The day the tables turned

[OnlyOneUweRosler]

Just doing a bit of reflection and a few years have gone by now. I know this has been done 1,000 times but did not know which thread to put this in:

Yaya's goal against the rags in the FA Cup semi felt like the pivotal moment for me. So much built up emotion and so much energy. It felt like everything after this moment was inevitable, all the way up to the Treble. Yaya also had an unbelievable way of making it look like he was playing with toddlers in the park.

I would agree. City had been very much in United's shadow for decades, and despite the money in 2007, still weren't really touching United. That semi-final was a VERY hard fought game and almost nothing between them till City won. At that point, things began to shift.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Great thread, brings it all back. When scholes got sent off, I thought then we can beat them. This game really was the day the tide turned, the rest is history. The 6-1 months later rubbed their faces in it.

Just dawned on me Mike Dean reffed two of the biggest matches in our history and he sent off the oppositions biggest shit cunts in them.

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

Ferdinand, massive West Ham fan who became a massive Leeds fan and then became a massive rag fan, the false, drug taking, wife cheating camel faced ****

It's not like he was loved by the crowd at the Swamp, chanted Chelsea rent boy at him after his efforts to move there for more money.

 

[deegee33]

Great post. United only needed a draw for the 1-0 Kompany Derby and they were scared shitless and came for the draw. We were like a bully holding them at arm’s length. Yaya’s shoulder barge on I think Phil Jones sending him splayed across the floor told you all you needed to know in that game. They were out thought and out fought.

I miss Phil Jones.

 

[JRockBlues]

Not in my lifetime he said…It’s now every time ..lol

Guy Mowbray's finest hour.

 

[M Gaudino]

This will always be the best football memory for me. Growing up started going late 80s with my dad, season ticket 1989 after coming up, went every home game through the 90s and into my mid 20s. always with my old man, watching United go from being a popular team to being the all dominating club in the UK in terms of titles, players, media at a time when football went from back page problem to it being the only sport. Even in london could not escape Sir David, Taggart the lot of them. ITV champions league every week they were on, Fergie time, squeaky bum, that goal in Barcelona, blah blah blah. And we were fucking shite throughout the entire time

On the way down we were just happy to be finally after 25 years of my match going life to be there for a proper game even if it was against them. Always the talk was get to wembley get to wembley and we’d barely got anywhere near it.

Saw a coach of reds smirking and giddy in the services on the M1, deep down we just knew they were going to fucking get it done and win again werent they? The 4-3 and Scholes headed 0-1 at our place were recent memories. whenever it mattered they would always get the win. Rooney’s overhead kick was on non stop replay as it was only a few months before as well.

The game? Cant remember it really other than United being on top and having a golden chance minutes in and somehow Berbatov skying it.

and then….something changed. we started passing it. just before half time Kompany had a shot and it whistled past the post.

Yaya scores, i vaguely recall celebrating. But it wasn't the usual feeling, the pressure to not fuck it up just multiplied only releasing when Scholes confirmed he was past it and could no longer get away with a dirty hack.

off he trudged a red card!! the spell was broken, their control of refs done. Taggart spouting horseshit bollocks and their toys out the pram.

4 months later the whole edifice came down 6-1. their empire was over and has never recovered

if im honest the reason this is the best memory is that even if we were the best team in the country at that point it had only just happened. subsquent games like Qpr, villa, inter, they were expected. we were the best and had the best manager

back then we had a crackpot italian manager and united were about to be champions again. that was probably the last time we would have that feeling of underdog

 

[69FACUPfinal]

Ferdinand, massive West Ham fan who became a massive Leeds fan and then became a massive rag fan, the false, drug taking, wife cheating camel faced ****

Now tell us what you really think of Wio :-)

Fwiw I agree with you 1000%. ( OK I know a thousand per cent is not numerically possible but it's good enough to illustrate my complete loathing of that shyster).

 

[69FACUPfinal]

This will always be the best football memory for me. Growing up started going late 80s with my dad, season ticket 1989 after coming up, went every home game through the 90s and into my mid 20s. always with my old man, watching United go from being a popular team to being the all dominating club in the UK in terms of titles, players, media at a time when football went from back page problem to it being the only sport. Even in london could not escape Sir David, Taggart the lot of them. ITV champions league every week they were on, Fergie time, squeaky bum, that goal in Barcelona, blah blah blah. And we were fucking shite throughout the entire time

On the way down we were just happy to be finally after 25 years of my match going life to be there for a proper game even if it was against them. Always the talk was get to wembley get to wembley and we’d barely got anywhere near it.

Saw a coach of reds smirking and giddy in the services on the M1, deep down we just knew they were going to fucking get it done and win again werent they? The 4-3 and Scholes headed 0-1 at our place were recent memories. whenever it mattered they would always get the win. Rooney’s overhead kick was on non stop replay as it was only a few months before as well.

The game? Cant remember it really other than United being on top and having a golden chance minutes in and somehow Berbatov skying it.

and then….something changed. we started passing it. just before half time Kompany had a shot and it whistled past the post.

Yaya scores, i vaguely recall celebrating. But it wasn't the usual feeling, the pressure to not fuck it up just multiplied only releasing when Scholes confirmed he was past it and could no longer get away with a dirty hack.

off he trudged a red card!! the spell was broken, their control of refs done. Taggart spouting horseshit bollocks and their toys out the pram.

4 months later the whole edifice came down 6-1. their empire was over and has never recovered

if im honest the reason this is the best memory is that even if we were the best team in the country at that point it had only just happened. subsquent games like Qpr, villa, inter, they were expected. we were the best and had the best manager

back then we had a crackpot italian manager and united were about to be champions again. that was probably the last time we would have that feeling of underdog

This brought a tear to my eye, so well expressed. Thank you x

 

[BringBackSwales]

Now tell us what you really think of Wio :-)

Fwiw I agree with you 1000%. ( OK I know a thousand per cent is not numerically possible but it's good enough to illustrate my complete loathing of that shyster).

I cleaned it up to comply with the Code Of Conduct pal

 

[ancoats]

How can a football club be so badly run for over 40 years and yo-yo the leagues, then change football and other clubs
OK, Manchester City fell lucky with our owners' vision and DNA and money, But How and why did it affect United so badly to the point of over a decade without a title and poor league places,

Manchester City owners have turned around our future, but also fucked up United at the same time

 

[Aba452]

How can a football club be so badly run for over 40 years and yo-yo the leagues, then change football and other clubs
OK, Manchester City fell lucky with our owners' vision and DNA and money, But How and why did it affect United so badly to the point of over a decade without a title and poor league places,

Manchester City owners have turned around our future, but also fucked up United at the same time

It's a rather glorious double!

 

[The Colonel]

I think we knew the tables were turning in the previous year - April 2010 when Scholes scored a late headed winner in a midweek derby at the Etihad, at the end of the season. 93rd minute! That was the season when fuckin' Owen got the winner in the 4-3 at the swamp in the 96th fuckin' minute!
Many fans around me were saying things to the effect " Never mind - we're there! We're gonna have 'em next year..."
"Hope so!..." we all thought, very fuckin' pissed off, with fingers crossed; and the guys were proven right - what a decade and more followed :-)
How the ref's helped the scummy twats that season!

When Bellamy scored the equaliser to make it 3-3 I was stood right next to the rag fans in the ground giving it "City are back". At the end just after Owen made it 4-3 a wise old rag came up to me nodding and said "City are back". He meant it genuinely as he could see the road we were going down and was probably old enough to remember different times.
Even after the Rooney overhead shin, I hadn't seen our midfield control a match in that way in my memory. Buzzer knew it and I saw it coming.

 

[East Level 2]

How can a football club be so badly run for over 40 years and yo-yo the leagues, then change football and other clubs
OK, Manchester City fell lucky with our owners' vision and DNA and money, But How and why did it affect United so badly to the point of over a decade without a title and poor league places,

Manchester City owners have turned around our future, but also fucked up United at the same time

They have averaged more major trophies per season since our takeover than they did before 1990. But many of their fans are clueless about the club pre-Pisscan.

 

[ancoats]

They have averaged more major trophies per season since our takeover than they did before 1990. But many of their fans are clueless about the club pre-Pisscan.

Before 1992 United was a cup team

FACT: Manchester City was the last Manchester club to win the English league title before the Premier League

 

[ShackliffeBlue]

I think we knew the tables were turning in the previous year - April 2010 when Scholes scored a late headed winner in a midweek derby at the Etihad, at the end of the season. 93rd minute! That was the season when fuckin' Owen got the winner in the 4-3 at the swamp in the 96th fuckin' minute!
Many fans around me were saying things to the effect " Never mind - we're there! We're gonna have 'em next year..."
"Hope so!..." we all thought, very fuckin' pissed off, with fingers crossed; and the guys were proven right - what a decade and more followed :-)
How the ref's helped the scummy twats that season!

The Scholes 0-1 was a weekend game. We were away in Lincoln and my Dad and nephew used our tickets. Hunted down a pub with the match on and my lad and I sat at back the only City fans. Scholes scored and final whistle was seconds after. As we got up to leave all the rags were looking back at us. "Don't worry lads, you won't be looking over your shoulders for long. Give us a year and we'll be past you!" I shouted.
And so it came to pass

 

[the blue panther]

The Scholes 0-1 was a weekend game. We were away in Lincoln and my Dad and nephew used our tickets. Hunted down a pub with the match on and my lad and I sat at back the only City fans. Scholes scored and final whistle was seconds after. As we got up to leave all the rags were looking back at us. "Don't worry lads, you won't be looking over your shoulders for long. Give us a year and we'll be past you!" I shouted.
And so it came to pass

Yes, you're right. I was there - but my memory tricked me from 15 years ago.
I wonder if that was the last season they did the double over us?
Where's statto......?

 

[lefty goldblatt]

October 23rd, every time for me.

The cup semi was huge, but it  might have been a flash in the pan, and gone on to lose the final in typical City style.

To go to the swamp, absorb 20 minutes of pressure, then OBLITERATE them, with them getting barely any meaningful possession, really shows we came of age.

Never forget Allan Parry

"Six of the best. Manchester United.....not just beaten. HUMILIATED ".

 

[dennishasdoneit]

It was that game, but before the goal.

We were right behind the goals and I still don't know how Berbaflop missed. We looked like a rabbit in the headlights, a team for who this was the big occasion against a team who knew they were superior.

Yet they were no better than us during the game and, at some point, we realised. I think it was during the first half, but certainly at half time. We didn't score on the break, against the run of play, from a free kick etc, we out pressed, out passed and out played them.

But...it could have been so different. Never mind berbaflop and his miss from 6 yards

In the 1st half ..Mario Ballottelli ,received the ball,with his back to goal, turned,and from 25 yards out...sent a right foot soaring ,long range ,Missile..towards the utd goal..iirc it flew just past the utd keepers left hand upright....

That was a moment.

It was close. .it was a warning...

If that bullet shot out of nowhere,from distance, had gone in..it would have made Mario a City legend
Because....I know full well.at 1 nil up , Mancini would have shut up shop.
And our Great Italian manager,even though he was himself a flamboyant Forward
Knew exactly how to switch tactics and bring the shutters down....( There have been times in Europe with pep, I wish we'd had Bobby.,..)

Anyway, the shot missed,...and I'm dreaming,... but I'll never forget the audacity of Mario Ballottelli,at Wembley ..to even try the shot in the first place.

Unfortunately we remember Mario for his teasing of Rio afterwards...but on a pure football debate
That shot is really what he should be remembered for in that semi final, imo.

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

October 23rd, every time for me.

The cup semi was huge, but it  might have been a flash in the pan, and gone on to lose the final in typical City style.

To go to the swamp, absorb 20 minutes of pressure, then OBLITERATE them, with them getting barely any meaningful possession, really shows we came of age.

Never forget Allan Parry

"Six of the best. Manchester United.....not just beaten. HUMILIATED ".

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>

 

[Mancini Manus Domini]