Daft things Dad said about City when you was a kid

[Harlaching Sky Blue]

Just a thought, I was thinking about some of the stupid things my old man said about City when I was young that I believed, interpreted or understood daftly.
Im sure Im not alone, and some of youse will have had similar experiences of your ancestors, exaggerating, truth twisting or down right bloody lying about the Blues! Thought itd be fun to share the stories, either of their porky pies or the bonkers way we dealt with them..

My old man used to tell me to take my boots in case City were short I might get a game. He told me that they used to pick players out of the crowd to play if someone got injured. I took my boots to every game until I was about 9 and then realized it was rubbish.

The also told me the groundsmen used to stick the forks in the pitch at half time to make divets that the opposition would trip over!

Also I remember he told me when Bert broke his neck, I actually thought Bert´s neck had completely snapped off. I had a vision until I was about 6 of him playing in net, with his head under his arm!

Any more.

 

[JGL07]

My dad came from Shropshire and was a Wolves fan. The old Walsall Ground (Fellows Park) originally had no fans behind one goal because the bakery(?) that owned the land refused to sell. My dad told me that the goal posts were painted on the wall at that end.

 

[Whether or not]

My Dad was a red, he constantly said City were shit and I should come with him to the swamp. He was still saying it up to his passing when I was 32. He was persistent I suppose.

 

[Odd socks]

Son's first day in school "dad all kids will take the piss of my man city school back pack".

23 year's later - now who's fuxxing laughing.

 

[manclad]

My Dad( who is 95 yo in 2 weeks time) used to say -
"There's always next season".
Usually after another disappointing defeat at Maine Road.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

My dad used to say when he took us to the match "If you don't behave, I'll bring you again next week". It amused him anyway.

 

[the blue panther]

My dad was a blue and he played for Manchester boys in the late 30's and he used to always say to me and my brothers,"...I'd have played for City, bar for't war...."
He regaled us with tales about old players, and Trautmann and Frank Swift in particular - saying how Centre Forwards would tremble in fear when Swiftey came out to the end of the box to meet them, and he used to say that Swift's hands were as big as frying pans.
Happy days. He died in 1989 - lucky old sod - he didn't have to see the following thirty years of shite that me and my brothers put up with, thanks to him!
What a bastard, hey!!
Not :-)

 

[hateutd]

My old man RIP, was a Liverpool fanatic .... I had some really bad teenage years in 80's.... :)

 

[Leveblue]

After asking my dad whether the then Poyser's shop in Levenshulme was the same George Poyser who was the City manager at the time.
Cue great hilarity and the comment "it might as well be".

 

[JohnBlotto]

From the other end of the telescope: City v Blackpool in 2010 around Christmas, charity collection in a tin going on as we walked up to the Etihad. A wee lad says "Ey Dad, is that for the City players' wages?"