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35 years of hurt...your top five low points
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LongsightM13
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Luton home in THAT game.
Stoke away in THAT game.
Ex-blue Alan Bailey mocking Weaver's Wembley celebration as he leathered home a late penalty for Stockport fucking County
Rolling around on the floor fighting a plastic rag farm boy in a pub in Cork on a stag do, as Alan fucking Ball laughably pissed away our top flight status at home to Liverpool.
Owen's 99th minute winner at the swamp.
Stoke away in THAT game.
Ex-blue Alan Bailey mocking Weaver's Wembley celebration as he leathered home a late penalty for Stockport fucking County
Rolling around on the floor fighting a plastic rag farm boy in a pub in Cork on a stag do, as Alan fucking Ball laughably pissed away our top flight status at home to Liverpool.
Owen's 99th minute winner at the swamp.
Wienerwald
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There is one low point that sticks out - amongst all the others. Losing away at Wycombe - awful game - lost by a penalty. I remember looking at the Team before the game - and whereas I'd idolised all City players previously this lot looked strangely human - and seemed to sum up how far we had fallen. Stuck in a traffic jam out of the one road that leads from Adams Park - feeling that was it - we were going to be stuck in that division and end up being one of the many former great Northern clubs with nothing but a glorious past as comfort.
As the first poster mentioned - it was that memory that made the FA Cup triumph all the sweeter.
As the first poster mentioned - it was that memory that made the FA Cup triumph all the sweeter.
Bellamy's Caddy
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These are in chronological order, but I've not rated them 1-5, they are just 5 moments that stand out for me as low points.
1) Relegation against Liverpool in 1996, the first time I saw City relegated. I couldn't believe what I was seeing when we subbed Niall Quinn and he came back out, hair still wet from his shower, screaming at the players that we needed another goal. Why did non of the coaching staff not have a radio?
2) Relegation against Stoke despite winning 5-2 in 1998, to see the club I loved so much, sink that low...terrible.
3) Being 2-0 down in the play off final against Gillingham, thinking we were destined for another season in division 2, the abyss. (Fortunately this one had a happy ending but I'll never forget how despondent I was at 2-0 down)
4) Leaving Maine Road and the untimely death of Marc-Vivien Foe.
It was sad to leave Maine Road, it was the home of so many great footballing memories for me and many thousands of blues. To no longer be able to go to the place you saw your first game was sad, however it was put in to context only a short time later by the untimely death of Marc - Vivien Foe. Pele was in town the night Foe died at an event at Flannels, I queued up to get his autograph. Was so happy on the way home, then flicked on the news and couldn't believe what I was seeing. I went to Maine Road to sign the condolence book and saw all the flowers, shirts and tributes. I remember a really hard looking bloke with tears in his eyes pointing out a poem he'd read earlier, it was surreal. I'll never forget what it was like outside Maine Road that day.
5) Blackburn 2 City 0 FA Cup 1/4 final 2007
To see City play with so little passion in an important game was bad enough, but the vibe around the club with Pearce at the time was like the bad old days. I remember the TV footage of the woman literally screaming in frustration. A horrible day, but we'd seen far worse and at least we were in the Premier league at the time. Still a low point though.
1) Relegation against Liverpool in 1996, the first time I saw City relegated. I couldn't believe what I was seeing when we subbed Niall Quinn and he came back out, hair still wet from his shower, screaming at the players that we needed another goal. Why did non of the coaching staff not have a radio?
2) Relegation against Stoke despite winning 5-2 in 1998, to see the club I loved so much, sink that low...terrible.
3) Being 2-0 down in the play off final against Gillingham, thinking we were destined for another season in division 2, the abyss. (Fortunately this one had a happy ending but I'll never forget how despondent I was at 2-0 down)
4) Leaving Maine Road and the untimely death of Marc-Vivien Foe.
It was sad to leave Maine Road, it was the home of so many great footballing memories for me and many thousands of blues. To no longer be able to go to the place you saw your first game was sad, however it was put in to context only a short time later by the untimely death of Marc - Vivien Foe. Pele was in town the night Foe died at an event at Flannels, I queued up to get his autograph. Was so happy on the way home, then flicked on the news and couldn't believe what I was seeing. I went to Maine Road to sign the condolence book and saw all the flowers, shirts and tributes. I remember a really hard looking bloke with tears in his eyes pointing out a poem he'd read earlier, it was surreal. I'll never forget what it was like outside Maine Road that day.
5) Blackburn 2 City 0 FA Cup 1/4 final 2007
To see City play with so little passion in an important game was bad enough, but the vibe around the club with Pearce at the time was like the bad old days. I remember the TV footage of the woman literally screaming in frustration. A horrible day, but we'd seen far worse and at least we were in the Premier league at the time. Still a low point though.
Oooh Curley Wurley
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n_mcfc said:gap_f/w said:All low points mentioned on previous posts just made me
love and support my club more
However two games really did make me question how long
I would continue watching City
Macclesfield away Div 2
I was playing on better pitches and thought if this gets
any worse my dream of playing for City may come true
Second was against Crewe at Maine Road.
Steve Jones, played for Crewe and he had played for me the
year before for a team I managed.
Sunday League - he was at Leigh at the time
As I said wondered how long I would be watching us for the
fear of playing against us or the dream of playing for us etc ....
RMI?
manimanc
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1- bury at home under clark,the piss taking at work that week still makes my blood boil,getting beat 1-0 at home off bury was painful beyond belief..
2- spurs at home,93 fa cup,disaster as i thought we had a chance of progressing.
3- preston at home under royle(i think),another 1-0 off a team that was shite.
4- half of our 1st season at eastlands under keegan. i went into this season with a fair bit of hope of something happening and it`s only just dawned on me that beating the geordies 1-0 at home made us safe...a horror season in my opinion.
5- being relegated to the third division and looking at the fixture list when it came out and reeling off the names of york,wycombe,bristol rovers etc and the feeling of embarassment that washed over me....
2- spurs at home,93 fa cup,disaster as i thought we had a chance of progressing.
3- preston at home under royle(i think),another 1-0 off a team that was shite.
4- half of our 1st season at eastlands under keegan. i went into this season with a fair bit of hope of something happening and it`s only just dawned on me that beating the geordies 1-0 at home made us safe...a horror season in my opinion.
5- being relegated to the third division and looking at the fixture list when it came out and reeling off the names of york,wycombe,bristol rovers etc and the feeling of embarassment that washed over me....
gap_f/w said:n_mcfc said:gap_f/w said:Sunday League - he was at Leigh at the time
As I said wondered how long I would be watching us for the
fear of playing against us or the dream of playing for us etc ....
Ah fair enough. Top player for that level at the time.
My five are as follows:-
1. Luton (h) 83 - relegation and disbelief, never left Maine Road whatever the score after a game any worse than I felt that day
2. West Ham (a) 87 - relegation again! I went to every game that season and still believed we would stay up even though we didnt win a single away game.
3. Lincoln away - losing 4-1 in a midweek game, coming away from the game thinking we were lucky to keep it down to 4 to a team 2 or 3 divisions lower than we were.
4. Utd away - going to Old Trafford is bad enough but to lose 5 nil.
5. Pearce era - Whilst he was in charge I regularly questioned was it worth it, the players didnt look interested
1. Luton (h) 83 - relegation and disbelief, never left Maine Road whatever the score after a game any worse than I felt that day
2. West Ham (a) 87 - relegation again! I went to every game that season and still believed we would stay up even though we didnt win a single away game.
3. Lincoln away - losing 4-1 in a midweek game, coming away from the game thinking we were lucky to keep it down to 4 to a team 2 or 3 divisions lower than we were.
4. Utd away - going to Old Trafford is bad enough but to lose 5 nil.
5. Pearce era - Whilst he was in charge I regularly questioned was it worth it, the players didnt look interested
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The Dave Watson own goal in injury time against Liverpool on an icey Maine Road surface way back in December 1976 following the League Cup success that year. I'm 50 now, but can still see the greatest centre half ever to play for City heading a back pass towards Joe Corrigan in the Platt Lane goal. Joe had come for the ball and Dave, not noticing, put too much on his header. We'd have won the league in 76 77 were it not for that moment of utter despair.
ono
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1: All 3 United defeats last year. The 4-3 made me actually sick.
2: Being relegated at Ipswich. I cried.
3: The 5-2 at Stoke
4: Watching us being inept under Hughes (various times). actually depressed me more than the Pearce era, because we shouldn't have been so bad (away from home mainly)
5: Pearce era. Diabolical.
2: Being relegated at Ipswich. I cried.
3: The 5-2 at Stoke
4: Watching us being inept under Hughes (various times). actually depressed me more than the Pearce era, because we shouldn't have been so bad (away from home mainly)
5: Pearce era. Diabolical.