A question for everyone who was there to see it.

Scooby Blue said:
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.


...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.
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I'm so glad to read so many in this thread saying they were a bit dazed and it didn't feel like they thought it would at the time! Thought it was just me!

It's me and my mum who are season ticket for 25 years, and for us there, when we got the 2nd goal and it all went mad, after that minute instead of crying i just seemed to go quite numb, like it wasn't real, was it real? Is this really happening? etc etc. And as we dont have sky i still havent seen the play back of all the postmatch stuff/last 20 min of match - apart from youtube clips on bluemoon!

My sister on the other hand went to dads side of the family and trooped off up to our aunts 30 miles away (who hasn't set foot at city for about 30 years but hey...!) (and who doesn't really keep in touch - but she had sky so off they went!) - and they were leaping around and crying and really soaking it in.

So i totally agree that although i wouldnt swap being at the match for anything, i do think those watching on telly may have had that little bit more sense of what it was or the emotion etc. My sister still cant understand how i didnt cry at the match! I said i was numb! I was sat in desolation for most of the 2nd half and that sudden change has nearly killed me!
 
Never really sank in as I suffered with shock!!!...It took days to sink in and still hasn't, that win was so important to the belief of the club and finances I don't think we'll realise until 2-3 years down the line when our turnover doubles.
 
Great post Pam and some cracking replies.

It keeps on giving too.....Did you see the piece on BCC news last night when they talked about the Premier League rights being sold? Clips of Kun scoring and Vinnie lifting the trophy. Keep it coming lads..
 
I didn't appreciate it at all. I was so involved in the moment at the ground that I just thought it was about us and our fans. Since then though I've talked to a lot of mates and work collegues who support different clubs all over the world including Liverpool, Chelsea, Hearts, Inter Milan and various Swedish teams and all of them have said the same which is along the lines of "we jumped up in our house cheering when Aguero scored" or " we were willing the ball into the net"

Unbelievable
 
Told you didnt I? when everyone wrote it off, I said if we won all our games we win the league! Didnt think it would be that dramatic though!!
 
i could barely even think after the final whistle i was that exhausted, nevermind take in the fact that we'd just witnesed what will go down as one of the greatest sporting moments in history. ha, i barely even remember what happened when kun's goal went in, all i know is i came round about a minute later with one leg firmly trapped down the back of my seat, and about three of my mates on top of me. was like being trapped in a washing machine on spin cycle when that goal went in, to quote one of my mates. unbelievable
 
Around 80-85 mins I was thinking "shit!!! I know too many rags & all of the fuckers are gonna be chatting shit forever about this". I couldn't believe what followed. It was weeks later before I realised just how big a win it really was.
 
Jordie said:
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?
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Something like it won't be forgotten that they celebrated City winning the league.
 
I was so easy to tell who was a blue that night lol..
some friends and I were out in Piccadilly gardens..
every time we saw someone who wasn't just simply elated and glowing.. we'd sing out "youre not smilin' must be a man u fan" ..
 
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 too.
 
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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.
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One Manc rag contact of mine met a load of blues in a boozer and drank with us whist putting on a brave face. So I have no problem with him in fact there is now a bit of respect because I honestly don't think he knows where he is going wrong. Other than that I've had two fcuk off type texts from all the rest of them I know. In the last 30 minutes of normal time I had about 30 dead funny tick tock messages. I can't contact any of them know.....the twats can't hide forever!

What a day...hopefully we experience winning it in a canter next season as my ticker wont be able to carry on like this!!
 
I remember once me and my lad arrived back from the match and straight into my Local,the amount of back slapping I received from one and all,was superb.Fellow Blues,Red Dippers,Blue Dippers,Wolves fans and even Rugby League lads were joining in the festivities,but hardly a Rag to be seen.
Don`t remember much of the night,apart from asking the DJ to keep playing Hey Jude and the noise made by the Blues was fantastic.
Next day was a bit of a blur but I was determined to get into town and look for Rag mates who had been giving it plenty of verbal some 4 weeks before,ref their 8 point lead and how they never lost from positions like that !!
I`m certain, all those 44 years ago and as a 17 year old kid,this was far better than I could have ever imagined and I`ve lost count the number of times I`ve seen "that goal" and still I get moist eyes.
Brilliant,brilliant day.
 
talking to my mate yesterday after a funeral its the 1st time ive seen him since we did it he went to Greece 2 days after and was telling me him & his missus were advised to take a taxi into the mountains as they wanted to try some local cuisine he was told the best place but it was in the mountains as he made his way up there he told me at one point you was looking down on the clouds the taxi dropped him off , him & his wife as entering could hear all this cheering they looked in and saw City v QPR on the big screen after talking to the owner , the owner put him a table in front of the big screen told him its the 4th time they have watched the match as he and all his regulars were now City fans once the owner had found out my mate was at the game they gave him everything complimentry
 
I couldn't go to the 99 game so I can't say that the QPR game was more or less amazing to see live, but I have never felt such a swing of emotion from total despair to utter joy and amazement ever in my life. That feeling was worth the cost of years of season tickets and all the heartache we've suffered. We stayed at the ground for Ages and when we came out, couldn't get in any of the local boozers as they were rammed. We ended up buying a load of cans from Beswick News to get us going, but tO be honest it didnt sink in and still hasn't fully. I don't think it will until next season gets going.
 
I can only remember the complete relief that we hadn't fucked it up and them cunts didnt win it, that seemed more important than it did us winning it.

Would much rather have cruised to a 4-0 so we could have all partied for much of the afternoon....it was too emotionally draining to be enjoyed. I hope whoever said you'll not see it like that again is bang on because I never want to go through that again.

Still not sunk in, none of it seems real, but can see how we would have won over a few fans that day.
 
Just reading these posts gets me at it, a few days after the game, I was asked can I recall the feeling that I and others around me at the game had when Sergio scored and what game if any could match it.

My first response was the Gillingham game, however that was as I watched it on the telly, after a long pause and after nearly 40 years of following City I couldnt, the game that sprung to mind and for me came close was the Paul Power goal in the semi final at Villa Park against Ipswich or the 3-3 draw at Maine Rd against the scum when Summerbee scored, was in the North Stand (standing).

Wow...


CTID
 
I was aware how big it was from our perspective alright.Our first title in 44 years,pulling back an 8 point lead over the rags,finished the stronger,winning a game from an almost impossible situation with seconds to spare.All character building and a massive confidence shot for the future and a crushing loss for the rags.The reverse would have applied to us if we wouldn't have pulled it off.

The second half of that game up until the Aguero goal was just too painful to relax and enjoy.We just never looked like scoring one,never mind two goals.There was no way i could see us winning that game as the clock ticked slowly to it's conclusion.It was agonising mental torture to the extreme.

The joy when that goal went in and the celebration that followed i have NEVER felt or experianced in 44 years of following the Blues.Utter joy,disbelief and a gutteral primeaval release of emotion that words cannot describe enough to do it justice.

It seems that almost everyone that wasn't a rag got caught up in the moment and jumped for joy when the goal went in.Anyone who knew a City fan,or anything about our history just KNEW what that moment meant to us.At such moments,when a club like us has suffered so many years of pain and misery,rivalry and any envy for the money was forgotten.That was football fans feeling the utter joy of one of their own against all the odds.Magical!
 
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