Which 3 City losses have made you most angry with City, and which 3 losses have made you proud of to be a Blue!

[Gabriel]

Shrewsbury Town (3rd division) and then Halifax (4th Division), both in the Cup.

 

[DelToro]

Worst defeats…
1-3 vs Watford 1986 FA Cup 4th round 2nd replay. Was convinced our name was on the cup. John Barnes thought otherwise.

5-0 vs Newcastle 1983. First season down and favorites to bounce back until the Geordies wiped the floor with us.

2-3 vs Utd in 2018 when we could have won the league

Proud defeats……

1-0 vs Newcastle FA Cup 2003 when we were second tier and played most of game with 10 men

4-5 vs Chelsea Full Members Cup when we scored 3 goals in last 5 mins.

1-1 lost on penalties to Madrid earlier this year but we reduced them to a Sam Allardyce tribute act.

 

[Ezy]

Just a huge fucking disappointment, went to all that hard work to finally get there & then Pep shit the bed and the players just didn't turn up. A complete and utter waste of time

Yup i was so sad man like REALLY sad

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

The 3 where I have been really angry.

1. Rags (Scholes winner)
2. Rags 2/3 when we were 2-0 up in a once in a lifetime opportunity to win the title against them!
3. Sunday.

 

[youngbob]

Ashamed/distraught

1. Southampton at home in 2004, lost 3-1. Seem to remember Kevin Phillips notching a couple for them. It was right at the end of the season and we only had a couple of home games left - we were staring relegation in the face. We'd just got good points away at Spurs and Villa and we thought we were on the way to safety, only for James Beattie and Phillips to batter us pretty convincingly. After that game I think we were a point above the dropzone and I was convinced that was it. My first year as a season-ticket holder at the City of Manchester Stadium, I thought it was all over and I cried - it's the only City loss I've ever cried over. Thank fuck for that win against Newcastle a couple of weeks later - big man Paolo Wanchope with his first goal of the season in fucking April saved our bacon.

2. Wigan FA Cup final in 2013. Not because of the result. I was happy enough for Wigan to win, and I knew we'd be back each season, challenging for top honours and trying to win trophies. Wigan were down anyway and were allowed their day in the sun. What made the day so shameful was the drip-feed of rumours in the morning coming from City that Roberto Mancini was going to be sacked regardless of the result. It killed the atmosphere in the car immediately. And when we got to Wembley it was clear everyone knew. City outnumbered Wigan three-to-one and all of us were tense. There was loads of blue-on-blue fighting in the crowd over the Mancini/Manuel Pellegrini rumours and the weather made everything worse after full-time. A bad day that started to put me off going to Wembley.

3. Blackburn away in the FA Cup 2007. As others have said, that Blackburn game was the absolute lowest point just before the takeover. We'd been playing abject football all season (and for the majority of our time under Stuart Pearce) but we'd somehow ended up in the FA Cup quarter-finals with a game against Blackburn. Cue an absolute shitfest of a game at Ewood Park that we lost 2-0. The performance was so bad that I remember watching on TV as Joey Barton threw his shirt in the crowd as a souvenir for a fan, only to see it get chucked straight back at him. That was a dark, dark day. A big collective realisation that this was it for City. A boring mid-table finish, just about escaping relegation, and losing to the first decent team we played in the FA Cup. Every year. Thank god things changed.

Proud

Can't think of many, but Newcastle away in the FA Cup in 2002 stands out. We went away to Newcastle in the FA Cup when we were top of the Championship under Kevin Keegan, and I remember it being seen as a 'test of our Premier League credentials'. Newcastle were flying high under Bobby Robson, playing in the Champions League, and had players like Alan Shearer, Nol Solano, Craig Bellamy, etc. They eventually finished 4th. In 2024, the equivalent would be, say, Sheffield United or Leeds United going away to Chelsea or Aston Villa now. We got reduced to 10 men in the first half but we kept battling and battling and battling. Eventually Newcastle scored and won 1-0 but it was only because of a Nicky Weaver mistake in the end, and we gave them a proper scare throughout and had some big chances. It showed we were more than ready to come up in 2002, and it proved true - we beat that same Newcastle team at Maine Road seven months later in the most one-sided 1-0 game I've ever watched.

 

[youngbob]

Remember a derby where Kompany got sent off for a perfectly good tackle on Shrek.

We ended up losing 2-3 but we battered them with 10 men in the second half.

Good shout. Those who stayed behind after the game know about Natalie Pike's incredible speech. She motivated about 5,000 of us to keep fighting, saying we'd scared United royally in that second half and knew we were coming for their title. Needless to say, she was right.

 

[ericpodeofcroydon]

Ashamed/distraught

1. Southampton at home in 2004, lost 3-1. Seem to remember Kevin Phillips notching a couple for them. It was right at the end of the season and we only had a couple of home games left - we were staring relegation in the face. We'd just got good points away at Spurs and Villa and we thought we were on the way to safety, only for James Beattie and Phillips to batter us pretty convincingly. After that game I think we were a point above the dropzone and I was convinced that was it. My first year as a season-ticket holder at the City of Manchester Stadium, I thought it was all over and I cried - it's the only City loss I've ever cried over. Thank fuck for that win against Newcastle a couple of weeks later - big man Paolo Wanchope with his first goal of the season in fucking April saved our bacon.

2. Wigan FA Cup final in 2013. Not because of the result. I was happy enough for Wigan to win, and I knew we'd be back each season, challenging for top honours and trying to win trophies. Wigan were down anyway and were allowed their day in the sun. What made the day so shameful was the drip-feed of rumours in the morning coming from City that Roberto Mancini was going to be sacked regardless of the result. It killed the atmosphere in the car immediately. And when we got to Wembley it was clear everyone knew. City outnumbered Wigan three-to-one and all of us were tense. There was loads of blue-on-blue fighting in the crowd over the Mancini/Manuel Pellegrini rumours and the weather made everything worse after full-time. A bad day that started to put me off going to Wembley.

3. Blackburn away in the FA Cup 2007. As others have said, that Blackburn game was the absolute lowest point just before the takeover. We'd been playing abject football all season (and for the majority of our time under Stuart Pearce) but we'd somehow ended up in the FA Cup quarter-finals with a game against Blackburn. Cue an absolute shitfest of a game at Ewood Park that we lost 2-0. The performance was so bad that I remember watching on TV as Joey Barton threw his shirt in the crowd as a souvenir for a fan, only to see it get chucked straight back at him. That was a dark, dark day. A big collective realisation that this was it for City. A boring mid-table finish, just about escaping relegation, and losing to the first decent team we played in the FA Cup. Every year. Thank god things changed.

Proud

Can't think of many, but Newcastle away in the FA Cup in 2002 stands out. We went away to Newcastle in the FA Cup when we were top of the Championship under Kevin Keegan, and I remember it being seen as a 'test of our Premier League credentials'. Newcastle were flying high under Bobby Robson, playing in the Champions League, and had players like Alan Shearer, Nol Solano, Craig Bellamy, etc. They eventually finished 4th. In 2024, the equivalent would be, say, Sheffield United or Leeds United going away to Chelsea or Aston Villa now. We got reduced to 10 men in the first half but we kept battling and battling and battling. Eventually Newcastle scored and won 1-0 but it was only because of a Nicky Weaver mistake in the end, and we gave them a proper scare throughout and had some big chances. It showed we were more than ready to come up in 2002, and it proved true - we beat that same Newcastle team at Maine Road seven months later in the most one-sided 1-0 game I've ever watched.

Quality.

 

[skillman]

Last season's FA Cup final pissed me off no end. Not helped by the club joking that the players were pissed still from the week before!

Wigan FA Cup final was bad too. It felt like a formality we'd be beat because it was leaked that Mancini was essentially already gone.

The CL final against Chelsea is up there as well. Absolutely spineless and the opposite of what we'd shown all that season. And it was Aguero's swan song!

Proud losses. That's tough. Madrid last season and again in 2021, mainly because we were so much better than them but they scraped through - they didn't deserve any of the wins and they/the whole footballing world knew it. Scrawny bastards.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Think the QPR game in itself could be both categories.

For 30 mins, I didn’t know what I was going to do. Losing the league to that lot, bottling it against 10 men would have sent me to new depths that even the Stockport loss at home didn’t send me to.

Then the Dzeko and Aguero goals sent me to new heights of pride. I still didn’t know what to do and spent most of the rest of the day hugging random blues in town.

Football, hey?

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

Good shout. Those who stayed behind after the game know about Natalie Pike's incredible speech. She motivated about 5,000 of us to keep fighting, saying we'd scared United royally in that second half and knew we were coming for their title. Needless to say, she was right.

The tackle wasn't on Shrek it was on another rag player who got up ready to get on with it however Shrek decided he was the referee and ran crying to the ref waving an invisible card in his hand. The twat of a ref dismissed Vinny and also gave them a ludicrous penalty. We went 3 0 down, pulled it back to 2 3 and nearly equalised at the death, if any game could be termed a moral victory this one was. Anyway we hard the last laugh beating fergies gutless team in the end of season league game and claiming the title ten days later.