Five years ago today | City 2 Liverpool 1

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

This was one great game and for my money the best match of the decade. I've seen better displays but never such a high quality, hard fought contest and we won it deservedly. Before the match we were 7 points behind, I think, and the feeling was that anything but a City win would hand the title to Liverpool. The rest of the season showed how true that was! But City were superb! Even without Walker, Gundogan and KdB!! I don't know what my heart rate was at the final whistle but I didn't stop dancing around (the elephant tango?) for ages and for weeks afterwards I watched the highlights every day. What the players felt like god only knows but I think I'm right in saying that we only lost one League match and won all the others until the title was sealed. Marvellous! Unbelievable! Typical City?

Sad bastard :)
But the same here. I've got the full game on the sky box and still watch it regularly when in need of a City fix.

 

[Mike N]

What an awful shame that Sergio, Vinny, David Silva and Fernandinho didn’t win the Champions League.

 

[balotellishaircut]

Also, we had just lost back to back games to Palace and Leicester. I remember Pep's pre-game presser - "Nobody believes in us anymore"

I think Pep said something like “ nobody will put a coin on us to win a game”

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Fernandinho, Bernardo Silva, Leroy, Stones and Sergio had the game of their lives, Sterling should have made it 3-1 late on, and the noise from the crowd was ear popping.

Didn't Bernardo break the record for the distance covered in one for that match?

 

[balotellishaircut]

Didn't Bernardo break the record for the distance covered in one for that match?

Couldn’t tell you but you’re probably right because he was immense that night.

 

[carlosthejackal]

From the first gulp of beer in town you could sense it was going to be different, two absolute quality teams , atmosphere in the ground was unbelievable.

 

[Manchester33]

Why dont they post that on RAWK, eliciting a perma-ban

I remember there were a few posts about it on RAWK at the time (I was sad enough to look).

The vast majority on there are your typical glory hunters who live overseas. The odd match-going fan who did post about how good the atmosphere was got shot down by people who watched it on the tele and disagreed vehemently. :')

 

[Bradley82]

I was on a massive high leaving ss3 and the walk all the way back into town that night. Couldn't get to sleep either. I'd been so tense all day prior to k.o. It was one of the greatest games I've witnessed in forty years.

 

[mexico1970]

Vinny calling Salad a pussy as he was lying on the floor was a stand out in that game.

 

[jaiguruKun]

I remember thinking immediately after the match it was the best I'd ever witnessed and I've not see any better since.