Lesser known / Quirky records City hold

[portisheadblue]

Unfortunately, he never had this record. Marouane Chamakh scored two goals with a bigger gap in Arsenal's 2-0 win at Wolves in 2010.

Good knowledge of other teams Well Done

 

[PepInYourStep]

City (along with Woolwich Arsenal) played in the hottest English match on record in temperatures above 32 degrees celsius

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/aug/15/hottest-match-england-football-knowledge

 

[mat]

Pissed on the champions* parade 2020

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Did Chelsea also play on the previous day?

Yes. Oxford. It was Oxford (if memory is correct) who forced the 2 games in 2 days. Chelsea beat Oxford in a controversial southern final and Maxwell as a result refused to change the date of the scheduled league game leaving the FA not much choice but to play it the following day

 

[kippaxcblue]

As of yesterday, we hold the most golden gloves by team. You can thank Joe Hart for 4 of them... what a goalkeeper he was.

Manchester City: 5
Chelsea: 4
Liverpool: 4
Arsenal: 2
United: 2

 

[Airbags Optional]

Joint highest 2nd place goal difference (premier league) +67 (shared with the dippers from last year)? Tenuous I know

 

[alexmcity]

Scoring on average 100+ league goals 3 seasons in a row.

 

[mccity]

1st team to have a goal spoiled on MOTD?

 

[Gary James]

Read an old post from Gary James recently where he mentioned that City have held the highest English attendance at their own club ground since 1924 with a 74,000+ crowd and then broke our own record crowd in 1934 with the 84,569 crowd against Stoke, which still stands.

The first record was 76,166 v Cardiff in FAC during the season the stadium opened. It was not only a provincial record crowd (i.e. English outside of London), it was the largest on a club ground; higher than any crowd at Old Trafford at that time (and still only about 900 less that OT's current record, which isn't for a MUFC game in any case); and higher than 3 FA Cup finals played in Manchester too. Give it another 3 years 7 months and we' will have held the record attendance on an English club ground for a century! We should make sure the world hears about that anniversary!

 

[manclad]

City (and Leicester City) were the first teams to have the new decimal 50pence coin for the pre- match coin toss before the 1969 Cup Final. This was a full 6 months before the 50pence coin was released into general circulation.