The rise and rise of Manchester City....

[dan.j.mcfc]

2006-07
1 Manchester United
2 Chelsea
3 Liverpool
4 Arsenal
5 Tottenham Hotspur
6 Everton
7 Bolton Wanderers
8 Reading
9 Portsmouth
10 Blackburn Rovers
11 Aston Villa
12 Middlesbrough
13 Newcastle United
14 Manchester City
15 West Ham United
16 Fulham
17 Wigan Athletic
18 Sheffield United
19 Charlton Athletic
20 Watford

Of the 14 teams above us 7 of them have been relegated and one of them is in League 2!

Frightening looking at that table. Outside the top 6 only us and Villa haven't been relegated since then and 9 of the 14 are still down there.

Its quite shocking how much the top flights changed. Add Fulham to your list though, I don't think they've ever been relegated from the Premier League (probably this season they will)

 

[JULES]

Wimbledon & Derby. We played them in cup games when they were both 2 divisons above us. Fucking Wimbledon!!

Great day out though that FA Cup game at Selhurst. More Blues than home fans, I reckon we took 7k that day. Obviously not recalled by any opposition fans who sing the "Where were you when you were shit" bollocks.

I was at selhurst, I`m sure we had a great goal incorrectly disallowed ? was it dickov?

 

[ctidcarl]

Wimbledon & Derby. We played them in cup games when they were both 2 divisons above us. Fucking Wimbledon!!

Great day out though that FA Cup game at Selhurst. More Blues than home fans, I reckon we took 7k that day. Obviously not recalled by any opposition fans who sing the "Where were you when you were shit" bollocks.

I was at selhurst, I`m sure we had a great goal incorrectly disallowed ? was it dickov?

Loads of Blues there that day - "No ground no fans, no ground no fans"!!!

Me and my stepson went to Selhurst........hoping to see City cause an "upset" by beating Wimbledon!!!

I vaguely remember the disallowed goal - was it Dickov??

 

[cityboy5]

Name teams who were in the not too distant past better than us.

Ipswich bastard Town, for one. Only ten years ago. Who else and how long ago?

Ahh Ipswich Town!It gives me great delight to see them languishing amongst the also rans these days.Why poor old Ipswich you may ask?

Well there was a fair amount of animosity between us as we clinched the automatic promotion slot with that 4-1 win at Blackburn from them and they went up via the play offs.This lingered on and in a defining match the next?Season we were relegated playing Ipswich.

I was in Corfu on holiday and watched it live on tv.The delight and mickey taking those bumpkins subjected us to was beyond the pale.complete with some wanker with a ''You are the weakest link City......goodbye!'' banner.I have never forgotten it.Revenge is a dish best eaten cold.

Blue moon you got promoted too soon, and now you're going back down and Europe's coming to town.