Has There Ever Been A Better Time To Be A Blue..

[Lev Bronstein]

Damn good question.


There are class moments ,
Play off final against Gillingham - lose that and we're dead (not quite but maybe in the same boat as Sheff Wed)

Promtion against Blackburn - City are back

Last Maine Rd derby - relief unbounded, total joy, perhaps we can compete after all

Beating Tottenham 3-4 in the cup - I mean how unlikely was that win

Winning a cup at last - nearly collapsed with nervous exhaustion at the end of the game. Expected win but... did it compare with the semi?

The thing about this moment is that we expect to sweep all before us, if not now then soon. Still, it's brilliant to see the way we play, and to feel the fear of other clubs.

Nah, every day is a great day to be a Blue.

[Slim]

Damn good question.


There are class moments ,
Play off final against Gillingham - lose that and we're dead (not quite but maybe in the same boat as Sheff Wed)

Promtion against Blackburn - City are back

Last Maine Rd derby - relief unbounded, total joy, perhaps we can compete after all

Beating Tottenham 3-4 in the cup - I mean how unlikely was that win

Winning a cup at last - nearly collapsed with nervous exhaustion at the end of the game. Expected win but... did it compare with the semi?

The thing about this moment is that we expect to sweep all before us, if not now then soon. Still, it's brilliant to see the way we play, and to feel the fear of other clubs.

Nah, every day is a great day to be a Blue.

I think they are great moments (add winning at the swamp) but there is no better time to look forward to every single game, fuck that, every single day. And it's not just winning, hell Chelsea do that, but we are playing with the swagger and style of Keegan's Championship side only this time with true world class players at the helm and in the top division.

When we signed Robinho I couldn't see him walk out on the pitch without laughing, like a giddy idiot....honestly that lasted about 6 months. Noticed it happening with Aguero as well now, but all the years I have watched City I have dreamed about us having the array of talent we have at the moment and am still wondering if I am in a coma somewhere, did I walk in front of that train?

And all of this from start to finish was from the summer break in 2007...meteoric doesn't begin to cover it. Distin and James walked out on us, Barton was never going to play for City again after beating Dabo, we hadn't scored a goal at home since New Year's Day, Stuart Pearce left the post or was fired, still unsure on that one and Wardle was looking for anyone to take the club off his hands, we were a ship dead in the water and sinking fast. I remember thinking we are fucked, no way we are getting out of this mess and probably looking at the Championship next season.

Yep, definitely coma.

[Patrick]

I still can't get used to it.

There's a lot of bad things happened to football since we last won a trophy, everything was just more honest back then. Players stayed around longer, almost any team could win the perm, people like Malcom Allison could thrive.

This is different, my memories of the 60s are very old, the decades of hurt very fresh, in 4 years we have gone from the brink of collapse (again) to the richest football club in the entire universe. It's a Hollywood movie you wouldn't believe, it's like the Terry Waite story except we got rescued by fit female navy seals dressed in spandex

And most of all it's happening now, it's going to get better, and it's going to last a long long time

[john@staustell]

Yes there has been, in mine. When we were sweeping all before us including regular wins against the 'big clubs' and going a goal behind was seen as a minor inconvenience.

At the moment we have a team full of extremely talented players who look likely to more than emulate that team of 1968-1976 but I would urge just a tiny bit of caution (for fear of massive disappointment should things not go exactly as expected) because, to not put too fine a point on it, we haven't played anyone special yet (yes I know we were awesome away to Spurs but their midfield was non-existent that day). Nor have we needed to show the character needed to come from behind and not only draw but win.

Just notes of caution, I'm as excited as anyone else is.

I actually thought the better team was the one that lost the title to Liverpool by one point (Dave Watson OG cost us the match on Easter Monday was it?) in 1977. It was the rump of the LC winning team of 1976 and should have gone on to greater things, but it all went tits up.

This team is far better than anything that has gone before. Like Ted I was a little lad when we won the league, but I remember the feeling, and when it is repeated I will feel the same joy, not until.

[ashton287]

I'm 24 so ermm...HAS THERE FUUUUUCK.

[jono1978]

After all that said its up to us blues to make sure the young un's know about the heroes of yester year like bell,the goat and kladz. As these will be long forgotten in the good times ahead. This always worries me and was glad to see the academy lads getting a bit of history installed in them.

[LookMumImOnMCF.net]

As a 27 year old who has been properly watching City since, what, 97? Definatley not.

Though I've said it on here before, there was a certain romance in being the underdog. Maybe I'm just a masochist.

[Kladze]

As a 27 year old who has been properly watching City since, what, 97? Definatley not.

Though I've said it on here before, there was a certain romance in being the underdog. Maybe I'm just a masochist.

It IS going to take some getting used to, this 'being the favourite to win almost every game'. A part of me simply refuses to accept the temptation to just assume that we're going to win a game (a la rag fuckers) and maybe that's a good thing, for as long as it lasts.

Maybe I've just gotten used to taking the footballing equivalent of prozac.

[Ted Hughes]

Damn good question.


There are class moments ,
Play off final against Gillingham - lose that and we're dead (not quite but maybe in the same boat as Sheff Wed)

Promtion against Blackburn - City are back

Last Maine Rd derby - relief unbounded, total joy, perhaps we can compete after all

Beating Tottenham 3-4 in the cup - I mean how unlikely was that win

Winning a cup at last - nearly collapsed with nervous exhaustion at the end of the game. Expected win but... did it compare with the semi?

The thing about this moment is that we expect to sweep all before us, if not now then soon. Still, it's brilliant to see the way we play, and to feel the fear of other clubs.

Nah, every day is a great day to be a Blue.

I think they are great moments (add winning at the swamp) but there is no better time to look forward to every single game, fuck that, every single day. And it's not just winning, hell Chelsea do that, but we are playing with the swagger and style of Keegan's Championship side only this time with true world class players at the helm and in the top division.

When we signed Robinho I couldn't see him walk out on the pitch without laughing, like a giddy idiot....honestly that lasted about 6 months. Noticed it happening with Aguero as well now, but all the years I have watched City I have dreamed about us having the array of talent we have at the moment and am still wondering if I am in a coma somewhere, did I walk in front of that train?

And all of this from start to finish was from the summer break in 2007...meteoric doesn't begin to cover it. Distin and James walked out on us, Barton was never going to play for City again after beating Dabo, we hadn't scored a goal at home since New Year's Day, Stuart Pearce left the post or was fired, still unsure on that one and Wardle was looking for anyone to take the club off his hands, we were a ship dead in the water and sinking fast. I remember thinking we are fucked, no way we are getting out of this mess and probably looking at the Championship next season.

Yep, definitely coma.

I worry about this.

When Aguero smashed that 30 yarder in v Swansea, I half expected to wake up on the floor at Wembley with a sore head, just as Fat Bob Taylor smashed in Gillingham's 3rd.