35 years of hurt...your top five low points

1) This thread.
2) Luton (as has been mentioned, I think this was the lowest point).
3) 0-2 to Gillingham (was actually cheering myself up with the thought that at least Millwall's fans would be banned from our place and didn't even get out of my seat when Horlock scored, and only did so when I saw we had 5 minutes injury time).
4) 2-5 Stoke.
5) 5-0 at the swamp, sat in the stretford end.
 
1. Getting relegated by Luton in 1983. We should never have gotten into that position anyway when we looked to be quite safe at Easter but somehow we managed it. I was in tears after that, a situation not repeated until May 14th this year.

2. The 2006 AGM. From high to low in a few hours. The day before that meeting the group behind the Supporters Trust hammered out a deal with Sky to buy their 10% shareholding, knowing we would also get the backing of other key shareholders. This meant we would have the power to appoint directors to the board and we had serious people lined up. At that meeting the club illegally announced what turned out to be a mythical approach and Sky then put the deal on hold. The club maintained the fiction (although the Takeover Panel were getting suspicious) until Ranson & shinawatra emerged, months later. The whole meeting itself was an exercise is lies and denial from Mackintosh.

3. The last few years of Swales, from 1992-94. Clearly he'd run out of ideas (other than sack the manager) and had to go fr the future good of the club but showed no signs of doing so.

4. The summer of 2008. Sven was sacked, there were problems behind the scenes but the real low was receiving a phone call in the latter part of June saying that City were planning to go into administration and the PL were desperately trying to get someone to put together a rescue package. The consensus among the people discussing the rescue was that it was probably better to let them go then pick up the pieces without the burden of huge debts.

5. Around Xmas 1998, when it became clear we wouldn't be romping League 1 and looked likely to stay there. (On that basis I booked a holiday to New York for late May thereby missing the Gillingham game).
 
1. living and working in Bury it was the season in the 90's when were in the Division BELOW Bury - I had a miserable 12 months ( even worse than losing 1-0 to them at Maine Road)

2. the second half of the Pearce season when we failed to score a single goal at home!!!!

3. losing 5-0 to United

4. losing 4-0 at Maine Road to Wimbledon

5. every one of the recent United last minute winners against us
 
It seems almost masochistic to have a thread like this but in the end it’s a good idea, not least because it encourages us to stay humble as we push onwards and upwards. We should never forget the lows as we enjoy the highs.

My five in no particular order:

Shrewsbury 2 v Man City 0, FA Cup 1979, The bitterest pill to swallow growing up.

Relegation to Luton. I was studying abroad at the time and listened on the world service. Trying to wrestle with the dodgy French electrics in my flat, I wouldn’t have minded if I’d been electrocuted there and then.

York away. Nuff said.

The 1981 Cup Final replay. I have never felt more alone or more desolate after a match. (I didn’t feel any pain funnily enough when the Gills went 2-0 up at Wembley as by then I was suffering from Battered Fan Syndrome.)

Man Utd 4 v Man City 3. Everybody said it was ‘the greatest derby ever’ and we lost it. I wondered at the time if we’d ever win another one.

During the 70s and 80s there was a time listening to Sport on 2 when, with five minutes to go, I used to dread hearing the words ‘there’s been a goal in the Manchester City game.’ Everyone but everyone seemed to score against us in the last few minutes.
 
In no particular order:

Going to Bristol City in 77 on back of a 26 game unbeaten run losing 1-0 (ended up missing title by 1 point) not being able to see anything and car getting puncture on motorway on way home - horror trip.

Watching us fail to trouble the scorers too often under Pearce.

As anybody of that era watching Pleat dancing across Maine road.

Halifax

Watching Maine Road being knocked down - know it had to happen for us to progress but hit at the heart strings non the less
 
Luton relegation, remember sat in the platt lane one of the last to leave in tears

Halifax was hard to stomach

Trying to stay strong after yet another derby defeat, the last minute ones god they hurt

Listening to the radio on an away night mid table in the 3rd tier of football wondering what went wrong

But the one that always gets me is the Swales, Lee fiasco and the sacking of Brian Horton, i still believe to this day we would have grown under Horton. I remember working really late one night when god knows how many managers had turned us down and on the radio i heard a news bulletin about 11pm saying George Graham was the new manager, i never heard it mentioned again. Did anyone else listen to Lees constant stuff on the radio at that time, i felt like i had to listen to the radio 24/7 and then we got......... Alan Ball, gloom doom and despair but yet with everything we managed to still keep that City faith, i am sure it was only because we knew that if we could ever come back from this we would never take anything for granted
 
Losing away 4-0 in the League Cup at Southampton in the early 80's and the long journey home after.
The 8-1 at Middlesborough. Journey home was horrible.
Luton relegation.
York City.
Geeting rid of Peter Reid.
 
In no particular order and excluding the obvious relegations, embarrassing FA Cup defeats, months without away wins, career ending injuries to fantastic players and most backroom disasters these spring to mind:

Getting beat 5-0 by the rags in 1994, which eclipsed the 5-1. Was nothing sacred. Surely things couldn't get any worse. But they did.

Thinking we had really turned the corner and how things were looking up when Franny Lee took over, only to go bumping back down again.

City being in Divison 2 and having to endure a season of piss taking from Stockport County fans, amongst others, who were a division higher than us. My response at the time was 'make the most of it as it wont last'. Luckily I was proven right.

Having to play in the 1st round of the League Cup for the first time ever and getting beat by Blackpool. Fortunately I was in a bar in Majorca with my City shirt on, surrounded by a bunch of rags and dippers!

Having to play in the Auto Windscreens Trophy and losing in the first round.

There are probably loads more; but some might need some serious psychotherapy to extract.
 
Great idea for a thread.

I have mostly the same moments...

Luton Away. Just writing those words brings back the utter despair and disbelief.
Going 2-0 down to Gillingham. I thought we were done for good.
Losing FA Cup replay. I was the only blue at my school. Everyone else was cheering Spurs laughing in my face.
First game back under the second Malcolm Allison era... Steve Daley... all the hype... 0-0
and the commentators just mocked us.
Last year's Michael Owen goal in Fergie time. I threw a chair at the television.
 
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