I suspect many that exist predominantly in the Transfer forum,and/or claim Mahrez as MOTM every game,will be confused by this event (in our history).
While i envy the 20 somethings and younger who know nothing but success......to live the emotional rollercoaster that subsequently formed the appreciation,and bewilderment,for what we witness and savour now,was a totally unique and impossible to explain experience.
Despite yet another myth......we were there when we were shit,and i wouldn't change a thing!
Totally spot on jn my opinion. These days we are lucky to see fantastic football played by brilliant players coached by the best manager in the world. FFS, an FA Cup and CL final for City to look foward to !!!not bad that!
If I'm honest even though i feel i do appreciate what im watching, maybe I have become a little spoilt /had expectations constantly raised by it all on the occasions I go these days. Even at the recent Chelsea match I was thinking 'last 10 minutes 'what's going on, we've normally scored 4 by now'.
I even left before the end of the celebrations as I'd seen it all before !! (the only actual game I ever left before full time was that bloody awful Forest Cup game under Hughes I must add at this point though!)
We were pretty shit back in the day, but we still pulled in the punters. Were we fortunate with our investment back in 2008, ofcourse we were. All succesful teams pull in new fans but are we plastic gloryhunters? absolutely not..at least not the more 'aged' amongst us.
Gillingham was the most important game in our history, who knows what would have happened had we lost! We have played much, much more prestigous glamorous games with a quality of football that is a million times better but personally I don't think any game has come anywhere close to the importance of that one.
The bond/atmosphere/ passion etc.. of that game, plus that memorable one at Blackburn a year later will always be in my City top 10 games attended. Ofcourse there was also the other side of the coin with the toxicity that did rear it's head from time to time.
What we want to go back...fuck ,no way! Before this brilliant brand we have the privilege to see now,
'Getting all pissed up because we don't give a fuck 'for real at Lincoln, Wycombe, Chesterfield etc..(and York ofcourse for some!!!) and in years prior at Grimsby, Cambridge,Carlisle etc.. are just as important and valid parts of being a City fans and ones I actually enjoy talking about with other blues of a similair vintage in a strange 'Ooh, didn't we have it tough but we were still there weren't we kind of way!
Like you, I wouldn't change those 'character building' days , they certainly do make us appreciate these current times a lot more....(even if some of us left the title celebrations early!!)
