Earliest City match attended by a forum member

langy[wales] said:
Spurs at mine road quarters of fa Cup lost 4.2 nayim hatrick phelan scored a length of pitch effort someone run on pitch and ripped season ticket up haha
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I think it was more like four hundred plus people and the last thing on their mind was season tickets
 
Earliest I remember is 1969 home Derby with Grandad who had started his supporting at Hyde Road
 
My first game was a 2-2 draw with Forest in 1972. But I did meet a random old fella on a train back from Millwall in 1988 who’d been at the 1934 game against Stoke. He told me they were fighting to get out of the Kippax because it was that packed.
 
mcfcinprague said:
15 September 1962 v the scum at the toilet. We won 3-2
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My first derby game at OT. Alex Harley scored the winner right at the death, breaking away to score with what seemed like the whole Red Filth squad chasing after him.. when he planted it in the net The Old Man shouted at me ‘Look at Bert!’ as Trautmann did forward rolls in celebration on the edge of the box! Walking back to Hulme that day was like floating on air!

Said on here elsewhere, my first game at Maine Road was three years earlier, September 1959. We put four past then champions Wolves but they replied with six into Bert’s net! I was introduced to ‘Typical City’ from the off..! And by the way, whenever I bore on with the kids/nephews/nieces and so on about that first game, they often respond ‘What? Wolves have been champions?!’ Modern life, eh? Sometimes it’s rubbish..
 
29th April 1959. City 3 Leicester 1. Joe Hayes equalised, and Billy McAdams & Ray Sambrook scored the others. Last game of the season and City had to win to stay in the old Div 1. A night I'll never forget - as a young lad the sheer size of Maine Road under the lights was something else and the crowd was deafening. A road map for my life was written that night. I was hooked.
 
So far we’ve got two posters who went in 1949 which is earlier than I expected.

Did anyone attend the 1955 or 56 cup finals?
 
lancs blue said:
First appearance at Maine Rd was for the 1964 Youth Cup semi-final first leg against the rags, we lost 3-4 I think, both of Phil Foden's grandads played for City that night. I went to some reserves games after that but didn't get to see a first team game until March 5th 1966, FA Cup 5th round against Leicester, went behind twice but Neil Young scored both equalisers, 56,000 there and that was me hooked for life. (Fuck, that's 54 years on Thursday, where did my life go!!).
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Tommy Doyle you mean pal?
 
xgorton said:
He was only 15 when he played that evening also started at centre forward,played in lots of different positions in his early days then found his true spot number 3 left back.
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Cheers mate. I feel privileged to have seen him and the rest of the boys when I was a kid. I'm 56 now (I think) and would have 1st went when I was around 6.
 
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