Worst moment as a City fan

Fowler missing that penalty. I actually cried.

The second half of the 06-07 season, I don't think I've ever had as little belief a squad of players could succeed as I did then. Topped off by that Vassell penalty miss, which, you just knew would happen. At home, we just seemed like 11 players on a field, no confidence and no quality, with a manager who didn't know how to turn it round.

That CC semi final defeat at OT was difficult to take, so close to extra time, where I thought we would have gone on to win, but to have it taken away like that by your biggest rivals right at the end. But the fact we had got there spoke volumes of how far we've come since 2006/07.
 
danburge82 said:
Final season with Pearce as manager and Wardle as owner! Shittest time ever watching City! We lost SWP and Anelka the year before; we scored no goals at home from Boxing Day onwards; we were in a relegation battle; no players (bar possibly Barton at a push) to get excited about; I had no affinity with that team whatsoever, dint give a shit about any of them; no hope, no future!...

I was almost wishing for relegation so at least I could enjoy watching some goals and seeing some wins in the Championship!

I enjoyed Div1 and Div2 way way more than that season, whether it was Prem Lg or not!
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Actually I had thought that the 3rd div relegation was the worst , but , FFS you have really touched a nerve with that one.....
My daughter has refused to watch City since that season. My lad's a bit tougher , but who can blame her????

We were dogshite under Pearce.
 
Fucking hell there seriously are too many...

Spurs on the Thursday night 81,Luton 83, Spurs QF at home 93, Keep ball in the corner v Liverpool 96, Fowler last minute penalty miss against Boro. Two down at Wembley in the play-off final, 5-0 at the swamp. Two up at Half time against Rags and losing 3-2...

The list goes on but that fateful afternoon at Stoke was surely the darkest afternoon in our history. I went to the game and it was a purely evil and heartbreaking afternoon. That for me was the worst.
 
a mate of mine made dash for him on the pitch only to be grabbed at the last minute,ive seen it on tv loads of times, it would have been world news that one?
betty swollocks said:
David the **** Pleat. I swear, to this day I reckon,if I come face to face even in the most tranquil of settings, I would crack him.
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The 2 -2 with QPR at Maine rd.

25th April 1998

The ecstacy of Kinkys goals and the typical city greatest OG ever from Pollock. Ablue sitting in front of us tried to cheer people up by singing "just like watching brazil" and re naming every player with a brazilian twist.

Me and my dad just sat in silence in the princess afterwards. He couldn't sup his pint and i couldn't sip my coke. We knew we were going down and the 5-2 the next week at s(j)oke just felt numb.
 
mat said:
The 2 -2 with QPR at Maine rd.

25th April 1998

The ecstacy of Kinkys goals and the typical city greatest OG ever from Pollock. Ablue sitting in front of us tried to cheer people up by singing "just like watching brazil" and re naming every player with a brazilian twist.

Me and my dad just sat in silence in the princess afterwards. He couldn't sup his pint and i couldn't sip my coke. We knew we were going down and the 5-2 the next week at s(j)oke just felt numb.
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After that QPR game it was unreal. It was a warm barmy afternoon at Maine Road. As we all left the ground the sky went black and it started pissing it down. It was very, very weird. I'm sure someone else must remember that?
 
Losing the 3-0 lead against Bournemouth
Selling Ian Bishop
Losing the 2-0 lead against the rags
5-0 in Stretford
Relegation '96
Most home games 97/98 season
Relegation at Stoke
2-0 down at Wembley
Last game at Maine Road
Groclin
Blackburn away in the cup
Losing 8-1 at the Riverside
97th minute winner in Stretford
3-4 in the league cup semi

Makes for pretty grim reading. It gets more depressing as I get older as every new fuck-up makes me fear that we haven't really moved on at all.
 
Blackburn in the cup was when I lost faith that we'd ever win anything. I hated modern football after that game. Realised that unless we got some money from somewhere we were just sleepwalking through seasons, we were going down the next season for sure. Then Thaksin came and the rest is history.
 
3-0 down at White Hart Lane with Anelka gone off due to acute lack of interest and Barton red-carded for mouthing off.
It was all I could do not to turn around and tell my boy that it would be okay with me if he wanted to support somebody else.
Was I ever glad that I didn't.

2-0 down at Wembley with the fourth official reacing for the extra time indicator. I remeber thinking that that was it. We're another huddersfield or Preston now. Imean in a 'Man City - oh they used to be good y'know' sort of way. (Mind you, that one worked out okay, too - as you might have heard).

On a different level, I was never comfortable with seeing Thaksin in charge of City. I know all's well that ends well but come on, we're better than the likes of that horrible human being. Football is better than him.
 
The lowest low, worst than Luton 83, United 5-0, the 81 replay, all of them...

The moment after Gillingham scored their second.

I have never, ever felt so gutted at a match.

I really questioned my love for the club for the only time ever.
 
when we lost at Ipswich which sent us down under Royle I'd lived through the relagations in 96 and 98 but this was the first one i witnessed as an adult walked back from the old cock in didsbury back to home in fallowfield holding back the tears

last year Hamburg second leg was a sickner i honestly thought I'd be in Istanbul watching city lift there first trophy in my life time
 
Didsbury Dave said:
The lowest low, worst than Luton 83, United 5-0, the 81 replay, all of them...

The moment after Gillingham scored their second.

I have never, ever felt so gutted at a match.

I really questioned my love for the club for the only time ever.
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Yep, that's the one for me as well. There was no way out, a complete black hole. All I could think about was having to play in the First fucking Round of the FA Cup again and also that shitty competition for lower league clubs we didn't even want to play in.

This wasn't just a play-off defeat or a relegation, I was witnessing the death of my football club and I don't think it's possible to feel any lower at a football match than I did at that moment. But then...........
 
You're right, but there was somehow more to it than that. For years before that game, City had always, always, blown it on the big occasion. This was the biggest one of all in some ways and we all hoped that we all had that we had turned the corner and lost the curse. We were riding a bit of a wave since Christmas that year.

At 2-0 down it just looked like city had done it yet again. I slumped down in my seat, numb, and buried my head in my hands. I just said to my mate "It never, ever happens for us, does it?" in a small voice and he just shook his head. We were both close to tears.

And United's treble that week made it feel worse.
 
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