A question for everyone who was there to see it.

mancityvstoke said:
Prestwich_Blue said:
In some ways I almost wish I had been watching it on TV rather than being there. I just couldn't take it all in at the time. Plus the only thing I could think of at the time was how I'd love to have seen the rags' fans faces when Aguero scored.

But I wouldn't have swapped being there for anything else really. Going to watch it again now you've reminded me.
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sums up precisely how I felt.
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And me.
 
For the first 5 minutes after Aguero scored nothing had really sank in! I just couldn't really believe what had just happened, i was in total shock!

It was really when I got into the car after the game and turned on 5 live it all started to sink in, listening to rag meltdowns, that terry christian dickhead!! God it felt good...
 
obviously we all knew what it meant to us

but no I had no idea we'd have to share it with everyone else and just how much the world still hates the rags

which is nice :-)
 
The day before the match was where I realised how big the game was when my sis who lives in LA and isn't really into football but still supports City like the rest of the family, rang me all excited saying the title race and City in particular were all over the big news channels over there and saying about us being on the brink of first title in 44 years. She then rang me after the match from the pub she was watching it in with various fans from other teams and every one of them was celebrating our win!
 
the manner of the win was what made it special,and it was only after the third goal that you could enjoy itbut the emotion was just too kuch too take everythinh in.
At the time I didnt think about streford or their reactions it was just about the absolute joy of enjoying the moment and the rest of the day with my family.
It was only the following day that I witnessed the agony on the faces of the stretford utd fans that made me smile.I couldnt really give a toss about them and their fans I am onlyinterested in what we do.
But the real pleasure was seeing my team win the title again and enjoying it with those around me.
 
No, not really. Missed 5 calls and loads of texts and didn't realise until I left the ground at 6 ish. I live in Kent and work in London and it wasn't until the next day after I got back from Manchester that I realised how pleased people were that City had won. Mates, colleagues even people on the train who arn't proper mates congratulated me. Even in London people were well chuffed. My Manc rag clients weren't too impressed when I spoke to them that week, though!!! Asked my brother who lives in U. S. if there was much coverage of the Euro's, England team or Premier League and he said there was quite a lot about City !!! The World was/is celebrating............!!!!!!!!
 
At the time, not really. After we left the ground though we bumped into a couple of QPR fans on Ashton New Road. One of them walked up, hugged me and just kept saying 'what a game, what a game' - he seemed to be just as stunned as we all were and seemed really genuinely happy that we had done it. That was the first thought I had that someting pretty unique had happened, in terms of reactions from other fans. I told a rag at work that the QPR fans were all cheering our third goal, but he's not having it.
 
cibaman said:
Absolute nightmare of a season at times. But in retrospect was the ideal way to win it. If we'd cruised to win by 10 points the arguement would have been "United were poor/ in transition. They've still got that "winning mentality" and if its tight next year, that will make the difference". And plenty would believe that.

Now their "winning mentality" has gone, permanently.
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Not only did Sergio's goal bring untold joy to billions, it kiboshed many an axiom rolled out by many a Rag journo describing the way MANUre won titles. Winning mentality, Ferguson mind games, once MANUre get ahead, better in the second half of the season. Horseshit, everyone of them.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
In some ways I almost wish I had been watching it on TV rather than being there. I just couldn't take it all in at the time. Plus the only thing I could think of at the time was how I'd love to have seen the rags' fans faces when Aguero scored.

But I wouldn't have swapped being there for anything else really. Going to watch it again now you've reminded me.
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A bit like me, my wife threw a party and said I was in shock. The kompany interview after the game sums up how I felt. I just kept saying 'Manchester fucking city, Jesus christ' to anyone who'd listen
 
As I leapt three rows forward whislt celebrating Kuns goal I also knew in my heart we had fooked the rags over good and proper...and in a way that would linger...they can chat all they like about what they are gonna do but that is gonna hurt every time they see it...and they will see it a lot.
As for the global scale of the joy in football I had no idea...the only clue was the celebration of QPR's fans...it is heartwarming to know how hated they are...and Rooney ranting at the sunderland fans a few days later was just pure poetry...it really got to them.
 
Blue Tooth said:
As I leapt three rows forward whislt celebrating Kuns goal I also knew in my heart we had fooked the rags over good and proper...and in a way that would linger...they can chat all they like about what they are gonna do but that is gonna hurt every time they see it...and they will see it a lot.
As for the global scale of the joy in football I had no idea...the only clue was the celebration of QPR's fans...it is heartwarming to know how hated they are...and Rooney ranting at the sunderland fans a few days later was just pure poetry...it really got to them.
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Must have missed that. What did the granny shagger say?
 
I have had fans of other clubs asking me what the day was like and how it felt and I still can't put it into words. As for how other fans felt about it, to be honest I don't care.

That was for us, for all of us. To share the emotion of the day with fellow long suffering blues, with my wife and brother is something I will take to the grave with me.
Just thinking about the day again now is making me emotional.
CHAMPIONS!
 
I felt sick, a part of me said "here we go again, oh well maybe next year eh!"

Then Dzeko scored and I thought "oh we'll at least we won't get beat.
Now upon watching Dzeko's goal watch as the team, or at least nine of them, turn as one at almost the same time and run to the centre circle, it's scarey! Almost robotic.

Then I watched Nige and shouted "'hoof the fucking thing into the box"

Then Mario went down and I thought "you useless twat"

Then.......

Well, then, we know what happened.

I jumped around like a loon but to be honest I still felt sick!
Finally got the coach home and didn't want to drink, didn't want to go the pub after.
I just wanted to go home and watch match of the day, for proof of what I'd witnessed!

Don't know if I ever wanna feel like that again to be honest !
 
I knew it was special and just wanted to make the most of it..

I didnt get home until about 8.30pm as i hung around the stadium for ages...


We will never experience a moment like that ever again..
 
Definitely way too emotional to take it in at the time but the train back to my London exile was essentially a 3 hours love in with the QPR fans. I got texts from mates/family who support Liverpool, Everton, Sheff Utd, Leeds, Swansea, Hearts. Wolves and yes Utd etc etc - to a man they were all chuffed to the bits for me. My Everton supporting mate said he was pretty much in tears at 90 mins which I think says it all.
 
Unfortunately most of my mates are Rags. Only one of them congratulated me and I consider him to be the only real supporter out of all of them. I didn't hear from any of the others for over a week.
 
I'll be honest, i thought we were dead and buried. The low i felt that day was just plain wrong. Then dzeko, then bang the big one, i completley 100% can say i was overwhelmed by emotions, i have not felt before. The euphoria after the depressed state of mind was off the scale. I even invaded the pitch, i grabbed my daughter and we both rushed on the pitch, the panoramic view i took in, of 47, 000 fans in joyous raptures 360 degrees around us, is a sight that is banked in the memory and will come with me to the grave.
 
Despite it happening over a month ago now, I still need a nightly dose of reliving the moment (along with the endless complimentary YouTube footage of commentaries from across the globe and fans' reactions).

I think the key to why it has chimed so loudly with football fans across the nation is the romance of it. Regardless of the money that has been invested, you simply could not buy that sort of climax to an extraordinary season. Neutrals were charmed, cynics were converted, and a whole generation of young City fans were born. It's how it happens.

The ending of the game had an element of tension, suspense, skill, precision, luck, and inevitability about it. These combined ingredients made for pure drama.

The only worry is, similar to when Dennis Taylor beat Steve Davis at 1am in the morning on a black ball: how do you top that?

Retaining the title would do it for me.
 
Like others have said, it was only when I got out of the stadium and started getting texts and calls that it hit home how big a deal this was. The gnawing doubt, the worry, the fear and then the euphoria and the relief blotted out everything else totally before then. When I put the radio on, the scale of what had happened started to sink in - stories of the cheer for us at Stamford Bridge, the poznan at Sunderland and so on. During the game and immediately afterwards I wasn't thinking about the rags, the worldwide audience or anything other than the game and what it meant to us.

TBH I think it is still sinking in.
 
I think the "problem" we all had inside the ground... was separating the "achievement" of finally winning the league...from the "dramatic fashion" in which we ended up doing it.

I was so concerned with the impact that not beating QPR might have on morale for next season, the project, Mancini, etc that the eventual adrenalin rush of those crazy last few minutes left me in a daze + everything became a bit of a blur.

Someone said to me a few minutes after the final whistle that commentators on Sky, BBC etc were describing it as the most incredible end to a season ever...and my initial reaction was "typical football hyperbole" because all we had done was beat QPR....

...the drama of scoring two such late goals only really began to sink in later...and I definitely agree that fans watching on tv in pubs + bars probably had a better sense of the magic moment in football history that we had just created.

p.s. just take a look at some of the comments posted on Youtube in response to the "Manchester City win the league. Everyone goes nuts" video.
Fans from Italy,Spain, South America...all over the world enjoyed sharing our moment of glory with us.
 
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