Thoughts on the Cup Final

[urmston]

My thoughts on the FA Cup Final were quite simple.


City have won something big while I have been old enough to really appreciate it.

I can remember City winning the League in 68 and the Cup in 69 but I was too young then to realise what it all meant.

 

[Foe23]

Looking back, it was one of the greatest days of my life. My brother (who's a red) - God bless him - got tickets for my Dad and myself. When Yaya smacked home the winner and when the final whistle went, I cried like a little boy with my Dad in my arms. Because that was for my Grandad, the lovely man who made me a Blue and died back in 1988 when I was just a kid. I'm thinking about him now and can't stop crying because I loved him so so much. But I know, if he is indeed up there, he'll be loving this so much.

Very similar emotions to myself threehatricks, my grandad died in 1980 and he was the Maine reason I was a blue too. Dad worked away so my grandad took me to the games including the 76 League cup win (I was 9). So when the final whistle went my first thoughts were of him.

Tear in my eye now too now you bugger ;)

 

[Freestyler]

I really wish i could re-live that whole day once again.

it didn't sink in till a few days after, when the whistle went it didn't sink it.

i cried like never before in the semi and the final.

i even cried the day after just thinking back to the day.

amazing 24 hours i'll never ever forget, from everything to the coach journey and pub beforehand to the game and after, all the way until the coach journey home.

 

[citymad]

I agree. This was the best day of my life.It was magical almost fantasyland from start to finish and I didnt want it to end. We couldn't have asked for better opposition fans than Stoke to help bring back the good old days of the FA CUP final.

 

[Straightouttahampton]

I have my father in law coming over on sunday for lunch....he is from near stoke and has a soft spot for them...I haven't seen him since before the FA cup final when he said he fancied an upset.

I have set the stage....

City away shirt on...
FA cup final programme open on the coffee table as he walks in.....
Semi and final tickets next to the programme...
Rosette of the final placed on top.....

I will be watching the recorded game on sky when he comes in.....


can't fucking wait.

Dear Mr BackHeel

I am a Stokey (and funnily enough my father in law is a life long Man City supporter - going back to the early 50s, and quite possibly before). I took my kids (7 and 9) to Wembley for both the semi and the final.

Virtually every Stoke fan I have heard or read recognises that the score did not reflect your dominance. The defining element for me was not that you created a lot of decent chances. That was always going to happen. It was that you outmuscled us, and attacked balls played anywhere near the danger area - and there weren't too many of those, because you also pressed very effectively. There will always be a debate about the merits of a manager's qualities, but I would say that Signor Mancini got the tactics spot on.

I trust your F-i-Law takes the joke in good part. I think he will also understand that, whilst the match was a landmark for you (and of course that was the media story), last season was also monumental for us. You will go on to bigger and better things - there is no question about that. Our ambition is necessarily less ambitious. But the trend is positive, bearing in mind where we have come from.

I was absolutely gutted at the outcome. But when we got home I made sure my kids called their granddad to congratulate him. It really was a touching moment...!

 

[Abbeygoo]

I've had a season ticket for 24 years and that moment was so special it was almost too difficult to take it all in ..... watching the highlights back and seeing us lift the trophy brings it back time and time again and the emotions well up.

Whatever happens, I will always have this moment with my boy ......



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[SWSB]

Final whistle,at last,the monkey off our backs,looked at thousands of blues going mental,then a banner was unfurled "Absent Friends,Gone,But Not Forgotten".Completely lost it, tears streaming down my face,overwhelmed,by the occasion,so many have gone,without being able to see our "City" on the rise again.

lovely banner that was I thought.It was just behind me in the 2nd tier,I was in 131.Also took photo of Dad(the one I used on here)for luck.Was so sad and happy at the final whistle thinking Dad would have loved this day.

 

[MCFC BOB]

 

[chelseaaway84]

mr straightout

what an excellent response and summing up from your point of view, said with dignity on a day that was obviously painful but encouraging for the progress of your football club
one of my best mates is a stoke fan and was at the opposite end to me at the ground, after the game he text me well done and i replied with i would not ring or text him until he had gotton over it because i knew how he was feeling and what he was going through (we spoke five days later!!!)
being there with my two sons for the semi and final was a never ever forget moment after the pain and shit ive watched over the years and the grief theyve had at school for them to walk proudly in on the monday with manchester city fa cup winners under their belt was amazing and i too cried at the final whistle when i had finished hugging them

 

[bignosebaldy]

Some wonderful stories on here of the day. I cried like a baby at the end of the semi final and for some strange reason was not as emotional at the end of the final. My wife passed away in January of last year and it was through her that I got a season ticket again as she got me one as an anniversary gift. I wore her wedding ring to both games and I know that she was watching and smiling as Yaya slammed the ball in, rip Bren and thanks xx