Earliest City match attended by a forum member

Big Swifty said:
Went to Bloomfield Road October 4th 1947. A beautiful sunny early autumn day

Got the Finglands coach (anyone remember them?) from near Birch Villa in Rusholme with dad & elder brother. Blackpool were crack team in those days, Matthews and Mortensen et al. We drew 1-1, think Morty scored for them. The rest of the game has disappeared from my memory, apart from the tannoy playing Glenn Miller's American Patrol as the crowd was leaving at full time. Strange selective thing, the memory. If I heard the tune again, I'd go back in time to Bloomfield Road on that sunny day.

I love this thread. I could dredge up some more old memories, but I won't bore you any more than I already have.
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Went to a few aways with my dad swifty in the sixties hackets sharrar.
 
Big Swifty said:
Went to Bloomfield Road October 4th 1947. A beautiful sunny early autumn day

Got the Finglands coach (anyone remember them?) from near Birch Villa in Rusholme with dad & elder brother. Blackpool were crack team in those days, Matthews and Mortensen et al. We drew 1-1, think Morty scored for them. The rest of the game has disappeared from my memory, apart from the tannoy playing Glenn Miller's American Patrol as the crowd was leaving at full time. Strange selective thing, the memory. If I heard the tune again, I'd go back in time to Bloomfield Road on that sunny day.

I love this thread. I could dredge up some more old memories, but I won't bore you any more than I already have.
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Keep them coming mate.
My first game didn't arrive until April 1971 (1-1 v Chelsea), but
I''m sure I'm not the only one who loves reading the stories from the 40s, 50s, and early 60s, particularly the away games.
 
Southampton home 1978, got a tour of the stadium before the game and remember seeing Paul Power in his pants having a massage before the game.
 
I remember Finglands coaches . They were the official coach transport for City for many years. If you look on Pathe news Football you will see them returning home with the team and cup in 1934 and 1956. I think their coaches were coloured yellow and orange and based on corner of Dickenson and Wilmslow road.
 
Funny enough i can not remember the first ever Game i was that young.

I was sat on the Wall of the Kippax as a toddler with my legs through the railings in the 70s,as all us kids did back then.

A substitution was made the name "Keegan" came up on the old electronic scoreboard (for us).I turned to my Uncle and asked if it was Kevin Keegan. All the Blues near by were pissing them selves.

I was really young.:-)
 
Did anyone else go the Junior Blues Christmas parties at the Social Club every year ?

Get a free Football in a Box.

Loved that side of our Club.
 
I think it was around 1981 - I was 6 and I think it was Spurs but Im not quite sure....I think I was in the Platt Lane end Corner of the Kippax which was weird as every other game that I attended with my dad and grandad once i started going regualrly we were alwasy in the North Stand end of the Kippax (not the corner section but the main stand near the top of the staris - I used to sit ona. wall so i could see over everyone - got a cold arse every week!
 
Slightly off topic, but something that occurred to me whilst visiting my elderly mother in Whaley Bridge.

My dad dragged her to the 0-0 v Bury in 64-65 when Colin Bell was playing for the opposition. She hated every minute, but almost 50 years later, insisted on being taken to a 2nd game (FA Cup Tie v Watford in January 2013).

She therefore qualifies as somebody who was present in the really dark days of George Poyser, but also a JCL with a pensioner crush on Roberto Mancini.
 
I'd be surprised if there's a bigger gap between games on here.

Sid's post reminds me of the Junior Blues. Did other clubs have anything similar. Remember it as being a huge network across Greater Manchester which loads of us must have been involved with
 
earliest i can remember, is my dad taking me to a reserve game on a saturday when they played at the same time as the first team who were away, its only a vague memory though think it maybe a stoke or sunderland but not sure, i do remember thinking wow this is big

first match i definitely remember is city 0 liverpool 3 in 1976
 
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