Gary James
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Blue Hefner said:
I believe he was banned from bringing a real chicken to games (bits used to fly/drop off and some people complained), so ended up bringing a plastic/rubber chicken afterwards.
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Funny things at a City game / City fans have done
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I believe he was banned from bringing a real chicken to games (bits used to fly/drop off and some people complained), so ended up bringing a plastic/rubber chicken afterwards.
Prestwich_Blue
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I remember Mike Summerbee borrowing a copper's helmet and playing in that for a while once. Get (a) a yellow and (b) arrested for that these days.
One od the funniest things I remember more recently was the cup game at Hillsborough, refereed by Graham Poll. We'd been giving him the traditional ditty all game then he gave us a penalty. Everyone immediately started singing "One Graham Poll, there's only one Graham Poll..." and even he laughed.
One od the funniest things I remember more recently was the cup game at Hillsborough, refereed by Graham Poll. We'd been giving him the traditional ditty all game then he gave us a penalty. Everyone immediately started singing "One Graham Poll, there's only one Graham Poll..." and even he laughed.
bluebirdtoo
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My favourite has always been against Sheff United during one of the many poor runs in our not too distant past. Their fans singing 'we hate Wednesday' and us singing back quick as a flash 'we hate Saturday'.
It's a typical example of the humour of being a City fan which was one of the big attractions for me - lets face it there haven't been many things to attract fans in the past 30 years! I have high hopes for our future but a little pang of regret that the new generation of fans may not ever experience the things that made many of us love being Blues despite, not because of, the on-pitch activity.
It's a typical example of the humour of being a City fan which was one of the big attractions for me - lets face it there haven't been many things to attract fans in the past 30 years! I have high hopes for our future but a little pang of regret that the new generation of fans may not ever experience the things that made many of us love being Blues despite, not because of, the on-pitch activity.
m27
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Lucky Toma said:Hehe mine was a five-foot inflatable skeleton who burst on Boxing day away at Stoke. He died with blue tinsel around his neck bless im.
I had a 12 ft golf club and a plane (sit down, I was a kid, I genuinely didn't think about the implications at the time!!!).
wrongun73
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i always remember coming back from luton on a night game, stopped pff at some little town, newport pagnall i think. anyway we're all in this boozer when a group of blues walk in and nick the fucking till off the bar! serves 'em right charging 50p for pool. (it was only 20p up here at the time)
Compstall35
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Playing Sunderland stood in the Kippax about 15 years old. My mate screaming at the Mackems.
He turns to me and he has gone all quiet. A Mackem had thown a meat pie at him and all the insides were lodged deep down in his ear and all ove his face. I still take the piss.
Sat in North Stand at Maine Road drunk. Saw a City lad a few rows back who was battling at an away game week before. I stroll up in front of all my mates and this lad an dhis crew, "alright mate" thats all I got out his reply - "Fuck Off Old Bill" my mates never let me forget it.P.S I am not old bill lol
Chesterfield away division 2. My American girlfriend came over to visit. I took her out for a trip in country and then said wow City are playing near here lets go. £100 for 2 tickets off a scout in City end. About £10 in Chesterfieldl end.Then just before kick off loads of City run out of home end into ours. Gutted.
Losing my shoe in Kippax against Leeds when we beat them 4-0 and wanted them to win to beat United for the title. Watche dmy shoe being thrown around all game.
Diving in Trafalgar Square fountains after play off in mates borrowed jeans as runined mine night before. The acid rain in the fountains turned them white.
Nial Quinn scoring then saving a penalty.
London away 4 times in one season saw one goal for City and about 25 for home teams and no points. Didn't go to London again for a game for awhile.
Hamburg away for about 8 hours before game in Repperbahn. Bliss
Tears down my cheeks at Play off final when 2 nil down and totally fxcked off. I never left.
City fans fighting each other at Vill away - Good luck to Villa from the City of Manchester day.
Charging County fans outside Kippax after a laast minute winner to County. Mate gets kicked by a police horse and I get all the way to County where bottles were going everywhere. And I just thought. Who the hell is who? and pissed off back to my mates.
He turns to me and he has gone all quiet. A Mackem had thown a meat pie at him and all the insides were lodged deep down in his ear and all ove his face. I still take the piss.
Sat in North Stand at Maine Road drunk. Saw a City lad a few rows back who was battling at an away game week before. I stroll up in front of all my mates and this lad an dhis crew, "alright mate" thats all I got out his reply - "Fuck Off Old Bill" my mates never let me forget it.P.S I am not old bill lol
Chesterfield away division 2. My American girlfriend came over to visit. I took her out for a trip in country and then said wow City are playing near here lets go. £100 for 2 tickets off a scout in City end. About £10 in Chesterfieldl end.Then just before kick off loads of City run out of home end into ours. Gutted.
Losing my shoe in Kippax against Leeds when we beat them 4-0 and wanted them to win to beat United for the title. Watche dmy shoe being thrown around all game.
Diving in Trafalgar Square fountains after play off in mates borrowed jeans as runined mine night before. The acid rain in the fountains turned them white.
Nial Quinn scoring then saving a penalty.
London away 4 times in one season saw one goal for City and about 25 for home teams and no points. Didn't go to London again for a game for awhile.
Hamburg away for about 8 hours before game in Repperbahn. Bliss
Tears down my cheeks at Play off final when 2 nil down and totally fxcked off. I never left.
City fans fighting each other at Vill away - Good luck to Villa from the City of Manchester day.
Charging County fans outside Kippax after a laast minute winner to County. Mate gets kicked by a police horse and I get all the way to County where bottles were going everywhere. And I just thought. Who the hell is who? and pissed off back to my mates.
m27
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Compstall35 said:Playing Sunderland stood in the Kippax about 15 years old. My mate screaming at the Mackems.
He turns to me and he has gone all quiet. A Mackem had thown a meat pie at him and all the insides were lodged deep down in his ear and all ove his face. I still take the piss.
Sat in North Stand at Maine Road drunk. Saw a City lad a few rows back who was battling at an away game week before. I stroll up in front of all my mates and this lad an dhis crew, "alright mate" thats all I got out his reply - "Fuck Off Old Bill" my mates never let me forget it.P.S I am not old bill lol
Chesterfield away division 2. My American girlfriend came over to visit. I took her out for a trip in country and then said wow City are playing near here lets go. £100 for 2 tickets off a scout in City end. About £10 in Chesterfieldl end.Then just before kick off loads of City run out of home end into ours. Gutted.
Losing my shoe in Kippax against Leeds when we beat them 4-0 and wanted them to win to beat United for the title. Watche dmy shoe being thrown around all game.
Diving in Trafalgar Square fountains after play off in mates borrowed jeans as runined mine night before. The acid rain in the fountains turned them white.
Nial Quinn scoring then saving a penalty.
London away 4 times in one season saw one goal for City and about 25 for home teams and no points. Didn't go to London again for a game for awhile.
Hamburg away for about 8 hours before game in Repperbahn. Bliss
Tears down my cheeks at Play off final when 2 nil down and totally fxcked off. I never left.
City fans fighting each other at Vill away - Good luck to Villa from the City of Manchester day.
Charging County fans outside Kippax after a laast minute winner to County. Mate gets kicked by a police horse and I get all the way to County where bottles were going everywhere. And I just thought. Who the hell is who? and pissed off back to my mates.
That game was a strange one. Before the game it did seem like no-one was really arsed, but then as soon as we scored and started playing some great stuff we all started taking the piss out of Leeds for blowing the league and celebrating like there was no tomorrow!!
Luckily, it didn't matter anyway as United managed to fuck it up. Arf!
One of the funniest things i saw was on the way to the gillingham play off final , we stopped at a service station and someone spotted curly watts (corrie) it had been publicized that he had had a drinking problem. So everyone started singing "oh curly watts your not an alci anymore" The sight of him stood on a chair whith hundreds of city singing this to him was quality.......he loved it lol.
Swales lives
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Driving straight from the Cyprus Tavern on a Friday night down to Bournemouth with 3 mates, arriving at the seafront at about 9 on the Saturday morning to see about 10 blues chasing giant inflatables across the beach. It was winter too and feckin freezing.
All 4 of us tried to leave at half-time, convinced that we'd seen the whole match. Sometimes you just get too pissed at away games.
All 4 of us tried to leave at half-time, convinced that we'd seen the whole match. Sometimes you just get too pissed at away games.
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Tbilisi said:Lucky Toma said:When I saw this thread I immediately thought of West Brom away in the late-80s. Then I saw that Tbilisi had beaten me to it. Although gotta say I remember it differently (probably wrongly in fairness as I was only a kid at the time). I've always thought that the inflatable Frankenstein had become something of a regular fixture at away games by then and would pop up to huge cheers and his song ('Ohhh Frankie, Frankie....'). At West Brom he took his usual bow.....only for another Frankenstein to appear from nowhere. The duo traded inflatable blows whilst we forgot about the football and cheered on our preferred Frankies.
Again I dont know if I've embellished this in my mind over the years but I'm sure I can remember the West Brom back-line all turning around to see what was going on. Probably expecting hooliganism. Certainly not expecting the reality haha
One thing I am sure of....that was the first game I witnessed the fried egg.
Toma,it was a Dinosaur but do recall a couple of Frankies at other games.Remember singing for Dinosaur and being more pissed off that he got a kick in off Frankie than Gayle saying he`lost' the ball in the floodlights for their winner.
I've got some photos of Frankenstein and the Dinosaur having a tussle in the crowd at Bournemouth away approx 1987 or 1988. Also at the same game, photos of a blue dressed in full Banana outfit and someone inflating a large yellow Dinghy! How do I get these pics onto here?