Footballing highlights of the year.

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Merry Christmas Football Stadia :)

As the year is coming to a close, what have been your personal highlights from this year (2011, not this season) in the Wold of Football?

For me? Easily the turn around in results and belief at Sheffield Wednesday. I can't begin to express how nice it is to go and watch them play and enjoy it, not dread each game, look forward to each game. :)

It might be all the way back in January, but Keys and Grey getting sacked. Brilliant. :cool:
 
Being at Wembley to see us lift our first trophy in 35 years. It wasnt just a football highlight, it was the best day of the year by miles. To think the last time I saw City at Wembley was when we beat Gillingham to gain promotion from the then second division!
 
our champions league experience
modric staying (for now)
bale flying
scott parker becoming an essential element for us after i thought he'd be a waste of money
rooneys hair
giggsys affair
brad friedels bald head and its glare
 
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Being at Wembley to see us lift our first trophy in 35 years. It wasnt just a football highlight, it was the best day of the year by miles. To think the last time I saw City at Wembley was when we beat Gillingham to gain promotion from the then second division!
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Got to see Brentford play at Wembley for the first time since '94, but we lost and I got drunk enough to not be able to remember it... so that certainly wasn't a highlight!

Sounds like a small victory but equalising in the last couple of minutes away at Carlisle a couple of months ago. It was raining, I was on my own having travelled for over 7 hours to get there and we deserved to win the game, not be 2-1 down. Equalising just then was an awesome feeling.

Might be topped by sitting next to our Director of Football and Head of the NextGen Series on the train back from Bury away last weekend. Had a two hour conversation about the ins and outs of football finance, EPPP/youth development and football as a whole. Very nice chap.
 
Few for me

Norwich getting promoted and holding their own now they are
Van Persies epic goal run
and of course Balotelli
 
Gotta be Balotelli for entertainment value, although I think there is a real danger of people making up stories about him.

Bit random but Seb Larsson has been pretty good value as well in terms of the technique for some of his goals.

edit: On a more personal note, I got accused of being a Man City fan on here a few weeks back :)
 
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Been a steady season for my club, Grayson still doing an excellent job despite having pretty much no finances. I'd say we're overachieving if honest so glad we're just managing to stay in the top 6.

Hope we do sign some players in the January window though.

In terms of football in general, the EPL doesn't really excite me as it once did, there appears to be a greater divide between the good teams and the crap teams now, there used to be always a good competition for the teams around 6th -12th but they seem just as bad as those at the bottom of the league.
 
Some might argue that 6th-12th doesn't really matter (no European qualification or relegation fears), whereas the EPL now has an intriguing situation whereby there are six contenders for the top 4 for the first time in ages (since MU, Arsenal, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds, Chelsea around 10 years ago or so). For most of the noughties the top 4 was very predictable (Arsenal, MU, Chelsea, Liverpool) but MC and Spurs are now muscling in on the action.

I still think there should be decent competition for 7th-12th (Villa, Everton, Stoke, Newcastle, Sunderland, Fulham) but as you say most of them seem to have been off the boil a bit this season.
 
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