City at their lowest... top trumps

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Watford at home 0-0 under Pearce was worst game of top flight football i have ever seen, i came away and said I'm not getting season ticket next year (i did )
4-3 at the swamp
late goal 3-1 carling semi at the swamp
as a kid selling Paul Stewart, Ian Bishop and Mark Ward hurt me
 
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Bury away, peed it down the entire time, we realised about half way though the first half that probably 80% of the ground was City and we were all as miserable as anything watching that performance.

Or Pearce's team at home vs Bolton. Dire. Football prevention, that stuff.
 
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Exeter Blue I am here said:
A 1-0 defeat at Wycombe in 98
A 3-0 midweek defeat at Elm Park circa 97
A 0-0 draw at home to a Bristol Rovers youth team in 98
Liverpool in 96 when we went down

.......all of which I went to......and all of which I wished I fucking hadn't
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Nah, these are the games which make the current watching all the more enjoyable and deserving.

Spent the last two decades thinking I saw City blow a 3-1 lead to Wolves in '59. All the fuckin' time it was '57. I've suffered longer than I thought I had. Saw the Burnley match in '60 when they won 2-1 at Maine Road and won the title. And then there were a host of matches before Uncle Joe and Big Mal came along, a selection of which would go down in the annals of suffering as the kind o' thing to which you would not subject a dog.
 
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6-0 4-0 liverpool same week leauge cup and leauge went with a mate from work in the kop for both.
5-0 against them Tracey between the sticks
Wimbledon away at selhurst park lost 4-0 I think car broke down on way home. parked it up and never got it back!!
 
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stockport away
5=0 at the dump
10 in aweek at liverpool
oldham away
alan fucking ball
and most off the 90s
 
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Does anyone else feel we were a bit hard done by with the criticism of the Shrewsbury and Halifax defeats? The fact was both pitches were completely unplayable (Shrewsbury - shot ice; Halifax - deliberately generated hog-wallow) and hence neither were real tests of footballing quality but total lotteries. Might as well criticise .. I dunno .. Mark Cavendish for failing to beat someone in a race on clowns' bicycles.
 
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The Pink Panther said:
MATCH REPORT

City vs. Reading

Craig Russell came on for the last 10 minutes and should have been on from the start. He was the only forward who seemed to know where the goal was. Goater is crap. He can't turn or jump and how the hell he has scored 10 goals defies logic.
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That bit made me laugh! A further 90 goals later and he's a cult hero!
 
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Matty said:
The Pink Panther said:
MATCH REPORT

City vs. Reading

Craig Russell came on for the last 10 minutes and should have been on from the start. He was the only forward who seemed to know where the goal was. Goater is crap. He can't turn or jump and how the hell he has scored 10 goals defies logic.
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That bit made me laugh! A further 90 goals later and he's a cult hero!
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And to a certain extent, Kevin Horlock
 
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Tbilisi said:
After beating Munich midweek I couldn't help thinking about my low points watching City & came up with these I was at.

Halifax 1980 FA Cup defeat
York away defeat,and fuck off I was there!
Mansfield home defeat,freight bollox trophy,3000 in ground
Oxford home late 90s,lost 2 0,Kevin Francis looked like Maradona and they sang we're bust but we're beating you.

I think those 4 take some beating but I'm throwing down the gauntlet.....you have to have been at the 4 games you nominate though.
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Funny, I only start to think about these games when we've lost a game. Just to remember myself it was so much worse than nowadays and that actually cheers me up a bit.
But I do not try and remember them days when we just beat the best team in Europe at their own ground with half the 2nd choice selected. I like to keep a positive mind for tomorrow as well.

Luton by far. Will never get Pleat 'running' the pitch in that dreadfull suit and plastic shoes.
But hey, we just beat Bayern and we have a fantastic game tomorrow ahead of us ...
 
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calum down said:
losing away at port vale towards the end of the season
awful experience

they went on to stay up that year
we went down...
again!

and some people are moaning that we didn't go on to get a 4th goal away at bayern fucken munich
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Excellent post, I think Vale beat us at home as well! How times have changed.
 
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There are so many lows it's hard to say.... but the first ones that come to mind:

Losing 1-0 to Lincoln City in the League Cup at home (after we got walloped by them in the first leg)...
Losing to Stockport County at Edgeley Park and sitting with my Dad in with the County fans.....
And sitting in with the Boro fans for Sven's last game when we lost 8-1 (and I had put my money on 0-0, being the knowledgeable punter that I am!)
 
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worsleyweb said:
I went to the 4-0 Liverpool game on the Wednesday. Thought we played better second half so naively went back on the saturday thinking we would get a draw. 6-0 and was chased across Stanley park by margi Clare's love child with a pen knife!! Had better days.
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same as - That Saturday match was the one and only time I have left a match early (hangs head in shame) - We left when the fourth went in as We'd just had enough especially after the Wednesday game. We went and had a few in The Arkles - the barman shouted over at us with great delight that they had scored again and then again - Always remember that managerial genius Alan Ball say " I just sat back and enjoyed the way Liverpool played" - you can imagine what we thought of him after that comment.
 
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squirtyflower said:
Tbilisi said:
After beating Munich midweek I couldn't help thinking about my low points watching City & came up with these I was at.

Halifax 1980 FA Cup defeat
York away defeat,and fuck off I was there!
Mansfield home defeat,freight bollox trophy,3000 in ground
Oxford home late 90s,lost 2 0,Kevin Francis looked like Maradona and they sang we're bust but we're beating you.

I think those 4 take some beating but I'm throwing down the gauntlet.....
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agree with Halifax but add Shrewsbury six years earlier
derby county away, 6-0, Colin Hendry had just signed
Luton 83
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Am i reliving a nightmare, but i am sure i went there twice, double depression quelled by lots of beer... How many balls did they get through at those games.... behave
 
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my biggest low was in the horrible stuart pearce season when we just escaped relegation.

i shared my season ticket with my brother because i was working away a lot. every single game i went to see we either got beat to nil or we drew 0-0. i didnt see a single goal scored at home the whole season.

that statistic top trumps and pisses all over a poxy away game to hartlepool or york or wherever on a tuesday night!! :(
 
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Exeter Blue I am here said:
A 1-0 defeat at Wycombe in 98
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Mine too, and in the wrong end, stood with a friend, and my postman. He was very lucky we didn't have a big angry dog the next day.
 
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Never Mind The Pollocks said:
01MANC said:
chaddblue said:
QPR after 89 minutes.
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This is a great shout

Yes all the times mentioned were very bad, but irrespective of the relativity of it all, at no time as a city fan have I felt as distraught as I did at this time.
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No way near. I reckon I could name about 50 worse points.
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Really! With what was at stake and what we were about to lose and who we were going to lose it to!

I would have to say this was my lowest point.
 
- Halifax & Shrewsbury I didn't go to either but remember the aftermath to both in the playground the following week

- Luton

- Full time against Bournemouth! although it probably made the following weekend at Bradford all the more sweeter. The same goes for away at Notts County after having been gubbed 3-2, a few days before promotion against Charlton. although if truth be told that day in Nottingham and the numbers that turned up in the sunshine is one of the most amazing sights that I can remember following City.

- selling Mark Lillis. It was a big thing for me at the time!

- walking back to the car to meet my rag friend and his mates,for my lift back home after the 2-3 defeat at Maine Road, especially after having gloried in the singing at half time "2 nil up and you F**ked it up" (them vs Galatasary earlier that week). That took me a while.

- York (I was there as I live here!)
 
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