What is the daftest thing you've seen at a City match?

Kippax Street 1880 said:
That balloon goal at Bramhall Lane in the cup was pretty fucking daft. Tal Ben Haim is a strong contender aswell.
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Slightly off topic but one of my favourite memories going to the football with my dad was about Tal Ben Haim.

Around 30 minutes into his debut my dad quipped " that Ben Haim lad looks Kosher" around 6-7 blues around us including me just cracked up with laughter!!

I miss going with my dad so much
 
I have a very vague recollection of martin margetson playing right wing in a game at maine road anyone else remember that?.....dont think he lasted long coz he was just as bad outfield as he was in net. It must've been a cup game although I did used to go watching the reserve games as a kid so maybe it was in a reserve game can't remember but im sure it happened & wasn't a dream.
 
Bluekiwi said:
Cannot remember the date (1960s) but we were at home (Maine Road) to Spurs. Joe Corrigan cleared the ball from the corner of his penalty area and trotted back to his goal with his back to the play. I think the ball landed in the centre circle where Alan Gilzean (sic) was standing, and he volleyed it into Joe's net - the expression on Joe's face was "where the hell did that come from?" as he retrieved the ball from his net. If I remember correctly Joe went on loan to Shrewsbury soon after that.
Please correct me if my memory has played tricks with any detail.
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It was v West Ham and Ronnie Boyce scored. We lost 5-1 but won the away game 4-0!! It was Jimmy Greaves' debut for West Ham and he scored a couple IIRC.
 
Not exactly during a match, but a drunk City fan chasing me around a car outside the main stand Maine Road, after a televised 1-1 draw in the derby (Mick McCarthy scored the equaliser with a header). It had kicked off after the game and a drunken clown saw my red and black badge (it was the away kit one) and decided I was a rag. He came at me swinging. I managed to avoid his first attempts at hitting me, then he wouldn't quit and started chasing me. I kept shouting "I'm a blue" but he was so drunk he wouldn't listen. A copper showed up on a horse and started chasing him with a baton in hand. I was 15 years old and never wore that badge again.
 
Last game of the season, need to beat Middlesbrough to qualify for Europe, the whole stadium a mass of sky blue and the team come out in some weird all black strip and spend half the game passing to the referee. The later craziness with James as a striker and Blobby missing the penalty overshadows the memory of the game being very odd from the start
 
Friendly against Feyenoord at Maine Road back in 1994 at a guess. Peter Beagrie picks the ball up on the left flank and starts running at his man. Then there’s a cracking over lap by some guy in a City shirt with jeans on, for a split second Beagrie noticed him and was going to pass the ball to him. Game stopped and said blue is being chased round the pitch by the stewards.

Also who remembers the streaker during the City v Oldham game back in 1999. We lost shite game but some guy runs on stark bollock naked when Nicky Weaver is about to take a goal kick. Slots it beautifully into the bottom corner of the goal at the North Stand and then proceeded to avoid the stewards for a good few minutes running towards the corner of the Kippax and the Platt Lane End.

Final one who remembers when Bruce Grobbelaar was up to his dodgy match fixing and he had an absolute stinker for Southampton in a game that ended up 3-3 at Maine Road. There was a guy in the Platt Lane taunting him with a rubber chicken.
 
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BamberBridgeBlue said:
The huge guy that used to come into The Kippax when I was a kid. It was always like a parting of the waves. He’d stand near us and then fart. Unfortunately I was arse level at the time. I appreciate you cannot see a fart, but I swear on some occasions there was a brown haze. Makes me gip thinking about it even now.
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Think you mean "Tiny" aka "The Galleon",Big unit he was.
 
laserblue said:
I used to sit near him and as I'm sure it was a real chicken.
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It was. That's actually what I remembered but I thought that my memory was playing tricks but others have commented too. All I remember is the fans singing "Chicken is a City fan".

Pretty sure it was the Asda one with giblets rather than a live rooster.
 
Further to the comment about Bruce Grobbelaar's alleged taking bribes re match fixing for Asian syndicates. The following chant rang out loud and clear from the stands to the tune of My old man's a dustman.

Grobbelaar is dodgy - he wears a dodgy hat.
And when they flashed the thirty grand
The **** said "I'll have that."





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