If you had a time machine......

[pace89]

Bradford away 89
5-1 v the Rags
2-1 v Liverpool in 91
Blackburn away 2000

 

[hateutd]

1976 League Cup final

 

[Gary James]

I'd love to know which game @Gary James would pick.

I'd be tempted to go to the 1904 FAC final but I think it's the celebrations on the Monday night that would be a better bet. That was the biggest celebration Manchester had ever known and so I'd love to see it in all it's glory.

If I have to pick a game then maybe 29/4/1905 at Villa. The controversial game which led to the illegal payments scandal investigations. I think City was badly treated and that Villa's Leake should have been punished. Turnbull was dragged into the Villa dressing room and thrown out with cuts and bruises, yet all the punishments came City's way because Villa's Leake was an established England international - and therefore a gentleman - while we were captained by Welsh coal miner Billy Meredith. We'd won the FAC in 1904 and were seen as young upstarts. New money v Old (this is getting to sound familiar).

I'd love to have been there to see exactly how crooked it all was. Personally, I'd like the FA to reinvestigate but I doubt that will ever happen. Now, if I had a time machine I could gather new evidence!

 

[Gary James]

1904 FA Cup final; City vs. Bolton. The first major trophy won by a team from Greater Manchester

That must have been some occasion, with thousands of Lancastrians invading London. And the homecoming parade apparently brought the whole of Manchester out to welcome the team back with the cup.

Also a chance to warn the club's officials about the impending illegal payments investigation.

Not Greater Manchester - Bury had won FAC twice before City!

 

[Vienna_70]

Not Greater Manchester - Bury had won FAC twice before City!

Ah, thanks for that.

I stand corrected.

 

[jpinblue]

I did 99 wembley, did the promotion at blackburn, did QPR at home,

didn't do 6-1 at swamp, so that.

 

[ronipstone1]

6-1 win at OT in Oct 2011 of games I wasn't at.

Of all the games I've been at Spurs at Maine Rd in Dec 1967, 4-1 to City and led me to predict we would win the League that season.

 

[Big Swifty]

So did the crowd on the Kippax. We all sang "Joe Mercer, Joe Mercer, is it true what people say, we're going to win the football League", to the tune of "Excerpt From a teenage Opera" by Keith West, long before December.