as time goes by

[Rickaccurate]

Carlos....
He was due to leave.....
Wonder how it would look with him now
32 & 16 ?

 

[BlueAnorak]

Mine is undoubtedly the return of Colin Bell as substitute on Boxing Day 1977 for City (4) v Newcastle Utd (0)...
It was 0-0 When City's physio Roy Bailey displayed the number 6 card to take of teh obviously injured Paul Power, on came the City sub one Colin Bell...
For around 30 mins the crowd sang the whole Colin Bell song book: ""Well drink a drink a drink to Colin the King the King the King for he's the greatest inside forward that the world has ever seen"...+ " & Number 1 is Colin Bell, and Number 2 is Colin Bell, and number 3 is Colin Bell..... And Number 11 is Colin Bell" (repeat ad nauseum). We slaughtered them.
4 goals later and Newcastle were blown away (2 from Tueart).
Bell still had the vision and heading and tackling abilities but the pace had gone. And sure enough after 27 further games often as sub he hung his boots up. It is hard for the youngsters of today to imagine how good Colin was but combine the best abilities of Yaya and Kompany and you just about have it.

 

[BlueNirvana]

Don't know how you lot remember your first games. all i know i was 4 or 5 so 74,75. Dad use to take us to about 2 or 3 games a season, one over christmas and one around my brothers birhtday in march. Even when i bought my first half a season ticket of a mates mate in 85 i dont remember the first game i went to with my mates.

Just call me goldfish :)

 

[urmston]

Dave Watson's og v Liverpool always haunts me at this time of year.

 

[Bill]

my brother called today. he's 65. he was telling me that his son, 22 was moaning at him for not taking him to city till he was 11. the lad had shown no interest till then. i reminded our kid that i too was 11 when he had taken me to my first game. nothing to do with being keen we just didn't have 2 ha'pennies to rub togrther. my brother got a job and this my treat out of his wage. from that day i was hooked and my poor parents had to take me all over watching the blues. couldn't do many ways back then but my dad tried his best bless him.

My dad took me to my first city game, Derby home, 1976. And then he kept taking me.

Tonight we had a family 'do' and me and my dad had a good half hour talking City together. He got my lads new purple city shirts which they ran around in all night. Tomorrow I'm taking the boys who are city daft. They can't wait and neither can I. And neither can their grandad.

It's a wonderful bond between father and son: City have kept me and my dad close all of our lives. That's something pretty special and I know I am passing that on to my boys.

great post mate. drink your dad in, my dad fell ill and was more or less housebound. we all accepted it but after a while i said fuck this you are going to city. so off we trudled in a black cab down to the new stadium. it was only the once but he loved it. it was the very least i could do after what i'd put him through as a boy. poor bugger must have been well peppered. he's gone now of course but i now carry on his passion for the blues and my lad is worse than me. the blues are in safe hands.

 

[BlueRockape]

Don't know how you lot remember your first games. all i know i was 4 or 5 so 74,75. Dad use to take us to about 2 or 3 games a season, one over christmas and one around my brothers birhtday in march. Even when i bought my first half a season ticket of a mates mate in 85 i dont remember the first game i went to with my mates.

Just call me goldfish :)

Same as, went to my first game in 63 can't remember a damb thing except running round the plat lane. The first game I really remember is Southampton 67 (I think) The king scored two :-)

 

[xgorton]

Don't know how you lot remember your first games. all i know i was 4 or 5 so 74,75. Dad use to take us to about 2 or 3 games a season, one over christmas and one around my brothers birhtday in march. Even when i bought my first half a season ticket of a mates mate in 85 i dont remember the first game i went to with my mates.

Just call me goldfish :)

Same as, went to my first game in 63 can't remember a damb thing except running round the plat lane. The first game I really remember is Southampton 67 (I think) The king scored two :-)

Yes Bell 2 Young 2 we won 4-2,August 67.

 

[BlueRockape]

Don't know how you lot remember your first games. all i know i was 4 or 5 so 74,75. Dad use to take us to about 2 or 3 games a season, one over christmas and one around my brothers birhtday in march. Even when i bought my first half a season ticket of a mates mate in 85 i dont remember the first game i went to with my mates.

Just call me goldfish :)

Same as, went to my first game in 63 can't remember a damb thing except running round the plat lane. The first game I really remember is Southampton 67 (I think) The king scored two :-)

Yes Bell 2 Young 2 we won 4-2,August 67.

That's the one
The following season was my first in the Kippax on my own woohoo

 

[holty41]

1948 derby at home

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

First match for me is us against Coventry, January 68. The weird thing though is that I don't remember it. I've still got the match day programme (and nobody bought it for me). The match that I best remember from that first year is the derby, at home. I think it was one of the few times that I sat in the Platt Lane end. The crowd singing "Tony, Tony Coleman, ooh ooh!"
Anyway, back on track: Roberto is and always will be one of the legends of this club. Sometimes a difficult man, but an iron will to win. Still watch that return derby in April as much as the demolition and the final game of the season. Mancini and the lads were just not having anything other than the three points that night.

Disturbed to notice from the History section on the forum that according to it, Tony Coleman played no part in that derby. Now I'm prepared to put my hand on my heart and swear that Coleman played in that one, and that the History section is wrong. Anybody else at that one and prepared to back me up?