The luckiest City fans in our history

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I think there’s a case for us being the luckiest fans in football history.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

I've always regarded myself as lucky. Some of the football was beyond dreadful but ever since we battered Birmingham in '56 I thought if I hang on till Pep turns up we'll be more than lucky.

Congratulations,you've inadvertently drawn a nice link there between "The Revie Plan" and the era of Peps false 9. ;)

 

[Metal Biker]

I'd only ever known them being crap. Too young to really appreciate the Reid era, fully aware of Ball. The decline into the third tier, the brief renaissance under Royle, the Keegan false dawn.

All the while reading about Bell, Lee and Summerbee, Trautmann's heroics, the 5-1, clinging onto anything and everything that could justify my support to others only to realise it didn't matter what others thought. City were my club, and regardless of what was to come, that would never change.

I'll be honest, I didn't get the hype about the Sheikh Mansour takeover to a large extent, I was just relieved that our money troubles were over and that I might see them compete for a trophy.

Hard to even recall those feelings from that era these days. But I shaln't forget them, I won't, because those years are what helped shape my own unwavering support for Manchester City and will be vital in ensuring I don't take this current era for granted, come what may.

I still maintain though, that I hated that eagle badge and those fucking stars.

 

[BringBackSwales]

On balance I'd have to admit it's been better than when Beenie was at the helm.

It was already fairytale stuff given where we'd been not too long before, and then baldy came along and it's just got ridiculous:-)

Irrespective of the world club malarkey in Dec, this is currently the best football team on the planet. Be worth the match thread remembering that!

Bollocks, it’s too easy to have a pop at Beany just because he is a toy pony; plus you haven’t taken into account that he had Stuart fucking Pearce to put up with too

 

[Ghostofmerlin]

My first match was ‘93. We have come a long way, as has the EPL in general. We won’t maintain this streak forever. There is a lot of money streaming in that isn’t ours, and Pep will not stay forever, and KDB will get old. It has been a fun last 10 years or so. Don’t take any of it for granted.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Congratulations,you've inadvertently drawn a nice link there between "The Revie Plan" and the era of Peps false 9. ;)

Oh,the Revie Plan. Les McDowell was the Pep of the 50s!

 

[BillCarlisle]

Obviously this is the best time ever to be a City fan, but my personal favourite time was the two promotion seasons under Royle. From the opening game against Blackpool a sense of pride returned to the fans and the self mockery and abuse of the players stopped. Between the fans and the team there was a feeling of we're all in this together, captain Andy Morrison seemed a personification of us all. The Wigan semi was the most fervent atmosphere I can ever remember at Maine Rd and didn't we go through the ringer at Wembley. It was the end of years of decline, stuck my chest out at work and took the piss unmercifully out of non Manc rags. The madness of Blackburn twelve months later, a game we should have lost heavily and yet won roared on by the largest away following ever. Don't think we have ever looked back since the relegation twelve months later was followed by Keegans side ripping up the championship for arse paper. These are the luckiest generation of blues ever but us FOCs had some great times along the way.

You are right about that - us FOC's have had a hell of a ride and it makes it all the sweeter now. There is a part of me that is glad I first took my son to watch City when we were in the old 2nd Div under Joe Royle, as he's had a similar rollercoaster ride as I have, albeit somewhat shorter. We therefore talk about City pretty much on equal terms.
I would however take you to task on your comment about the Blackburn game. The "largest away following ever" was actually the 50,000 Blues at York away :-)

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

I am of that generation who were probably some of the longest suffering as city fans. Im nearly 51 and up until the FA cup win in 2010/11 Ive seen us win jack shit….

Luckiest fans? my son was born in 2012, in fact he was the reason I didn’t go to the QPR game as my wife was 8 months and a couple weeks pregnant………he’s seen 11 years of success…..so he’s that genre of luckiest fans imo….they’ll see us win multiple CL’s, break 20 odd league titles, and no doubt eventually become the greatest club side there ever was….

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Oh,the Revie Plan. Les McDowell was the Pep of the 50s!

I read somewhere that McDowell made the City reserves play in that style for the whole of the season( or season before ?)
Truly ground breaking stuff,in this country at least.

 

[franksinatra]

The last ten years have been really special but they have been made even more special by the years that preceded it. Having started going as a kid in 1984, really glad that in my 20s I got the opportunity to travel and watch City from progress from the the 2nd division to the Premiership to Europe in 5 years.