Can we finally drop the ‘Typical City’ tag?

Written by: RyanCorless

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1937 – Manchester City win the first division title for the first time in their history.
1938 – Manchester City are relegated from the first division, despite scoring more goals than any team in the division.

Typical City.

For years now supporting City has been a rollercoaster ride, a bit like the Big One at Blackpool Pleasure Beach with a lot more ups and downs. City never fail when it comes to providing their supporters with more contrasting emotions than any other team in England, I’d argue even the world. It’s not all bad though, only City could come from 3 goals down away from home, with 10 men, with their best striker injured to win 4-3 in the last minute of the game. The reward – getting beat by our fiercest rivals Manchester United in the next round.

Only City could inflict the only defeat on a seemingly invincible Chelsea side in the 2004/2005 campaign, only to be beaten by Oldham Athletic in the same season. How many teams are beaten by a goal that deflects on a balloon, a balloon which was thrown onto the pitch by one of the fans who was on the wrong end of the result! Although I must admit Liverpool’s beach ball fiasco away at Sunderland this year did resemble a similar circumstance.

But for how long can we go along having ‘Typical City’ moments? Yes, it’s incredibly entertaining being a Blue, one of the many reasons I chose to support the Blues over the Reds as a boy growing up in a predominantly Red area. But sometimes it just gets tiring watching another disappointing even and listening to the words ‘Typical City’ muttered from many different mouths.

This season we saw our team blow away the likes of Chelsea and Arsenal, yet stumble at home to the likes of Burnley and Hull, who also beat us away. Both teams were relegated come May, whereas Chelsea (the team we completed a double over) finished top of the league.

But imagine, if we shook off the typical City tag? It might lead to less entertaining seasons in terms of ups and downs, but surely with the club at the current stage of development it’s at, we’d see a team that everyone could rely on. A team that could deliver wins where expected, instead of stumbling against minnows.

A lot of our stumbles are psychological though, a lot of fans (myself included) often sit at a match thinking ‘how can we cock this one up?’ Just this season, as I stood at Turf Moor, City leading 5-0 before half-time, a bloke turned round to me and said;
“If we get 6 I think it’s a guaranteed win”, it might sound foolish, but it’s a comment that I whole-heartedly agreed with, I genuinely stood in the pouring ran believing we could in fact throw away a 5 goal lead, adding another ‘Typical City’ moment to our illustrious history. It rained extremely heavily that day, and in that second half I saw the game being called off, only for it to be replayed, with us probably losing 1-0. Instead the game finished 6-1 and there was no sign of ‘Typical City’.

Now can we drop the ‘Typical City’ tag? I’m guilty of applying it a lot too, it’s hard not to watching City at times. But now I feel if we can finally rid the tag from ourselves we can go onto to fulfil the expectations thrust upon us in recent years, and go on to do great things.

I pray for a season where we beat the likes of Blackpool home and away – because we should. I pray for a season where we are not knocked out by lower league opposition in a domestic cup – because we shouldn’t be. I pray for a season with no regrets, and no ‘what ifs’. The Blue Moon is always rising and it’s simply a matter of time because this club goes on to emulate the form which saw us becoming such a reputable club in the first place.

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