We did start win "again" yeah because we had a trophy haul more than healthy enough leading up to 1976, unless that doesn't count for whatever reason.
We have had a decade of success when the biggest clubs in the country and worldwide had already been well established. You don't create massive new groups of match-going fans out of thin air. Unless something drastic happens you will absolutely see the result of the success in the coming years. And as I said, I don't care and I don't really welcome it because I have no idea why you would welcome your club generating more issues of getting tickets and more matchday tourism just to seem more like a big club but when people drag in the likes of Coventry having their biggest day in years and making it sound like a good comparision it just baffles me.
The fact that we haven't had an unnatural growth of match-going fans is a good thing, but it is going to happen at some point. I'm obvilusly not going to convince you of this because you don't want it to happen, but it will. No one is saying Manchester City have ever been one of the biggest clubs around, but it has always been a lot bigger than loads of opposition fans give them credit for, rightly or wrongly. No idea if there were Madrid fans among City fans last wednesday, but if it were maybe they should have gone to the semi-final last year aswell then, when they as I said had one of the smallest amount of fans in the away-end I have ever seen at the Etihad. Not that I thought that made them a small club of course, they've had their fair share of European semi-finals over the years