Blue2112
Well-Known Member
There we all were on Saturday night, all eight of us, celebrating another City victory with a curry in Audenshaw (Balti Chicken Garlic was lovely) and discussing how we was going to celebrate winning the title.
The thought of it is just complete madness!
Only four years ago we walked out of the Riverside Stadium having been thumped 8-1 by Middlesbrough with a young Adam Johnson scoring one of their goals. It was the final game of the season and the final game for Sven as once again we chopped and changed managers. How crazy does it seem that less than four years later and Adam Johnson is on the verge of collecting a Premiership Winners medal for the team he helped to humble that day.
The thought of it is just complete madness!
On Saturday night we discussed the Gillingham game, it was epic and I will never forget the feeling on the tube from Wembley back into London after the game. It was as though we had lost, everyone was silent with a look of shock on their faces and shattererd with the experience of the afternoon. A season of hard work and hope was slipping away and it was dawning on all of us with City at 2-0 down of what was to come. Looking back it was the sheer relief and the letting out of tension, frustration, fears and exhiliration of that day and it's those moments that will make our future success all the more special and all the more valued. We are City fans, we've been through it and we take nothing for granted.
I've no doubt in the coming years last season's semi final victory over United will be considered to be a changing point in our's and their history. Yes we still had to beat Stoke to win the cup but it was, without doubt for me and many others quite simply the perfect day. If I could re-live any game again it would be that one. Far more important than just the result alone it rid us of so many demons, it gave Manchester City as a club the self belief, it confirmed the manager and the players had the ability, and it gave us the fans the hope to believe again. After too many years of humiliation, failure and let downs this club, our club, the club that we'd never given up on was begining to stir again.
I never expected us to challenge for the title this season, next year yes, but we've gelled remarkably quick and its a testament to Mancini and his players to the position we are in and have been all season. So far it's been exciting but it's becoming all the more nervous as games run out. I used to think relegation was bad, this is far worse, yet it's something we are all going to have to become accustomed to because we are not going away anytime soon. Boys and girls this is the new City, this is how it's going to be from now on every season.
Back to the Curryhouse and saturday night and will we do it and how will we celebrate? We agreed to just enjoy the ride and worry about that in May, its not in a City fans makeup to discuss such things.
Indeed 'the time's they are a changing'.
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.
The thought of it is just complete madness!
Only four years ago we walked out of the Riverside Stadium having been thumped 8-1 by Middlesbrough with a young Adam Johnson scoring one of their goals. It was the final game of the season and the final game for Sven as once again we chopped and changed managers. How crazy does it seem that less than four years later and Adam Johnson is on the verge of collecting a Premiership Winners medal for the team he helped to humble that day.
The thought of it is just complete madness!
On Saturday night we discussed the Gillingham game, it was epic and I will never forget the feeling on the tube from Wembley back into London after the game. It was as though we had lost, everyone was silent with a look of shock on their faces and shattererd with the experience of the afternoon. A season of hard work and hope was slipping away and it was dawning on all of us with City at 2-0 down of what was to come. Looking back it was the sheer relief and the letting out of tension, frustration, fears and exhiliration of that day and it's those moments that will make our future success all the more special and all the more valued. We are City fans, we've been through it and we take nothing for granted.
I've no doubt in the coming years last season's semi final victory over United will be considered to be a changing point in our's and their history. Yes we still had to beat Stoke to win the cup but it was, without doubt for me and many others quite simply the perfect day. If I could re-live any game again it would be that one. Far more important than just the result alone it rid us of so many demons, it gave Manchester City as a club the self belief, it confirmed the manager and the players had the ability, and it gave us the fans the hope to believe again. After too many years of humiliation, failure and let downs this club, our club, the club that we'd never given up on was begining to stir again.
I never expected us to challenge for the title this season, next year yes, but we've gelled remarkably quick and its a testament to Mancini and his players to the position we are in and have been all season. So far it's been exciting but it's becoming all the more nervous as games run out. I used to think relegation was bad, this is far worse, yet it's something we are all going to have to become accustomed to because we are not going away anytime soon. Boys and girls this is the new City, this is how it's going to be from now on every season.
Back to the Curryhouse and saturday night and will we do it and how will we celebrate? We agreed to just enjoy the ride and worry about that in May, its not in a City fans makeup to discuss such things.
Indeed 'the time's they are a changing'.
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.