How long have you genuinely supported our city

Born 1961 with no affiliation to Manchester, or any close family that were into football.

Naively chose City as my club around 1969 having seen Franny Lee play for England.

Taken to first game vs West Ham in 1973.

Fortuitously married into a Blue family taking my two kids to their first City games in 2004.
 
born in 89.. brought up as a loyal blue and i was taken along to maine road by my dad for as far back as i can remember
20 years with city and i still honestly can´t believe the club we are today
CTID
 
brought up in moston, with my dad a blue,

took me to games from the age of 1 and never looked back, supporting another team never crossed my mind, though i do go to the odd bury game.

had a season ticket with my dad in the north stand of maine road from age of 3 - 12, and fianally managed to get my own 3 years ago and currently reside in 111, and i plan to be there in 60 years time too, although my 3 year old daughter is wanting to go to more and more gams with me now as shes really getting into it too, pompy on sunday will be her 4th this season and coming to the stoke cup game too, so i imagine next yearor the year after i will relocate to the family stand with her.

all in all im 27 and have been a blue since the day i was born as far as im concerned!
 
Born in Crewe in 1956. I was watching Match of the Day during 67-68 season, after spending childhood watching Crewe Alex fighting against re-election every year, when I suddenly realised that there were better football teams to watch. Watching with my dad, and he tells me that he used to stay at an uncle's in the fifties, and that they used to go and watch City. We probably got caught up in the excitement of the chase to win the league, but we decided to go and see City some time. We didn't go that season, but we watched with interest as City gradually went on to triumph over Utd. During the next season we went to quite a few games, and came to the conclusion that a season ticket was better value. We had them in the Main stand up until 1981, but my dad got fed up with travelling every week, and I had got a young family growing up, and so we drifted away. I went to a few games over the next 10 year, but listened in on GMR every week. During the nineties I decided it was time to start going again, and me and my son bought season tickets for the Kippax. His first game had been sat on my knee at 3 months old at a City reserves game in 75. We started going again at just the wrong time. Relegations to the Championship and League One, the Play off Final, Royle, Keegan, Rosler, Kinkladze, Berkovich, Benarbia. They may not have been our best years, but we had some great times, including being stood by our coach outside Wembley 2-0 down against Gillingham. We have kept up our season tickets up to the present day, and I cannot see any reason to stop. City fans of a much younger generation are now being rewarded for their patience, and it looks like we are going to overtake our rivals, much the same as we did in the late sixties and early seventies, when I went to two league cup finals and watched every home tie in the Cup winners cup two years running. (Winners & losing semi finalists) Sorry about the long ramble, but it has been an amazing journey, and once you're hooked, that's it. Keep the faith everybody out there.
 
Born 1959. My dad first took me in 1968 and I have been a stark raving mad, sky blue glory-hunting bastard ever since.
 
I first went to Maine Road in 1969 ...... so i'm 40 years a City fan , or just over!

My first game was a 2-0 league cup win over Everton ....... we won the trophy that year.
 
I started supporting City in early '69. I was 12 coming up to 13. I genuinely cannot remember why I decided they were the team for me because being in Kent I had no affiliation with the club and no relatives (at that time) who lived in Manchester.

I (along with a mate and his dad) made my very first trip up to Maine Road in 1970 as a skinny, gangling 13-year old and stood f*****g shit-scared in the Kippax with thousands of other Blues with accents I'd only heard on Coronation Street before, screaming and bellowing and making more noise than I'd ever heard in my entire life.



I'm 53 now and since that day all those bloody years ago Manchester City has become as much a part of my life as breathing, walking, eating, etc.



I've cried at the highs (FA Cup v Leicester, Cup-Winners Cup v Gornik Zabrze (spelling?) and cried at the lows (relegation, and er...relegation again!), I've screamed myself sick with joy (Nicky Weaver's penalty save, beating Blackburn for promotion, etc) and do you know something.....








I will never ever turn my back on this club. Not a chance.
 
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