Your very favourite City game of all time, and why?

[Elbow beards]

6-1 against rags. No pressure just a fun beautiful thing to witness.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

The 5-1 against the rags in ‘89

 

[BrianW]

I am old enough to have seen us win the old First Division at Newcastle 4-3, a thrilling game that seemed to last about 10 minutes. Hard to top that, to be honest. Although beating the Rags 3-1 at Old Toilet in the same season is a close challenger.

 

[youngbob]

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

City 1 Tottenham 0, FA cup quarter final 1969. First time I ever went to Maine Rd wrote a full account of it somewhere.
City 2 West Brom 1 League cup final 1970 at Wembley. First time at Wembley, first time in London and the first time I saw City win a trophy.
Many bigger occasions since but when your 12 and 13 everything seems magical, though I cried tears of joy when we won the cup in 2011.

 

[Bentheblue]

Newcastle away in 1968. The first time I saw them win the league. You never forget your first time. ;-)

That was the open end, where Franny is celebrating the fourth goal, now the Gallowgate end. I was in the Leazes end, which is now where the away fans are placed. There were thousands of us in there too. Then, it was their version of, say, the Kippax. Oh, and also on the pitch after the final whistle!

I was in the stand behind the goal opposite the open end, where Franny celebrated. it was absolutely rammed with City and i have always thought i was in the away end. Incredible City support that day.

 

[franksinatra]

If I was pinned down and had a time capsule the three games I would most like to revisit would be Blackburn away to win promotion, QPR and Aston Villa to clinch the league

As a run of the mill games, no derbys, cup semis, promotion clinchers, title deciders etc, three which spring to mind are beating Spurs 5-2 under Brian Horton, the 4-0 victory over Leeds the year they won the title and the 2-1 victory over Stoke the year we were promoted in 1999 from div 2 which changed the course of the season.

 

[Stephen230]

Obvious, but hard to look past the 5-1.

I’d seen us win a couple of derbies as a child but that was the first one as an adult. And it was so unexpected. Not sure we’d won a single game up until that point.

Amazing to think now but it was our only derby victory between 1981 and 2002. And they say form goes out of the window in derbies.

A bit of a left field alternative for me would be beating Newcastle away in a League Cup replay in ‘94. More for personal reasons I won’t bore anyone with. But again totally unexpected.

Don’t know how many away cup victories I’d seen up to that point in my roughly 20 years watching City. But it wasn’t many.

 

[standupifyouhatemanu]

It’s between two….
rags 1 City 6
Blackburn 1 City 4

I’ll go for the latter as the first one was spoiled somewhat as it should have been 10 (TEN)

 

[Franny 1234]

Apart from the obvious ones
The game at maine Road against Derby where Nail Quinn went in net and looked like he belonged there.
Shame he's bitter towards us now. CTID

 

[bluemoon32]

23/09/1989
Manchester City 5
Stretford Rangers 1

Ditto

 

[KS55]

The ballet on ice or winning the title away at Newcastle.
Great days!

Yep. The ballet just shades it. So cool and King Colin just brilliant.

 

[casserole of nonsense]

It’s the 1989 5-1 derby for me too.

 

[Betterdeedthan red]

It’s the 1989 5-1 derby for me too.

That then 93.20.
Followed by Blackburn away

 

[JGL07]

Newcastle away in 1968. The first time I saw them win the league. You never forget your first time. ;-)

That was the open end, where Franny is celebrating the fourth goal, now the Gallowgate end. I was in the Leazes end, which is now where the away fans are placed. There were thousands of us in there too. Then, it was their version of, say, the Kippax. Oh, and also on the pitch after the final whistle!

I have to agree on this. The match was exhilarating although City were never behind. O-1, 1-1, 1-2, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 3-4.

We didn’t know that even had City lost they would still have been Champions. Newcastle were a decent side that year and qualified for the Fairs Cup and won it the next season.

The QPR and the Villa match were too nerve shredding to be fully enjoyed.

 

[Legal Alien]

The FA Cup semi final win in 1981.
I was still at school and it was my first experience of being at a big game like that and it was a brilliant day and i can still remember it. The joy at seeing Power's goal going in and then winning that game was unforgettable.

This was a toss up for me though, because being at 'The Maine Road Massacre' was just as good. What a wonderful but crazy day that was!

 

[manimanc]

Spurs away 5-1 when Edin scored 4.
That first feeling of wow, we've arrived and the feeling of pure excitement as we scored goal after goal.
It was this match where I thought ok things are going to be a bit different from now on.

 

[lazza]

As a part-timer, I don't have hundreds of games to choose from, unlike most of you I presume. But I've still managed to be at some crackers. Two games that spring to mind were both Blackburn away.

First one was the midweek game the season Rovers won the Premier League and we beat them 3-2. Amazing atmosphere, and the road back seemed to just be celebrating City fans.

And the more obvious end-of-season win at Ewood Park to clinch promotion when I was sat in the Blackburn home stand with about 5 other City fans!

 

[pride in battle]

I'm lucky enough to have been at Gillingham, last derby, the 2011 final, the 1-0, QPR, every cup final since, every pitch invasion on title day, but the only time I've had a full out-of-body experience was pissed outside Eastlands when we won the league at Brighton on the big screens in the sunshine. When Mahrez scored the 3rd I floated outside my body for a couple of seconds and saw myself and everyone around us going mental. It was weird as fuck and I'll never forget it

Wow that's deep !!!!

 

[PPT]

Has to be the 5-1 for me. I was walking on air for a full week after that. I was at Gillingham, QPR & The Aston Villa games but that one tops the lot. It was absolutely carnage!