manclad
Well-Known Member
I was thinking earlier about the number of City games I have been to over the last 56 years.
I started going to Maine Road at 9 years of age in March 1966, and then went to most home matches ( first with my Dad,and then with my City supporting school mates.
And that continued until 1986 when I more or less stopped attending regularly, mainly due to having 2 young daughters who became my priority when I was not working 40 hours a week..
This went on for about 15 years, and I would only go to 1 or 2 matches a season.
Fast forward to 2001 and my daughters had grown up and either left home or gone to university, and all of a sudden I had my time back to myself again.
I had a new work pal who was as City mad as I was,and we started going to the match together in the final Joe Royle season.
And then we got season cards when we moved to Eastlands and have been to virtually every domestic home match since then.
With a good sprinkling of local away games from 2005 - 2010.
So I reckon I have just about completed 40 full seasons of regular match attendance.
So 40 seasons x approx 25 matches per season ( remember that the number of League home games in the 60s/70s was 21 ) and if my mathematics are correct
that gives a grand total of approximately 1,000 games.
So how does that work out against some of our other older fans ?
I would be interested to hear from fellow Bluemooners .
I started going to Maine Road at 9 years of age in March 1966, and then went to most home matches ( first with my Dad,and then with my City supporting school mates.
And that continued until 1986 when I more or less stopped attending regularly, mainly due to having 2 young daughters who became my priority when I was not working 40 hours a week..
This went on for about 15 years, and I would only go to 1 or 2 matches a season.
Fast forward to 2001 and my daughters had grown up and either left home or gone to university, and all of a sudden I had my time back to myself again.
I had a new work pal who was as City mad as I was,and we started going to the match together in the final Joe Royle season.
And then we got season cards when we moved to Eastlands and have been to virtually every domestic home match since then.
With a good sprinkling of local away games from 2005 - 2010.
So I reckon I have just about completed 40 full seasons of regular match attendance.
So 40 seasons x approx 25 matches per season ( remember that the number of League home games in the 60s/70s was 21 ) and if my mathematics are correct
that gives a grand total of approximately 1,000 games.
So how does that work out against some of our other older fans ?
I would be interested to hear from fellow Bluemooners .