Earliest City match attended by a forum member

Boxing Day 1964 v Bury 0:0 memory is the crowd protesting about Dave Wagstaff being sold
 
BillCarlisle Ex-Manchester said:
29th April 1959. City 3 Leicester 1. Joe Hayes equalised, and Billy McAdams & Ray Sambrook scored the others. Last game of the season and City had to win to stay in the old Div 1. A night I'll never forget - as a young lad the sheer size of Maine Road under the lights was something else and the crowd was deafening. A road map for my life was written that night. I was hooked.
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I remember that night. We had to wait for the score from the bloke who put the scores up for the full time result between villa and WBA
 
JGL07 said:
My first match attended was the 3-0 home defeat to Blackpool on 4 May 1963.

Bert Trautmann
Bill Leivers
Bobby Kennedy
Alan Oakes
Alf Wood
David Shawcross
Colin Barlow
Peter Dobing
Alex Harley
Matt Gray
David Wagstaffe

https://bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/History/Matches/Match.aspx?id=2475
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Some great names in their, obviously Bert, Waggy was very good, disappointed when he went, Alex Harley terrific goalscorer but only briefly with us, Alan Oakes, Nelly Young would have been around too
 
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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 remember that (well, I remember that I was there). Sat on the slope of the wall over one of the Kippax tunnels.

Gordyola said:
Boxing Day 1964 v Bury 0:0 memory is the crowd protesting about Dave Wagstaff being sold
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If that's the game I'm thinking of, no-one even knew why he wasn't playing!

Anyway, 14 March 1959 - City 5 Newcastle 1 Years later someone later gave me the programme - next to Joe Hayes' name they'd written "tomato face"!
 
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blueyorkie said:
Some great names in their, obviously Bert, Waggy was very good, disappointed when he went, Alex Harley terrific goalscorer but only briefly with us, Alan Oakes, Nelly Young would have been around too
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Neil would normally have played at 7 in those days.

Harley was an enigma, He was great at City but did nothing at other clubs. He jumped ship to Birmingham City after City were relegated but only lasted one season before moving to Dundee with brief spells at Portadown and Cape Town. He was working in a hotel in Birmingham when he died aged 33.

Wagstaffe was my favourite City player. A few years later, as usual we went down to Shropshire at my Grandparents for Christmas. I decided to get the bus to watch the Wolves match on Boxing Day. I arrived a the stadium as they introduced their new signing: David Wagstaffe. I was gutted! Imagine the City team in 1967-68 with Wagstaffe at number 11 instead of Coleman?
 
1957 a home match. I`ve
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who we were playing, I was 4 years old
 
We’ve still got a reserve game and an unidentified game, both in 1949, and nobody who went to the 1955 or 1956 finals.
 
JGL07 said:
My first match attended was the 3-0 home defeat to Blackpool on 4 May 1963.

Bert Trautmann
Bill Leivers
Bobby Kennedy
Alan Oakes
Alf Wood
David Shawcross
Colin Barlow
Peter Dobing
Alex Harley
Matt Gray
David Wagstaffe

https://bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/History/Matches/Match.aspx?id=2475
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I remember my first ever away game was just a few days before that at Blackburn, night match told my mother I was off to Maine road me and my mate got on a train didn't get back till after midnight both aged 11,big trouble when we got back police out looking for us.Silly thing to do but we we're just kids and loved City.
 
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