Most treasured bits of City memorabilia

I have the Mars Bar bag from the last game at Maine Road, and thanks to my dad, the newspapers from our FA Cup successes including 1934, and a signed photo of he entire 'Revie Plan' squad....oh, and the Gornik programme, complete with my childish scribblings.
 
Won a competition on City’s website and received a signed Zabba shirt. My lads got it professionally framed for my 40th birthday present. 16 years later it's still Mt pride and joy. CTID
 
brianireland said:
Saturday 28th February 1976
The football league cup final Wembley Stadium Kick off 3.30
I have kept the official souvenir programme that was all of twenty pence at the time.
So I took it out of its bag tonight to have a read of it as its been locked away a long time.
I hope to have a photo of the cover up some time but for those of you who may have never seen it before. The cover shows Manchester City football team in Main Road.
While the Newcastle football team seem to be in a field of mud on some housing estate and they all look like they are freezing their nuts off.
City’s team as stated in the programme

1 Joe Corrigan
2 Gerard Keegan
3 Willie Donachie
4 Mike Doyle (cap)
5 Dave Watson
6 Alan Clark
7 Peter Barnes
8 Tommy Booth
9 Joe Royal
10 Asa Hartford
11 Dennis Tueart
The sub Ken Clements
Manager Tony Book

The road they took
Norwich City away 1-1
Norwich City home 2-2
Norwich 2nd replay 6-1
Third round
Nottingham forest home 2-1
Man Utd home 4-1
Fifth round
Mansfield town home 4-2
Semi final
Middlesborough away 0-1
Semi final
Middlesborough home 4-0

Price city forked out for players back then.
Dave Watson bought from Sunderland (275,000)
Kenny Clements started life as the assistant Grounds man
Alan Oakes was the longest serving player been there since 1958
Peter Barns was the son of former player (left back Ken Barns)
Collin Bell signed from Bury (45,000 in march 1966) best 45 K city ever spent
Probably wouldn’t cover the price of the bulbs in the floodlights now.
Joe Royal signed from Everton for 200,000
Asa Hartford signed from W.B.A for 250,000 August 1974
Dennis Tueart moved from Roker Park 275000 in March 1974
Tommy Booth was it seems he was born in the dressing room.


I don’t know if that information will bore the crap out of you. Its kind of a bit hard to believe that a team of such quality player’s back then was the last bit of glory that came to the City club. was on Saturday 28th 1976.
Football has changed so much from then and some say the game has gotten better.
Some say and I just happen to agree that the players of today are over protected and some of the rules regarding how one can tackle and win a ball cleanly only lends itself to the divers of the game. Maybe and I say this with hand on heart but there was a time that football was considered a contact sport.

So that programme from Manchester City V Newcastle United in my most treasured bit of City memorabilia. It was all of Twenty pence. I wonder what it would be worth today. But its value is more than monetary it’s a little bit of history of the football club I have supported for so many years and it would be just great to have the Manchester City football team photo grace the equivalent programme this season.
Its been far to long missing.
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I have the same One.
I see Dennis Tueart quite often who lives near my boss, I keep meaning to ask him if he’d sign it for me.
 
I've been lucky enough to get hold of a few decent items over the past few years.

The 2011/2012 team photo on the field with the Prem Lge autographed by all the players - I was lucky enough to have a contact at the Town Hall who got it signed before the parade/event after we won the league. I've also got a 3 photo montage from 2019 of Pep with each of the League, FA Cup and League Cup trophies autographed by Pep - that cost me a bit but was worth it, and finally my last big purchase was an autographed photo of John Stones with the European Cup that I'm about to get framed with a photo of my match ticket, and pic of me and my 2 sons after the match in the Ataturk which will be my pride and joy.

I also know a top Blue who has an old programme autographed by all the 68 League Winning side including the holy grail Tony Coleman autograph. Gary James has had a look at it and confirmed its authenticity as well - a real collectors item. I believe he may donate it to the club if we ever do build a museum as that is a real rare item.
 
theholysmurf said:
Might be worth posting here, just seen City’s website is selling the Treble Home kit with the box for 25 quid in XXL and XXXL - seems to be all that’s left.

Might be worth it for the memorabilia alone.
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Is it possible to post a link of the home kit in a box £25. I can't find it.
 
TheGhost said:
I’ve got an unused one - I bet there’s not many of them
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have one of them too, funny story as York gave us 3 sides of the ground , we were in main stand and as we got off minibus rest of lads went in ground while i bought a programme, minutes later saw all lads outside the ground who had already used their tickets to get in but were told toilets were outside the ground, steward just let them all back in and i walked in too so have retained my full unused ticket
 
My seat from Maine Road is bolted to the back of the house and quite nice to sit in when the sun’s out.

A huge sign for Kippax GG Lower I bought in the Maine Road auction is on the wall at the top of my stairs. I do sometimes touch it for luck.
 
CoventryBlue said:
Nick L introduced them
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I don't know what that means, is he something to do with Prince Andrew and Epstein, or something like that?

I was only kidding about implying anything dodgy going on.

The girl I kinds knew said that she was the daughter of somebody high up in Brazilian something or other...
royalty?
politics?
some sort of cultural celebrity or other?
no idea, can't remember.

Thought it was all bullshit at the time.

But apparently they'd all get together at weekends and got for food and stuff and generally look after each other whilst being on the other side of the world. Like I said, I thought it was all shit-chat to impress people, but maybe it wasn't.

Nice friendly girl from memory, possibly 1 of only 2 people I've ever met from that continent who hasn't been absolutely batshit mental. They do like to feed off their emotions that South American lot, especially the women, who generally have the temperament of children in my experience.
 
Not exactly officially memorabilia, but about six months after we left Maine Road and it was still a demolition site, my dad drove me down there just to have a look.

A young lad in a hard hat and hi-vis came out from behind a fence and asked what we were doing. My dad just said we'd come to see what the place looked like now. The young lad went, "Alright, fair enough, want to come in?"

So me and my dad were there, standing in the rubble of Maine Road, video recording everything. As we were leaving, my dad picked up a couple of flakes of blue paint and a bits of broken concrete. We've kept them ever since.

Edited the footage we shot into a video here (below). If you skip to 4:19 you'll see the footage my dad grabbed.

 
youngbob said:
Not exactly officially memorabilia, but about six months after we left Maine Road and it was still a demolition site, my dad drove me down there just to have a look.

A young lad in a hard hat and hi-vis came out from behind a fence and asked what we were doing. My dad just said we'd come to see what the place looked like now. The young lad went, "Alright, fair enough, want to come in?"

So me and my dad were there, standing in the rubble of Maine Road, video recording everything. As we were leaving, my dad picked up a couple of flakes of blue paint and a bits of broken concrete. We've kept them ever since.

Edited the footage we shot into a video here (below). If you skip to 4:19 you'll see the footage my dad grabbed.

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Last 20 seconds is soul destroying, thinking that the rags wanted funding to keep their swamp in place after a new build as a shrine of culture sort of sticks in my throat.
 
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