Anyone have any big regrets when it comes to the City? (11 Viewers)

[alexccfc99]

That there was not a major, up in arms pushback and reaction to London Wasps purchasing The Arena in 2014

Thankfully the pests made that much of a pigs ear of their venture all turned out fine, but it should never ever have happened in the first place - Too many were that disillusioned and apathetic to former owners and the way the club was being ran it happened relatively unopposed

 

[JSL]

A minor one, but not being able to make the 7-1 QPR win this season and letting my mate take his wife in my place. It seems she is luckier than I am.

 

[ovduk78]

When we moved from Inverness to Callander in 2007 I should have pushed to move back to England but was convinced my wife wanted to stay in Scotland. I am now on a selfish quest to get us to move closer to cut down my match day travel time.

 

[Rodders1]

Cheese and onion pasty at the ground last week…

 

[torchomatic]

Not surprised he didn't let you go into the West End.

Not with your having that username.

And concerned why his son couldn't spell aggro.

 

[DannyThomas_1981]

Looking on in astonishment at Orange Ken on the bench alongside Andy Thorn and regretting all of my life choices to date.

 

[Skyblueweeman]

You could have stopped at going to see Kasabian

They were riding the waves of their first album, which was a great album. Still is. Not really listened to anything post-Tom leaving.

 

[oneofourown]

Not having my Dad around to see us, although I know he has been putting in a word with the BIG BOSS up there. My dad passed away 2020, Covid and he had been a season ticket holder for 40 odd years plus. I moved away from the UK for nearly 30 years but my dad religiously sent me the program, Pink for many of those years without a thought. He would be so chuffed with how it has ended. Being elderlyish I became a father for the first time 4 years ago and he has my Dad's name and character and he supports CCFC, of course.

 

[alexccfc99]

A minor one, but not being able to make the 7-1 QPR win this season and letting my mate take his wife in my place. It seems she is luckier than I am.

That was truly a great day, the jubilation of the news about the stadium earlier in the day really was the tonic - Minute I got to the ground I had a feeling we were going to turn up on the pitch that afternoon

 

[Kneeza]

I was just thinking back and the one big regret for me was not watching the Sky Blues beat Bayern Munich, when we qualified for Europe that one time.

It was 1970 and I was still a young kid.

We had beaten Trakia Plovdiv in the first round.

We had played them away in the first leg in Bulgaria and beat them 4-1 and then at home, for the second leg we beat them 2-0. I was there for that game.

The next round we were drawn against the very mighty Bayern Munich!

We played them away in the first leg and we went to Germany and got thumped 6-1 and our keeper, Eric McManus, had a complete mare and was apparently responsible for a number of their goals.

So, it came to the home leg and I just couldn't bring myself to go. I was so distraught after we had lost 6-1 against them in that first leg and I felt I just couldn't go, knowing we were already knocked out.

Anyway, they came here and we actually beat them 2-1. A fabulous achievement.

Have always kicked myself since that I didn't go. We beat one of the best teams in Europe 2-1!

Big regret for me.

I went to that one! Great day, marginally spoiled by the previous leg...

 

[Kneeza]

Never standing in the West End, Dad wouldn't let me go in, he felt i was too young.
I used to look over the rail in the family stand above with envy, or watch from "The Crow's Nest".
Sleep tight Dad, I love you, recently passed , Thanks for the memories and giving me the life long gift of CCFC.

You missed a rite of passage.
I can't count the times I stood in the Covered End/West End - including in that rather famous 3-1 over Wolves.

 

[Kneeza]

I saw us beat Trakia & Bayern ( West Germany ).
My regret. Old man not taking me to the The Cov Wolves match. "Dad , what were you thinking" !!?

Went to all three. No regrets there

 

[SkyBlueSoul]

Not going to Notts County PO semi second leg at Meadow Lane.

Had a ticket in my basket and everything.Was a skint student at the time and just couldn’t make it work

Very similar for me, had a big deadline that day too and for once in my life decided to make the sensible decision. Always regret not just handing in the day before

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

Man Utd at Old Trafford. I wasn't allowed to go, even though I was about 15. I remember walking into the living room with a text on my phone from that subscription service that would give you goal updates (crazy to think how far we have come since 2007) showing a Mifsud goal. Still haven't forgiven it.

The other one, which isn't really that relevant, but whilst I am getting pissed off about things like this - the opening game against Ipswich around 2009. I had flown back early from a family holiday to make it. As per usual, there were issues with Birmingham Airport, and I got to the ground a few minutes after kick off. I ran round the stadium, and tried to get to my seat, cutting across one of the blocks to get there. This very large karen-esque female steward wouldn't let me up the stairs and told me I needed to walk all the way round. As I did so, Clinton Morrison scored the opening goal and I missed it. I was fucking furious.

No other regrets. I was there at Newport away, which is now largely a humorous memory rather than a piece of trauma!

 

[Calista]

Took my mum hours to remove his name off my shirt with a very hot iron, a damp tea towel and a butter knife.

Love you, mum. x

Maybe the very hot iron, damp tea towel and butter knife would have been better used on Dion

 

[Otis]

Went to all three. No regrets there

I just looked and saw that Eric McManus was only 19 at the time of the Bayern game. That's terribly young for a keeper and to play in a major European game too.

Wonder how we would have got on with Bill Glazier in goal, who was amongst the best goalkeepers in the land.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

Not going to Notts County PO semi second leg at Meadow Lane.

Had a ticket in my basket and everything.Was a skint student at the time and just couldn’t make it work

It was worse for me I was working and couldn’t get the time off so didn’t even get to watch it on tv, just about saw the end and a massive cheer when Tom Bayliss scored.

 

[Calista]

Wonder how we would have got on with Bill Glazier in goal, who was amongst the best goalkeepers in the land.

We'd have run them very close over the two legs I think. I seem to remember that poor McManus let in at least 3 avoidable goals.

 

[lifeskyblue]

Dad died in the week before it was announced we were moving back to the Ricoh after the Northampton exile. After he started taking me in the 66/67 season we had season tickets together at both highfield road and the Ricoh (where also my son attended with his grandad). My regret is to not have had one more opportunity to walk up to a City match with him.

 

[Broken Hearted Sky Blue]

Went to all three. No regrets there

 

[torchomatic]

Not having my Dad around to see us, although I know he has been putting in a word with the BIG BOSS up there. My dad passed away 2020, Covid and he had been a season ticket holder for 40 odd years plus. I moved away from the UK for nearly 30 years but my dad religiously sent me the program, Pink for many of those years without a thought. He would be so chuffed with how it has ended. Being elderlyish I became a father for the first time 4 years ago and he has my Dad's name and character and he supports CCFC, of course.

Yeah, my dad died in 2021. He'd been going since the early 50s, so it's a shame that he and many like him of that generation have missed this brilliant season.

 

[Brylowes]

That is pretty mental!

So say you went to about 15x home games on which the average attendance was about 16k, yet you still missed out when we took 50k to Wembley?



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Thought we only took 25,000 to the cup final.

I’m sure we took 50,000 to the charity shield though.

 

[alexccfc99]

I walked out of Pompey away at 3-1 down in 2019 as soon as the referee pulled the red card out of his pocket to show to Dabo...

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

And concerned why his son couldn't spell aggro.

It’s no typo, he sells pesticides and weed killers on the King’s Road.

 

[richnrg]

I walked out of Pompey away at 3-1 down in 2019 as soon as the referee pulled the red card out of his pocket to show to Dabo...

oops! Great night that was - we celebrated the draw like we'd just won the FA Cup

 

[skybluelee]

Thought we only took 25,000 to the cup final.

I’m sure we took 50,000 to the charity shield though.

Definitely not 25K in the stadium although maybe the official allocation was that. It was around 50/50 in the stadium and the crowd was 98K.

 

[alexccfc99]

oops! Great night that was - we celebrated the draw like we'd just won the FA Cup

Tuesday night, long drive back and the thought of being in my bed before midnight suckered me in - Was not aware of the score until I was on the M3 and switched from my Spotify to TalkSport

 

[Brylowes]

Definitely not 25K. It was around 50/50 in the stadium and the crowd was 98K.

Yes but it’s the FA cup final, half the ticket's are distributed to FA members & corporate etc.
I actually got my cup final tickets through Ipswich Town.

 

[richnrg]

Yes but it’s the FA cup final, half the ticket's are distributed to FA members & corporate etc.
I actually got my cup final tickets through Ipswich Town.

Mr Farage had a few spares?

 

[Ellery Cairo's Wig]

Moving to London, getting married and having kids. All three have in their own way tempered my attendance over the years.

 

[TomRad85]

Moving to London, getting married and having kids. All three have in their own way tempered my attendance over the years.

I mean... same. But seems a bit harsh to call it a regret

 

[Ellery Cairo's Wig]

I mean... same. But seems a bit harsh to call it a regret

You clearly haven't met my wife

 

[COVKIDSNEVERQUIT]

I was just thinking back and the one big regret for me was not watching the Sky Blues beat Bayern Munich, when we qualified for Europe that one time.

It was 1970 and I was still a young kid.

We had beaten Trakia Plovdiv in the first round.

We had played them away in the first leg in Bulgaria and beat them 4-1 and then at home, for the second leg we beat them 2-0. I was there for that game.

The next round we were drawn against the very mighty Bayern Munich!

We played them away in the first leg and we went to Germany and got thumped 6-1 and our keeper, Eric McManus, had a complete mare and was apparently responsible for a number of their goals.

So, it came to the home leg and I just couldn't bring myself to go. I was so distraught after we had lost 6-1 against them in that first leg and I felt I just couldn't go, knowing we were already knocked out.

Anyway, they came here and we actually beat them 2-1. A fabulous achievement.

Have always kicked myself since that I didn't go. We beat one of the best teams in Europe 2-1!

Big regret for me.

I was there the night we beat Bayern Munich, you bottler Otis.

 

[alexccfc99]

oops! Great night that was - we celebrated the draw like we'd just won the FA Cup

In fairness, it was that night we all realised that team was onto something that season - Think we all deep down thought we were gonna be there or there abouts

 

[Frank Sidebottom]

Starting to regret not renewing my PLP for the 24/25 season although the combination of a new born, a ruptured achilles and a 4-5 hour round trip put paid to that anyway.