Our biggest ever game?

[deano ou812]

It's all about opinions in the end,gillingham for the fact we may not be where we are today if we had lost,the fa cup semi final against the rags when we started to see that we had moved forward after our owner shiek mansour's takeover,then the final it self with the monkey off our back of no trophy since 76..

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I think it has to be QPR, closely followed by Gillingham. Not just because of the manifest consequences of victory, but the probable implications of failure in each game, especially the match four years ago.

 

[moggymoz]

Makes you laugh when people put up moments that happened prior to actual big moments.

I read above Newcastle away was the biggest, without Newcastle there is no QPR. What a fucking daft way of looking at it. Does that mean the United game is even bigger then because without United there is no Newcastle moment, then no QPR moment? Bollocks.

Anyway Gillingham has got to be seen as the biggest game for me. Saved our club

Definitely this ^

 

[Blackcrowes]

Gillingham for me - or maybe the Wrexham game when the season got going

 

[Corky]

What about Spurs in the QF in 1993? IF we would have won we would have ended up winning the cup, invested more and been a force in the prem for over 20 years and probably have 5 or 6 prem titles and 2 Champs Leagues,

Same with Gillingham, we didn't lose so people make up what happens if we did.

 

[bluegirl74]

As others have said, it depends how you look at it. Tomorrow is massive (rag, I know) in that it represents a realistic chance of getting to the semis of the most elite club competition in the world; a competition our owner ranks above all others although we all know that it's bent as Blatter.
But, as fans, we recognise the importance of Gillingham, the semi against them, the Stoke final, QPR or the games leading up to it as pivotal moments in our shared history.

 

[City Raider]

however big all the games mentioned in this thread, no game gets me as nervous as any against those fuckers - totally illogical i know, can't help it. I'll be nervous tomorrow but nowhere near what I was a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Shaelumstash]

I was at the Gillingham game, absolutely wonderful occasion, and extremely emotional. But survival "on every level"? No, not for me.

I think it's kind of crept in to City folklore that if we'd lost that match we would have disappeared as a football club, gone out of business. I don't know why people buy in to that, but it's simply not true.

We'd have been in real financial difficulty, sure. Would it have been worse than Leeds? Worse than Rangers, or Bolton? No, I don't think it would. Would we have gone in to administration? Possibly, even probably, but would the club have just packed up and disappeared? Tell the 30k season ticket holders there is no club anymore, go and support Stockport? Absolutely no chance.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I was at the Gillingham game, absolutely wonderful occasion, and extremely emotional. But survival "on every level"? No, not for me.

I think it's kind of crept in to City folklore that if we'd lost that match we would have disappeared as a football club, gone out of business. I don't know why people buy in to that, but it's simply not true.

We'd have been in real financial difficulty, sure. Would it have been worse than Leeds? Worse than Rangers, or Bolton? No, I don't think it would. Would we have gone in to administration? Possibly, even probably, but would the club have just packed up and disappeared? Tell the 30k season ticket holders there is no club anymore, go and support Stockport? Absolutely no chance.

Anyone suggesting the outcome of that game had a bearing on the survival of the club cannot have studied the subject of clubs going into administration in recent years very much. Football clubs in financial difficulties, even when it's acute, seldom face armageddon. I'm sure we'd have survived intact.

What that result did do, however, (as well as quite possibly the manner of it) was provide the springboard for back-to-back promotions, which in turn supplied the catalyst for a meaningful renaissance of the club, which included the relocation to the stadium in which we now reside.

I think it can be said, on the balance of probabilities, that without the dramatic catalyst of that denouement to the 1998/9 season we wouldn't have been in the box seats when Sheikh Masour went window shopping in 2008.

For me, that is what now makes that game so important.

 

[Shaelumstash]

Anyone suggesting the outcome of that game had a bearing on the survival of the club cannot have studied the subject of clubs going into administration in recent years very much. Football clubs in financial difficulties, even when it's acute, seldom face armageddon. I'm sure we'd have survived intact.

What that result did do, however, (as well as quite possibly the manner of it) was provide the springboard for back-to-back promotions, which in turn supplied the catalyst for a meaningful renaissance of the club, which included the relocation to the stadium in which we now reside.

I think it can be said, on the balance of probabilities, that without the dramatic catalyst of that denouement to the 1998/9 season we wouldn't have been in the box seats when Sheikh Masour went window shopping in 2008.

For me, that is what now makes that game so important.

I 100% agree with you mate. It was a monumental game for the club. At the time it was certainly the biggest game of my lifetime, who knows where we would be now without it.

But I completely back up what you are saying, we would certainly exist, we'd still be a big football club, although perhaps not in the fantastic position we find ourselves in today.

It's quite an ambiguous term "the biggest game in our history". Before the Gillingham game that felr pretty big, and because of how it played out, it became even bigger.

The QPR game felt run of the mill before it started, the hard work had already been done. But when Zabba scored, it kind of felt like that wasn't going to be the end of the story. It seemed too simple, too straightforward for City to win the league like that.

The way the game panned out is perhaps the most "Typical City" game ever. It looked straightforward, after we scored first we just needed to cruise to the title. But then in a manner only City can manage, we completely collapsed and went 2-1 down at home against a team threatened with relegation.

To then turn it around and score two goals in injury time to win the league for the first time in 44 years, after our all conquering, cross town sworn enemies had been celebrating thinking they'd won the title after throwing away an 8 point lead, I'm not sure it can get any bigger than that?

QPR didn't feel that big going in to it, but looking back at it, it's probably the biggest game, certainlg the biggest moment in the history of English domestic football, and I don't think it will ever be topped.