1st April 1990

City_Shirts said:
ON THIS DAY:

1st April 1990

Following David Platt's opening goal, Mark Ward and Peter Reid would score their first City goals during a 2-1 win at high-flying Aston Villa which saw City win an away top flight match for the first time since January 1986 when goals from Gordon Davies & Mark Lillis beat Spurs 2-0 at White Hart Lane.

The game which featured on Sunday's ITV Big Match saw a brilliant following at Villa Park and although I'd heard it earlier in the season, on the opening day at Anfield, it was the first time I recall Bluemoon being sang so loudly.

The days of mis-match kits also with the away shorts and socks being used with the home shirt.

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I know he always looked older than his years but he looks about 60 in that picture!!
 
We were in the seats along the side. The Evening News printed a picture of Reid putting the ball in the net and me, my brother and my mate Rick were in it! Huge win for us that day.
 
I was 8 and it's the first time I remember watching City live on the TV. I went mental when Peter Reid scored the winner.
 
Georgian Maestro said:
I was 8 and it's the first time I remember watching City live on the TV. I went mental when Peter Reid scored the winner.
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First live tv game I can remember winning, we were not on telly much but they started in the late 80s in div 1 and 2, plus the Liverpool QF an FA Cup finals.

It was a while until we won another TV game even including Sky.
 
I remember that day better than most City fans as me and my brother got arrested during the game stood at the back of the City end behind the goal. WMP stood en masse right behind us and when my brother flicked the V's at Villa was duly carted away, accompanied immediately after by me "for resisting arrest and being drunk and disorderly". Incidentally I hadn't had a drink as I had driven us both down there! We spent the rest of the game and evening in the crowded cells full of City and Villa fans.

Spent thousands on solicitors and barrister fee's and eventually got a caution at our day in Court a little while later. We had to spend the money as we had already booked and paid for an expensive week watching England in Sardinia at the 1990 World Cup a couple of months after and you couldn't travel then if you had any footballing offence.

Exactly 30 years pass (29 years 11 months to be precise) without either of us getting arrested again at a City match, until 1st March 2020 when this time I got arrested again (wrongly again! for "resisting arrest and being drunk and disorderly" again!) in Wembley at the Carabao Cup final against Villa (again!) and City won 2.1 (again!) and I missed the second half (again!). No criminal charges were brought against me at court (correctly again.....thankfully!) after another bout of expensive solicitors fee's (again!).

The things that happen to you when you watch City eh?! All memories now but I'm always cautious when we play Villa!
 
OffertonBlue said:
I remember that day better than most City fans as me and my brother got arrested during the game stood at the back of the City end behind the goal. WMP stood en masse right behind us and when my brother flicked the V's at Villa was duly carted away, accompanied immediately after by me "for resisting arrest and being drunk and disorderly". Incidentally I hadn't had a drink as I had driven us both down there! We spent the rest of the game and evening in the crowded cells full of City and Villa fans.

Spent thousands on solicitors and barrister fee's and eventually got a caution at our day in Court a little while later. We had to spend the money as we had already booked and paid for an expensive week watching England in Sardinia at the 1990 World Cup a couple of months after and you couldn't travel then if you had any footballing offence.

Exactly 30 years pass (29 years 11 months to be precise) without either of us getting arrested again at a City match, until 1st March 2020 when this time I got arrested again (wrongly again! for "resisting arrest and being drunk and disorderly" again!) in Wembley at the Carabao Cup final against Villa (again!) and City won 2.1 (again!) and I missed the second half (again!). No criminal charges were brought against me at court (correctly again.....thankfully!) after another bout of expensive solicitors fee's (again!).

The things that happen to you when you watch City eh?! All memories now but I'm always cautious when we play Villa!
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Will you be at the game on Wednesday night ?
 
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