History

Arsenal are the only club in the Premier League who didn't achieve their top flight status on merit - they bought their way in. I'm not sure it's a history I would want.

Liverpool players were caught taking bungs to throw matches. I'm not sure it's a history I would want.

The rags threw out the widows of the munich victims from the club houses. I'm not sure it's a history I would want.

I'm happy that we are making history rather than living our lives through history.
 
Joint 8th on all-time major trophy winners just going by total numbers of cups and top division titles.

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That'll do me until we start getting more. Do you think any everton fan would take a bet we won't overtake them (15 ot our 10) over the next several years?
 
CBlue said:
Arsenal are the only club in the Premier League who didn't achieve their top flight status on merit - they bought their way in. I'm not sure it's a history I would want.

Liverpool players were caught taking bungs to throw matches. I'm not sure it's a history I would want.

The rags threw out the widows of the munich victims from the club houses. I'm not sure it's a history I would want.

I'm happy that we are making history rather than living our lives through history.
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It's nice to be able to toss mud back at them like that, but you should know we have skeletons in our cupboards too.
 
bluemoondays said:
Joint 8th on all-time major trophy winners just going by total numbers of cups and top division titles.

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That'll do me until we start getting more. Do you think any everton fan would take a bet we won't overtake them (15 ot our 10) over the next several years?
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But that's success, not history....
 
gotto63 said:
In the minds of idiots success = history
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Exactly and in fairness some City fans are buying into this also.

There are a thousands of stories and spectacular memories which create our history many more important than the trophies we have won.

I supported City through family and as I have learnt more about the club I am amazed at the clubs unique history.
 
Its the old, old adage my pedigree chums....If you tell yourself something enough times you will start to believe it!!!

City have got no history
City have got no history
City have got no history
City have got no history
City have got no history
City have got no history
City have got no history
It keeps them in their comfort zone and helps them sleep a little easier...Like Beckham for instance..Man City will never be as big as Man United...How many times we heard that one?

So tell them ..Your history is exactly that..Ancient fooking HISTORY, were as we have just started making ours..Enjoy the ride...
 
An analogy:

I woke up yesterday morning late for work because there had been a power cut in the night and so the alarm clock didn't go off. I jumped up out of bed and stubbed my little toe on the bedroom door - splitting it open with blood pouring everywhere. Had a shower (toe stinging like mad) before limping downstairs to put the kettle on. Burnt the toast before spilling the coffee down my white shirt.

Whilst driving to work I hit every fucking red light on the road thus making me even later for the presentation I was supposed to deliver at work. Finally got in work before remembering that I'd forgot to pick up the memory stick (which had my presentation on it) from the coffee table. I felt like crying.

On the way home I got a flat tyre. Fucking gutted! Got out to change it and the heavens opened and I got absolutely drenched.

Couldn't be arsed cooking when I got home because of the day I'd had so I ordered a Mighty Meat from Dominos. It came on time and so I thought my luck was finally changing; opened the box and it was a fucking Vegetable Supreme.

Went to put on City's match from the previous day but the Sky Plus had fucked up.

Finally dragged myself up the stairs to bed feeling fed-up, emotionally drained and sorry for myself...


History isn't just about the good times, it's about the whole journey: the ups and the downs, the colourful and the drab, the trials and tribulations suffered. Success doesn't equal history, experience equals history. Thick and thin equals history.

Some of the most memorable moments, days or weeks in all our lives have been dark, cold places. Whether it's a nightmarish day described above, City getting beaten by Stockport or something else doesn't matter, we learn from it and move forward and that memory becomes a part of us, part of our history.
 
One thing your history should teach you is that those you try to humiliate on your way up are going to be the first ones to kick you in the bollocks when you are on your way back down .
 
Since the war, we've won all the domestic trophies at least once and a European trophy. A few clubs have done that but teams like Everton (who usually sing 'You've Never Won Fuck All') haven't as they've never won the Leagur Cup.

We were also the first English club to win both a domestic and European Trophy in the same season.
 
BoyBlue_1985 said:
jimharri said:
BoyBlue_1985 said:
How comes we are the only team on earth without history???
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Because we are. Ask any dipper, cockney or follower of the dark side. They'll all confirm it.
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So does that mean that the FA Cup win last season is not now history?
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Depends who's lookin' at it ....

from our point of view .. yes

from the rags point of view only their trophies count!

Frank o'Farrell , Dave Sexton and Ted Mc Dougall never existed accordin' to them ........ and neither did Gary Birtles , or Coventry in the Carling Cup !
 
black mamba said:
BoyBlue_1985 said:
jimharri said:
Because we are. Ask any dipper, cockney or follower of the dark side. They'll all confirm it.
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So does that mean that the FA Cup win last season is not now history?
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Depends who's lookin' at it ....

from our point of view .. yes

from the rags point of view only their trophies count!

Frank o'Farrell , Dave Sexton and Ted Mc Dougall never existed accordin' to them ........ and neither did Gary Birtles , or Coventry in the Carling Cup !
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Not to mention sub-20,000 crowds for home UEFA Cup games in the 1990's. Or sub-4000 crowds for top flight league games (for any lurking Rags that's a bit different to an Auto Windscreens Shield match) in the 1930's. You see, the Rags have always had the biggest average crowds in the country.....apart from the first 70 years of their history of course!
 
M18CTID said:
black mamba said:
BoyBlue_1985 said:
So does that mean that the FA Cup win last season is not now history?
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Depends who's lookin' at it ....

from our point of view .. yes

from the rags point of view only their trophies count!

Frank o'Farrell , Dave Sexton and Ted Mc Dougall never existed accordin' to them ........ and neither did Gary Birtles , or Coventry in the Carling Cup !
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Not to mention sub-20,000 crowds for home UEFA Cup games in the 1990's. Or sub-4000 crowds for top flight league games (for any lurking Rags that's a bit different to an Auto Windscreens Shield match) in the 1930's. You see, the Rags have always had the biggest average crowds in the country.....apart from the first 70 years of their history of course!
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They don't like to include that period.
Their "official" history didn't start until '92 and Sky.
 
In 1880, St Mark's Church established Manchester City FC which moved to Hyde Road seven years later and was renamed Ardwick AFC to reflect its new location. The club joined the Football League as founding members of the Second Division in 1892, and after experiencing financial difficulties in the 1893/94 campaign, were reformed as Manchester City FC.

The first major honour arrived in April 1904 when a 1-0 victory over Bolton Wanderers secured the FA Cup. A fire in 1920 destroyed the Main Stand at Hyde Road and in 1923, the club moved to Maine Road in Moss Side, where they played in front of crowds of more than 70,000.

After winning the FA Cup again in 1934, the club won the league title for the first time three years later. Manchester City were relegated from the First Division in 1938 despite scoring more goals than any other team.

City have won the FA Cup four times, with the 1956 triumph over Birmingham City notable for goalkeeper Bert Trautmann continuing to play on despite unknowingly breaking his neck. A second title was claimed under the joint management of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison in 1968, with a dramatic 4-3 win at Newcastle United. They won the FA Cup in 1969 and the European Cup Winners' Cup a year later, followed by the League Cup in 1976. After a 35-year wait, City got their hands on the FA Cup once again in 2011

Im not even going to google the scum, but i seem to remember hearing our history goes back further than those scummy bstds
 
Manchester City Football Club came into existence a good few years before Manchester United Football Club (the distinction I make here is the physical names if the clubs).
 
When Liverpool and United fans have said about history I didn't think they were going on about winning stuff. More that we haven't got a disaster to harp on about.
 
I see with the signing of Aguero we are back to 0 on the HISTORY scale

This HISTORY scale was invented by deluded scousers post September 2008 and was quickly established that the scale is from 0 to 10 but Liverpool is 11 because they have so much HISTORY it would actually break the scale if they entered there name into it
 
talkativesprout said:
In 1880, St Mark's Church established Manchester City FC which moved to Hyde Road seven years later and was renamed Ardwick AFC to reflect its new location. The club joined the Football League as founding members of the Second Division in 1892, and after experiencing financial difficulties in the 1893/94 campaign, were reformed as Manchester City FC.

The first major honour arrived in April 1904 when a 1-0 victory over Bolton Wanderers secured the FA Cup. A fire in 1920 destroyed the Main Stand at Hyde Road and in 1923, the club moved to Maine Road in Moss Side, where they played in front of crowds of more than 70,000.

After winning the FA Cup again in 1934, the club won the league title for the first time three years later. Manchester City were relegated from the First Division in 1938 despite scoring more goals than any other team.

City have won the FA Cup four times, with the 1956 triumph over Birmingham City notable for goalkeeper Bert Trautmann continuing to play on despite unknowingly breaking his neck. A second title was claimed under the joint management of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison in 1968, with a dramatic 4-3 win at Newcastle United. They won the FA Cup in 1969 and the European Cup Winners' Cup a year later, followed by the League Cup in 1976. After a 35-year wait, City got their hands on the FA Cup once again in 2011

Im not even going to google the scum, but i seem to remember hearing our history goes back further than those scummy bstds
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City have won the cup FIVE times thank you! ;)
 
When Mike Doyle passed away, his honours as a player were read out. He must have achieved all that while playing for someone else.
 
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