The greatest . . . Manchester City games

Manchester City 3 Birmingham City 1, FA Cup Final, May 5, 1956

Bert Trautmann, the City goalkeeper, having ricked his neck before the game, breaks it when diving at Peter Murphy's feet. He is knocked cold but continues playing and the injury is diagnosed days later after he suffers great pain. City's deployment of Don Revie as a deep-lying centre forward, a copy of Hungary's strategy in thrashing England, pays off.

Manchester United 1 Manchester City 3, first division, March 27, 1968

The champions are beaten in the pivotal game of City's title-winning season. "That night at Old Trafford we never saw which way they went," an impressed George Best, the Manchester United winger, recalls later.

Manchester City 5 Schalke 04 1, Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final, second leg, April 15, 1970

Having lost the away leg 1-0, City overwhelm the German side in a match in which Joe Corrigan plays in goal throughout with a broken nose. The City goals are scored by Neil Young (two), Mike Doyle, Francis Lee and Colin Bell.

Manchester City 2 Gillingham 2 (aet; City win 3-1 on pens), second division play-off final, May 30, 1999

Two goals in the last ten minutes of normal time make Gillingham apparent certainties for promotion, but Kevin Horlock pulls a goal back for City in the 90th minute and Paul Dickov equalises deep into stoppage time before City win the shoot-out.