Are we the most resilient bottle proof team in history?

For me, Mancini changed the mentality of the club. He gave us the foundation of mental strength that we see today. In the league.

Pep touched on this a lot in the champions league, we need the experience of big games in Europe, the wins at the bernabau the alliance, the camp nou. When it matters. The semi finals and finals. Build our experience and our mentality. The madrids, dippers etc have that in their locker, us not so much.

When we eventually win this, this year or next etc, the mentality will be immense in this competition and as we’ve seen in the league so many times it’s a powerful thing to have.
 
I'm never convinced that it's a binary yes/no response, because either in some our most successful seasons we've occasionally dropped silly points, but been aided by our immediate rivals spectacularly imploding.

Also, (the Gerrard slip being the best example) we find ourselves rewriting history.

Everyone remembers the hysteria and Gerrard's WE DO NOT LET THIS SLIP after our 3-2 defeat at Anfield. However, it's often forgotten that the Title was still in City's hands, as we still had two games in hand.

City then blew (and almost lost) the rearranged home game v Sunderland.

Similarly, both City and United dropped silly points as 11/12 neared its climax.
 
BlueAnorak said:
We always had a good chance if winning stuff if we were in with a shout, the problem was if we were struggling to avoid relegation in the last few games of any season we always were relegated.
Stuart Pearce for all the horrible football that he delivered, did actually break this trend FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MCFC HISTORY.
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Fuck Pearce. That was all Beanie and Mpenza.
 
BlueAnorak said:
We always had a good chance if winning stuff if we were in with a shout, the problem was if we were struggling to avoid relegation in the last few games of any season we always were relegated.
Stuart Pearce for all the horrible football that he delivered, did actually break this trend FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MCFC HISTORY.
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Things got pretty hairy in 2003/4 until we beat Newcastle at home iirc.
 
theres only one carlito said:
For me, Mancini changed the mentality of the club. He gave us the foundation of mental strength that we see today. In the league.

Pep touched on this a lot in the champions league, we need the experience of big games in Europe, the wins at the bernabau the alliance, the camp nou. When it matters. The semi finals and finals. Build our experience and our mentality. The madrids, dippers etc have that in their locker, us not so much.

When we eventually win this, this year or next etc, the mentality will be immense in this competition and as we’ve seen in the league so many times it’s a powerful thing to have.
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When did we win at the Nou Camp?
 
hilts said:
This could be the shortest thread in bluemoon history due to my shite memory but from the aguero season have we ever not got it done in the business end of the season?

8 points behind and have to win every game including the rags? Easy..

Liverpool win every week so we have to? No problemo

Have to win the last game of the season? Win every time.

Miles behind after the half way point? Just go on a mad run.

Have we ever failed when still in the running at the business end of the season. I thought this season we may fall short and then we just decided to win every fucking game.

What team has managed to be so fucking good at a time when mere mortals shit their pants?
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In the league we get the job done but arguably we are bottle jobs in the CL. We should have beaten Chelsea, we should have seen the game out against Madrid last season. We managed to get knocked out by Spurs. For some reason all that positive winning mentality we have in the league goes out the window in the CL where we seem to elevate it to a higher level and feel overawed. Whether that's because Pep respects it more than any other competition and becomes slightly negative who knows, but it would be nice to have the same dominance in Europe now.
 
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