Where would you rank last night in terms of disappointments?

Losing to Chelsea bothered me in final, last night seems so raw. Hard to say as Chelsea was a year ago and plenty of water under the bridge since. Somehow the Spurs defeat still hurts, that one we were cheated. Last night we cheated ourselves.
 
Losing to Chelsea in last years Cup final, I was so pee’d off. I was convinced we were going to win, right up until I saw the team sheet then I was so deflated. of course, it played out before our eyes. For weeks, whenever I bumped into a blue, we’d discuss the match and draw the same conclusion. So this is probably the worst I felt, it ranks up there with the 1981 Cup final replay and the 1983 Luton match, which was the day before a big birthday for me. The defeat last night, although I was disappointed, it barely registered after a couple of hours.
 
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Last night was a shocker but we'll get over it. The 2-0 defeat at Ewood Park in the FA Cup in 2007, however - that felt like a full-blown existential crisis compared to last night. After a depressing season under Pearce we'd somehow managed to wrestle our way to the FA Cup quarter-finals, but the players acted like it was a casual stroll in the park and promptly got battered by a much better team.

That was a dark, dark day.

At the full-time whistle, 6,000 City fans chanting "You're not fit to the wear the shirt" at the players who walked over to thank them for coming. Barton giving his shirt to someone in the crowd only to have it thrown back at him. I was 12-years-old, sat in a pub being laughed at by United fans, all my mates supported United, I'd chosen City. "Is this what it's going to be like forever? Is this the best we can hope for every season?"

Last night was nothing compared to that feeling of wanting to just give up following football.

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Blackburn 2 City 0

STUART Pearce heard the Manchester City supporters turn on their team after they exited the FA Cup with a 2-0 quarter-final defeat by Blackburn at Ewood Park.
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GoatersLeftShin said:
I'm another who could not care less about that corrupt competition. Honestly, if we never win it I won't be one bit bothered at all. I only 'care' about it in that I know it means a lot to the owners and the players.

The standard of officials is absolutely diabolical, Athletico Madrid doing things that would see us banned for a season, CAS rulings, 'Financial Fair Play', banning us for any reason they can think of, allowing 4 teams from England into the 'Champions League', players diving, play acting and cheating. The way they have their 'anthem' - I hate all of it. It's nothing more than a money machine set up to keep the status quo as it was in the 1990s.

I'm not disappointed with the defeat to Real, or being knocked out of the competition, I'm more disappointed with the manner we lost.

City have given me a wealth of disappointment over the years but the ones which I'll not forget are going down to Division 3 after beating Stoke and losing the Derby 3-2 after being 2-0 up at HT. Actually the 5-0 Derby game was humiliating as well.
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You're right - we've been subjected to dodgy decisions in the CL year after year, which is why I'm seriously considering binning the CL Cup Scheme next season. Nothing to do with last night's result, which was of City's own making, but that ref's display was yet another in a long line. There is definitely something going on IMHO.
 
I thought I had a bag of pork scratchings left in the cupboard, but I must have eaten them last night. That was more disappointing than last nights result
 
youngbob said:
Last night was a shocker but we'll get over it. The 2-0 defeat at Ewood Park in the FA Cup in 2007, however - that felt like a full-blown existential crisis compared to last night. After a depressing season under Pearce we'd somehow managed to wrestle our way to the FA Cup quarter-finals, but the players acted like it was a casual stroll in the park and promptly got battered by a much better team.

That was a dark, dark day.

At the full-time whistle, 6,000 City fans chanting "You're not fit to the wear the shirt" at the players who walked over to thank them for coming. Barton giving his shirt to someone in the crowd only to have it thrown back at him. I was 12-years-old, sat in a pub being laughed at by United fans, all my mates supported United, I'd chosen City. "Is this what it's going to be like forever? Is this the best we can hope for every season?"

Last night was nothing compared to that feeling of wanting to just give up following football.

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Blackburn 2 City 0

STUART Pearce heard the Manchester City supporters turn on their team after they exited the FA Cup with a 2-0 quarter-final defeat by Blackburn at Ewood Park.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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Wasn’t a great day that one! Remember it well. Toxic
 
how i think about it now.......Meh!

Gutted at the time but now more concerned about the league (and always have been)
 
We've got a really good team, a fantastic manager, a well-run club, challenging for trophies every year for the past few. Reached the CL semi-final and we know we'll be in the competition again next year.

It was disappointing to lose, especially having come so close.

But we're in the incredibly privileged position of knowing these opportunities will keep coming.

Winning a competition is glorious, an unbeatable high. It never gets old, watching our players lift trophies.

But we're not going to win everything all the time, and in the cold light of day one specific loss is manageable.

We learn, we re-group, we go again.
 
Missed the 5-1 massacre and the following year derby fell on my 21st birthday, was looking all so good with 10 minutes to go and 3-1 up and that twat McClaire scored 2 in 3 minutes…. was gutted

Spurs CL game after that - pure theft, last night was just some nostalgic classic City self harm, so felt like seeing a friend I hadn’t seen in a while
 
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Last night was rough, the final against chelsea was bad but that was more just annoyance of the night as it was clear from the start it was going to be a strange game, now the spurs CL game... now that one is the one that still hits
 
Spurs 81
Luton
Halifax
Shrewsbury
Brentford
Chelsea & Palace Div 2
Bournemouth 3-3
United 3-3
Spurs FA Cup QF
Liverpool 2-2 relegation
Bury
County x2
Macc Town
Etc etc

Not sure last night gets anywhere near the top 20 of my list of disappointments, but along with the Bournemouth & United games, right up there with how the fuck did we throw that away?
 
bluemoon32 said:
I still have flashbacks over 1981 & crying for the last time over a game of football
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Yep. TV goes straight off if there's even a sniff of them about to show the 'highlights' of that game. For a couple of years Villa was the person I most hated on the face of the earth until along came Pleat!
 
Last night was fucking stupid. We were the better side by a distance over two legs and came unstuck to a ridiculously clinical two minutes from a pretty average player.

Chelsea is a bigger disappointment to me because we went out with barely a fight.
 
Haven't read through all the thread however some of the games I have seen being mentioned such as Halifax and Shrewsbury were far worse than last night as we just didn't turn up in those games.
The worst ever game for me though is Luton, hadn't been in the bottom three all season and conceded the goal so late on we had no time to reply. Biggest factor though was it being my first relegation, actually walked out of the ground with tears in my eyes.
Last night was just a freak result and overall the two legs were about small margins. Mahrez hitting the post, the Foden follow up being stopped on the line, the Mahrez chance that rolled along the goal line. Last night the two chances for Grealish could have gone in on another day and we would have been looking forward to Paris.
Disappointment yes, but disaster, it's not even close!
 
I don’t think disappointed is the correct sentiment.
I feel more angry at a) having lost a great opportunity to smash the dippers in Paris having got so close and b) yet again getting fucked over by the officials.
 
right up there, particularly my football club here is full of either reds. will only get worse if we dont win the league. always bad to concede a late goal in any game e.g. Owens goal, but 2 goals in a semi final is soul destroying. But always had doubts after not killing them off in the first leg.
 
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