Not as bothered since 13/05/2012

Yeah im with you on that. A defeat used to send me into a mood for days because it was another loss closer to relegation, now we've reached 40 points its all good fun.


Although shithouse performances like sunday still piss me off.
 
I think the last three seasons have been rather tense for fans. Decades ago I would turn up at Maine Road safe in the knowledge that I would see some kind of football match and that we might just compete. Then we arrive at the point where a full three points is absolutely essential. During the games this season where we have gone behind, played poorly, lost and been suckered like we were v The Arse, I have begun to adopt a more familiar sanguine approach, certainly on the way home. We win, we win; we lose, we lose. There's another match round the corner. Getting like old times, except we have a stellar squad to go with it.
 
Big Yaya Wilko 12 said:
I think my worst memory was watching us go down in 2001. I was only 11 and it felt like mine, my brothers and all our mate's hopes had been trodden into the playground tarmac by the few mouthy reds who went to our school (St. Mary's, Denton). Conversely, I don't think I felt such a symposium exhilaration as I did the season after under Keegan, I have a very vivid, almost lurid, memory of being in a pub in Failsworth with my dad and our kid watching Huckerby score the hundredth goal (I think it was our hundredth: just because I remember my dad telling me afterwards) of the campaign and we battered Barnsley cricket score (i think) and sealing promotion! I never thought I'd feel as enraptured by anything like that ever again. Even at 12!

And then, of course, came Sergio's stoppage time screamer! How everything seemed to melt and fade away, like Dali's clocks. And there was nothing, no past, present or future. Just that one perfect moment suspended in its own, kind of, celestial, sublime, anachronistic plane of existence. Where nothing mattered, except that goal and the awesome waves of joy radiating from it. It didn't just represent a scoreline, did it? It wasn't just a premier league title or trophy. It elevated itself into the realms of concept. The concept of being a Manchester City fan. The agony bursting into ecstasy. Not just solipsistically speaking, either. It was the knowledge that we, as blues, were all feeling it together. Me, my mum, my dad, my brother. Your mum, your dad, your brother. My mates, your mates. You. Everyone.

Does that dull the blade when happenstance conspires to cut us? Does it make it easier to maintain the grace of nonchalance?

Does it bollocks.

Do I throw temporary temper tantrums when we don't win?

Of course.

Would I have it any other way?

Would I fuck.
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I enjoyed reading that, cheers.
 
Losing pisses me off for the rest of the day

I tend to avoid here after a defeat and will not watch Match Of The Day

But the next morning i'm fine

I have supported City through thick and thin...mainly thin...so i'm definitely a glass half full man

Like the OP said...nothing will ever top 93:20 for me

We could win the treble including the Champions League...it wouldn't compare

For me to see my first City title...and in that way...robbing our biggest rivals at the time...how can that be beaten?
 
I don't like seeing us get beat, but i find it easier to take when we play poorly

If we have played well and got beat then its a real sickener
 
chris85mcfc said:
I don't like seeing us get beat, but i find it easier to take when we play poorly

If we have played well and got beat then its a real sickener
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Really? I'm the complete opposite.
If we've played well and been beaten by the better team then I can hold my hands up and say fair fucks. When we've played as poor as we did against Stoke/Burnley and Arsenal I'm fuming because we've only ourselves (and usually a shite referee) to blame.
 
Pablo1 said:
chris85mcfc said:
I don't like seeing us get beat, but i find it easier to take when we play poorly

If we have played well and got beat then its a real sickener
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Really? I'm the complete opposite.
If we've played well and been beaten by the better team then I can hold my hands up and say fair fucks. When we've played as poor as we did against Stoke/Burnley and Arsenal I'm fuming because we've only ourselves (and usually a shite referee) to blame.
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I think its more down to us very rarely losing when we have played well, so it hurts that little bit more

9 times out of 10 we have lost because we've been shite, like the games you mentioned

I've adopted many coping mechanisms over the years watching City :)
 
He puts me in a bigger mood when we get beat now as I expect to win most games. Like a spoilt brat really.
But I'm not as bothered about other footy now. I used to look at the relegation, teams around us and the top of table plus top six positions. Now I don't give a fuck what the other teams are doing, just watch out for our title rivals.Not even arsed about the rags results. Still makes me smile to see them get beat though :)
 
I don't think any other set of fans in football have gone through the full spectrum of emotions we have as city fans. I don't think we will ever experience a season like 2011/12 ever again in terms of an emotional roller coaster. The destroying of the rags at old Trafford was like some type of wet dream. I remember when us scoring a goal at old Trafford was a big thing, that day we scored at will. Then the qpr game showed typical city rearing its ugly head again putting everyone in that ground that day through the mangler.

The fa cup was enough for me, being ribbed by rags in school and suffering relegation after relegation made me believe we would never lift a trophy during my lifetime.

So yeah there is a feeling of where do we go from here after May 2012. But do I care less about what happens to city? No chance, I was just as livid about us not turning up against arsenal on Sunday than I was back when I was ten years old listening to Brian Clarke on the wireless describing our 6-0 dicking by Derby county sobbing my eyes out at how bad we were.
 
I've been a fan since 84 and we were expected to lose more then. Now we are favourites in almost every game and I'm gutted when we lose. I even get pissed off when we draw especially when we have been in front (ie Burnley, Everton).
 
IanBishopsHaircut said:
Losing pisses me off for the rest of the day

I tend to avoid here after a defeat and will not watch Match Of The Day

But the next morning i'm fine

I have supported City through thick and thin...mainly thin...so i'm definitely a glass half full man

Like the OP said...nothing will ever top 93:20 for me

We could win the treble including the Champions League...it wouldn't compare

For me to see my first City title...and in that way...robbing our biggest rivals at the time...how can that be beaten?
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It can't. It just can't. The look on Ferguson's drink-addled chops was worth all the relegations put together!
 
CrownPointBlue said:
Dentonians always come through.
Me
My Bothers
My Nephews & Nieces & Cousins
My Father
His Father
We used to slaughter the rags at Edgerton Park.
Denton was,is and always will be CITY!!
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With that Rag twat Mick Hucknall being the exception! :-)

I went to Audenshaw Grammar and used to get a regular beating of the Edgerton Park mob!!
 
jknight said:
CrownPointBlue said:
Dentonians always come through.
Me
My Bothers
My Nephews & Nieces & Cousins
My Father
His Father
We used to slaughter the rags at Edgerton Park.
Denton was,is and always will be CITY!!
Click to expand...

With that Rag twat Mick Hucknall being the exception! :-)

I went to Audenshaw Grammar and used to get a regular beating of the Edgerton Park mob!!
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CrownPointBlue said:
jknight said:
CrownPointBlue said:
Dentonians always come through.
Me
My Bothers
My Nephews & Nieces & Cousins
My Father
His Father
We used to slaughter the rags at Edgerton Park.
Denton was,is and always will be CITY!!
Click to expand...

With that Rag twat Mick Hucknall being the exception! :-)

I went to Audenshaw Grammar and used to get a regular beating of the Edgerton Park mob!!
Click to expand...
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Haha....we used to do the Two Trees lot as well !!
 
Big Yaya Wilko 12 said:
I think my worst memory was watching us go down in 2001. I was only 11 and it felt like mine, my brothers and all our mate's hopes had been trodden into the playground tarmac by the few mouthy reds who went to our school (St. Mary's, Denton). Conversely, I don't think I felt such a symposium exhilaration as I did the season after under Keegan, I have a very vivid, almost lurid, memory of being in a pub in Failsworth with my dad and our kid watching Huckerby score the hundredth goal (I think it was our hundredth: just because I remember my dad telling me afterwards) of the campaign and we battered Barnsley cricket score (i think) and sealing promotion! I never thought I'd feel as enraptured by anything like that ever again. Even at 12!

And then, of course, came Sergio's stoppage time screamer! How everything seemed to melt and fade away, like Dali's clocks. And there was nothing, no past, present or future. Just that one perfect moment suspended in its own, kind of, celestial, sublime, anachronistic plane of existence. Where nothing mattered, except that goal and the awesome waves of joy radiating from it. It didn't just represent a scoreline, did it? It wasn't just a premier league title or trophy. It elevated itself into the realms of concept. The concept of being a Manchester City fan. The agony bursting into ecstasy. Not just solipsistically speaking, either. It was the knowledge that we, as blues, were all feeling it together. Me, my mum, my dad, my brother. Your mum, your dad, your brother. My mates, your mates. You. Everyone.

Does that dull the blade when happenstance conspires to cut us? Does it make it easier to maintain the grace of nonchalance?

Does it bollocks.

Do I throw temporary temper tantrums when we don't win?

Of course.

Would I have it any other way?

Would I fuck.
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That sir, is one magnificent post.....
 
Thanks for the kind words, the few who bothered to trawl my post and enjoy it!

The ring of truth chimes sweeter, I always think. As Hemingway said 'Writing's easy, just sit at the typewriter and bleed.'

I suppose it's just easier to bleed for City! Haha!
 
In the 11/12 season everything was so magnified and intense, it was against our biggest rivals and it just meant so much to everyone, the dispondency of everyone on the 90th minute against QPR was crazy, I don't think we'll ever see such a huge mood swing again. I'm with the op, after going toe to toe with United and Fergie, everything that was so wrong with football for so long to me, and beating them, losing out on the title to Chelsea just wouldn't hold the same weight.
 
I'd say it's gotten worse for me.
Never liked losing (who does?), but it was normal for City. Win one, lose one, draw one....

These days, I'm gutted at any loss, and because we're so good these days, most losses feel like games we could have won had we played well. In the old days, we wouldn't have beaten Liverpool even on a good day (well, not usually).

Even a dyed in the wool blue and still have a loads of pessimism at games, but even I'm starting to adopt the winning mentality, and that's why it hurts more than ever to lose.

But I'd not say I was bitter about it. Teams lose. That's football.
 
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