Just think mate, in our lifetime we got to see these wonderful players play. There was a time we could only dream of such, most other footy fans in the world will only ever dream of such!
You're right of course, so many great memories.
Things have moved so quickly it seems strange to feel nostalgic for an era still fresh in the mind, but these fellas were making history so fast! Our history! And now they're gone. I remember my brother commenting in the concourse after another victory how great it was to win more games than we lost, delivered with no cynicism at all, just a genuine, almost childlike pleasure.
Winning the FA Cup in 2011 stands out of course, but particularly vivid for me was a Tevez masterclass thumping we gave Chelsea.
I was in Munich for 93.20, my wife working miracles with her laptop for updates as the clock ticked away. City made the TV news headlines in Germany that night and not as a sports story!
So many great times.
I lived in Norwich for a bit and was working with a company director who was a rag but had a box at Carrow Road, he was alright as a bloke but full of it as a rag, One Saturday he invited me to watch City play the mighty Canaries. We demolished them, it was men and boys, the look on his face was priceless, he'd seen the future and it wasn't red.
I could go on, Vinny's Leicester goal, Yaya single-handedly dragging us across the line in 2014, that six months of Negrado, particularly his goal against Liverpool and Sergio wiping the smile off Pep's face against Bayern.
These players are icons of a glorious era, It takes their leaving to really bring it home.
