Our biggest ever game?

[wythenshaweblue£££]

Well people are taking it serious just seen its sold out.. Can't wait for tomorrow come on City

 

[Tricky Dickys Right Foot Shot]

Hahaha is it fuck the biggest game in our history, not even our biggest game of the season........ Wait till we get to a CL final then we can start talking about big games..

 

[Motty25]

The tricky thing about this question, is what determines how big a game is.
The impact of failure? Or the prize of victory?

The three contenders for me in my lifetime are Gillingham '99, United semi 2011 and QPR 2012.

The 2011/12 game at home to United was arguably the biggest in PL history; but not the biggest in City's. The Newcastle game that followed was bigger than the QPR game was bigger again.

 

[Dunne's own goal]

Tomorrow night's game is by simple logic the biggest game City have ever been involved in. The European Cup is the biggest trophy City can compete in and this is the furthest they've ever got. If they get through to the semis then they'll be involved in even bigger games. All the other games mentioned like Gillingham, Newcastle, QPR etc are the games that got the club to this point

I'm not sure I have ever heard anything as silly as that!

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

We won't know how big this game is, till after. As we don't know what it will lead to, if anything.
It's easy recounting other games and judging how big they were, knowing what we know now.

 

[squirtyflower]

I'm not sure I have ever heard anything as silly as that!

Carry on reading and he'll better it

 

[davymcfc]

Certainly the biggest game for a few years I would say.

 

[sir baconface]

Spot on. People like the narrative that we'd have gone to the wall, but it wouldn't have happened.

We lost GBP 1 million on a turnover of GBP 12 million during the Division Two season. We'd have sold Weaver and/or Wiekens to keep the wolf from the door - probably Gerard, who we could have fetched a couple of million for at the time and replaced with Richard Jobson, who played 40-odd league games the next season in the higher division, ensuring performances wouldn't have suffered. Gates would have held up - we sold almost 14K season tickets before the play-off final, which was not far off the total for 1998/9. And we had a side that, if form from Boxing Day to the end of the season had been averaged over the entire campaign would have topped 100 points. I think we'd have cantered to promotion in front of gates as big as the previous campaign and been quite financially healthy.

However, Gary James has suggested that we might not have got the stadium or the permanent capacity would have been smaller if we'd stayed dow. Sport England weren't keen to put in the same level of funding for a facility with a tenant in the third tier. That might have had implications for takeovers in later years, but the 'we'd have gone bust if Gillingham had beaten us' story is overly romanticised.

Wardle and Makin were already involved at City in those days, btw, just not as the main shareholders. They ended up buying some shares off the Boler estate in October or November 1999, converted some of their loans to shares and Sky took 10% of the club. We were actually debt free as a result of those transactions (not for long, mind!).

Sorry guys. Gillingham was a crucial turning point irrespective of ITK claims and pseudo-intellectual "proof".

Anyone who witnessed it knows it in their bones.

 

[MCFC1993]

Its our biggest game for quite a while if you don't use hindsight.

 

[Phil1]

Carry on reading and he'll better it

I wonder if the ginger in question is Paul Scholes?