The 25 most defining games in our history

1961_vintage said:
These should include those games that actually represent the very nature of Manchester City rather than just great results.

We are about loyalty, enduring spirit, integrity, wanting to win but not at all cost, and above all staying true to what we love whilst maintaining hope in adversity,

13th May 2012 encapsulates all of that and more.
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The defining point for me personally was the Blackburn 2-0 game in the FA cup. It was the moment I realised I'd never see City win anything...

ahem
I'm setting off to see City at Wembley (CITY AT WEMBLEY!!!??!!!) for the 6th time in about 45 mins
 
Fenerbarche surely rather than Napoli?

The turning point of the 1998/99 Season 2-1 v Stoke or the 2-0 away v Boro when in free fall in 2007, similar the 3-1 at the Reebok in 2004 first league win for about 4/5 months.
 
Corky said:
Fenerbarche surely rather than Napoli?
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Indeed!

Also surely games like this should be in the list:

First league game at Hyde Road, 7-0 win v Bootle
Record crowd at Hyde Road, [officially]41709 (said to be much more, with fans four yards inside the pitch lines all round the pitch), at a time when football attendances were nowhere near this big
1904 FA Cup final
Last game at Hyde Road, v Newcastle
First game at Maine Road, v SheffU (58159 attendance)
The first 1-6 at Old Trafford, 1926
Record crowd at Maine Road, [officially]84569 v Stoke
1934 FA Cup final
0-5 at Old Trafford, 1955 (they won the league that season, so no mean feat)
 
KippaxCitizen said:
Corky said:
Fenerbarche surely rather than Napoli?
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Indeed!

Also surely games like this should be in the list:

First league game at Hyde Road, 7-0 win v Bootle
Record crowd at Hyde Road, [officially]41709 (said to be much more, with fans four yards inside the pitch lines all round the pitch), at a time when football attendances were nowhere near this big
1904 FA Cup final
Last game at Hyde Road, v Newcastle
First game at Maine Road, v SheffU (58159 attendance)
The first 1-6 at Old Trafford, 1926
Record crowd at Maine Road, [officially]84569 v Stoke
1934 FA Cup final
0-5 at Old Trafford, 1955 (they won the league that season, so no mean feat)
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Almost every City game could be viewed as a defining moment - think of Bournemouth in 1989 and how that hit us at the time and is remembered today. Looking at pre-Maine Rd you'd need to add Burnley 1921 - Burnley had established the record number of games without defeat, City were 2nd in the table and expected to be humiliated, the Hyde Rd ground was bursting with fans (photos in my books of fans sat on roofs; stories of gates being smashed down etc.), and around 55,000 are believed to have been in a stadium that struggled to hold 40,000. The Blues won the match (but finished 2nd to Burnley) but the game was one of the deciding factors in building Maine Road and became 'the' Hyde Road game all fans remembered.

Other Hyde Rd games worth highlighting include the Kings visit in 1920 (first time a reigning monarch had attended a League game and a provincial football match), the derby immediately after the Nov 1920 Hyde Road fire which established the rivalry aspect of the Manchester derby etc.
 
If you could go back in time and watch\re-watch any key Man City game from the clubs history which would it be from the list below (I think I have all the key games\defining games\great wins?) .


Historical\Favourite Man City Matches (All games significant, and each must be a City victory).:

1. Man City 1 Bolton Wanderers 0 – FA Cup Final - 23 April 1904 (Citys’ first trophy – Billy Meredith scored the winner)
2. Man City 1 Stoke City 0 – FA Cup Quarter Final - 3 March 1934 (Largest ever crowd outside of Wembley stadium – 84,569 against Stoke side with a young Stanley Matthews – Eric Brook scored the winner)
3. Man City 2 Portsmouth 1 – FA Cup Final - 28 April 1934 (A Tilson double, anyone else for City scored 2 in a final ? and Captain Sam Cowan keeps his promise to win it after defeat the previous year against Everton)
4. Man City 4 Sheffield Wednesday 1 – Division One - 24 April 1937 - (Citys’ first Title and the bonus of Utd being relegated in the same season)
5. Man City 3 Birmingham City 1 – FA Cup Final – 5 May 1956 (Trautmans’ heroics, the Revie plan and Captain Roy Paul keeps his promise to win it after defeat the previous year against Newcastle)
6. Man City 4 Tottenham Hotspur 1 - Division One - 9 December 1967 (The ballet on ice)
7. Man Utd 1 Man City 3 – Division 1 - 27 March 1968 – (A goal behind early in the game and then the fightback and key victory that started the charge to the League title)
8. Newcastle Utd 3 Man City 4 – Division One – 13 May 1968 (Beating Utd to the title in true City ‘lets not make it easy for ourselves’ style)
9. Man City 1 Leicester City 0 – FA Cup Final – 26 April 1969 (Memorable Neil Young goal)
10. WBA 1 Man City 2 – League Cup Final – 7 March 1970 (Coming back from an early deficit)
11. Gornik Zabrze 1 Man City 2 – European Cup Winner Cup Final – 29 April 1970 (Our first\only European trophy and Lee 1 pen)
12. Man City 3 Man Utd 0 – Division One - 18 November 1972 ( A Bell hat-trick ?)
13. Man City 4 Coventry City 2 – League Cup 5th round replay – 16 January 1974 (afternoon kick off due to power cuts i.e. floodlights and still ~ 25,000 attendance)
14. Man Utd 0 Man City 1 – Division One – 27 April 1974 - (Dennis Law condemns his team to relegation - hilarious)
15. Man City 4 Man Utd 0 – League Cup 4th Round – 12 November 1975 (Mauling Utd on our way to Wembley)
16. Man City 4 Middlesbrough 0 – League Cup Semi-Final 2nd leg – 21 January 1976 (One of Maine Roads’ greatest nights\atmospheres)
17. Man City 2 Newcastle Utd 1 – League Cup Final - 28 February 1976 (Dennis’s goal and Mike Doyle lifting the cup)
18. Man City 5 Leicester City 0 – 22 January 1977 – (A Kidd hat-trick and commentator Barry Davies of the BBC saying if City are the 3rd best team in the country he would like to see the best)
19. Man City 5 Tottenham 0 – Division One - 7 May 1977 (The Peter Barnes show and Tottenham relegated)
20. Man City 3 AC Milan 0 – Uefa Cup 3rd round 2nd leg – 6 December 1978 (beating the mighty Italians)
21. Man City 2 Man Utd 0 – Division One – 10 November 1979 (An unexpected win with goals from Henry and Robinson)
22. Man City 6 Norwich City 0 – FA Cup 4th round – 24 January 1981 (A perfect 6 on the road to Wembley)
23. Man City 3 Everton 1 – FA Cup quarter final replay – 11 March 1981 (A massive crowd (bigger than official figures) on a great night at Maine Road)
24. Ipswich Town 0 Man City 1 – FA Cup semi-final – 11 April 1981 (Paul Powers free kick as City support vastly outnumbers the tractor boys)
25. Man City 5 Charlton Athletic 1 – Division Two – 11 May 1985 (Another great crowd and atmosphere on a perfect sunny day to seal promotion)
26. Man City 10 Huddersfield Town 1 – Division Two - 7 November 1987 (3 hat tricks and Huddersfield Manager Malcolm McDonald complaining 3 goals were offside i.e. the 8th, 9th and 10th !)
27. Man City 5 Man Utd 1 – Division 1 – 23 Sept 1989 - (The Maine Road massacre and Hinchcliffes’ 5 sign on a perfect Indian summers’ day)
28. Gillingham 2 Man City 2 (3-1 Man City on pens) – Division Two playoff final – 30 May 1999 (The great comeback version 1)
29. Blackburn Rovers 1 Man City 4 – Championship – 7 May 2000 (City fans take over Ewood park)
30. Man City 3 Man Utd 1 – Premier League – 9 November 2002 (Last Maine Road Derby and City’s first win over Utd in 13 years and the Goats’ 100th goal)
31. Man City 2 Hamburg 1 – Uefa Cup quarter final 2nd leg – 16 April 2009 (Best atmosphere at the Etihad)
32. Man City 1 Man Utd 0 – FA Cup semi-final – 16 April 2011 (The best atmosphere possibly at any game ever ?, for a perfect day when we out sang Utd fans)
33. Man City 1 Stoke City 0 – FA Cup Final – 14 May 2011 (Another perfect day and the banner is torn down)
34. Tottenham Hotspur 1 Man City 5 – Premier League – 28 August 2011 (A statement of what was to follow)
35. Man Utd 1 Man City 6 – Premier League – 23 October 2011 (Biggest ever win over Utd away)
36. Man City 1 Man Utd 0 – Premier League - 30 April 2012 (Captain Kompany steers the title back towards us in another great atmosphere on Derby day)
37. Man City 3 QPR 2 – Premier League – 13 May 2012 (The greatest joy comes from the closeness of the deepest despair - The great comeback version 2)
38. Man City 6 Tottenham Hotspur 0 – Premier League –24 November 2013 (The goals keep flowing)
39. Man City 6 Arsenal 3 – Premier League –14 December 2013 (Always good to humiliate one of the so called old big four)
40. Tottenham Hotspur 1 Man City 5 – Premier League –29 Jan 2014 (Agueros’ best ever game (in a half))
41. Man City 3 Sunderland 1 – League Cup Final – 2 Mar 2014 – (37 year wait to win the League Cup again is over and 2 great City Wembley goals and Captain Vinnie Kompany keeps his promise to be back and win at Wembley after the FA Cup final defeat the previous year against Wigan)
42. Man City 2 West Ham Utd 0 – Premier League – 11 May 2014 – (The trophies keep coming and continue we hope ?)
 
City1974 said:
If you could go back in time and watch\re-watch any key Man City game from the clubs history which would it be from the list below (I think I have all the key games\defining games\great wins?) .


Historical\Favourite Man City Matches (All games significant, and each must be a City victory).:

1. Man City 1 Bolton Wanderers 0 – FA Cup Final - 23 April 1904 (Citys’ first trophy – Billy Meredith scored the winner)
2. Man City 1 Stoke City 0 – FA Cup Quarter Final - 3 March 1934 (Largest ever crowd outside of Wembley stadium – 84,569 against Stoke side with a young Stanley Matthews – Eric Brook scored the winner)
3. Man City 2 Portsmouth 1 – FA Cup Final - 28 April 1934 (A Tilson double, anyone else for City scored 2 in a final ? and Captain Sam Cowan keeps his promise to win it after defeat the previous year against Everton)
4. Man City 4 Sheffield Wednesday 1 – Division One - 24 April 1937 - (Citys’ first Title and the bonus of Utd being relegated in the same season)
5. Man City 3 Birmingham City 1 – FA Cup Final – 5 May 1956 (Trautmans’ heroics, the Revie plan and Captain Roy Paul keeps his promise to win it after defeat the previous year against Newcastle)
6. Man City 4 Tottenham Hotspur 1 - Division One - 9 December 1967 (The ballet on ice)
7. Man Utd 1 Man City 3 – Division 1 - 27 March 1968 – (A goal behind early in the game and then the fightback and key victory that started the charge to the League title)
8. Newcastle Utd 3 Man City 4 – Division One – 13 May 1968 (Beating Utd to the title in true City ‘lets not make it easy for ourselves’ style)
9. Man City 1 Leicester City 0 – FA Cup Final – 26 April 1969 (Memorable Neil Young goal)
10. WBA 1 Man City 2 – League Cup Final – 7 March 1970 (Coming back from an early deficit)
11. Gornik Zabrze 1 Man City 2 – European Cup Winner Cup Final – 29 April 1970 (Our first\only European trophy and Lee 1 pen)
12. Man City 3 Man Utd 0 – Division One - 18 November 1972 ( A Bell hat-trick ?)
13. Man City 4 Coventry City 2 – League Cup 5th round replay – 16 January 1974 (afternoon kick off due to power cuts i.e. floodlights and still ~ 25,000 attendance)
14. Man Utd 0 Man City 1 – Division One – 27 April 1974 - (Dennis Law condemns his team to relegation - hilarious)
15. Man City 4 Man Utd 0 – League Cup 4th Round – 12 November 1975 (Mauling Utd on our way to Wembley)
16. Man City 4 Middlesbrough 0 – League Cup Semi-Final 2nd leg – 21 January 1976 (One of Maine Roads’ greatest nights\atmospheres)
17. Man City 2 Newcastle Utd 1 – League Cup Final - 28 February 1976 (Dennis’s goal and Mike Doyle lifting the cup)
18. Man City 5 Leicester City 0 – 22 January 1977 – (A Kidd hat-trick and commentator Barry Davies of the BBC saying if City are the 3rd best team in the country he would like to see the best)
19. Man City 5 Tottenham 0 – Division One - 7 May 1977 (The Peter Barnes show and Tottenham relegated)
20. Man City 3 AC Milan 0 – Uefa Cup 3rd round 2nd leg – 6 December 1978 (beating the mighty Italians)
21. Man City 2 Man Utd 0 – Division One – 10 November 1979 (An unexpected win with goals from Henry and Robinson)
22. Man City 6 Norwich City 0 – FA Cup 4th round – 24 January 1981 (A perfect 6 on the road to Wembley)
23. Man City 3 Everton 1 – FA Cup quarter final replay – 11 March 1981 (A massive crowd (bigger than official figures) on a great night at Maine Road)
24. Ipswich Town 0 Man City 1 – FA Cup semi-final – 11 April 1981 (Paul Powers free kick as City support vastly outnumbers the tractor boys)
25. Man City 5 Charlton Athletic 1 – Division Two – 11 May 1985 (Another great crowd and atmosphere on a perfect sunny day to seal promotion)
26. Man City 10 Huddersfield Town 1 – Division Two - 7 November 1987 (3 hat tricks and Huddersfield Manager Malcolm McDonald complaining 3 goals were offside i.e. the 8th, 9th and 10th !)
27. Man City 5 Man Utd 1 – Division 1 – 23 Sept 1989 - (The Maine Road massacre and Hinchcliffes’ 5 sign on a perfect Indian summers’ day)
28. Gillingham 2 Man City 2 (3-1 Man City on pens) – Division Two playoff final – 30 May 1999 (The great comeback version 1)
29. Blackburn Rovers 1 Man City 4 – Championship – 7 May 2000 (City fans take over Ewood park)
30. Man City 3 Man Utd 1 – Premier League – 9 November 2002 (Last Maine Road Derby and City’s first win over Utd in 13 years and the Goats’ 100th goal)
31. Man City 2 Hamburg 1 – Uefa Cup quarter final 2nd leg – 16 April 2009 (Best atmosphere at the Etihad)
32. Man City 1 Man Utd 0 – FA Cup semi-final – 16 April 2011 (The best atmosphere possibly at any game ever ?, for a perfect day when we out sang Utd fans)
33. Man City 1 Stoke City 0 – FA Cup Final – 14 May 2011 (Another perfect day and the banner is torn down)
34. Tottenham Hotspur 1 Man City 5 – Premier League – 28 August 2011 (A statement of what was to follow)
35. Man Utd 1 Man City 6 – Premier League – 23 October 2011 (Biggest ever win over Utd away)
36. Man City 1 Man Utd 0 – Premier League - 30 April 2012 (Captain Kompany steers the title back towards us in another great atmosphere on Derby day)
37. Man City 3 QPR 2 – Premier League – 13 May 2012 (The greatest joy comes from the closeness of the deepest despair - The great comeback version 2)
38. Man City 6 Tottenham Hotspur 0 – Premier League –24 November 2013 (The goals keep flowing)
39. Man City 6 Arsenal 3 – Premier League –14 December 2013 (Always good to humiliate one of the so called old big four)
40. Tottenham Hotspur 1 Man City 5 – Premier League –29 Jan 2014 (Agueros’ best ever game (in a half))
41. Man City 3 Sunderland 1 – League Cup Final – 2 Mar 2014 – (37 year wait to win the League Cup again is over and 2 great City Wembley goals and Captain Vinnie Kompany keeps his promise to be back and win at Wembley after the FA Cup final defeat the previous year against Wigan)
42. Man City 2 West Ham Utd 0 – Premier League – 11 May 2014 – (The trophies keep coming and continue we hope ?)
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Not a bad list and it proves one thing I have long suspected. I am the kiss of death. All the games I have seen and depressingly few are on this list, 25, 26, 27, 29 and 42.

I can produce an extensive list of games I was at when we were really shit though.
 
Anyone said the Arsenal game at the Emirates when we went 8 points behind United and Balotelli got a red card?

Khaldoon said he went to the dressing room post game and he and Mancini basically hatched a plot to publicly concede the title to United to take pressure off the team.
 
Watford 0-0 at home under Pearce, worst game of football i have ever seen
 
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