Would you have died happy with the FA Cup win in 2011?

I could if I hadn't known what was to come.

A seminal day in the history of MANCHESTER Football.

The day MANCHESTERS only club started its re emergence to greatness & the ragford imposters woke up to the fact.

City fans were magnificent all day......loud,proud & loyal.
 
No.
A year later I probably would have been though.
In fact quite how close I was to a coronary at the end of the 2011-12 season is a mute point.
I simply couldn't stand up after the Utd league game, after the adrenalin turned off there was simply nothing working.
 
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At the time, yes. Knowing the future, no.

We beat Stoke on the day of my 18th birthday, so will never forget that. I was at the United semi, and that day is still in the top 3 days in all walks of my life. The weight off our shoulders lifted that day.

Enjoy rollercoaster of life. It's not about the trophies with this football club, it's the feeling of pride you get from being part of the club, and seeing them on a Saturday afternoon. Got mates who are fans of other clubs, who don't have anywhere near the same connection myself and most of us have with our's.

Moments in the future may surpass these games, but they are all fantastic memories and will form the history of the club for our kids and grandkids.
 
no but it was huge relief to finally see city win something tangible

i've said it before, i want to win every single game, they all matter to me, and that would bring its own rewards
 
If I'm lucky enough to see City win the Champions League, then I think I'd be content. Until then I hope we keep winning trophies, there is nothing better than travelling home from Wembley, knowing you've watched your local team and the community you're a part of etch themselves into history again.

There's something special about being a City fan that no club like rags/arse/scousers/barca/madrid/juve/celtic etc can compare to. We (or most of us) were brought up thinking we'd never see City win anything, we had to share Greater Manchester with a team that won trophies year in year out. Then suddenly, after a 4 year rollercoaster we're crowned the best team in the country in a fashion you wouldn't even read about in Roy of the Rovers.
 
tonea2003 said:
no but it was huge relief to finally see city win something tangible

i've said it before, i want to win every single game, they all matter to me, and that would bring its own rewards
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Until the rags did us in the league cup in 2010 we had not reached a semi since 1981. That was a ridiculous stat, even chesterfield and Oldham and Tranmere had made it to the semis of a cup since we last got there.

I remember watching loads of quarters where we got beat including Liverpool, Blackburn, spurs and West ham. So to start getting in semis was a big step forward. V rags at Wembley was brilliant and our coming of age though I was as nervous as hell. Winning v stoke was a feeling of relief and I can't say I enjoyed it. But once we had that monkey of our back I could go to Wembley and enjoy it (except wigan). Chelsea and Sunderland were great days out. So I feel privileged to have seen us win both cups and the league.

Moved to NZ in 2015 so missed Liverpool last year. Would love to see us complete the set by winning at the millennium this year.

My only regret is my dad passed away 3 months before the 2011 final. He was a big blue and used to tell me back in the dark days that city would have their success again one day and that football goes in cycles. Thought he was talking shite at the time but just goes to show our parents know best!
 
For me it was the semi v rags that was the day i would say " i can die happy now" even though we had not won the cup yet, as others have said we have had them ramming it down our throats for 30 years at how shite we where and we where but not any more, we all knew it was a new dawn, i love my club even in the dark days and continue to do so i am just enjoying the ride and long may it last, the augero moment was so very special to us all and will never be repeated by anyone, but it all started in the semi.
 
Much as I understand what you are saying it is a no from me. I think football is a process and I enjoy the journey too much even when we are not succesful.
 
Has to be the agueroooooo moment for me. After we handed it to the bastards on a plate, then snatched it back. The bedlam that followed, the pitch invasion, the 34 years countdown, the trophy, the ecstacy, the young this! chaps' astonishment, the drive back to, through and around town and all the way home. Walking in to the local rag pub to meet the beautiful Mrs This! and almost wishing I'd watched it there instead just to wipe that smug, patronising three decades of hatred look off their faces. The vermin on Monday morning in the office... then and only then I could have died really rather happy...
 
I never really thought I'd see us win anything. Thought we might blag a league cup win like some of the smaller clubs like Boro and Leicester did but never believed it would happen.

Then the take over happened, which was not long after my mum passed away, I just wish she had hung on a bit longer to see it, on her death bed she said to me that we'd come again, how right she was. I cried at Wembley and at the QPR game, mainly thinking of her and how happy she'd have been, and that her boy finally got to see us win something other than promotion. The FA cup was special as it was my first one, and to agree with the OP I'd have been happy with that, QPR was special because it laid so many ghosts to rest beating that lot, that way.
 
That QPR game dude. Nothing will ever top that.

Teams can fluke a cup. Get easy runs(cough Arsenal every year). But we took on the rags in full flight and absolutely had our crowning moment at their expense. They'll never, ever recover dignity from that day.
 
I think the semi final against the rags was the biggest one for me. Nothing however will make up for just falling short against Spurs in 81, the last time a fairly traditional City team got close to winning something.

Once money became the biggest factor in success and the take over happened it simply became inevitable that we would become a team for whom winning silverware would be inevitable and infact expected and will become slightly taken for granted. The manner of the final day against QPR made it very special indeed.

Unlike many I think the Champions League is the pinnacle. Until we win that those twats will always have that to throw. Once City win that I will be satisfied.
 
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Has to be the agueroooooo moment for me. After we handed it to the bastards on a plate, then snatched it back. The bedlam that followed, the pitch invasion, the 34 years countdown, the trophy, the ecstacy, the young this! chaps' astonishment, the drive back to, through and around town and all the way home. Walking in to the local rag pub to meet the beautiful Mrs This! and almost wishing I'd watched it there instead just to wipe that smug, patronising three decades of hatred look off their faces. The vermin on Monday morning in the office... then and only then I could have died really rather happy...
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Beautiful.
 
The league title win for me , was at the final on my own as couldn't get wife and daughter tickets but we were all together for the qpr game. Then the party in town after and the next day
 
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