Your personal lowest point as a City fan

Relegations aside...

The first 5 months of 2007. I've written about it (<a class="postlink" href="http://liamwright1987.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/2007-year-in-life.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://liamwright1987.blogspot.co.uk/20 ... -life.html</a>) but to sum up:

Reading. Blackburn. Pearce. Samaras. Barton. And Blackburn again.
 
hertsblue said:
being 2-1 down v QPR last season, the last 15 mins before the comeback i was really low. We were playing awful, YaYa off injured and couldnt see a goal let alone 2 in us.
had alot of ups and downs over the year but knowing we were so close and fcked it up i was really low at the time
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Probably the same.

Was sat down for 5 mins in 111 just thinking, "for fuck sake, not again. bloody typical."

Managed to give my head a wobble and watch.
 
Relegation aside...

The half season we couldn't score at home under Pearce
Being kept in at the swamp after the Carling Cup 2nd leg while they royally took the piss
Mackie scoring for QPR (thankfully that one didn't last long)
 
I was giving my 11 year old son a bit of a pep talk on Saturday night, as he was already starting to dread running the gamut of the moronic, soulless, rootless, ovine Southern United fans at school on Monday. It made me realise what a fantastic time it is to be a City fan - when I was young most of my Saturdays/Wednesdays were completely ruined by the various iterations of 'showers of bastards' that were in either on the field or in the boardroom.

However, the one memory that really stood out was the 2-2 against Liverpool that sent us down - when Alan Ball's regime became the apotheosis of antediluvian incompetence. Other relegations were, generally, deserved. Even in 1982 there was little in that team that deserve First Division status. But the side that Ball took and destroyed still makes me livid - Flitcroft, Walsh, Rosler, Quinn, Beagrie and Kinkladze. How? Why? And of course that whole farcical last few minutes when the players were told to keep the ball in the corners. Quinny's post-match interview was the most poignant and moving apology I have ever heard from a professional footballer. Christ, it all still hurts.

As I spewed all this out at my lad, I could see I wasn't really helping. I changed tack and instead advised him to pick out the biggest kid and nut him.
 
At Wembley with 89 minutes on the clock against Gillingham. Football has never left me so devastated before or after that moment. Followed by my top 3 City moments ever but just before was an empty feeling of helplessness that I cant even explain
 
Now I know this sounds like a really odd thing to say but I genuinely dont look back on the much mentioned Stoke relegation match as being particularly painful. I was there that day and when I think back now the overiding emotion is one of pride. Not of the team or even the club but of us, the fans. The gallows-esque humour in the chant of 'are you watching Macclesfied' that went up once it became obvious we were doomed is something that still raises a smile when I think of it even now!
 
Blackburn away in the FA cup. I thought our name was on it then we never even turned up. Gutted
 
Owens 135th min winner in the 4-3 at the swamp.
On my birthday and about 20 of us out (2 blues) we were proper giving it them for a while..................
 
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