Your worst City memory

[mancunial]

was there that day sliding down the mud bank they called a terrace, did i get some stick when i got back to my local off the red clingons, all f----g night they gave it me, they had drawn at spurs at shite heart lane, replay was on a weds i was a work listening to it praying they would get beat, i left work at 9.30 it was still nill nill, so had a bath put match of the day on still didn,t know the score,then 3 mins from the end at trafford ossie ardilies got the ball from 8 yards out in traffords area and chipped it over baileys head into the net, i jumped up fell over the back of the couch knocked a glass cabinette over smashed the lot, i got up cut my foot woke the baby and my ex wife up she was screaming at me i was running round the living room with my arms in the air, it was like someone had lifted a sack of coal off my back, i wish i could have got hold of some of them clingons that night? didnt see any of them the following weekend.

There's only really one ......

5th January , 1980 ....... FA Cup 3rd Rd / The Shay

Halifax Town ......1 Manchester City ....... 0

Probably our lowest point ever , on an extremely cold day.

 

[mancunial]

yea romark offered his services, he had been alerted too the gypsy curse at maine road, so he told the papers he was heading to see big mal and mr swales, he arrived and asked to speak to them, and was quickley told to go and sort hiself out? so the lad put a curse on mal and doubled the curse on the ground, next game f----g halifax, jesus he could have played for us that day and done better, so if your reading this romy my freind lift the f----g curse we think your the greatest guy on the planet i,ll do your laundry anything you want within reason?

 

[grumbar]

When that bastard Best finished Glyn Pardoe's career at the swamp.
He was the best fullback to play for us and one of my alltime favourite players.
Also when Buchan finished Colin Bell.s career.

 

[warpig]

any one of the relegations.........or getting beat by united 5-0.

 

[stirlingblue]

When that bastard Best finished Glyn Pardoe's career at the swamp.
He was the best fullback to play for us and one of my alltime favourite players.
Also when Buchan finished Colin Bell.s career.

Agree mate. At the time didn't realise the consequences of King Colin's injury though and this was actually one of the best nights as we stuffed them 4-0 and went on to lift the League Cup.
As for results from games I actually attended there are so many to choose from where do I begin?

Halifax 1980
Luton 1983
Wolves LCF 1974
Spuds replay 81
West Ham 2005

However, without doubt - imo - the most painful memories tend to be the most recent and though I was not at the game this seasons derby is right down there. My missus thought I had got tourets syndrome for a couple of weeks after that one.

 

[Bluemoonbaldboy]

For me the 4-2 home loss to Spuds in the FA Cup '93 everyone thought it was our year Alan Hansen had tipped us remember the Kippax singing "only one Alan Hansen" to him in the MOTD temporary studio they had erected in the corner of the Kippax and Platt Lane everything was in place then disaster.

 

[blue5_5_1]

All of the above hurt, but another that stands out in my memory was Crystal Palace away in the league cup quarters (midish 90's).

It was going to be our year, it took us forever to find the godforsaken place, but we spent the time planning the route to the semis and beyond, excited like little kids.

9o minutes later. Stevie Lomas had broken his leg and swallowed his tongue, and a 4-0 (i think) drubbing. City fans fighting with each other and trying to get on the pitch. It was horrific.

Seemed like the longest and quietest trip home from an away game ever. 3 of us crammed in the back of a vauxhall calibra (remember those!) and one of them wasnt called fat craig for nothng!

That game just sticks in the memory, but would we have it any other way

WOULD WE FCUK!!!!!

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

There's only really one ......

5th January , 1980 ....... FA Cup 3rd Rd / The Shay

Halifax Town ......1 Manchester City ....... 0

Probably our lowest point ever , on an extremely cold day.

I was at that game, and must agree it was a very low point, and a prelude of what was to come, although we didn't know it at the time!

 

[NPBlue]

Going up to Sunderland in 1973 after Joe Corrigan had gifted them the equaliser at Maine Rd, and seeing us outplayed by an average 2nd division team.

Sunderland went on to beat Leeds in the final, which was fair enough, they got what they deserved on the day, but that Joe Corrigan moment still, to this day, irritates me.

David Pleat running onto the pitch in his brown suit is not even funny now, I can't ever laugh at it, but the pain of that loss to Sunderland pips it for me.

Four of us went to see the headmaster so we could get the afternoon off school, which he allowed, and we lost, after beating Liverpool in the replay at Maine Rd in the best atmosphere I ever experienced at the old ground.

That replay against Sunderland still rankles all these years later.

 

[citymad]

The FA cup defeat at Halifax had me so distraught I walked out of the house and kept going. Mum picked me up 3 miles later still very upset. There have been so many bad memories including last night. It was a big game for us and sadly the result revealed a lot about the current state of our club.