City Bogey Team(s)

Growing up in the early 70s we always seemed to lose to Leeds and I dreaded playing them. However, in the 78-79 season the match programme used to list the previous results against every opponent and it transpired that our record v Leeds was actually excellent.
 
Scroll down to matchups and there is the answer right across all history to avoid recency bias.

This is using the definition of doing worse than expected against a team.

For those too lazy the top 5 are…

Liverpool
Arsenal
Wolves
Southampton
Blackburn

Apologies. Not meaning to derail an interesting thread of poster’s memories! Feel free to ignore!


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Citizen Green said:
Who are City's biggest bogey team(s) historically?

Growing up (90's/00's) a lot of teams could claim this mantel but one in particular always stand out to me... Middlesbrough, could just never beat the bastards. Whether it was the Fowler pen miss, Sun Jihai OG (without them having a shot of their own), the 8-1 etc... they always used to do us. Spurs another (4-3 aside), always seemed to draw them in the cup (again, 4-3 aside) & inevitably find ourselves eliminated. Arsenal always used to tonk us as well.

Interestingly, on the other foot, I always thought we seemed to beat Villa no matter how shit we were/well they were doing.

Any other for & against?
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Didn’t do too well against Villa away last season!!
 
Man_City_Loyal said:
Spurs
United
Liverpool
Everton
Arsenal
Wigan
Stockport County

All come to the top of my head.

Always felt we did well against the likes of Sunderland, Southampton, Fulham and Villa. Especially when we were a little shit
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And don't forget we regularly used to give Burnley a good spanking.
Just ask Shaun Goater MBE if you don't believe me.
 
Man_City_Loyal said:
Spurs
United
Liverpool
Everton
Arsenal
Wigan
Stockport County

All come to the top of my head.

Always felt we did well against the likes of Sunderland, Southampton, Fulham and Villa. Especially when we were a little shit
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Add Oldham...and Halifax......the list is endless.

Wigan and Spurs still give me the hee bee gee beees
 
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