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

City 0 Liverpool 5 in spring 82. Trevor Francis was suspended after getting sent off v Everton. Sammy Lee scored with a free kick after 10 minutes and the floodgates opened for the annual thrashing that we got at Maine Road back then. Hoping it doesn't happen this season.
 
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Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Did you see it? Attendance just 11,500 or thereabouts according to the History section. Jesus, Grimsby! I'd forgotten they'd even got as high as the Second Division…
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We met Grimsby in the second tier quite close together. 96-97 (I think), 99-00 and 01-02. Four wins and two draws. Great fish and chip shops near the ground but some daft sods still went to McDonalds.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Did you see it? Attendance just 11,500 or thereabouts according to the History section. Jesus, Grimsby! I'd forgotten they'd even got as high as the Second Division…
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They were a top flight side before WW2.

In fact, it was Grimsby who won on the last day of the 1937-38 season against Chelsea, while we lost to Huddersfield, that saw us relegated from the First Division as champions from the season before.

Grimsby also hold the record (with Wolves) for the biggest ever attendance at Old Trafford: 79,962, 1939 FA Cup semifinal.
 
BlueMoonRisin’ said:
Was that the game when most blues stayed till the end and clapped Arsenal off the pitch?
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Yep, 4 down in no time, and in typical City fashion we were singing "can we play you every week".

Anelka scored a consolation near the end you'd have thought it was the winner.

And unlike today's fickle lot, we stayed to the end.
 
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