Fellow FOC's thank you.

[percypawpaw]

Reading this post has made me very emotional, remembering those early days in 1964, standing on the scoreboard end and my dad saying we were a good second division club, loved my dad and wish he was hear to see this, with my brother and my mates who also supported City through thick and thin and are no longer with us, am 66 in January and have loved this Club since my dad first took me, am not just a FOC, I have become a FSC.

 

[give it to gordon]

Right this FOC is being dragged round Tesco and for once even at Christmas I dont care lol.

City top on with my bucket hat lol i look a twat but dont care !!

 

[jrb]

Right! off into the Trafford Centre, City shirt spotting.

 

[Gray]

Not long to go to the 60th anniversary of one of the matches I attended.

A very enjoyable Boxing Day.

 

[paulchapo]

I sometimes think we should thank Thaksin for the take over, not that he deserves any thanks.

Well in a roundabout way it was because of him. Although his period in charge was a bit of a nightmare. I vaguely remember that last game of the season and a car or something being driven onto the pitch, embarrassing.

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

Wow I just want to say thank you to all our fellow FOC's to ones still here and to the ones sadly departed. ( miss you dad )

We stood shoulder to shoulder through the shit times and than the even shitter times.
We had bananas, self mocking songs we turned up in our 10's of thousands for each game, through the Manchester rain. We walked through the dog shit alleys of Maine Road passed the bloke with the 'end of the world is nigh' of the hope of a City win.

We never lost our manc dry humour, yes we demonstrated against Swales but we still turned up.

Even down here in the saff I would see fellow City and we would have a chat, it was a rare thing to see a City fan down saff. That is changing fast !

it was a challenge to keep our off spring as blues but most managed it. Teasing at school etc

It's been worth the journey and I wouldn't change it for the world. The worst we got the stronger my faith in my home town club grew.

City and Oasis kept me going

I just wanted to say thank you to fellow FOC's it's been one fucking journey, now our kids take us to the Etihad as our old and knackered bodies start to slow up.

Thank you FOC's and thank you to our off spring who followed our believe and support for Manchester City the best team and club in all the World.

My ramble is over have a great Christmas blues

You lost me at Oasis but I agree with your overall sentiment. There are a lot of fans out there that helped carry this club up and down the divisions who would never have believed we'd see this day.

I remember getting off the train at Levenshulme station after the play-off final in 1999 at around midnight and this rag came up to me (they'd just won the treble, of course) and congratulated me on our win. Obviously, I told the condescending **** to fuck off and continued happily on my way.

Needless to say, if you told me then that we'd be crowned the best team in the world at the same time they were failing hygiene inspections I wouldn't have believed you (well, perhaps the latter). I wonder what he's thinking now?

What a journey.

 

[bluesteve1964]

I wouldn't change a single thing. Character building memories.
Colin Bells comeback.
Wembley 76
Wembley 81 twice
Alf Fucking Grey
Full Members Cup Final
Arthur Albiston own goal.
David Fucking Pleat
5-1
Oasis at Maine road
Stuart Fucking Pearce
York away
Chesterfield away
Relegated at Stoke
Wemvbley 99
Promoted at Blackburn.

So many people with Fucking as their middle name!!

After all the above it was hard to believe I'd see City play at Barcelona Real Madrid, PSG. Bayern Munich etc..
Turning point for me was beating Utd in semi at Wembley....that was Redemption Day.
Best team in all the land and all the world.

 

[Eccles Blue]

Brilliant post @give it to gordon thank you.

I kept telling you all we were the BEST TEAM IN THE LAND AND ALL THE WORLD. I know that behind your keyboards you laughed at me. Well, you're not laughing at me now. You are laughing with me because we did it. :-)
Now you're gonna believe us, now you're gonna believe us. :-)

 

[spinney]

Wow I just want to say thank you to all our fellow FOC's to ones still here and to the ones sadly departed. ( miss you dad )

We stood shoulder to shoulder through the shit times and than the even shitter times.
We had bananas, self mocking songs we turned up in our 10's of thousands for each game, through the Manchester rain. We walked through the dog shit alleys of Maine Road passed the bloke with the 'end of the world is nigh' of the hope of a City win.

We never lost our manc dry humour, yes we demonstrated against Swales but we still turned up.

Even down here in the saff I would see fellow City and we would have a chat, it was a rare thing to see a City fan down saff. That is changing fast !

it was a challenge to keep our off spring as blues but most managed it. Teasing at school etc

It's been worth the journey and I wouldn't change it for the world. The worst we got the stronger my faith in my home town club grew.

City and Oasis kept me going

I just wanted to say thank you to fellow FOC's it's been one fucking journey, now our kids take us to the Etihad as our old and knackered bodies start to slow up.

Thank you FOC's and thank you to our off spring who followed our believe and support for Manchester City the best team and club in all the World.

My ramble is over have a great Christmas blues

Excellent

 

[blueandwhite]

Wow I just want to say thank you to all our fellow FOC's to ones still here and to the ones sadly departed. ( miss you dad )

We stood shoulder to shoulder through the shit times and than the even shitter times.
We had bananas, self mocking songs we turned up in our 10's of thousands for each game, through the Manchester rain. We walked through the dog shit alleys of Maine Road passed the bloke with the 'end of the world is nigh' of the hope of a City win.

We never lost our manc dry humour, yes we demonstrated against Swales but we still turned up.

Even down here in the saff I would see fellow City and we would have a chat, it was a rare thing to see a City fan down saff. That is changing fast !

it was a challenge to keep our off spring as blues but most managed it. Teasing at school etc

It's been worth the journey and I wouldn't change it for the world. The worst we got the stronger my faith in my home town club grew.

City and Oasis kept me going

I just wanted to say thank you to fellow FOC's it's been one fucking journey, now our kids take us to the Etihad as our old and knackered bodies start to slow up.

Thank you FOC's and thank you to our off spring who followed our believe and support for Manchester City the best team and club in all the World.

My ramble is over have a great Christmas blues

My Mrs just spotted me crying my eyes out at your wonderful post. I went to my first match at Maine Road with my dad too. He sadly passed away in 1998 but I know he’s smiling down on City today. Merry Christmas to all you Blues, and to everyone else.

 

[hinchcliffes bulbous conk]

Ffs, now we’re actually the best team in the land and all the world, we might actually be really here next! Then what.

 

[Chappie]

1961,Come on son,said the old fellow let's go and see Tottenham double winning side play City .
We beat them 6-0,I was hooked.
9 year old Fallowfield lad,used to walk from home to my Grandads on Yew Tree Road,if it was a first team match or reserves,he would take me to Maine Road.
We watched the promotion from the old second division under Mercer/Allison and then winning the first division together before he became ill with cancer,he stayed round long enough to see us beat Leicester in the cup final .
I took over his season ticket in that season and the glory years carried on,winning the league Cup and the cup winners cup.
Wow,this was easy,I thought.
Then the internal politics within the club started and other than fleeting moments we were on a downward spiral, that got worse and worse, culminating in relegation to the old 3rd division .
How much worse,could it get ,well it did,York.
Then something happened, how we don't know and I didn't care,we somehow got to the play off final against Gillingham and we nearly ballsed it up.
The gods were with us and we got through it,and the following year,promotion at Blackburn, we were back.
The ensuing years,were up and down, still financially unstable as a club,Thaskin came and went,but by some sort of miracle, he found us a buyer,a saviour, whatever you want to call him.
The rest they say is history (except we have no history, according to our detractors)
Hughes,Mancini, Pellegrini and now Pep,they have all contributed along the way.
The great players ,who they said were only here for the money but stayed for a decade.
Silva,Aguero, Yaya, Kompany, Tevez to name but a few.
The centurions, I didn't think it could get better, it did.
Little City the butt of all jokes,everyone's second team when we weren't a threat to the big boys,have had the temerity to be crowned the best club side in all the world.
Five trophies in one season, well none of you have done that and probably won't.
To the friends I have made past and present, we lived the dream,we never gave up,as my old friend Tom Ritchie said "never get out of the boat"we are and always will be "City till we die"

 

[superwatsonwatson]

I didn’t want to eat me tea last Saturday after Palace had equalised. A week on and we’re World Champions. This is how it feels…

 

[69FACUPfinal]

You’re welcome! :-)
Hopefully we go on to finish above the Rags now for every single season in our remaining years. That for me would round it all off. What a fucking ride it has been and I wouldn’t change a single second of any of it. Up the Blues!

Hear hear. I salute you for so eloquently expressing my thoughts. As my user name indicates my City interest began with the 69 Cup Final, my early teen years we won trophies. Living without from 76 to 2011 sure made for an interesting,entertaining and desperate experience. And tbh what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, so our wilderness years toughened many of us up. I wouldn't change much - or maybe not!! Get rid of PJ Swales and not sign Rodney Marsh in 72 amongst a few that spring to mind...

 

[69FACUPfinal]

1961,Come on son,said the old fellow let's go and see Tottenham double winning side play City .
We beat them 6-0,I was hooked.
9 year old Fallowfield lad,used to walk from home to my Grandads on Yew Tree Road,if it was a first team match or reserves,he would take me to Maine Road.
We watched the promotion from the old second division under Mercer/Allison and then winning the first division together before he became ill with cancer,he stayed round along enough to see us beat Leicester in the cup final .
I took over his season ticket I that season and the glory years carried on,winning the league Cup and the cup winners cup.
Wow,this was easy,I thought.
Then the internal politics within the club started and other than fleeting moments we were on a downward spiral, that got worse and worse, culminating in relegation to the old 3rd division .
How much worse,could it get well it did,York.
Then something happened, how we don't know and I didn't care,we somehow got to the play off final against Gillingham and we nearly ballsed it up.
The gods were with us and we got through it,and the following year,promotion at Blackburn, we were back.
The ensuing years,were up and down, still financially unstable as a club,Thaskin came and went,but by some sort of miracle, he found us a buyer,a saviour, whatever you want to call him.
The rest they say is history (except we have no history, according to our detractors)
Hughes,Mancini, Pellegrini and now Pep,they have all contributed along the way.
The great players ,who they said were only here for the money but stayed for a decade.
Silva,Aguero, Yaya, Kompany, Tevez to name but a few.
The centurions, I didn't think it could get better, it did.
Little City the butt of all jokes,everyone's second team when we weren't a threat to the big boys,have had the temerity to be crowned the best club side in all the world.
Five trophies in one season, well none of you have done that and probably won't.
To the friends I have made past and present, we lived the dream,we never gave up,as my old friend Tom Ritchie said "never get out of the boat"we are and always will be "City till we die"

I love this x

 

[Gordyola]

Well said old man If the Sheikh hadn't happened then we know, now, that it would have been touch and go as to the club's survival
What we do know is that the fans would have stood with the club in fact being a Mancunians our backing would have become stronger

 

[GaudinoMotors]

1961,Come on son,said the old fellow let's go and see Tottenham double winning side play City .
We beat them 6-0,I was hooked.
9 year old Fallowfield lad,used to walk from home to my Grandads on Yew Tree Road,if it was a first team match or reserves,he would take me to Maine Road.
We watched the promotion from the old second division under Mercer/Allison and then winning the first division together before he became ill with cancer,he stayed round along enough to see us beat Leicester in the cup final .
I took over his season ticket I that season and the glory years carried on,winning the league Cup and the cup winners cup.
Wow,this was easy,I thought.
Then the internal politics within the club started and other than fleeting moments we were on a downward spiral, that got worse and worse, culminating in relegation to the old 3rd division .
How much worse,could it get well it did,York.
Then something happened, how we don't know and I didn't care,we somehow got to the play off final against Gillingham and we nearly ballsed it up.
The gods were with us and we got through it,and the following year,promotion at Blackburn, we were back.
The ensuing years,were up and down, still financially unstable as a club,Thaskin came and went,but by some sort of miracle, he found us a buyer,a saviour, whatever you want to call him.
The rest they say is history (except we have no history, according to our detractors)
Hughes,Mancini, Pellegrini and now Pep,they have all contributed along the way.
The great players ,who they said were only here for the money but stayed for a decade.
Silva,Aguero, Yaya, Kompany, Tevez to name but a few.
The centurions, I didn't think it could get better, it did.
Little City the butt of all jokes,everyone's second team when we weren't a threat to the big boys,have had the temerity to be crowned the best club side in all the world.
Five trophies in one season, well none of you have done that and probably won't.
To the friends I have made past and present, we lived the dream,we never gave up,as my old friend Tom Ritchie said "never get out of the boat"we are and always will be "City till we die"

Put this in the next Match Programme!

 

[mscenterh750]

Yeah but according to Robbie Savage there were only 3000 of us at Home to Mansfield in 1998 in the AW Cup. Never mind the 30,000 who turned up to most league games or the 40,000 + who went to Wembley that season.

Yeah but Robbie Savages has got a little dick and that’s a fact.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Ffs, now we’re actually the best team in the land and all the world, we might actually be really here next! Then what.

We'll win at home and away and be sober?

 

[mscenterh750]

Wow I just want to say thank you to all our fellow FOC's to ones still here and to the ones sadly departed. ( miss you dad )

We stood shoulder to shoulder through the shit times and than the even shitter times.
We had bananas, self mocking songs we turned up in our 10's of thousands for each game, through the Manchester rain. We walked through the dog shit alleys of Maine Road passed the bloke with the 'end of the world is nigh' of the hope of a City win.

We never lost our manc dry humour, yes we demonstrated against Swales but we still turned up.

Even down here in the saff I would see fellow City and we would have a chat, it was a rare thing to see a City fan down saff. That is changing fast !

it was a challenge to keep our off spring as blues but most managed it. Teasing at school etc

It's been worth the journey and I wouldn't change it for the world. The worst we got the stronger my faith in my home town club grew.

City and Oasis kept me going

I just wanted to say thank you to fellow FOC's it's been one fucking journey, now our kids take us to the Etihad as our old and knackered bodies start to slow up.

Thank you FOC's and thank you to our off spring who followed our believe and support for Manchester City the best team and club in all the World.

My ramble is over have a great Christmas blues

Amen to all of that my friend. It’s been a rollercoaster since my first ever game in 1982 (which I actually fell asleep at) and my word us old fuckers (I’m 50 next month) deserve this and it makes it all the better sharing these moments with my parents who are still here to enjoy these times too. I’m so sorry for any blues whose loved ones are no longer with us to share these magical times with us but I’m sure they’re all looking down on us from heaven with smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes knowing we are in a moment of sheer wonder courtesy of our owners, manager and players.

CITY CITY CITY CITY CITY CITY!!!!!!!!