It was a pretty surreal feeling, sat glued to my phone at 9.28am hitting refresh and waiting for news.
Today wasn't a match day, but it certainly felt like one.
I can't have been the only one to have had a bit of a restless night.
The butterflies first thing this morning were akin to those you get in the build-up to a season-defining game.
One fan I know compared it to the night before the league derby at the Etihad in 2012.
That might be pushing it a bit.
But the fist pumps and gasps of celebration let out all by all Blues as the news began to filter through on Twitter - and flashed across on the yellow ticker on Sky Sports News - that the two-year ban had been overturned, certainly felt as good as any goal scored this season.
As the case had taken on more significance - beyond the plain issue of whether City would be in Europe next season or not.
City have famously had a love-hate relationship with the Champions League and, to be brutally honest, most hardcore Blues could take or leave it as a competition.
Of course, it is the missing piece in the club's trophy haul and fans do desperately want to win it, regardless of their feelings towards UEFA.
But, ultimately, most see the Premier League as their bread and butter and would have taken it in their stride had the punishment been upheld.
Sure, they would missed their trips abroad to far flung cities to watch the Blues in action (perhaps aside from the now customary annual 1,000 mile round trip to Ukraine to play Shakhtar).
From Dusseldorf to Munich, Rome to Seville, City fans have had some incredible trips over the past nine years with memories to last a lifetime.
With fans being locked out of this season's remaining games, trips like this could have become just that - a memory.
A two-year ban would have had much more far reaching consequences for the club than a few less exotic jaunts for fans.
Most worryingly, it created at least the potential of losing boss Pep Guardiola and possibly even star players like Kevin De Bruyne.
Everything that had been built of the past decade or could well have started to come apart at the seams. So in that sense, there is relief.
But I think most of all, there is a feeling of vindication.
An independent court stating on record that they had unjustly treated by the game's governing body.
And being told they can take their place among the game's elite despite an overwhelming feeling that they are not wanted.
From the moment the ban was announced (at tea time on Valentines Day, cheers UEFA) there have been cries from rival fans, and even some high profile journalists that City were now pariahs and that their achievements over the previous years, moments which Blues hold so dear, were now tainted somehow.
Fans had also come in for criticism for simply questioning the UEFA verdict and believing what the club had said on the matter, who insisted all along they had done nothing wrong and that they would be cleared by an independent body.
The press release from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) today was clear: "Manchester City did not disguise equity funding as sponsorship."
Adding their only crime was failing to co-operate with UEFA's investigation for which they were fined 10 million euros. City said the ruling was a 'validation of the club's position'.
It's fair to say Blues agreed.
Twitter was this morning awash with Blue-tinted Schadenfreude and memes galore. And who could blame them.
"There is something I want to get off my chest" said one supporter who was interviewed live on Sky Sports outside the Etihad.
"For all the people who have defamed our club, and called us cheats, I'd just like to say - DO ONE!"
A typically forthright Manc response, but one which articulates the feelings of many of a blue persuasion today.
