How long have you genuinely supported our city

Have to put my hand up and admit I am relatively new to the light blues. As a Melbournian I was brought up on a diet of Aussie rules and nothing else. More specifically the Carlton Football Club, known as the Old Dark Navy Blues. Growing up a Blues fan, I was privileged to be a witness to a great deal of success for my beloved Blues. However this all came crashing down in 2002 after a number of factors including massive upheaval at board level and sanctions from the league for paying outside of the salary cap (something that not many of you would be familiar with). For the next 7 years, we went through total misery, enduring the most pitiful record of any team in nearly the entire history of the AFL.

In 2007 after the members voted the then president of the club off the board and at our lowest ever ebb, a billionaire benefactor decided enough was enough and took control of the club. Soon after, Chris Judd, the best player in AFL, by some miracle decided to leave his club and chose my beloved Blues as his clubs of choice. In the last 2 years resurgence has been happening at my club and we are finally on our way back to where we belong.

There are plenty of similarities between the Carlton story and the City story, except that you guys have been starved of success for a bit longer, but I know pain.

Anyway as an out and out Aussie rules man, I never appreciated the round ball game until I back packed Europe and UK in 2000. Starved of football for the first time when Euro 2000 hit the pubs every day and night I lapped it up. It was during this time that I started to realise what a great game soccer was.

When I got back home to Oz, I kept an interest in the EPL but didn’t really have a team as such. Indeed I stayed this way for quite a long time. Finally a couple of years ago I decided that I needed to pick a team. I quite liked City when Anelka was running around and always had a place for the underdog. I particularly remember a win against the rags that was the first win in years and years. I remember seeing the passion and thinking “wow, what an amazing club”.

So whilst I was starting to think of pledging my allegiance to an EPL club at the end of the 2008 AFL season (which happened to be Chris Judd’s first at Carlton) with a feeling of new hope at what was beginning at the blues because of one man arriving, City signed Robinho. The similarities were so much that I felt a connection to City. Also I was drawn to clubs calling themselves ‘the Blues’, and given the only other one that I really knew of was Chelski, the choice was simple. I couldn’t align myself with a team that had been up for a number of years... and besides, I fucking hated them.

I now watch every game religiously. I sit up to ridiculous hours, or set my alarm to get up ridiculously early. The pain I felt yesterday morning to me shows me that I now truly have another blue love in my life. The last time I felt pain like that was watching Carlton lose the Grand Final in 1999. Onya City!! The rise is only just beginning. the next few years are going to amazing
 
Born in 1980, never lived in Manchester, born in Somerset and still live there, my Grandad was born and bred in Manchester, moving to the midlands (for work reasons) where my old man was born,since then as a family we've moved down to Somerset. my dad wasn't really a massive football follower, but my grandad was, he was blue through and through apparentley, (he died when I was a nipper), and growing up Liverpool were the best team around and just as I was starting to show an interest in football (1986/7) before I could jump on the glory trail of Liverpool my dad gave me a bit of family history, and so I started supporting City from the about the age of 7/8, it's been lonely down here, and i've taken alot of shit over the years but i've never wavered. My dad (bless him) although not a massive fan of football used to take me up to Maine road as much as he could, but it was only 2/3 times a season, I still go up when I can but with 2 young daughters now it's difficult. Been up once this season and that was Burnley!!!
 
Old fella took me when i was 6 against Oxford in 1986

Got a season ticket in 88/89 and had one till 2 years ago when due to spells of unemployment and the cost of going i had to give up my season ticket

Still do as many games as possible but it kills me not going as much im gutted every match day that im not there,seems daft to people who don't understand football but watching on the telly is rubbish and can never replace that buzz you get at a match.
 
I have been a fanatical supporter of City since August 2008, when the Arabs took over.

Before that I was a mad-keen Chelsea fan, for almost six years, having previously been a dedicated follower of Manyoo. But before you all go off on one, about me once being a "rag" (I think that's the term that's used), they were not my first love...I was also an Arsenal fan, a Leeds Fan, and for one season a Blackburn Rovers fan.

I almost became a Liverpool fan last saeson, but in the end I didn't bother.

Over the years I have been able to take the piss out of so many opposition supporters, and I expect to do the same with City in the coming years.

I've decided to give City maybe 3 years before I reconsider my position.

I might even go to watch them sometime.
 
First season ticket was in the Platt Lane in 74/75 season. I was 9.

Been going ever since, military tours abroad and postings allowing.

I now go when possible with my lad. We got a season ticket two years ago when he was 9.

I would like to think we're the start of a long running family tradition.
 
cant remember the year but tony book was the manager . used to sit on the wall in the kippax. i come from a rag family but all my mates from school were blues ,so i started going with them . this week has been shit for me
 
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