Your top 5 "typical City" moments

[Prestwich_Blue]

Following on from Didsbury Dave's thread about top 5 worst moments and hopefully having confined "Typical City" to the dustbin of history, let's have this one.

My starters:

5: Hitting the woodwork 6 times against Bolton and losing 1-0

4: Boro not having a single shot on target and beating us via an own goal

3: Stuart Pearce in his last match and on 99 goals getting a penalty that even the opposition goalie wants him to score. Then missing.

2: Winning in a cup tie at Luton 6-2 then having the game abandoned one minute before the result would have stood and losing the replayed game 3-1.

1: Winning the title in 1937 then getting relegated the next season, despite being top scorers.

 

[Gingers Dad]

Following on from Didsbury Dave's thread about top 5 worst moments and hopefully having confined "Typical City" to the dustbin of history, let's have this one.

My starters:

5: Hitting the woodwork 6 times against Bolton and losing 1-0

4: Boro not having a single shot on target and beating us via an own goal

3: Stuart Pearce in his last match and on 99 goals getting a penalty that even the opposition goalie wants him to score. Then missing.

2: Winning in a cup tie at Luton 6-2 then having the game abandoned one minute before the result would have stood and losing the replayed game 3-1.

1: Winning the title in 1937 then getting relegated the next season, despite being top scorers.

1.The ticket office fiasco for the play off final

2.The ticket office blocking my season card for the Juventus game because I'd had an argument with them trying to buy extra tickets

3.The ticket office slowly dropping the points criteria for the Hamburg away game so tickets were being sold up to match day when travel arrangements had to be booked.

4.The ticket office not being able to move my season ticket seat so I could sit with my kids before they had their own season tickets. We were only getting 35K at the time.

5.The £1 for kids offer versus Ipswich at Maine Road. The ticket office made sure we queued for so long we missed the first half.

There's probably more

 

[FantasyIreland]

Owens injury time winner.(fooked my head for days that...)

Rooneys shinned overhead after dominating.

 

[Kinky Dribbler]

Sheffield United. Balloon.

 

[ifiwasarichfan]

I seem to recall a game at Loftus Rd in the early/mid nineties. City winning 2 - 0 away and then within a matter of minutes Edgehill got sent off, the keeper got carried off and QPR pulled one back.

It's never going to be top 5 of anything but it illustrates perfectly that wondrous City term "Rollercoaster".

 

[pablozabaleta]

Robbie Fowler when he missed a penalty in the last minute against Middlesborough. That penalty would have put us in the UEFA Cup, which at the time the UEFA Cup seemed like a million miles away from Man City ever competing in it

 

[mark lillis's jock strap]

Being 3-0 up at home against Bournemouth to get promoted in 89. Ended up 3-3 and we had to get a point at Bradford on the last day of the season! If my memory serves me right Luther Blisset scored an injury time pen.

 

[Ed68]

Needing a win against Bournemouth at home to clinch promotion.

Leading 3-0 at half time on a gloriously sunny day with a great atmosphere and inflatables flying everywhere.

Drawing 3-3 at full time?!?

I still am never comfortable until we're winning by 4 clear goals.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Playing Spuds in the early sixties after they had won the old ECWC in the week, somebody complaining to the BBC in the early days of MotD - one camera, one match - that they were always showing Spuds matches - we wacked 'em 6-2, an' the camera ended up showing another match! Perhaps it's Typical BBC rather than Typical City, but it'd only happen to us with a win like that.

 

[Sheikh Rattle n Roll]

I don't think I can argue with PB's top five, but can add going to Maine Road in 1988 for the Manchester Derby thinking we were going to be battered by the Rags!