Typical City days are back

It’s gutting, but nothing lasts forever.
It’s seemingly the end of our dominance.

But with Sheikh Mansour and Kahldoon in charge we’ll be back.
May take a couple of years to rebuild and it’ll be hard to watch the dippers or the Tarquins win the league (or anyone else for that matter).

But we take it on the chin and try to enjoy the journey back to the top.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Surely Dickov for Leicester is the apotheosis of that phenomenon.

Law for City in 1974 being the mother of all ripostes to that theory. (Sort of) relegating your rivals has to trump Kit Symons scoring for Fulham?
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It broke my heart when Dickov scored that penalty for Leicester and celebrated.
 
1961_vintage said:
Out of interest GDM I asked ChatGPT:

"typical City” = the old stereotype of Manchester City being comically unlucky or inconsistent.

"The phrase grew from decades of being brilliantly chaotic, often self-sabotaging, and full of near-comical misfortune"
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Inconsistent I’ll agree, but that period certainly wasn’t marked by perpetual bad luck.

We had plenty of luck v Gillingham btw.
 
I don’t mind the return of typical City, it will make away tickets far more accessible, allow the true voices to rise above the tourists, and perhaps help the club to reconsider its ticketing strategy. Always take a positive from a negative.
 
SamTheGuru said:
Football is generally all a little bit predictable at the moment and has been for a few years. In danger of sounding cliché but almost every team seems to be trying to play systematic boring football. I think the reality is, we simply do not have the same quality of players we had 5-10 years ago.
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My belief is that the rest of the crowd have caught up to us in terms of innovation and having the players to carry out the technical tactics that Pep has been using for years.
It has taken this long for the next generation of trained professionals to come through their academy's.
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"Typical City" for me was beating the European Champions one week and getting beat by Accrington Stanley the next for example. Basically doing the exact opposite of what was expected. Or something inexplicably stupid such as keeping the ball in the corner because the team thought a draw was enough when actually we needed a win etc.
What we're seeing now isn't that.
 
burning blue soul said:
My belief is that the rest of the crowd have caught up to us in terms of innovation and having the players to carry out the technical tactics that Pep has been using for years.
It has taken this long for the next generation of trained professionals to come through their academy's.
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That is a great point. I often think about Matt Le Tissier on a similar thought train. I don't think he would get into any Premier League team in modern day football.
 
Early days yet.

Can anyone remember the last time City were 13th or lower in the PL table.

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The reality of this sport is that we won't see the kind of sustained and record breaking success we had grown accustomed to again (or for long time at the very least) which is why it was incredible to witness as it happened and a real shame that the media and wider footballing world didn't appreciate it for the monumental time it was.

Nows the time we join the other 99% striving for success and facing the tumultuous inconsistency that comes after such a period.
 
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