What was your favourite era?

Loads of players smoked up until the 90s I think, Cryuff famously. I think Bartez was smoking when he was with us.

Pep deserves jail time for what he's done to the beautiful game.

Pass masters, very good it works incredibly well, the goals scored can be beautiful but the games are often as dull as dishwater. Suffocate the opposition, wear them down, finish them off.

Effective but boring.

Diagonal balls to the big centre forward were hardly entertaining to watch back in the day!

comment by Barefoot (U19770)
posted 1 minute ago
Diagonal balls to the big centre forward were hardly entertaining to watch back in the day!
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Big physical challenge, knock down to midfielder running on to blooter the ball at the goal.

Proper football.

comment by HB Fash (U21935)
posted 8 minutes ago
Pep deserves jail time for what he's done to the beautiful game.

Pass masters, very good it works incredibly well, the goals scored can be beautiful but the games are often as dull as dishwater. Suffocate the opposition, wear them down, finish them off.

Effective but boring.
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Never really understood this opinion. All subjective of course, but I don't find Pep's teams boring at all. I've watched City these past 8 years with begrudging admiration.

Plus, the Barca side from 2009-2011 were the most mesmerising team I've ever seen. Of course the Messi factor has to be taken into account but still - football doesn't get much better than that.

comment by HB Fash (U21935)
posted 22 minutes ago
Pep deserves jail time for what he's done to the beautiful game.

Pass masters, very good it works incredibly well, the goals scored can be beautiful but the games are often as dull as dishwater. Suffocate the opposition, wear them down, finish them off.

Effective but boring.
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I would say it can make certain games appear boring, but that's more because they are so much better than the opposition. Occasionally there are times where I think they could be a tad more direct or get a cross in, but overall I wouldn't call City boring to watch.

I've two favourites
1964 until 1970
1998 until 2003.
These aren't exact dates, but from a football point of view my favourites.
But going with my mates Mick and Ray probably
1968 until 1974

Being born in 88, I’d say 05-10ish. Jose in the PL, 3 CL finals, rivalries etc

Mid 90s were my favourite, just as I was a kid just getting into football then and it felt more magical. Plus, the league was more competitive across the board.
But my actual favourite football was the last few months of 02-03. Not an all time great team but a vintage set of performances and results and I've never seen better from United

My footballing fandom 'golden age' is any period other than that between (about) 1970 to the founding of the epl and champions league.

During that period the football was dull and dominated by the defensive cowardice and thuggery of negative anti-football teams/clubs like arsenal, Leeds and liverpool.

And the stadiums/stands were full of the worst kind of socially-ret@rded untermensch imaginable. Inside and outside major stadiums became places where the good people around me felt very unsafe.

So much so that the game I grew up with, and loved, in the 1960s become something to avoid - at least at the top level.

Once the rule changes implemented in the early 90s came into being then interesting, attacking and less thuggish football clubs, such as mufc, came to the fore

All of which, coincidentally, is why lfc's stopped being successful and had to wait so long to be considered a serious football club again. They failed to adapt quick enough.