Best Opposition Player You've Seen Live v City.

[Citizen Green]

Barry De Jong was his uncle:)

Think you'll find it was Roque Santabayor

 

[PaulPowerScreamer]

One that sticks in my mind is Lineker's hat trick for Everton, Goodison 1986. At his best he was a truly brilliant striker and we copped for it that day.

 

[Platt Lane 59]

One that sticks in my mind is Lineker's hat trick for Everton, Goodison 1986. At his best he was a truly brilliant striker and we copped for it that day.

Seem to remember it was Baltic that night ?
4 bloody breakaways from Everton...

 

[Mike S]

Iniesta springs to mind when Barcelona came to our place in early 2015. All the pre match hype was of course about Messi but I thought Iniesta ran the show !

 

[Sk@mcfc]

Messi by a country mile followed by Henry

 

[Mifred]

Was mates with Barry Ireland IIRC

Must have been a sporting group as friends of Barry Briggs

 

[iwasthere1968]

Bobby Moore , Jimmy Greaves , Thierry Henry

 

[PaulPowerScreamer]

Seem to remember it was Baltic that night ?
4 bloody breakaways from Everton...

Yeah Paul Power and Nicky Reid hardly covered themselves in glory either

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Traore. Tore us apart a few seasons ago. Just the once mind. Not seen the like (in the last ten years) from any of the so called European elite.

 

[Damocles]

Berbatov is the first that jumps to mind, although Messi in that early CL game was mental.

I remember watching Darren Huckerby when he played against us for Coventry and thinking he was absolutely class. He battered us one day.

 

[stockportblue]

One peformance I remember standing out Gianfranco Zola for chelsea againt us,He got clappedoff the pitch by city fans. Opposition player but I think on the day city fans recognised thaey had just witnessed an outstanding footballer.

 

[Nevizade]

Berbatov is the first that jumps to mind, although Messi in that early CL game was mental.

I remember watching Darren Huckerby when he played against us for Coventry and thinking he was absolutely class. He battered us one day.

Not sure he ever played against us for Cov, he was there 96-99 when we weren't in the Premier League.

Bellamy tore us apart for Cov early on in Joe Royle's Premier League season which led to the unfortunate Edghill incident.

 

[Damocles]

Not sure he ever played against us for Cov, he was there 96-99 when we weren't in the Premier League.

Bellamy tore us apart for Cov early on in Joe Royle's Premier League season which led to the unfortunate Edghill incident.

You know what, I think you're right. That could be who I'm thinking of, my memory is so poor for this stuff.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Gundo v us playing for Borussia Dortmund.

Bernie against us playing for Monaco.

Dalglish, every time I saw him against us.

 

[GaslightAnthem]

Bobby Moore , Jimmy Greaves , Thierry Henry

We have a winner. Thread can be closed.

 

[GaslightAnthem]

Suarez has to be up there, along with Bale. That goal Bale scored in the 3-2 with the last minute Mario pen was incredible. Suarez was unplayable at times, and the workrate… Complete player.

 

[bennyboy]

Oh, Paddy Kenny for QPR, stopped (nearly) everything that day.

Poor at our first goal.

 

[citeh94]

Messi didn’t ever have one of his best performances against us but when he came for PSG I thought he just has a presence about him. Maybe slightly random but I always loved watching Kanté live.

 

[Corky]

Wasn’t that 3-3 draw one of the games Grobbelaaar got accused of throwing? He certainly had a stinker that day.

The accusation was it was fixed for City to win 1-0, but Soton scored first so he never had the chance. Unless it was late on and he threw one in he couldn't really fix a 1-0.

 

[alib]

i remember Merson getting applauded off the pitch at Maine Road after a masterful display for Villa i think?

also Henry at least once when Arsenal were the best team in the country

also remember Berbatov having a masterful game for Spurs against us