Where would you rank last night in terms of disappointments?

Still so upset by it that i could barely raise a smile even as the NY Mets made a similarly staggering come back, seven runs in the top of the 9th, to beat Philadelphia on Thursday night.
 
David El Mago Silva said:
It's not so much losing a Semi-Final because that's going to happen when you're regularly in the latter stages of the tournament, it's more the way it happened. To be two goals up with a few minutes left and to throw it away is hard to take especially when we should've been three or four goals in front going in to that second leg.

I think the most disappointing thing for me though is that for the past five seasons we've arguably been the best team in Europe for at least three of those but have no CL trophy to truly represent what a consistently high level we've been playing at during that period.
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You are right, we should have won it at least once in the last 3 or 4 years. For me the absence of a top striker has killed us, we miss too many chances, first leg this time being a perfect example. We are a superior side to Real, but they had Benzema, and ultimately that was the difference.
 
It’s still too raw and recent to put into perspective for me. Atm, it feels like it’s top of the list, but then so did the Utd 2-3 for the PL, the Owen 3-4, the CL Final and the Spurs CL QF.

In time, I’m sure it’ll sort itself into the mix, but today it’s #1 and still very, very painful.

Relegation almost felt like “but, of course” at the time, even though it hurts, but when you are literally the best team in the world and lose what would have been one of the best SFs ever seen over two legs, putting us into a “Best 2 teams in the world” Champions League Final, it just sucks all the air out of you.

Now, ask me again at the end of the PL season and I hope I still feel the same way, because a crushing defeat in the PL over the next 4 games may well top the lot!
 
Dippers losing the CL final and us winning the league will ease the pain! If they lose FA cup final as well, happy days!
 
ffs said:
Luton by an absolute distance.
Relegation is the worse feeling any fan can possibly experience.
Win the league and the Madrid result will feel like a distant memory, whereas the Luton game is forever etched in my memory.
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We're not being let forget it with the BBC constantly showing Pleat running on to our pitch. They don't show him being chased off twice as fast. Also that f*****g Ricky Villa goal at the cup final replay wouldn't mind but it wasn't even the best goal in the match. Our triumphs never shown our disasters never off the screen. They will be showing Madrids comeback in 20 years.
 
This is the worst (City related) disappointment since 1983.

As others have said hindsight may have dulled previous disappointments (mainly in the 1990’s) but whilst they hurt there was awareness that we were a joke on and off the field ( but not on the terraces) so in a way it was perhaps inevitable that we would fail.

3 reasons make Madrid so disappointing. I loathe the Champions League. It feels like being part of a (cartel) club which we are not welcome even by our own media. So to win it would be great and in the face of such sniping a real achievement. It feels like the last hurdle.

Second reason is the nature of defeat on Wednesday. I am a pessimist but at 90 mins I couldn’t envisage what followed

The third reason which will hopefully prove to be groundless is that I fear the defeat is going to have a knock on effect on the league and we end up with nothing. So as well as the disappointment of that we will be witness to a summer media orchestrated gloating.

The one positive is that we have a brilliant manager and a great team. Plus our owners will based on past experience do the necessary to lift us.
 
ffs said:
Luton by an absolute distance.
Relegation is the worse feeling any fan can possibly experience.
Win the league and the Madrid result will feel like a distant memory, whereas the Luton game is forever etched in my memory.
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That Luton game , watching David Pleat running onto the pitch in his brothel creepers haunts me to this day.
 
eastmanc said:
It doesn’t feel as bad as last seasons final defeat or the Lyon game for some reason.
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The final last year made me angry because the team I know, watched and loved so much did not turn up, WTF !

Lyon was simply poor, bad management and players who seemed complacent on the night.

The Real defeat was incompetence in front of goal over both games and then complacency in the last minutes.
 
After 3 nights I'm over this. It took longer to get over Porto (and relegation) so this is somewhere in the UCL fuck ups we've had in the past.

As an aside, I can't tell you a single thing that happened in extra time (other than the pen) despite obviously watching it and was definitely experiencing some form of PTSD.
 
It is a bit like losing the Derby to OGS frustrating knowing that we could/should do better, knowing we are going to get the know nothings bleating their ultimately meaningless dribble for weeks, just remember the same people told us ` you will never win the Premiership` ` you do not know how to win the league`. We will win it but i do not care if it is next year or in a decades time, my choice is the EPL because that is how we value a team not some lucky or unlucky cup.
 
eastmanc said:
It doesn’t feel as bad as last seasons final defeat or the Lyon game for some reason.
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I actually think the final was a bit easier because of Peps team selection. I'm still pissed off with the other day because the players switched off with minutes to go but we move on and go again.
 
It was pretty bad on Wednesday night, but like a lot of others I've been a City fan long enough to remember worse, 1996 relegation when we're so close to staying up and then the 1998 relegation to the 3rd division are still sore points for me :) We hardly saw a goal in that season, pretty sure no one got into double figures?

In recent times though, that spurs chumps league game, VAR in general and getting beat by ushited at home are bitter pills to swallow.
 
This is right up there with Tottenham in 2018 and last year's final in terms of disappointment, but because of where I live and work this one is off the scale. Everyone at work has been so bloody happy! Madrid this and Madrid that and "ooh, I'm going to Paris, isn't it great!" No it bloody isn't! I have seriously never wanted to tell so many people to fuck off in my life.
 
I seem to have reacted to this a different way to many. This for me was far worse than the final last year or going out to Lyon, because in both cases we deserved nothing and showed nothing throughout the match.
We did just about everything right except put the ball in the net all the times we created decent chances — we still put the ball in the net four times, which should be more than enough against a not very impressive Real Madrid side — and then completely threw it away. We utterly managed Madrid in the second half of normal time. Even first half wasn't particularly dangerous. The City that played those six minutes was not the City that I recognised from recent years, but a throwback to a keystone cops City that was closer to the teams of the nineties, frankly. I still can't really get my head round it, how so many experienced heads could have have gone collectively.
This is up there with being beaten by Tottenham, and that dreadful experience of having victory snatched out of your very hands.
There is only one antidote to it: we win the next four matches.
 
Luton by a mile. Like most things in life, its an age thing.
No game has ever hurt as bad as that, but being 20 at the time, there were far less things in life that mattered more
 
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