Earliest City match attended by a forum member

August 14th 1971...was given a free entry for Charity Collecting outside prior to the game! Played Leeds and got beat, hey ho...five generations of our lot have followed the Blues...wouldn't have missed any of it, can't believe how far we've travelled, my grandad just wouldn't believe it!
 
March 7 1949.sheff we'd.reserves with my dad.started going regular 1950/51.wembley 1956.beat the reds three times that year..bless em all.bless em all .Bert trautman.dave Ewing.roy paul.bless Roy little who blocks out the wing bless jack jack dysonthe penalty king.and with Leivers and spurdle so tall and Johnstone the princeof them all.three cheers for the light blues there always the right blues .come on the lads
 
Think I went to Burnley away as my first away game with big brother by coach. I’d be 12/13.
Went to Aberdeen for a pre season friendly when I was 13/14.
Also did Juventus away 1976 when I was 15. Still have ferry ticket, match ticket and various bus tickets
 
Barcon said:
I had no idea he was with us that long ago. I remember watching him when I was a nipper and I wasn't even born in 62.
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He was only 15 when he played that evening also started at centre forward,played in lots of different positions in his early days then found his true spot number 3 left back.
 
pardoeofftomexico said:
My first was certainly not the earliest on here but quite interesting. 2nd May 1960 to see Burnley win the league with a crowd of 65,981. Burnley won 2-1 and won the league by 1 point.
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I was on the KIppax for that, but my first was a '55 game v Blackpool and we won, 2-0. My City viewing is suitably bookended - Blackpool '55 and Villa '20!
 
GortonBlue62 said:
Beat me to it...



... pretty sure the first half was the quietest half of football City ever played.

No wonder they never scheduled any more games at 11:15AM on a Sunday.
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Pretty sure there was an 11-00ko v Chelsea around 86ish that was a Saturday
 
xgorton said:
He was only 15 when he played that evening also started at centre forward,played in lots of different positions in his early days then found his true spot number 3 left back.
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I was at that game, an abysmal capitulation resulting in a 4-1 defeat to a not very good Birmingham side. Pardoe played in every position except goal and centre half before Joe and Malcolm slotted him in at left back where he was a resounding success.
 
Spurs at mine road quarters of fa Cup lost 4.2 nayim hatrick phelan scored a length of pitch effort someone run on pitch and ripped season ticket up haha
 
Aw. Tony Doyle that's fantastic. Tear to my eye. I remember 62/63 first game of season City were away at Wolves who were good then. Mam and Dad took us on holiday to Bispham on the Saturday. I was desperate to know the scores so went to Bloomfield road to watch Blackpool reserves v Everton reserves just so I could get the half time scores. I think 3 nil to Wolves at half time. I was late getting back to the boarding house for tea and asked my dad for final score. Lost8-1and therefore got a bloody good clip round the ear from my Dad. I think Frank Ifield was at no1 then. We love you City, we do.
 
First appearance at Maine Rd was for the 1964 Youth Cup semi-final first leg against the rags, we lost 3-4 I think, both of Tommy Doyle's grandads played for City that night. I went to some reserves games after that but didn't get to see a first team game until March 5th 1966, FA Cup 5th round against Leicester, went behind twice but Neil Young scored both equalisers, 56,000 there and that was me hooked for life. (Fuck, that's 54 years on Thursday, where did my life go!!).
 
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