My touchstone from Saturday is the FA Cup Final 1981

Didsbury Dave said:
It's been emotional. I'm back home now after what feels like months of rising tension and hassle as we jumped the hurdles one by one: the semis, the location, the flights, the hotels, the tickets, the tests, he paperwork, the cash...there was so much skin in the game, and such excitement out there in porto: for us old school blues this felt like it was going to be the end of our journey.

Karma bit us. This team has been delivering on the big occasions consistently. We haven't had a "big"'loss like this for a long time. I've been searching my memory for another game that hurt in the same way and all I can come up with is the Spurs final of 1981. I was only 11 but the feeling of expecting joy and being left with despair never left me, and I think most blues of my generation have never forgotten how that felt.

This was the modern day equivalent. A gutting defeat.

But this time is going to be different. I have total confidence that this team with this manager will lift this trophy in glorious fashion next year (1955 anyone?),
Or the year after, or very soon. It's coming.

This is just part of Manchester City's wonderful history. My faith is intact.
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Well said Dave, was sorry to read about you having your wallet stolen as well
 
Let me get this right. This year, we finally bury the spectre of 1981 by beating Spurs in a Cup Final. In the same year, we have now replaced it with the new Ricky Villa moment, Kai Havertz, and will have to wait 40 years to exorcise this particular moment. Good, I'm fed up of my kids seeing success after success, they can get used to turmoil and pain just like me. Great OP by the way.
 
spacecadet said:
Great words Blue, went every home and away game 1981, it hurt. But I was thinking earlier, it equalled my dad taking me to the Wolves final in 1974. God that was the worst for me.
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you're right about the wolves game,i was 9 and my dad couldn't get us tickets,it broke my young heart losing that game when we should of won,took us only 2 years to put it right in 76.
was similar last night seeing my 13year old crying in grief on the way home after watching us lose last night,he'll remember that awful feeling all his life,and hopefully it will be put right asap.
 
spacecadet said:
Great words Blue, went every home and away game 1981, it hurt. But I was thinking earlier, it equalled my dad taking me to the Wolves final in 1974. God that was the worst for me.
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I was too young to remember that one but have heard others say similar. Maybe it's your first big, unexpected defeat that never leaves you. Those kick-in-the-balls defeats hurt. Some will state Wigan 2013 but to me that was just miserable rather than devastating. Lyon, Liverpool and Spurs in the champions league all hurt too but they didn't have the added gut-wrenching closeness to glory this one had.

The relegations are other obvious comparisons but they have a slightly different flavour. They don't have that feeling of glory being snatched away. They are just scary battles.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I was too young to remember that one but have heard others say similar. Maybe it's your first big, unexpected defeat that never leaves you. Those kick-in-the-balls defeats hurt. Some will state Wigan 2013 but to me that was just miserable rather than devastating. Lyon, Liverpool and Spurs in the champions league all hurt too but they didn't have the added gut-wrenching closeness to glory this one had.

The relegations are other obvious comparisons but they have a slightly different flavour. They don't have that feeling of glory being snatched away. They are just scary battles.
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not beating utd in 2018 at ours to win the league after being 2 nil up at ht hurt like mad
that is one that will stay with me personally
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I was too young to remember that one but have heard others say similar. Maybe it's your first big, unexpected defeat that never leaves you. Those kick-in-the-balls defeats hurt. Some will state Wigan 2013 but to me that was just miserable rather than devastating. Lyon, Liverpool and Spurs in the champions league all hurt too but they didn't have the added gut-wrenching closeness to glory this one had.

The relegations are other obvious comparisons but they have a slightly different flavour. They don't have that feeling of glory being snatched away. They are just scary battles.
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Nail on head mate. Seven year old and no way in my mind could we lose with that Line up.
 
blue44 said:
not beating utd in 2018 at ours to win the league after being 2 nil up at ht hurt like mad
that is one that will stay with me personally
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That hurt on the day but nothing close to this for me. Our season was back on track within a week and it didn't matter in the scheme of things.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
That hurt on the day but nothing close to this for me. Our season was back on track within a week and it didn't matter in the scheme of things.
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yeah,i know,its because it was them,i knew the league was 99% wrapped up but i wanted us to humiliate them ,and at ht it looked like we would ! Till typical city reared its ugly head.
 
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