Where would you rank last night in terms of disappointments?

[LesBleuMiserable]

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.

 

[normskih]

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.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Chelsea was hard to take. I cant believe how well I`m taking the defeat by Real Madrid. I thought we were a bit unlucky.

 

[youngbob]

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.

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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[BillCarlisle]

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.

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.

 

[oldhamblue]

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

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

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.

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

Wasn’t a great day that one! Remember it well. Toxic

 

[simon23]

how i think about it now.......Meh!

Gutted at the time but now more concerned about the league (and always have been)

 

[johnnytapia]

Luton. Spurs. Different gravy.

 

[Lauz9888]

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.