The day the tables turned

[bennyboy]

When I say to Rags the Yaya semi final they know exactly what I mean. The tables turned that day. From the Poznan to the result to outsinging them from start to finish.More than the table turning football wise. Many of our lives changes for the better that day too.

We’ve destroyed the rags many times since but the Yaya semi final always evokes good memories. I recall going into the Greyhounder nervous and coming out 6 ciders later convinced we would win the game. Before long Mancini would tear that banner down and the rest was history.

I have never seen so many drunk Blues at a football match.

 

[TheGhost]

I have never seen so many drunk Blues at a football match.

My mate drank a bottle of JD on the way down. He slept through most of the second half.

 

[youngbob]

I have never seen so many drunk Blues at a football match.

5.15pm kick-off on a Saturday. Not surprised, haha.

 

[eastmanc]

Makes me laugh when some try to act like Yaya didn't play here or wasn't one of the greats.

Yaya is one of City's all time greats.

 

[eastmanc]

Same here..

I still remember those words:

It couldn't be six could it, It could you know..
A SEISMIC DAY IN ENGLISH FOOTBALL!
No other way to describe it!
Regime change, power shift, call it what you like..
Totally unexpected, Truly SPECTACULAR!
And humiliating for Manchester United.
It's a simply stunning scoreline.
United not just beaten.. humbled and HUMILIATED!

<City fans chanting EASY EASY EASY EASY EASY>

One of the best displays by a City side ever the other being the Real Madrid semi final.

 

[eastmanc]

Buzzer expected it. The year before he said on Sky after we lost at OT: “Soon, we’ll come here and give them a real beating.” (Rough quote). Sky dropped him for being partisan. Haha, Sky reds.
The tv pictures of him with a little smile playing round his face (Told ya, told ya) during the sick swan match are priceless.

The treatment of Mike Summerbee that day was a disgrace. Treated like a doddering old fool. Little did they know how true his words would become.

 

[City Raider]

Won’t have a bad word said against Yaya. Couldn’t give 2 fucks about the off the field stuff and his agent. He did his talking where it mattered. Games like this, Newcastle, Palace away. Always there when it mattered. What a player.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Me and my wife got corporate tickets from EON for the match. While we’re queuing up to get in we were offered £1500 each for our tickets. So glad we said no!

Once inside we had no idea where we would be seated as we climbed the stairs right on the halfway line. With a few steps left I could see if we turned left it was United and if we turned right it was City. We turned right and kept going until we were at the corner flag. We were sat with neutrals mainly but bumped into 3 blues we used to work with and made a nuisance of ourselves.

When Scholes got sent off I just thought they are going to beat us with ten men. They had nothing to lose and played better. It was the longest 20 minutes of my life and I could barely watch. Disbelief and a few tears at the final whistle.

The whole day was brilliant from the weather to the Green Man to the roundabout and the match itself. We often say our Wedding day was our second favourite day ever.

Typical City ended that day for me and has never returned. Blues still often say typical City but it’s in the context of maybe not winning an FA Cup Final…that’s not the typical City I knew that went out tof Halifax.

I knew we would win the final and I knew we would never fear United again. I didn’t think we would rule the World too but I’ve loved every minute of it.

Yaya had his cake faults but we would not have broken the curse that day without him. I since learned that he gave a speech at half time where he said we were playing like we were waiting to lose. He found it incredible as, having been a Barca player, he knew what an exceptional team looked like and United weren’t it. He told the team to relax, enjoy the moment and when they got a chance to give him the ball and he would show them they were just playing an ordinary team. 7 minutes later….

Brilliant Post.
I'd not heard about this Yaya half time speech before
How inspirational was that? ( if true...,)What an amazing Footballer we had within our ranks.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Won’t have a bad word said against Yaya. Couldn’t give 2 fucks about the off the field stuff and his agent. He did his talking where it mattered. Games like this, Newcastle, Palace away. Always there when it mattered. What a player.

Yaya..was a Blue Legend...before he signed for us!!
Remember he played a full match at centre half for Barcelona in a champions league final ..against utd
When he marked Rooney out the game.What a player.
The best I've ever seen.bar none.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Still one of the best days of my life this. I travelled down with 2 fellow blues, one of whose son is a rag. He told me that when they walked out to their seats and looked into our end and saw a sea of sky blue, he knew they were fucked. The poznan whilst they read the United team out will live with me forever. We may have become a superpower under Guardiola but Mancini, Yaya, Mario etc are the ones who tore that fucking banner down.

Deadright.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Said it before, say it again, when Berbatov missed two sitters the world as we knew it shifted. Everything started to go down hill for United from that moment on.

The question is...why did he miss those two sitters?
We are talking top class striker here...one that Fergie swept away from the airport to meet utd when he should have been meeting City to sign for us....

The reason he missed imo.. is because the Blue noise atmosphere we created that day put him off his game.
We were .Louder than utd that day..and he must of realized he'd joined the wrong club!
Berbaflop.
Oh dear.

 

[East Level 2]

The question is...why did he miss those two sitters?
We are talking top class striker here...one that Fergie swept away from the airport to meet utd when he should have been meeting City to sign for us....

The reason he missed imo.. is because the Blue noise atmosphere we created that day put him off his game.
We were .Louder than utd that day..and he must of realized he'd joined the wrong club!
Berbaflop.
Oh dear.

Or perhaps the rags started ruining the careers of top class players earlier than we thought.

 

[Buckshaw Blue]

Yaya literally dragged us through games at times. There was a period of a few months where I was leaving the ground thinking that I simply couldn’t imagine a City team without him in it. He was that influential.

 

[IrishBloodEnglishHeart]

Yaya literally dragged us through games at times. There was a period of a few months where I was leaving the ground thinking that I simply couldn’t imagine a City team without him in it. He was that influential.

Towards the end of 11/12 when Mancini pushed him further forward it was a case of every game just thinking "wonder when Yaya will turn it on and win this for us". Newcastle away the perfect example.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Semi

Me too.

 

[patrickblue]

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but it's such a shame Yaya had such a twat for an agent.
If it wasn't for Seluk pissing everyone off with cakegate and accusing Pep of racism, Yaya would have a statue alongside Vinny, big Dave and Kun.
As it is Yaya's not seen as the legend he was.

 

[NPBlue]

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but it's such a shame Yaya had such a twat for an agent.
If it wasn't for Seluk pissing everyone off with cakegate and accusing Pep of racism, Yaya would have a statue alongside Vinny, big Dave and Kun.
As it is Yaya's not seen as the legend he was.

He is to me. I couldn't give a stuff about cakegate or anything his bleating agent moaned about. If I remember correctly, didn't he distance himself from those comments?