Favourite first game of the season

[FrankSwift1]

On the way home from watching the game in the pub and starting to think of which was my favourite first game of the season.

Two spring to mind.

V West Ham. First game under Sven. Sunny day, loads of new players. Played well and won. Was such a change from the dross the previous season we'd endured under Pearce.

V Swansea at home. I think three words sum this game up. Sergio Aguero. WOW. The first 2-3 months of that season were special. The first time I'd seen City with a proper decent team, with a chance to win the title. Not fluke a cup win or sneak past the best teams to win something. We could stand up and say we are the best team in the country. This game was start of all that.

If pushed to choose I'd go with the Swansea game. Maybe partly because of what came afterwards.


Anyway so what's your favourite first game?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Blackpool at home in 1998. Loyalty and defiance writ large, from where we are now reaping the rewards; and some.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

August 24, 1966
City (just promoted) 2 Liverpool (champions) 1
Jimmy Murray and Colin Bell scored to give us a memorable start back in div 1.

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

Blackpool at home in 1998. Loyalty and defiance writ large, from where we are now reaping the rewards; and some.

We fans planted our flag that day. I remember it well - it was not an atmosphere of “ooh let’s have a look at what’s going down n this division”. It was defiance, love and loyalty.
I know that sounds melodramatic but to my footballing life, it was an important moment

 

[deano ou812]

Yeah the Swansea game for me and Aguero that 20 min cameo and what was to come,also under Sven starting at West Ham ..oh and last season at West Ham with Erling :-)

 

[Ric]

Definitely West Ham away under Sven. Such a fresh, exciting start after the dour Stuart Pearce era.

 

[youngbob]

West Ham away under Sven. Yeah the takeover wasn't for another year but that was the proper beginning of the revival. That kit, that team, Onuoha's run, months of abject misery and dismal football all over in 90 minutes.

Listened to it on Radio 5 on a beach in Wales and the commentator was describing City playing "flowing, attacking football" and we genuinely thought he was talking about West Ham. What a fantastic day.

Got back to the campsite at 10pm and asked the barman if he could switch the telly over to BBC One so I could watch the highlights and it was everything I could have possibly dreamed of as a 13-year-old lad.

 

[wythenshaweblue£££]

Has to be West Ham under Sven for me it was gorgeous day for football and a real exciting time considering the shit we had watched the season before under Pearce. Watched it in the griffin in didsbury the place was packed what a great day that was.

 

[WestGorton]

Tonight

 

[WNRH]

I loved Blackburn away 09.

Great ground, first game for big money signings Adebayor, Tevez, Barry, Kolo. Felt like we had a proper team with a genuine chance of being good.

The black kit we played in sticks out as well.

It was just an exciting time, the signings, the Umbro kits, even the shitty doves concert a few weeks earlier in the pissing rain, everything just built up to that first game and we didn’t do a typical city, we felt the real deal.

 

[bernard o'silver]

Leicester 1976, took thousands, it was a sweltering hot August day and we drew 2-2 . Joe Royle and Brian Kidd the scorers , never forgotten it as a 15 year old !!!

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

Was Stoke and Trevor Francis not the 1st GOTS? If so that!

 

[AliBobbyJ]

Blackpool at home in 1998. Loyalty and defiance writ large, from where we are now reaping the rewards; and some.

Yes.
Accompanied by the song about what they could do with their Tower, sung again after the last match of that season with "treble" replacing "tower."

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Was Stoke and Trevor Francis not the 1st GOTS? If so that!

No mate. Third game of the season.

 

[Jogon 127]

I loved Blackburn away 09.

Great ground, first game for big money signings Adebayor, Tevez, Barry, Kolo. Felt like we had a proper team with a genuine chance of being good.

The black kit we played in sticks out as well.

It was just an exciting time, the signings, the Umbro kits, even the shitty doves concert a few weeks earlier in the pissing rain, everything just built up to that first game and we didn’t do a typical city, we felt the real deal.

Mad as fuck seeing Adebayor and Tevez, kept thinking someone me was about to wake up from a beautiful dream!

 

[East Level 2]

I'm also going for West Ham, but the 2019-2020 season. Won 5-0 just three months after being at Brighton to see us win the league and even the home fans were commenting about how good we were.

 

[Ray bloody Purchase]

I remember Coventry away when Sammy Mac scored his 1 & only goal for us being a belting day, baking hot on the terrace behind the goal, ….just remember having a bloody good drink and a laugh

 

[Buckshaw Blue]

100% Blackpool home 1998. As someone mentioned earlier, felt like a show of defiance.

 

[Buckshaw Blue]

I loved Blackburn away 09.

Great ground, first game for big money signings Adebayor, Tevez, Barry, Kolo. Felt like we had a proper team with a genuine chance of being good.

The black kit we played in sticks out as well.

It was just an exciting time, the signings, the Umbro kits, even the shitty doves concert a few weeks earlier in the pissing rain, everything just built up to that first game and we didn’t do a typical city, we felt the real deal.

Remember being down the front of the Darwen end getting pissed wet through!

 

[maccieblue]

Was Stoke and Trevor Francis not the 1st GOTS? If so that!

Must admit I thought it was the first game
Cracking day anyway