Earliest City match attended by a forum member

[Didsbury Dave]

Obviously City have no history, but what’s the earliest match that any of you were at? Not your dads or granddads, I mean genuine forum members. I’d like to think we have someone that was at the 55/56 cup finals. Do we have any earlier? Surely nobody can claim to have seen us win the league in 1937. Can they?

EDIT: Big Swifty steams into a seemingly unassailable lead on page 14 with the following:

"I was taken to see City's first home League match when the Football League resumed in 1946. City 3 Bury 1 at Maine Road. September 4th, if I remember correctly.

I was quite small at the time, I hasten to add. It was a damp gloomy day, early evening kick-off.

Beat that, youngsters. Still going strong. "

 

[aguero93:20]

@oakiecokie saw our win against Stalybridge Clarence in March 1881.

 

[bluwes]

City v Blackpool April 1959 as a special birthday treat......I was four years old. Only thing I remember was kicking a ball against a wall at the Platt Lane End.Oh and we lost.

 

[oakiecokie]

@oakiecokie saw our win against Stalybridge Clarence in March 1881.

I was the first ball boy in history.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Good thread, i'd be genuinely interested to know the answer to this

 

[JGL07]

My first match attended was the 3-0 home defeat to Blackpool on 4 May 1963.

Bert Trautmann
Bill Leivers
Bobby Kennedy
Alan Oakes
Alf Wood
David Shawcross
Colin Barlow
Peter Dobing
Alex Harley
Matt Gray
David Wagstaffe

https://bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/History/Matches/Match.aspx?id=2475

 

[aguero93:20]

My first match attended was the 3-0 home defeat to Blackpool on 4 May 1963.

Bert Trautmann
Bill Leivers
Bobby Kennedy
Alan Oakes
Alf Woods
David Shawcross
Colin Barlow
Peter Dobing
Alex Harley
Matt Gray
David Wagstaffe

https://bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/History/Matches/Match.aspx?id=2475

Now, now. No looking the team up, that's cheating.

 

[halfmist]

Mine was home to Sheffield United 2-1 win in 1971. No point in posting though if you can’t beat 1963

 

[880125]

First match Rags v City 1956, and we got beat. But that didn't put me off.

 

[JASR]

I was the first ball boy in history.

A year earlier you were the 1st ball girl, as well.

 

[pardoeofftomexico]

My first was certainly not the earliest on here but quite interesting. 2nd May 1960 to see Burnley win the league with a crowd of 65,981. Burnley won 2-1 and won the league by 1 point.

 

[Esteban de la Sexface]

12.30

 

[Alan Oakes Shinpads]

1961 Central League game against Leeds.

Remember nothing about it,according to my Dad I spent most of the game running up and down the Scoreboard End terraces

 

[oakiecokie]

A year earlier you were the 1st ball girl, as well.

Thats only because my nuts hadn`t dropped by then.

 

[chaddblue]

Everton at home in 2005. Kicked off at 11.15

 

[BlueAnorak]

Tuesday March 27th 1968 7:30pm United v City.
It was my cousins birthday we were 6. My uncle who took us was a passionate red.
I detested the atmosphere of hate.
Best scored for United within a minute. Then City took charge. Bell equalised and Heslop and Lee won the game for City. Bell was magnificent throughout, a true thoroughbred.
My cousins birthday was ruined but I became a blue because of Colin Bell.

 

[Indaparkside]

League cup 3rd round 71/72 season v Bolton burnden park lost 3-0 packed to capacity remember getting the bus afterwards very scary for a nipper into Manchester

 

[DRINKLEVEDRY]

I was the first ball boy in history.

I remember first mascot at Wembley oakie I was so jealous,imagine my grief some thirty years later when my daughter tells me her new best friend at school had the surname Todd and yes her dad was called Paul.

 

[Born in Moss Side]

My grandfather took me to my first game in 1949 Frank Swift in goal can’t remember who they played, started going regularly in 1955.

 

[GortonBlue62]

Everton at home in 2005. Kicked off at 11.15

Beat me to it...



... pretty sure the first half was the quietest half of football City ever played.

No wonder they never scheduled any more games at 11:15AM on a Sunday.