What's the best you've ever seen City play?

Not the best ever, but one worthy of mention, a 2 0 win at Elland Road one Boxing Day in the late 70's, when Leeds were a very good side. Seem to recall Hartford, Owen and Power dominating midfield
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
Leaving the rags to one side I'd go with (in no particular order)

3-1 vs Barcelona (h) last season
5-2 vs Spurs (h) in 94
2-4 vs Chelsea (a) in 11
0-6 vs Burnley (a) circa 00 when the Goat scored 5
0-5 vs West Ham (a) last season
1-5 vs Villa (a) circa 91 when Whitey scored 4
2-6 vs Wednesday (a) circa 02
1-6 vs Norwich (a) in 12
3-3 vs Newcastle (h) in 95 Kinkladze's finest hour
2-3 vs Blackburn (a) circa 94
2-2 vs Liverpool (a) circa 91 where we played them off the park but needed a 93rd minute header from Quinny to get a point
4-0 vs Leeds (h) circa 92
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That's a good list; although I didn't see the Wednesday game.

Your memory for this sort of thing is better than mine. I know I saw some brilliant performances in the 70's; do I remember the completeness of the performances!? There was the game where we absolutely battered Newcastle 5-1 in 1975 and Tueart scored a hat-trick.

Another favourite is beating Oxford 4-1 in 1997 at The Manor; another Kinky masterclass being part of the show.

Some of our best performances have come against the Rags - 4-0 home and 4-1 away in the early 70's stand out among those not yet mentioned. The pick of the bunch for me is the 1-0 that basically decided the title.

The recent 6-0 at Watford would go on the list. Our recent football has at times been at least as good as anything I have seen from City in 50 years of supporting the Blues and I am optimistic that better is to come but, having been a Blue that long, I never take anything for granted.
 
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The second half of the (i think) league cup game when Kompany got sent off after about 10 minutes for being a defender and we went 3-0 down. Even though we got beat by the scum and knocked out of a competition i remember just being really happy with the performance second half. One of my favourites.

We completely played the shits off the park with 10 men.
 
One from years ago that sticks in my head is when we beat Spurs 5-2. I remember it being fantastic football from both sides and incredibly attacking free flowing football. Either that or my memory is playing tricks on me.
 
0 0 at home Vs Liverpool under Sven was as good a defensive performance I've seen from us.


The two derbies that season I also thought were great team performances
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
Leaving the rags to one side I'd go with (in no particular order)

3-1 vs Barcelona (h) last season
5-2 vs Spurs (h) in 94
2-4 vs Chelsea (a) in 11
0-6 vs Burnley (a) circa 00 when the Goat scored 5
0-5 vs West Ham (a) last season
1-5 vs Villa (a) circa 91 when Whitey scored 4
2-6 vs Wednesday (a) circa 02
1-6 vs Norwich (a) in 12
3-3 vs Newcastle (h) in 95 Kinkladze's finest hour
2-3 vs Blackburn (a) circa 94
2-2 vs Liverpool (a) circa 91 where we played them off the park but needed a 93rd minute header from Quinny to get a point
4-0 vs Leeds (h) circa 92
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Good shout most of them, I'll add in Ipswich away Benarbia and Berkovic
 
Back in the day (from mid '70s until I went away to college in '83), I always used to say the best game I ever saw was a 0-0 at home (maine Road) though for the life of me I can't now recall who it was against or when it was! (dementia alert!).

Since I came back here in the early '90s and started going again it's been something of a mixed bag of quality and emotion.

So far this season we've been playing some of the best football I've ever seen in part so I'll reserve judgement until a) the wheels come off or b) we outclass shakhtar tonight and chelsea at the weekend...

Until then it's obvs york away, stockport away, halifax away, shrewsbury away....etc etc etc - or the spurs home game with rosler and walsh et al.
 
feelymcfeel said:
The second half of the (i think) league cup game when Kompany got sent off after about 10 minutes for being a defender and we went 3-0 down. Even though we got beat by the scum and knocked out of a competition i remember just being really happy with the performance second half. One of my favourites.

We completely played the shits off the park with 10 men.
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One of the few losses to the scum I was not totally depressed, played them off the park in the second half and to come back from 0-3 to 2-3 with 10 men was a fantastic achievement. The stadium was rocking and the rags were really panicking. Memories a bit hazy but did n't we nearly grab an equaliser at the death, think Panty may was involved?
 
Mike N said:
First half at Tottenham a few years ago, night game. Sergio was fantastic and the football was unbelievable.
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Agreed, certainly for recent times anyway, this was jaw dropping football from us. I was actually LOL-ing watching it and going in only 1-0 up at the break seemed a travesty.
 
I've fond memories of the 2001-02 season under Keegan, particularly the 5-1 at home to Burnley or the 6-2 away at Sheff weds was it? In recent times, the 6-1 is pretty hard to beat.
 
feelymcfeel said:
The second half of the (i think) league cup game when Kompany got sent off after about 10 minutes for being a defender and we went 3-0 down. Even though we got beat by the scum and knocked out of a competition i remember just being really happy with the performance second half. One of my favourites.

We completely played the shits off the park with 10 men.
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it was the FA cup 3rd round..felt like a win at the end, remember at half time thinking they were going to do a 6:1 on us, just a couple of months after we had done it to them..everyone left the stadium buzzing, because we frightened the life out of them second half
 
jimbopm said:
The Spurs 5-1 where Dzeko scored 4 we were awesome. But my nod goes to the Hamburg game
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Hamburg the first that came to mind for me. A game where we knew a huge effort would be needed to win the tie, the players certainly delivered the effort just luck stopped us going through. Beating Barcelona 3-1 takes it overall though, even with a typically Barca-sympathising ref we were simply too good for them.
 
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