Where would you rank last night in terms of disappointments?

[bluemoon32]

Still cant watch the 81 Cup Final, knew we were not going back for a while.

Gutted last night but I will be over it in a few days.

I still have flashbacks over 1981 & crying for the last time over a game of football

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

The Rags beating us 3-2 the day we could have beaten them for the title was a seriously shit day...The Owen goal was a bastard too. Spurs in the Champions League was the killer for me, I was jumping around for ages and then to have it chalked off was some kick in the teeth.

I wasn't around for the darkest days, but the Owen goal is the one I remember but like vs. Spurs in the CL I felt City got jobbed by officials in both matches so there was as much anger as hurt. We didn't exactly throw those matches away quite as clearly. We didn't deserve to beat Wigan in the FAC and at the time more concerning was the Mancini situation. 3-2 vs the Rags was incredibly annoying especially because the show pony actually performed for the only 45 mins of his rag career but the Prem was a foregone conclusion. As I mentioned before, the Crouch goal for Spurs to keep us out of top 4 was the one I recall being painful. But nothing like this. Losing the CL final last year doesn't even register.

In context, as I follow Yank sports like college basketball and baseball among others, yesterday was the 3rd most sporting pain I've felt after my uni losing the NCAA basketball championship in 85 to a team we were favo(u)red to beat by 24 points, and my SF Giants blowing game 6 of the World Series with a 5 run lead in the 7th inning (and inevitably losing game 7) in 02.

It's when you think you have a big enough cushion to have it won and then blow it that's most painful.

Was thinking we didn't really get 93:20'd yesterday -- we got Mackened.

 

[Seth MCFC]

I was disappointed because I thought we are a better team than Real Madrid and because of the manner in which we went out. Although if at the start of the season you told me we would reach the UCL semis with no striker and a lack of squad depth whilst also being on track to win the league I would of been happy.

 

[Bill]

I honestly and with 100% truthfulness can say that I am not arsed in the slightest. Not even a tiny bit.
This whole charade of a competition is a farce, and always has been. It is peopled by yesterdays men, yesterdays clubs, and is a cartel of, and for, the history clubs, and the acceptable (white) face of ‘new money’.
I won’t lie, seeing the acceptable face of mainstream racism handing over the prized trophy to a club with owners who look like ours, would have had a certain feeling of poetic “fuck you” to it, but even that would never, could never, come remotely close to the feeling of us handing them their arse in a courtroom. THAT was the fight the club could not afford to lose, or there would have been little or no club left to pick the bones out of afterwards.
Last night, and all the other nights in their fancy competition, are a necessary evil the club has to participate in, in order to sign the players we sign who regularly deliver the real prize. Champions of the worlds most prestigious and hardest to win league anywhere in world sport - the premier league.
The aftermath begins at weekend. I have nothing but absolute faith in this manager and this group of players to deliver the real prize. Champions of England and breaker of murderous hearts. Again.

on the money .

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

It wasnt the defeat , it was the manner of the defeat it was injury time and we had the game won , i have never liked the Champs league its a glorified UEFA bauble so the defeat doesnt cut as deep. My worst disappontment was our home FA Cup quarter final defeat to Spuds , because our expectations were non existent and a chance of a rare trip to Wembley was cruelly snatched away , then the ridiculous pitch invasion and the fact we couldnt lose gracefully and my nine year old son crying his eyes out watching those events , heart wrenching stuff,
But onwards and upwards my son and grandson are now watching the best team in the land and all the world , a happy ending :)

 

[cleavers]

Nowhere even close to the worst, probably wouldn't come in the top 30.

 

[Fordyboy46]

2-0 down to Gillingham was major disappointment on another scale to last night. Luckily it came right in the end but at that moment in time that was my lowest point of watching City. Last night was horrible but by no means the worst

 

[BillCarlisle]

Had much bigger disappointments as a City fan but i'm not sure i've been as shocked before as i was with our total capitulation last night

I agree 100%. I was totally shell shocked by the way we threw it away so late in the game. It took me weeks to get over the 2-3 against the rags when we could have won the title that day, so that and the Luton game affected me tons more.. After a shit sleep last night and some soul searching today I've come to terms with the Madrid result. Sunday is redemption day and we've all got to play our part at the Etihad. Retaining the PL is non-negotiable now. Come on you Blues !

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

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.

 

[mancity5]

Whimpering out of the fa cup in the semis against Liverpool bothered me more than last night.