Greatest (or most memorable) game you ever saw?

as in was actually in the ground...well it has to be the 10-1 vs huddersfield (in the Kippax) or the 5-1 thrashing of utd with the hincliffe goal to make it 5 (in the north stand)
 
Danny Hoekman said:
19.5k were there. My season ticket was in H block at that time, but for some reason and I don't know why, I was in the North Stand that day.
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19.5, blimey didn't realise it was so few...I was in the kippax, my second home as a 17 year old, happy days (ish!)
 
The 4 games that I remember.
Ist ever at Maine Road was against Leicester City with Peter Shilton in goal for Leicester which we won 6-0.
5-1 against the rags in 1989 I was in plaster that year with a broken bone in my foot. Everyone expecting us to get hammered in this game.
4-3 come back against spurs.
10-1 against Huddersfield. All the City fans cheering when Andy May scored a penalty for Huddersfield, and don't forget 3 players each scoring a hat-trick David White, Paul Stewart, & Tony Adcock.
 
Danny Hoekman said:
19.5k were there. My season ticket was in H block at that time, but for some reason and I don't know why, I was in the North Stand that day.
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my eldest sons first game , thought i would take him to a low key game and there were loads of empty seats around us , quite sure we just paid on the gate in those days we were in the North Stand .After the match my lad asked do they score ten every week !!! Had to let him down lightly and said i had been going over 20 odd years and that was the 1st time and not to expect the same next time we go to a match , city didnt disappoint to be fair because we scored 6 in the next midweek cup game not sure who it was , but we had a period of scoring goals for fun
 
Greatest: Aguerooooo will never be bettered. We all dreamed for so long and then it happened with such drama. It's not been quite the same since.

Memorable: Middle of the Kippax 5-1 and that whole weekend after. Just joyful. And the 1-6, but that was all a bit surreal.
 
Danny Hoekman said:
Charlton - December 1986. Went on the Special to Selhurst Park in between Christmas and New Year, therefore cold and no beer. A 9 hour round trip. We got beat 0-5 and don't recall us having a single attempt on goal in the 90 minutes. Those were the days.
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Also went to that game with a rag mate who had offered to drive when he was pissed up night before!
 
Most memorable has to be the the 6 -2 thrashing we handed out to Chelsea late 70's at Maine road.
Peter Barnes absolutely unplayable that day a joy to watch and a match that has long lived in my memory.
 
Without the obvious one to mention i take you back to April 81 FA Cup Quarter Final trailing 1-2 at Goodison Park and on our way out when suddenly out of nowhere Paul Power fastens onto a lay off and hoists the ball over the keeper and into the back of the net and send the 17000 travelling blue army mental haha what a day, getting bricked on the way out of lime street just added to the pleasure of the return home
 
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Most memorable has to be the the 6 -2 thrashing we handed out to Chelsea late 70's at Maine road.
Peter Barnes absolutely unplayable that day a joy to watch and a match that has long lived in my memory.
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My second ever game! The first was a month or two before when we beat Leicester 5-0 and Kiddo scored 4. The goals soon dried up as I started to go more and more
 
The best performance I've seen from any City team, was the second half against Barcelona, a few weeks ago. I wasn't there and had to watch it on TV.

In person and attending a game it has to be the 3-0 win against Ac Milan in 1978.

For emotional purposes Colin Bells return from injury in the game against Newcastle on boxing day 1977.
 
Non City game Plymouth v Santos early 1970s. in a friendly Pele.was playing for Santos and there were 36.000 in the ground.in them days there were not many opotunities to watch world class players and Santos had a couple
 
I stuck to City games in my first response. However, one of the most memorable games and individual performances I ever saw was Portugal v North Korea at the 1966 World Cup. (I got tickets to the Goodison group matches as a birthday present, mainly to see my favourites Brazil.)

No-hopers Korea went 3-0 up early on. Unbelievable at the time as they were about the footballing equivalent of San Moreno. Then Eusebio grabbed control with four goals to make it 4-3. Final score: 5-3.
 
I always thought the playoff final was mine but think aguero winning us the leauge jst pips it
 
paulchapo said:
QPR for me nothing will beat that feeling I was floating on it for months. I will though take you back to 24th March 1971. We had lost 2-0 to Gornik Zabrze away in the quarter final of the cup winners cup and had loads of first team players missing for the return game. Joe Mercer appealed to the fans to turn up and get behind the young lads and they would do us proud. The Gornik team said the one thing they feared was the Manchester rain and that night it didn't let us down! It had been raining solidly all day and I was outside the players entrance as the Gornik players got off the coach. It was bucketing it down and they didn't look too happy as they stepped off into it. I said with a big grin, ''Manchester rain, good eh??'' They gave a rueful smile but you could tell they hated it.

The kids played out of their skin in an electric atmosphere played on a mudbath of a pitch and won 2-0 after extra time to take the game to a replay which we won 3-1. One moment I remember in the dying second their star striker Lubanski went around Healey and the crowd held it's breath as he slotted it towards the goal......but it got stuck in the mud and Healey pounced on it to save the day. A great night.
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Gornik had plenty of experience in the rain when they played City in the ECWC Final in Vienna the season before.

Now that was real rain. I never encountered anything like that in Manchester!
 
City 2 - 1 Chelsea on a Saturday teatime. Frank Lampard missed a penalty towards the end. Incredible night.
 
Bert Trautmann's testimonial. My first ever visit to Maine Road and a combined City/Utd XI played an All-Star team. Obviously Bert played but making appearances for the opposition team were players like Stanley Matthews, Jimmy Armfield and (I think) Uwe Seeler & Tom Finney.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Bert Trautmann's testimonial. My first ever visit to Maine Road and a combined City/Utd XI played an All-Star team. Obviously Bert played but making appearances for the opposition team were players like Stanley Matthews, Jimmy Armfield and (I think) Uwe Seeler & Tom Finney.
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That was one of my early games. I still have the programme, personally signed by the great man.
 
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