A proper discussion...what made you support city?

[citymad]

it was a strange one for me. i lived out in germany as a kid as my step dad was in the army, we lived in dortmund, at the age of 7 myself along with 3 other brits were signed up by borussia dortmund youth where i spent 5 years playing for their youth team. at the age of 12 we moved back to ashton under lyne to live with my gran before moving to dukinfield, in 1994 once i left school and started working there was a lad there who was a mad city fan ( we have been like brothers ever since.) said who do you support my answer was simple it was dortmund, he said what about an english team, i thought for a minute and said well my step dad is a rag but never been that interseted as it broke my heart when we left germany and i had to give up playing for dortmund youth. he said come to a city game so i borrowed a top off him and went to my first city match in 95 i came away at the end of the game with this massive rush of blood inside of me and really felt part of a family, since that day ive been hooked and wouldnt change it for anything in the world.

Great story

 

[citymad]

My mam sent me to bed for something I hadnt done. My eldest brother felt sorry for and took me to the match the day after.That was about 1969 / 70. I was that small I could sit on his shoulders in the Kippax and not block anyones few. First impression was how green the pitch looked. We won 2-1 against a side playing in yellow shirts and blue shorts. To this day I dont know who. The attendance was 52K I think. After that I was always gonna be hooked.

Took my eldest when he was 2 to his first game. Hes 18 this year and been a seasonticket holder for 8 years. Hes hooked as well.

i think it might have been arsenal :o)

Nice story mate. Hope you thanked your Mum for getting it all wrong that night. Could've easily been taken to the dark side.

 

[Fuzzmaster101]

Well I'm actually a midlander from birth right up to the age of 18 when I moved up to Salford to go to University. Up until then I had been a great fan of football watching every televised game I could get to see without ever actually having a team, just loved the game. My Dad was a rugby fan so my team was essentially the Leicester Tigers and also Wales (my Dad's Welsh). But I always supported England in Football.

I had an aversion to United already (funnily enough partly due to Hughes when he took that ridiculous dive in Europe and got the opposition player sent off, I forget which game it was) plus in Leicestershire every class at school had Leicester City, Coventry City, and Forrest fans but at least one sometimes 2 or 3 United ones.

Then on moving to Salford I was surrounded by little shits in Scum shirts swearing at me and pulling up bits of road surface and lobbing them at me "Focking Studonts" they used to shout.

Then I moved in with a housemate who supported City and he got me a ticket to an FA cup match against Leicester City, of all teams, in the 1995/1996 season which we won 5-0. All through the game the City fans were chanting about hating United and I decided there and then City would be my team.

We got relegated that season and then went down to the third tier 2 seasons later but I still didn't waver. I still wore my shirt with pride and told everyone I met I was a City fan and proud. Stuck by City ever since. I, like many fans of City, have never tasted glory and I could have easily started supporting someone else pretending I'd never been a City fan. But City gets under your skin!

So there you have it. Not born a blue, not even born in Manchester, but I live here now and I will be CTID ;)

 

[BurnCK]

I support City because of my Dad. He wanted to be different to his 5 brothers so he chose to support City.
The whole of my family are Reds with the exception of my Dad and I.

I bet thats really interesting when you all get together for xmas. I can imagine you and your dad have had to put up with all kinds of crap over the past 2 decades. No more my friend the tide is slowly turning and I bet you can't wait to see your uncles this year.

Yeah we always get stick, but more so my Dad. Most of his brothers greet him by saying 'Alright ya Blue B@stard'. They just love trying to wind us up.
Last season I was walking down the road and one of my Uncles was driving past...he pulled over next to me just so he could laugh at us getting knocked out of the cup by Brighton...then he drove off, ha.

 

[Return of the Mac]

As a Scot we went on holiday to Blackpool when i was 11 (now 43) and i passed a shop that had a Man City football pennant for sale. Just fell in love with the team including Donnachie and Hartford from that moment that i bought it.

 

[Barry Conlons wig]

family used to live in wansford st, opposite main stand, brother was born there and he then took me when he was old enough to, never ever looked back... i'd rather have my balls cut off than give up on the blue army, I actually think my ma may have dated a player in the early 50's... but shes keeping stum!

 

[supergrover]

As a kid got taken to three games in a week first was county which was ok but nothing to shout about then a so called friend took me to old Trafford when on the way back he made the choice to tell fellow passengers I was a blue because he didn't like the fact I was going to Maine road two days later and from this two blokes kicked the shit out of a kid which was me so that sealed that fate but two days later walking in at the back of the kippax the noise pissed all over that shit two days earlier plus the kippax banter was crazy half were singing funky chicken as a bloke shook a rubber chicken in his hand and the other half singing super grover with a puppet of such on his arm I'll never forget the impact this had on me I thought to myself these f@ckers are nuts I'll fit right in. Not bad considering we come from a family of reds well apart from me and three brothers who are all blue lucky for them they didn't get a choice as I did and you know they love it now.

 

[emilymcfc]

Erm......my uncle bob got my brother into them when he was younger and then I was young and inquisitive so I just used to harass my brother about it all the time. So from about the age of 8 I was a blue, instead of playing with barbie dolls I would sit in the playground and talk about city with the lads. The rest, as they say, is history. Soon as I went to my first game, City vs. Everton at Goodison Park in 1994 (dad wouldn't take me earlier) I never looked back. So I guess I inherited the blue gene =D no regrets!

 

[BrianW]

Blue family - both grandfathers and dad for a start. The overwhelming majority of cousins, with just the odd exception. I come from Gorton originally which was a big blue area.

When I was a kid (about 10) a mate of mine talked me into going to OT for a match, and I did, but I wasn't impressed. I went to City with my dad instead, it was more fun even if we were shit. (And we were shit in those pre-Mercer days. Does anyone remember the fabled Ray Gratrix?)

 

[ali benarbia's studs]

thanks a million bluevengence! great vid.. not only took me back but i ve been watching city fans lose it on you tube( takes me back to uwe in the fa cup in the swamp when we scored first.....) something special seeing/hearing a city fan scream in celebration! enjoy the season, hope to lose it some more!!!!!!!!!!!!