Funny things at a City game / City fans have done

[MCFC BOB]

The 5-1 drubbing was in the season we finished 9th. ;)

Two totally seperate games Bob. The game the OP is talking about was a midweek home game under Joe Royle. The 1-5 was as you rightly point out the final season at Maine Road under Keegan when we did as you state finish 9th. However the game in quastion was during our disappointing Premiership season with Royle in charge.

I was only 5 then, I dont remember anything from that season.

 

[gagiesotherhalf]

Here's a photo I found earlier; from a wet Tuesday night at Wycombe Wanderers away.
The lady in the photo is my good friend Debra, aka MCFC Bird.
She broke her arm having taken 1 step off the coach at the ground; fell slap bang on the deck on some ice. I took her to the St John's Ambulance who patched her up and insisted she went to hospital.
"Fuck that" she says...having endured the trip there anyway, "I'm watching the game!"
She then made it all the way through and all the way home...until 2.30am she took herself to Wythenshawe Hospital and then...only then..passed out with the pain and shock!
Now that's dedication! haha!

 

[piffy on a rock bun]

One of my earliest memories of watching city was in the old platt lane, climbing up its what seemed like very high stairs at the back & sitting on the great long wooden bench seats looking accross the huge green pitch to the open scoreboard end.
I think we were playing west brom & they had a real nut case keeper called osbourne? who was noted for being a bit soft in the head, he had been having a bit of banter with the city fans at the front of the stand & on a couple of occasions during the game he had been "encouraged" to come round to the back of the goal by someone in the crowd.
I was only young but I am sure I can remember city charging up the pitch with the ball while osbourne was stood at the back of the goal in deep conversation with a fan, I think the west brom defence scrambled the ball clear while the keeper was getting back onto the pitch but can you imagine the fuss if that happened these days.
I also remember franny lee & rodney marsh taking the mickey out of the ref at blackpool away, before the kick off lee picked the ball up squeezed it passed it to marsh who shook his head & kicked the ball back to the dug out asking for a better one.
I think they did it four times before the ref realised they were messing around, I have a feeling it was a texaco cup pre season game & dad had taken us all to blackpool for a few days as a suprise holiday, & guess what he just happened to notice while we were enjoying our "unplanned" holiday that city were playing there that night! Thanks dad.

 

[uweuweuwe]

Palace away was brilliant, got chased through euston by millwall fans
arrived at the ground just as the crowd roared. It as hotter than hell my mate gets to the front of the queue of the kiosk asks the guy how many cans of coke he had left, bought the lot, think it was about 10 cans then started selling them double the price to the hundreds of fans queueing behind him. went to the local supermarket after the game, an city fans were walking out with everything. wasted palace fan decided to come back to manc with us sobered up by watford and pulled emergency cord.

Sheffied away being told by a copper to walk in a straight line or i would be in the cells
walked perfect line got through the turnstiles and collapsed.

watching a group of blues in viking costume having plastic axes and sword taken off them before they entered away end at oldham at sam ame city fans singing only donkeys play on sand due to state of the pitch.

all agreeing to wear face paint for last game of the season v sunderland and meet t the sherwood. we all changed our minds but didnt tell one lad. when we arrived at the sherwood it was full of sunderland as we were leaving said lad turns up with england flag and mcfc across his face. His face went whiter than the white paint on hia face the whole pub went quiet and then burst in to laughter.

 

[the kippax wall]

Coventry City at Highfield Rd midweek a few years back. It had been snowing and the City fans and Coventry were chucking snowballs at each other and generally getting up to little bits of handbag stuff. I was stood across the way from a Coventry fan who give me the old finger across the throat routine, so I responded by laughing at the dick and told him to get fucked. As I did I was gripped by the old bill and carted out of the ground. As I got outside I could not believe it, the cheeky twat that had just been gobbing off had also been thrown out and here we both were facing each other outside the stadium. I walked up to him, but it was obvious that he didn't want to carry anything on. So I asked him if he knew a boozer nearby that had the match on. He said he did so we decieded to go for a pint and watch it. As we passed a turnstile in the City end I thought I'd chance it and went to the turnstile operator. I told him we'de had our car broken in and we had left the game to secure it. He asked to see the ticket stubs and then let us jump over the turnstile back into the City end. The lad shit himself and thought he was going to get filled in by Blues who'd recognise him. I laughed my bollocks off and told him to go to the opposite end of the stand, then went back to join the lads I had gone to the game with.

 

[Pezzer2]

ladders at boundary park to get into the game
stoke away boxing day
palace away blues brothers
good luck from city of manchester at villa
during last season in kippax managing to work out how to get a lift to the kitchens, walk out and straight into ......

That one at Oldham, was that the same one when loads of City climbed into the seats opposite their main stand. Basically filled all the seats and the Police didn't risk trying to turf them out. Oldham season ticket holders arrived and were turned away. Some were on the radio afterwards complaining they'd been turned away from their own stand/seats.

Love this thread. I'd forgotten loads of these. Good times !

Similar story to when i went Grimsby (A) in our promotion season when Spencor Prior scored. I got thrown out for doubling up at the turnstile, soon as i got in we scored and got spotted by a steward.
Anyway i walked round the ground a couple of times and seen quite a few city locked out as well. So behind the away end is some town houses, we sneaked through the passages in to the back gardens and one lad found a set of ladders. We then climbed on some garage roof and tried hoisted the ladders from the roof over the stand in the corner bit of the away end. City fans were too busy watching us rather than the game, police spoilt the fun though in no time. One bloke even offered us a brew when we was in his back garden.

 

[Pezzer2]

Another one which was a bit out of order but made me laugh. We was at Boro a few years back and stopped off at Thirsk, we was in a boozer called the Blacksmiths if i remember rightly. The Levenshulme branch were in there and ordered some food, as the waitress brings a plate of spuds over a few lads start a food fight and just started pelting the staff with patato's.

Another game at Bristol Rovers (A) my mate disappeared only for me to turn around and see him at the top of the floodlight.

 

[bluebrady]

i remember about 500 blues doing the conga around the
way end at oldham in about 6 inches of water.
think it was when ginger megson scored on his debut

 

[feedthegoat11]

At Barnsley a few years ago (the game where it kicked off under the stand). We were all pointed to a nightclub, midday, open just for City. £1 a drink, hundreds escorted to the ground pissed, walked past a market singing `youre only here cos your shopping`. The look on their faces.

 

[jayblue]

i think it was early nineties.for some reason i was in the main stand looking directly at the kippax.left hand side of the kippax was an inflatable sex doll and the right hand side was a large inflatable hammer.the two inflatables started making their way to the middle and when they met the dolls legs were spread and the hammer proceeded to whack it in the clunge.laughed so hard i nearly weed myself.comedy gold.thanks city.