What has been your lowest point following City?

[bluerichwit]

actually one of my worst days supporting city was one of my proudest. york away in the old 2nd div on a freezing dec day, we got beat 2 1 and we ended up about 13th in the league, our lowest ever position in the history of the club. But my young son was the city mascot for the day so a proud day in all. Because i live in york the monday morning at work wasnt one of my better days. The bad days at city make us a stronger set of fans we have a unique bond with our club no matter how bad it gets we are always there.

read my post a couple up , basically said the exact same thing lol

 

[TonyGrealishwasmad]

First post!

I can't remember how old I was but I was a kid, the derby game was on in a bar on holiday in Cyprus, the one we lost 5 -0. I had the whole bar taking the piss out of me - I lost it, burst into tears and ran into the toilet - and in anger kicked the cubical door breaking a toe and the door. To make it worse the bar owner made my mum pay for the door. Not a holiday to remember! Must of been about 10 / 11 years old.

Rag twats picking on a kid!

Yeah, I was at Uni in Liverpool for that one .Went to the union in full City regalia. Took loads of abuse from foreign/southern Rag fans until I tried to sneak out (unsuccessfully) at 4-0. Stood at the bus stop and watched the 5th one go in through the window ...

Bugger

 

[city51]

To put some of the moaning at being joint 4th in the league with two games in hand into perspective, what has been your lowest match or even season in your days as a Blue? Lets face it there should be absolutely shitloads to choose from over the last 30 odd years. Perhaps it will even make people realise just how lucky we are.

The Stoke away relegation has to be my lowest single day. The weeks and months building up to that were the pits but until that day I still thought we'd pull out of it and I remember the buzz and nerves heading up there in the sunshine. In the end Port Vale and Portsmouth had won their games by half time and we were down and out despite the Goat murdering Stoke that day. It was the end of an era with Gio craying on the pitch and eventually leaving that summer and as I remember the post-mortem went on all summer. We left just after half time rather then risk getting killed in the Stoke end and I remember being utterly devastated that night after a skinful of beer. Saying that the next season in Division 2 were the best days of my life watching City and it could be argued that was the start of our resurrection under the leadership of Royle and Bernstein.

Saying that, Pearces final season ran it close - that was probably the most depressing, lowest, boring, negative, atmosphereless, painful football that I have endured. Even though attendances were still reported as 40,000 that year people had stopped going as I remember thinking at some games that there looked no more than 35,000 in the ground. After striving to establish ourselves in the Premier Leaque for years, Pearce was playing one up front at home in a desperate attempt to stay in the division. I didn't have a season ticket that year and despite the disillusionment at the boring football and negative tactics I kept buying my tickets out of a sense of duty as much anything else - I definitely didn't want to go each week. It came to a head in the no-show defeat in FA Cup quarter final at Blackburn and you know that it was really bad when Blues turned on the team and the manager the way they did that day. The season was summed up with the remember all that apart from last home game against the scum when Vassell missed that penalty in the last 10 minutes. Later that night I slipped on a wet floor and broke my nose and smashed my teeth - a miserable end to a miserable season. Looking back now though, as much as I hated it at the time, without Pearce grinding out those points and signing Mpenza we would have been out of the division, possibly doing a Leeds and there would have been no Thaksin and definitely no Shiekh Mansour.

remember all that apart from vassel missing a penalty against the scum what was the score

 

[city51]

Being 1 of the 3007 against mansfield we even got beat at home by them

 

[blue b4 the moon]

3rd May 1998, the lowest ebb ever

even though i've seen far worse games before and after

35th birthday. Couldn't make the game due to having a big party.

Ended up in the garden pissed and crying.


Yes it was my party and I'll cry if I want to.

 

[druffyblue]

I have a number of low points watching city, not sure of the lowest. 5 - 2 win at Stoke and relegation to the 3rd tier of english footy probably hurt most but what about Halifax away lost 1 - 0 in the 80's in the FA cup and losing at York City in December of our season in the 3rd division was pretty embarassing.
It wouldnt be City if we didnt have these days, all this makes a succesful City all the more enjoyable. Still waiting hopefully not to long so we can rip that small minded flag down at the swamp.

 

[There is a Light]

To put some of the moaning at being joint 4th in the league with two games in hand into perspective, what has been your lowest match or even season in your days as a Blue? Lets face it there should be absolutely shitloads to choose from over the last 30 odd years. Perhaps it will even make people realise just how lucky we are.

The Stoke away relegation has to be my lowest single day. The weeks and months building up to that were the pits but until that day I still thought we'd pull out of it and I remember the buzz and nerves heading up there in the sunshine. In the end Port Vale and Portsmouth had won their games by half time and we were down and out despite the Goat murdering Stoke that day. It was the end of an era with Gio craying on the pitch and eventually leaving that summer and as I remember the post-mortem went on all summer. We left just after half time rather then risk getting killed in the Stoke end and I remember being utterly devastated that night after a skinful of beer. Saying that the next season in Division 2 were the best days of my life watching City and it could be argued that was the start of our resurrection under the leadership of Royle and Bernstein.

Saying that, Pearces final season ran it close - that was probably the most depressing, lowest, boring, negative, atmosphereless, painful football that I have endured. Even though attendances were still reported as 40,000 that year people had stopped going as I remember thinking at some games that there looked no more than 35,000 in the ground. After striving to establish ourselves in the Premier Leaque for years, Pearce was playing one up front at home in a desperate attempt to stay in the division. I didn't have a season ticket that year and despite the disillusionment at the boring football and negative tactics I kept buying my tickets out of a sense of duty as much anything else - I definitely didn't want to go each week. It came to a head in the no-show defeat in FA Cup quarter final at Blackburn and you know that it was really bad when Blues turned on the team and the manager the way they did that day. The season was summed up with the remember all that apart from last home game against the scum when Vassell missed that penalty in the last 10 minutes. Later that night I slipped on a wet floor and broke my nose and smashed my teeth - a miserable end to a miserable season. Looking back now though, as much as I hated it at the time, without Pearce grinding out those points and signing Mpenza we would have been out of the division, possibly doing a Leeds and there would have been no Thaksin and definitely no Shiekh Mansour.

remember all that apart from vassel missing a penalty against the scum what was the score

1-0 to them, the penalty was 10 minutes from the end. It was the game when Ball hammered Ronaldo and United all but won the league.

Good write up on the Stoke relegation game here, if you want to open up those old wounds!

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1080431/Ten-years-day-mayhem-double-despair-Manchester-City-Stoke.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... Stoke.html</a>

 

[2sheikhs]

At home against boro.A team who genuinley came for a 0-0,and went away with an own-goal win courtesy of our favourite chinaman.I knew what our fate was when that happened.

 

[Tbilisi]

Brighton away in the 80s.
Getting hammered so we all try and get out but the gates are locked.
Its absolutely pissing down with no roof so we all try and take refuge in a brick shithouse with the only roof for fckin miles.
As Howard Davies (ex Deputy Governor of the Bank of England) later said - "Its a times like these that you wonder what you are doing with your life!"

Halifax 1980 stood on a piece of cardboard which kept sliding down the away end that was a mudbank.

York after losing 2 - 1 and wondering if we are going to go down again after the most inept City display aI have seen in my 44 years of watching the club.

And we have the front to moan cos we only won 2-0 on Wed- get a life boys!

We played quite well at York and were unlucky. Good story though.

Corky,we lost 2 - 1 to York,how the fcuk did we play quite well?

 

[BTH]

Yep, York away for me; de facto.