Hutch's Shoulder wrote:Im_Spartacus wrote:Slim wrote:Foreverinbluedreams wrote:Im_Spartacus wrote:As much as I loved the QPR comeback, I just don't see it as such a big deal, we should have been beating them anyway. The result in the end is surely only what was expected at the start, and what it actually was, was a massive failure by city to be in that position in the first place, not to mention QPR stopped playing with 2 to go.
In terms of significance for us as supporters it was a biggy, but surely as comebacks go, to win from 1.0 down to a relegation candidate with the most expensively assembled team in British football history, meh
QPR stopped playing, is that why one of them tried hacking Aguero down in the box?
It was hugely significant regardless of whether we should have been in that position in the first place. It was MASSIVE
It was our Ned too, could've gone down and got the penalty, glad he didn't.
SWP blatantly giving the ball away, nervous needy trying to give a penalty away?
In all honesty. I dunno whether I was the only one in the ground who 100% knew we were gonna do it even at 2-1 down, but the second they realised they were safe, QPR visibly relaxed....whether SWP and neddy's actions were on purpose, we will never know but those last few minutes went in slow motion for me and it just seemed inevitable tha QPR were gonna fold, it was never in doubt
It certainly didn't seem that way to me! How cool and calm I could have been if I had seen it like you!
Perceptions are a weird thing aren't they. That day my mate to my left was almost in tears, at 2-1, couldn't even watch. My mate on the right was a QPR fan as we had a spare that day, and he said the same as me the minute the QPR fans started celebrating....QPR have stopped playing.....city are gonna get another here.
I don't remember much of the rest of the game, but despite all the kicks in the dick city have given us over the years, I just kinda knew we were going to win that game and the game just seemed so clear to me that I could see the minor changes in the City and QPR players in those final minutes, the differences in the runs that were being made, the reducing intensity in QPR's approach all things that would be totally imperceptible on TV or for most watching in the ground who were plumbing the depths of despair by then. Amongst our friends at the game that day, they still mention me being seemingly totally irrationally convinced we were gonna win, all through those final 5 or 10 minutes when virtually everyone in the ground believed we'd fucked it up. To me it just seemed inevitable that we were gonna win, it was just clear to me from the way both teams were playing - maybe I was one of only a small number who didn't lose their shit and carried on watching the game unfold, I dunno, but I'm surprised more didn't feel like I did, as it just seemed obvious
And I wasn't even pissed!