Favourite ever season.

Bilboblue said:
98/99 purely because it was a completely new experience, new grounds, us being everyone's cup final, I did 43 games that year.
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Everybody seems to have enjoyed that ‘visit’ to the third division (because let's admit that that's what it was). Must say I missed out on that, and in a weird kind of way I'm quite jealous of all who lived through it.
Wouldn't have been quite such a golden memory without Messrs Horlock, Dickov and Weaver, though, would it?
;-)
 
Bobby the blue said:
Just reading the post about the 19 or 22 seasons and what one was the best. For me I couldn’t really enjoy them as much as I would have liked. The stress and pressure of it all was at times off the scale. Don’t get me wrong I loved winning the league both times but even after gundogans last goal I was just relived more than anything. Hard to explain but I didn’t have that europhic wave of emotions I’ve had in the past.

So it got me thinking about my favourite season watching city and for me it was without doubt the 2001/2002 season.

that year I had just signed for a really good non league side and was doing well in pre season and the first few games went like a dream. Then in early September I suffered a really bad injury and was out for a year. I was obviously gutted but this was the first time really that I could watch city most weeks.

Maine Road was in its pomp and the away days were amazing. Our away ends were what I would call proper and it felt like we had a mixture of everyone in those ends and had some great times. Luckily at that time I still had some good connections so could get tickets for games .

I loved that team the likes of Berkovic/Bernabia/Goater/wanchope and Huckerby. We scored so many goals and the football at times was beyond what that division has ever seen. We blew teams away. The likes of burnley,wolves etc who were battling with us couldn’t keep up. For me it was just enjoyable every week bar the odd slip up especially at the start but it was still so much fun in those days.

For me some highlights.

Burnley just after Christmas when we absolutely ruined them.
Ipswich in the cup.
Watford first game of the season.
Norwich at home when down to ten.
Millwall away.
Wolves away.
Newcastle away.
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Yep...a great season...cant argue otherwise
 
petrusha said:
Honourable mentions to 2001/2, which was great fun, and 1980/1, which featured that gripping recovery from the foot of the league table and the two wonderful cup runs. I also loved the 1988/9 promotion campaign, when I went to most of the southern-based away games from university and we saw the initial flowering of a group of outstanding players fresh from the youth system, with whom I especially identified because they were my contemporaries and I'd watched their progress in the youth and reserve teams.

I'd go for 1976/7, though. It was my first full season watching with my late dad, and we had a better side than City had at any point until the 2010s. As a young boy, I found it thrilling to turn up to watch that team full of international players win nearly every week in front of home crowds that averaged over 40K per game, and were invariably vocal and raucous, too.

Unfortunately, that group of players never quite reached its potential, IMO. The loss of Colin Bell the previous season was arguably the difference between it going down as a 'nearly' team rather than a great one and we didn't get the transfers quite right to enable us to build on that runners-up spot in 1977. Nonetheless, that team and players in it such as Corrigan, Doyle, Donachie, Watson (my particular favourite), Hartford, Barnes, Tueart, Kidd and others claimed my heart in a way that no subsequent team quite has and instilled in me a love of this beguiling but daft institution that is MCFC.
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Couldve done with signing a top CB around that time as both Watson/Doyle we’re in there 30’s and that might’ve made all the difference that season.
The final nails in the coffin was when the fucking clueless Allison took over a year later and sold both peak Barnes & Owen amongst others, and that was pretty much the end of us bar a brief little flicker in 81.
 
1992/93 no real reason really but kits were great, team had a good year, moved from standing in the windy corner to the main part of the kippax, first away games that year and met many people I still call close friends
 
89/90 for me. First time experiencing Division 1 football.

I’ve loved other seasons more, for obvious reasons, but 89/90 will always by my favourite.
 
88/89 promotion season was great , went to loads of away games mid week , long trips Reading Bournemouth , Roker Park , then typical City Bournemouth home 3-0 H.T followed by standing in the Bradford end praying for that equalizer.
Cracking piss up in the Beer Keller that night
90/91 too finishing 5th above rags home to Sunderland followed by Paul Simon at Gmex
Clad in my "Better than Best t-shirt"
Halcyon days indeed
 
98/99 just for the backs to the wall, dark humour, taking over away grounds and local pubs. I went to 30odd games that season. Went on the pitch for the first time ever after the Wigan playoff semi and just stood there imagining being Ray Ranson, of all people, taking in the view. The play off comeback was, for me, the biggest moment in our recent..ish history.

The promotion season under Keagan with Ali B was a close second, just for the football we were playing. Loved Keagan as a manager.
 
2001. I'd lived to the age of 15 and other than Kinky, Rosler and a couple of others, I'd not seen much to cheer about. Then we got Keegan and it all changed. Remember that Watford game first game of the season (?) . Seem to remember Pearce scoring a free kick, Berkovic being on fire and City were suddenly exciting to watch. We had the old ITV Digital box as well so nearly every City away game was on the box. Wolves were our main competition that season and we went Molineux and battered them. (Shauny Wright Wright Wright!) Such a great season and great memories. Definitely my favourite.
 
2010/11 for me. From a personal standpoint, it was the season where i started getting down to games more regularly.

Quite enjoyed the fact there wasn't the same pressure on the team as there is now. We were a top team, but we weren't expected to win the title. It was really all about just making into the champions league. The 3rd place finish and FA Cup win was immense.

It also felt like the season where we started to be taken more seriously. We had broken open the top 4 cartel.
 
2013-14. The football was sensational, particularly that 3 month period either side of New Year; 6 past Spuds (and 5 at WHL), 6 past Arsenal, 6 past West Ham, the Algredo pass at Fulham.

And a post-Ferguson United imploded, most joyously against Sunderland in the League Cup.

Loved that League Cup win and the beer with Mackems in the Euston Tap afterwards.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
That had been prepared by the coming of Swales. That man has a lot to answer for.
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It’s all on Allison for me.
He was an absolute fucking disaster for the club, believing in his own hype and madcap ideas!
No idea why we thought it would be a good idea bringing him back, none at all!
Swales had a lot to do with our downfall once we started to free fall, but I don’t think it was his decision alone to bring Allison back and get rid of half the team 6 months later!
We would’ve been fine if we‘d just kept Book Imo.
 
99/00. The only season I can recall where City exceeded expectations. Our support all season was phenomenal and week in week out the atmosphere at Maine Road Was great.

Despite everything we’ve done in the last decade winning 3-1 at the City ground in February 2000 with over 6k blues in attendance is one of my best days ever watching City.
 
LongsightM13 said:
The Billy McNeill promotion season was a fun one, culminating in an amazing day v Charlton
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This was my first season watching City. Moved to Manchester in September 1984. Loved it - promotion…..just…and it was brilliant. Incredible when you look back - Division 2 Champions …….
Oxford United
 
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