City Bogey Team(s)

[Citizen Green]

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?

 

[Innsbruckblue]

I seem to remember us not doing too well against the rags in the 90s

 

[gloryhuntersince85]

Boro definitely a bogey team, would throw Wigan into the mix too

 

[Citizen Green]

I seem to remember us not doing too well against the rags in the 90s

Interestingly between 2002-08 we were a bit of a bogey team for them during their best era, despite not drought after the 5-1 in the 90's.

 

[supercity88]

Boro is definitely the one that stands out. Feel like Everton were for a while as well, but could be completely wrong. Edit - 2008-13 we lost against them a lot.

Our record against Liverpool since the takeover has got to be one of the worst head-to-head considering we've been better than them for the large majority of that time and still only have one win at Anfield to show for it. We've beaten them at home but still a lot more mixed and a lot of losses against them in that period which isn't the case against other sides.

 

[Cellarite]

Boro definitely a bogey team, would throw Wigan into the mix too

It's bizarre that Wigan beat us in the FA Cup at three different venues under three different managers.

Under Mancini at Wembley, under Pellegrini at the Etihad and under Pep at Wigan.

 

[Gabriel]

Lincoln City, Tranmere Rovers, and Shrewsbury, and in the 'Chumps' League Olympique Lyon have proven particularly troublesome; mind we've been rather helpful when playing them, too.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I seem to remember us not doing too well against the rags in the 90s

Yeah, particularly at The Swamp - 30-odd years before Svennis worked the magic - God rest his bones.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

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

 

[mattcity5]

Spurs away feels like a pretty regular issue. And at home sometimes too over the last ten years TBF (though we've also spanked them a couple of times).