Biggest, Most Important home match in City’s history?

[mexico1970]

Not a trope at all.....just look at the early round attendances. Most ties fall well below league attendances unless some minnow plays a big club at home.

Of course it's a trope.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Anybody mentioned Wigan in the play off 2nd leg at Maine Road in 99. If we wouldn't of won that, then there's a big chance we wouldn't be here now.

 

[Groenendijk's tin of peas]

That wasn’t a Home match?

True. I'm a bell end.

 

[CorporateBlue]

QPR 2012 without a shadow of doubt.
The game lifted the club beyond quirky investment story to one with emotion, drama, rivalry in front of a world wide audience. I live in the US, and for many over here, that is when we first came to their attention.
Lifted a 44 year monkey off our backs, shifted the balance of power not just in Manchester but in England. Elevated the club to a new confidence level that has incredibly been maintained for another 11 years and counting..
If I was being cynical, I would also suggest that this is when the 'real' negativity in the media fanned by the displaced 'history clubs in red' truly began .. before that day it was all about bad Berts in bed sheets and a bit of a laugh

 

[kaz7]

I’m putting it out there that this Wednesday night’s 2nd leg semi final v Real Madrid is exactly that - the biggest game we’ve ever played at home and I’ll tell you why:
It is our first ever chance to get to the Champions’ League Final by playing at home. It sets up an eminently winnable final and gives the club a platform to go stratospheric in terms of world-wide publicity and status. It’s a chance to edge ever closer to a once-in-a-lifetime shot at winning the treble. So there you have it, it’s the biggest ever home match we’ve ever had and we truly are privileged as supporters to be able to witness it. Let’s do it justice and get behind the team like never before. COME ON CITY!!!

Lets see if this ages well..

 

[PepGuardiola]

Definitely the most important game in UK football history if we win the treble

 

[Witney Blue]

We’re privileged to have so many positive ones (and some negative ones!) to choose from!
Obviously Wigan 1-0 (the Goat), 1-0 v Utd (Vinny) and QPR but a couple of outliers - 4-0 v Villa in the rain - truly turned the title that year towards us and as others have said 2-1 v Stoke Christmas 98 - 1-0 down at half-time and for once, back then, a fight back to win 2-1 - Dickov and Taylor I think. A true turning point from which the only trajectory has been up. Bizarrely it kind of felt it at the time - just didn’t realise how far up it would be!!!

 

[schfc6]

Charlton at home, Good Friday 2007. Pearce’s men needed a win or minimum to avoid defeat. Managed to come away with a 0-0 draw.

I took a friend from Brazil to that game. He’s a Palmires fan, he was fascinated by how boring it was, so fascinated he wouldn’t bloody leave..

 

[ysmsa]

City v Stoke, 3/03/1934

FA Cup

84,569, Not an empty seat or terrace spot in sight.

 

[Mike N]

It’s the biggest game at the Etihad for me.

 

[mancyank41]

Champions of Europe, you’ll never sing that.

Yeah I’m dead tired of hearing it. Let’s shut those cunts up.

QPR in hindsight is still the biggest game because it started all this, but tmrw is a close second. Let’s batter them.

 

[tizzerp]

True. I'm a bell end.

That's okay. Some of my closest and dearest friends are complete bell ends

 

[Northerndave]

City 2 Stoke 1. 28th December 1998. If we hadn't won that I don't believe we'd be where we are now.

Sat 3 rows from the front of the Platt Lane, the atmosphere in the 2nd half was something to witness. The team came out, challenged for every ball, ran until their lungs burst and turned the game around. It was just the most fantastic day.

 

[Don Karleone]

Nowhere near.

The United game in 2012 was on a different scale with all its components and history.

Reflected in the worldwide TV viewing figures.

This. Never felt as sick before a game as this one, including the QPR one.

 

[tizzerp]

Sat 3 rows from the front of the Platt Lane, the atmosphere in the 2nd half was something to witness. The team came out, challenged for every ball, ran until their lungs burst and turned the game around. It was just the most fantastic day.

My Dad was saying only the other day, how something changed thàt day between the fans and the players. It was a real turning point

 

[Corky]

My Dad was saying only the other day, how something changed thàt day between the fans and the players. It was a real turning point

Goater had been binned and got a kick up the arse.

 

[WestGorton]

This. Never felt as sick before a game as this one, including the QPR one.

In my lifetime it was that one. In a bad way Luton in 1983. We didn't really recover until Kevin Keegan era.

 

[MCFC Wirral]

We can’t forget what a tough match it is going to be too. Real Madrid are European Cup / Champions League experts. Kings of that competition.

 

[Elliot houghton]

This FA cup final is a multitude bigger game than the RM one, the first major final between the two teams, the UCL is still a manufactured ball juggling cheat fest that will be usurped by another competition with another name down the line.

In 20 years time the UCL lovers will be longing for their long dead competition whilst the FA cup will be in its 170'th year.

Fa cup better than the European Cup is crazy talk.

 

[Bluefen]

This. Never felt as sick before a game as this one, including the QPR one.

I remember being surprisingly calm before that game… the anticipation was palpable but I remember being really confident we would beat them… it was great to see Fergie park the bus - did they even have a shot on target that night - I don’t remember one