Not sure if its been done before but was just thinking of the game where we drew 0-0 against Tottenham when we had the impenetrable wall which was Myhill (especially the save with his face) and it was one of my favourite games even though we didn't win. Just wondered if anyone else had favourite games similar to this one. The 4-3 loss to Manchester United was also a great game and with another 5 mins I reckon wed have had them, they didn't like it up them!
It's the FA Cup Final, no doubt about it. I almost don't care that we didn't win, just to be there and sing Abide with Me was enough. That 4-3 against Man United when Mendy tore them to pieces was ace too. I was in Thailand at the time, in a bar completely full of Man Utd fans, only our table in the corner supporting City. Was a great night that. Also the 2-2 draw for promotion with Cardiff with all that madness involving Watford is worth a shout.
I know it should be but losing that game tore me to bits after being 2-0 up and I still cant watch the highlights
FA Cup final was up there, in recent years the 4-3 at Old Trafford just because their fans where where whistling for the final one from about 88 minutes onwards. A few more minutes and we could have nicked something.
All good shouts and I was at all 3. Another that I regularly think of is the 3-2 defeat vs the Blunts at Bumhole Lane in the Championship under Taylor. They were 2 up before we got it back to 2-2 and then they struck an injury time winner. On top of this Paddy Kenny and our fans had a right good ding-dong. Our support was ****ing magnificent that day.
I have two. First is an away defeat against Port Vale in the third game of the 2004/05 season. I'd been unable to get to the first two games - both victories against Bournemouth and Torquay - so this was my first game back in the third tier. That Port Vale side was a very good one, the Steve Brooker way too good for that level and future City players Sam Collins and Billy Paynter in their ranks. We were sat in the bottom corner of Vale Park - a ground I have a lot of time for - and early on the ball was hit hard towards Nick Barmby's shoulder near us. Within the blink of an eye it was at his feet. It was a nothing piece of skill for Nick but I remember me and my brother looking at each other as if to say "wow, what's someone wearing a City shirt doing pulling off a nonchalant bit of skill like that?". Barmby scored his first goal not long after, only for Port Vale to take a 2-1 lead. We then attacked brilliantly - people will tell you that Peter Taylor teams couldn't attack, but I can produce numerous examples to prove them wrong - finally getting an injury time equaliser through Stuart Elliott. Sadly Vale scored in about the 95th minute, but we'd attacked so impressively in the game against a good team at that level (they were to beat us at the KC) and Barmby had shown that he still had it, I came away thinking we could rally do something that season. And then a fortnight later I was watching Michael Keane score a late winner away at newly relegated Barnsley, which helped make up for Steve Brooker's late winner. Second is the 1-1 draw at Charlton in December 2007. The match at the KC a few months earlier had been horrible, with Danny Mills at his most evil. We lost 2-1 as a team that were masters of the dark arts outsmarted us. I'd also been at Southampton a couple of weeks before this game to see us lose miserably, 4-0, after which I was looking down the division and seriously worrying about another relegation battle. Against Charlton we were terrific. Fraizer scored to put us 1-0 up at half-time only for Charlton to score against the run of play around the hour mark. Mills had been up to his usual tricks, with him and Ash showing the dislike for each other that had festered since Mills' loan spell at City. Except this time City, and Ash in particular, outsmarted the bald ****. Him being sent off was a great moment, celebrated like a goal by the City fans in the away end. We then went on to do everything but score, with (if memory serves) Fraizer and Steve McPhee missing three one-on-ones between them and us hitting the post a couple of times. But no matter, and evil **** had been sent off, we had become a smarter team within the space of a few weeks, and I was no longer worried we were going down. It was an important game for us, and a hugely enjoyable one.
Couldve killed the fat ****er that day, winking at us the massive cockwomble. Conned the ref well and truly faking an injury so he forgot about the penalty
Stoke City losing 2-3 at home in the cup. Sheffield Wednesday home, losing 1-4 and pulling it back for a 4-4 result.
Watching this, it’s amazing how much of a recovery Kenny seems to have made after they score. Cheating, fat, ****, ****.
Junior spotted this and he's just rung me to point out I'm on the video just after Elliot scores. How casual was Elliot's finish?
Blackburn at home 70/71,the original fixture was called off due to fog with us two up.....the rearranged game was 0-0,and virtually put paid to our chance of getting into the old first division for the first time,even though i was 10 at the time i felt proper gutted,the 2-3 against stoke is up there aswell, i used to love Gordon banks in them days....but not after he cheated us when he pulled the ball back from behind the line!!!!
It was the the defeat in the Oxford home game after the 2-1 win at Bramall Lane that started to scupper our chances. Typical Clty.
Got to be the FA Cup Final.......closely followed by the Liverpool game in 1989, best half time ever !!