to Leeds elland road as a somewhat naive teenager ...that was an experience...
Beating Huddersfield 10-1 ....Wow.just Wow
Going to Leeds rd road for my 1st ever fa cup match.watching a disabled supporter throwing his crutches at the ref for some reason..and
Wondering why Mel Machin our manager at the time was sent off..

Dancing with joy on the away terrace as John gidmans( iirc?) last min equaliser from a free kick, right in front of the away end made it 2-2!!

Being on the kippax on boxing day for the visit of Leeds...they brought thousands to Platt Lane and Kippax was in full voice..Xmas football was absolutely magic in those days.. the atmosphere natural and electric with everyone in a good mood( we lost 2-1 of course )
Drinking cider in the old supporters club bat..chatting to older Blues about Bell Lee Summerbee.

Travelling to Maine rd with forest fans for the league cup game midweek...Paul Lake absolutely destroyed forest the league cup holders and our team eam of home grown kids from the old 2nd division dumped 1st Division Forest out the cup.complete silence in the car on the way back....

Playing for City supporters club against quite a few teams that season..

Attending the Crystal Palace match at selhurst park for last match of the season,both sets of supporters singing anti man Utd songs as palace faced them in the fa cup final the week after( we,d been knocked out by redscouse in the quarter finals)

We finished well adrift of the promotion places.we had no money. Swales was chairman,the kippax was still a terrace and as a 2nd division team punched well above our weight in both domestic cups.

My favourite season bar none watching The Mighty Blues.
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Great memories of a great season - apart from the Palace away game. That was 89/ 90
 
dennishasdoneit said:
I missed Bradford and hull night games..
Went to bramhall lane ,had a drink in the cricketers next to ground and emerged unscathed.went Millwall away at old den...been 3 times to old den,never bothered with the new ground..
I saw 3 out of the 4 Huddersfield games,Inc the 3nil 2nd cup replay at Leeds rd in the pouring rain on the away terrace without a roof,absolutely soaked but loved it
Modern day younger fans have no idea what that was like..back in the day .

Missed the 1st replay at Maine rd,nil nil I think,but chose to go there in the league after the 10-1.. of course we lost 1nil.typical City.

I can't remember any average 2nd division team getting to the quarter finals of both domestic cups,at a time when both were taken deadly seriously by all clubs..not just teams who were unable to / not good enough to win any other trophy.........; )

We of course only got knocked out by Liverpool in the fa cup.. and Everton in the league cup..both powerful,canny ,hard running,skilful and
experienced 1st Division teams at the time..both were leagues above us on the day altho taking on Liverpool wih matk seagraves in our defence was a handcap and at everton ,iirc ,we had no 1st choive strike force as imre varadi was injured and Paul Lake at centre forward was out of his depth ..in front of 54k vociferous Scousers..

All in all a fantastic season.imaybe if we had not ventured so far in both domestic cups we could have got promotion ,but I wouldn't have swopped those cup runs for the world.. the match at Blackpools Bloomfield road was legendary...pitch battles on the away car park before k.o
A brilliant away crowd squeezed into the side terrace..and..after an average display....a last min scuffed equalising goal by Paul Lake following a 20 man free for all on the mud bath of a pitch ...thats what cup football used to represent ...pure excitement.
It was my first trip to blackpool and far from visions of beaches Blackpool tower and the sea,I experienced a clever robbery as City fans snatched the cash till from behind the bar in Yates...the experience of being immediately pissed when leaving a pub and the sea air hitting you..
And the thrill of vintage fa cup violence when I arrived at the ground
The last min celebrations were prob the best I've ever had ..on par with brightwells equaliser at Stretford two seasons later...

Mel Machin was a decent guy,played bright attacking football with a very inexperienced team..but when Howard Kendall took over the next season I started to learn what football management was all about...

They always say 1st love never dies and the 87/88 Was truly unforgettable for me.
Travelled to Ipswich on the weekend of the famous storms which battered
Britain Oct 87,want alone by train ,arrived at ground at 4.30pm after having to swop trains 6 times on the way there due to cancellations..it should have been a direct service arriving at 1.30...City got beat 3nil.
I almost forgot the few matches where we went goal crazy just after the 10-1 win,putting 6 past Plymouth,and 4 past Swindon at the county ground..another two matches I missed that season.
The important thing was I decided to travel up for the 10-1 ...after debating weather to bother..ended up seeing history in the making.

Great season.
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Swindon was the first time I ever saw us win away.
Had a ticket and train booked for Bradford (when we finally won away first time in about three years) but sold them on the coach to Ipswich as I was starting a new job the day before so I could hardly asked for half a day off on my first day!!
Ipswich booked on the special train. Got to Picc as u say storms battered the country so they put coaches on for that 3-0 battering !!

The cup runs were special. Blackpool is legendary as was Huddersfield. Remember the police trying to escort us to the ground at 11-00am and doing a runner into the market to hide for a bit. Still laugh now when we walk that same way to the new ground
That night at Goodison in the league. Service train and match bus . How I got home alive I will never know
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Great memories of a great season - apart from the Palace away game. That was 89/ 90
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Just checked an old programme from 87/88
We definitely played Palace at selhurst may 7th 1988.
I can now recall getting the old service train Manchester to Euston which stopped at Rugby for our supporters branch....I'd never seen so many absolutely battered / pissed up people on a train befor.certsinly opened my eyes lol..I was only a light drinker at the time.

I honestly didn't know what was going on,it was only 11.am ahead of a 3pm k.o.

There were fans stumbling around out their head,some with porno mags in hand,daft Donald holding court talking about battering utd fans.

It was mayhem,lol
 
Winchester said:
1976/77
First season and just failed to stop Lfc
Loved every minute though
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Great shout. I started going in 1973 but me and a mate from school got our first season tickets in 1976/77. On the Kippax for a fiver.
That season and 2011/12 are my favourite seasons. The first few months of 11/12 were brilliant. Then the run in started to go pear shaped just like 76/77. Unlike the Dippers in the 70's the Rags bottled it.
 
Gingers Dad said:
Great shout. I started going in 1973 but me and a mate from school got our first season tickets in 1976/77. On the Kippax for a fiver.
That season and 2011/12 are my favourite seasons. The first few months of 11/12 were brilliant. Then the run in started to go pear shaped just like 76/77. Unlike the Dippers in the 70's the Rags bottled it.
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Whenever City and utd have gone head to head for the title,utd have always bottled it.every time.
 
Being going nearly 60 years but I think 11/12, decades of no chance of winning the league, never thought we’d win the Prem, and the way we won it, depriving the rag cunts in the dying seconds
 
Most of mine have been mentioned, but one I haven't seen is the 08/09 season. So many great moments, an equal amount of terrible ones, and typical City through and through.

A blistering hot start on the back of several exciting signings, and then relegation form for the last 3 months of the season.
Doing the double over United. Michael Ball stamping on Ronaldo.
Getting knocked out of the FA cup by a balloon.
Everything about the Benjani transfer.
Elano free kicks.
Getting excited over the Nery Castillo loan signing who immediately broke his shoulder and turned to shit.
Going into the final game of the season about to qualify for Europe on fair play, and Richard Dunne immediately getting a red card as Boro annihilated us.

That was the first year I felt we were building towards something better since Keegan, then I was terrified we would go into administration when Thaskin had his assets frozen, but who knew what would happen next...
 
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yankblue said:
Most of mine have been mentioned, but one I haven't seen is the 08/09 season. So many great moments, an equal amount of terrible ones, and typical City through and through.

A blistering hot start on the back of several exciting signings, and then relegation form for the last 3 months of the season.
Doing the double over United. Michael Ball stamping on Ronaldo.
Getting knocked out of the FA cup by a balloon.
Everything about the Benjani transfer.
Elano free kicks.
Getting excited over the Nery Castillo loan signing who immediately broke his shoulder and turned to shit.
Going into the final game of the season about to qualify for Europe on fair play, and Richard Dunne immediately getting a red card as Boro annihilated us.

That was the first year I felt we were building towards something better since Keegan, then I was terrified we would go into administration when Thaskin had his assets frozen, but who knew what would happen next...
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This was the 2007/2008 season which as you day started really well with that great day at West Ham and some really good performances such as Newcastle and middlesborough etc. some great signings made and Sven in charge.

Unraveled pretty quick though after Christmas but all part of the city history..
 
Bobby the blue said:
This was the 2007/2008 season which as you day started really well with that great day at West Ham and some really good performances such as Newcastle and middlesborough etc. some great signings made and Sven in charge.

Unraveled pretty quick though after Christmas but all part of the city history..
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Shit, you're right! Wrong year on my part. Yeah Bianchi scored a few against West Ham if I remember correctly and I was convinced could solve our striker woes.

Michael Johnson looked world class for a while there too.

Think we also got an Elano RB performance against Pompey?

Strange season
 
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