Our biggest ever game?

[City_Sean]

Not sure if tonight is our biggest, but it's the most important we've had since the QPR game.

 

[BillyShears]

If you look at the development of the club since the takeover, then you'd have to say in terms of profile this is the biggest game we've been involved in. QPR obviously isn't far behind.

Getting through tonight will be huge. The semi's you could argue will be the biggest game in our history.

 

[marshymcfc]

It's the biggest European game we have been involved in up until this point and if we go on to win the thing (IF) it will be looked back on with huge significance.

If we don't win it in five years time if we have progressed in Europe as we hope to do I can't see this being spoken of as one of the 'biggest' games in our history such as Gillingham et al.

Biggest game of the season so far? Absolutely.

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[sir baconface]

In the event we don't go through tonight, reaction will be nowhere near the level as the same outcome againsr QPR, Gills or Newcastle 68.

Psychologically, those were seismic games with massive consequences.This one wins us nothing. It only gets us further in a competition we are unlikely to win. Big - yes, but no cigar.

Ask again if we get to the final.

 

[HellasLEAF]

I'm with most here. QPR was so massive. It was just, defining.

This is huge, but if we are measuring ourselves by quarterfinals then it's time to re-assess our goals.

City are at home with 2 away goals in the bag. Time to go out there and finish the job.

 

[Keeper!]

Our biggest game ever, and will be forever was Gillingham in the play off final.

That game saved our club from the abyss

 

[M18CTID]

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.

Absolutely mate. Of course, if we hadn't won that play-off final we might well have got promoted the following season and still achieved back-to-back promotions with things just being a year out of sync, but at the same time it could've damaged team morale and we might have stayed in the 3rd tier or the 2nd tier for a fair few seasons longer. I do think we would've got our shit together and bounced back to the Premier League at some point if that was the case but the path the club went on would've been totally different and not only might we have been overlooked by ADUG, it could've even screwed things up like the stadium move as well. I doubt very much we would've gone bust though - with Bernstein at the helm, we would've been in pretty good hands even if the team wasn't up to scratch on the pitch.

It's funny really because when we played Barca the first time round in 2013/14 a Facebook friend was saying that it wasn't the be all and end all and many blues were agreeing that Gillingham was a far more important game in our history. Some United fan on there couldn't get his head round that thinking but the point was made that while the Barca match had a much wider appeal globally, the subsequent impact on the club wasn't under any great threat if we were to get knocked out whereas that can't be said about the Gillingham game.

From my own personal experience I'm in agreement that only the Aguero title-winning moment trumps the Gillingham game.

 

[Gingers Dad]

The Gillingham game is regarded by some as the biggest game in City's history because it was won in dramatic style. The QPR match the season before was a far bigger match but it was lost. Had it been won City would never have had to play that one season in the 3rd Division. A bigger game than that was the Liverpool game that was drawn 2 all and led to relegation from the Premier League in 96. In fact most of the games mentioned on this thread as the biggest game.

 

[Pam]

Our biggest game ever, and will be forever was Gillingham in the play off final.

That game saved our club from the abyss

I think this is urban myth. We would have gone up the following season. My, but it was fun though.

 

[geoff clipp]

Is there such thing as a "biggest ever game"? Surely our history is littered with the odd game of huge significance. There will always be games that in their own way have defined how move forward from that point and each time they come up, it doesn't mean they're more important than the last.

If I did believe there was such thing as a biggest ever game, it certainly wouldn't be a quarter final of a cup competition though. TBH, even if we reached the champion's league final, even though i'd be unbelievably excited, I can't say for sure i'd have quite the same sense of anticipation going into it as i did that QPR game.

I guess a good benchmark for how big a game is, is how you'd feel if you were to lose it. I'd be gutted to lose tonight, but nowhere near as much as I would have been to mess up the QPR, GIllingham, West Ham 2014, 1-0 v United or Blackburn Rovers (promotion in 2000) games.