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.