Daft things Dad said about City when you was a kid

[KS55]

My dad, not a football fan, would come home at teatime on a Saturday and say:
"Is it safe?"
He reckoned I was always in a bad temper if we lost.

 

[davyhulme blue]

On the way home after a freezing often miserable Saturday at Maine road he would say “great hot pot for tea tonight son “Miss him like mad he passed away in 06 aged 70 a true blue .

 

[bluealf]

My dad told me bert Trautman bombed old trafford.

The lies they tell us...

We all know it was Uwe Rosler's grandad.

 

[Zabbasbeard]

On our first visit to Maine Road my Dad asked a copper "Where is the Kop?".

The amused copper smiled and told us we were near The Kippax and pointed to the nearest turnstile.

To be fair to my late Dad, he was not from Manchester and had watched most of his football at Wolves in the late 50s/early 60s.

 

[Mancity1980]

I don’t have any anecdotes to add but this is a great thread, I have enjoyed reading every single post.

 

[MCFC_ Phil]

I remember being in the Kippax once v Middlesbrough and one of their fans threw a shite wrapped in cling film into us.

You were lucky it was in cling film

 

[the old abbey]

Bert trautman eat razor blades for breakfast.

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

My dad aged 10 went to the 84,569 6th round game at Maine rd v Stoke in 1934, said he went on his bike, left it leaning on a lamp post on Maine Road unlocked and it was still there when he got back.

 

[NPBlue]

Not my dad, but my mother, bless her, said to me once 'Why do you bother going? You don't seem to enjoy it!'

Late 90's I think, and, well, she was right.

 

[NPBlue]

My dad aged 10 went to the 84,569 6th round game at Maine rd v Stoke in 1934, said he went on his bike, left it leaning on a lamp post on Maine Road unlocked and it was still there when he got back.

My grandfather took my father and Uncle to that game. My father never told me he'd been, but my Uncle told me they had to wait after the game finished then meet up with their father when the crowd had dispersed in a pre-arranged spot.

He said he remembered the amount of blood they had to walk through getting out of the popular side terrace, the Kippax as it became.

He would have been 8 years old at the time.