Heaviest home defeat you've witnessed either at Maine Rd or the Etihad

[laserblue]

Aha, we both have dodgy memory cells. I've just found a video of it. Joe boots it out, straight to Boyce who hits it first time. It doesn't go over Joe's head but lands at the side of him, and he is totally unaware of where he kicked the ball and what happened to it and by whom! Never seen a goal like it.



The pitch was a shit heap!

In our defence it was along time ago :D

 

[gloryhuntersince85]

Wasn't it early in the season? We might have went top vs Sunderland the week before? Seaman got injured and Kevin Stuhr Ellegaard made his debut and Leicester hammered us.

No the Leicester game was the 1st time we ever wore a poppy on the shirt, we won at Southampton 2-0 the week before and that was our last league win for 3 months until we won at the Reebok in February 04

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Jolly Roger Palmer with a hatrick - but was late 80’s.
The final whistle saw the regular march around to the main stand entrance for the frequent Swales Out demo

August 29th 1988

My 24th birthday

 

[dennishasdoneit]

I think Mel Machin would have been the manager when Oldham beat us in 88/89 not Keegan.

Oops! Yes Machin if it was 88/89

 

[thismeansfour]

Wasn't it early in the season? We might have went top vs Sunderland the week before? Seaman got injured and Kevin Stuhr Ellegaard made his debut and Leicester hammered us.

It might well be, I had in my head it was more towards the end but sounds like your memory is clearer than mine

 

[bluedanza]

My memories shot did we beat or lose to Norwich 6-0 back in the Jon bond days?

Hate to break it to you but we lost.

Only topped by getting shafted 1-10 by Huddersfield.

 

[failsworthblueboy]

For some anything less thatn leading the PL by a minimum of ten points is a crisis. They need to go and look at some of the crap we endured in the early sixties.

Exactly mate.

 

[Blue Feather]

Arsenal 1-5 for me too. And yes we appreciated their performance, wonder if they might do the same for us someday?.........

 

[johnevans]

Arsenal 1-5 for me too. And yes we appreciated their performance, wonder if they might do the same for us someday?.........

You make a good point with your question at the end!

I too witnessed the Arsenal performance that night, as well as several similar thumpings we've had at home from other teams down the years, most notably and frequently from Liverpool.

At the Arsenal 1-5 and also when Liverpool tonked us under Kenny Dalglish I remember two completely separate City fans on the Kippax turning to those us around them to say more or less the same thing as events on the pitch unfolded.. 'You know, it's a privilege to be beaten by this (Arsenal/Liverpool) team.. they're THAT good..'

As you suggest, I doubt that The Tarquins and The Formation Brick Throwers of nowadays would ever respond in such a manner to us doing the same to their teams.

And I really hope our fanbase NEVER becomes as self-entitled as theirs show themselves to be at every turn these days, that we can still take/learn from defeats with our customary self-deprecating humour..

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

As you suggest, I doubt that The Tarquins and The Formation Brick Throwers of nowadays would ever respond in such a manner to us doing the same to their teams.

And I really hope our fanbase NEVER becomes as self-entitled as theirs show themselves to be at every turn these days, that we can still take/learn from defeats with our customary self-deprecating humour..

Not a chance of it.

Completely agree with the second sentence. I don't know whether you noticed this, but the singing in the whole stadium got really loud after Spurs' third goal went in. Especially the rendition of “We never win at home, and we never win away” was ringing round the stadium at one point. There was almost a carnival atmosphere. I thought to myself, “How very City”.

One song I will never, ever join in on: “Champions of Europe, you'll never sing that.” When opposition fans sang it at us it was always their last refuge, the surest sign that they were being played off the park by us. But also because for me it did not suddenly prove when we won the CL that we were a big club, I've always known that from fifty years back, when we'd get fifty or sixty thousand for derby matches and Maine Rd (and especially the Kippax) would be rocking.