One of your best memories being a city fan ?

[m7mcfc]

mine was a quite few years ago ,at maine road, kinky was doing a signing and i took my boy he was 7,he had a city top on i sat him on the table and kinky signed the back of his shirt ,i took a photo and i was buzzin.

the bigest laugh was the misses washed the top, and guess what..

...yes it came out .

what your best memories being a blue ?

Neville feading the goat

 

[alanoakesdream]

I've been watchin 'City since 1969 so i've got so many great memories , but the ones that stand above the others are ......

1981 ....... beating Ipswich at Villa Park
1989 ....... beating the rags 5-1
Gillingham play-off game at Wembley
70's ...... beating Boro at home 4-0 in the league cup 2nd leg
1974 ....... beatin' the rags away 1-0 Denis Law backheel
1976 ...... beatin' Newcastle at Wembley 2-1

Black Mamba - must agree with you on your choices. My first game versus Coventry City at Maine Road 27/11/71 4-0, Bell 2 Lee 2 will for obvious reasons be my favourite match. I agree about Boro was in the Platt Lane that night and what a fantastic atmosphere remember standing on my seat 15 minutes after the final whistle still singing. I was also at Wembley in 1976, and saw the only REAL trophy we have won in my lifetime. Alan Oakes a real unsung hero!! Fantastic atmosphere between the Geordies and the City Fans. The FA Cup Semi Final at Villa Park was amazing and when Paul Power's free kick went in there were such amazing scenes in the city end with grown men hugging each other - ahh the good old days... I suppose the only one to add to that game in more recent times was the Bradford away game to clinch promotion. Always remember the Bournemouth home game (3-0 half-time) and ending up 3-3, and the twitcher giving us loads outside the main entrance when their were calls for Machin's head. Always remember Palace trying to hit the goal difference to beat us to promotion with regular updates by radio, until the Trveor Morley goal sealed our promotion. It's certainly been a roller coaster ride since 1971, but it's good to know that the Stoke defeat last week still ruins the weekend, this confirms that once you have blue blood you will never lose it!! Thanks Black Mamba for reminding me how good it is to be blue!!

 

[Cheltblue]

May 11th 1985
"The aspirations of a season come down to the perspiration of the last 90 minutes"
City gaining promotion beating Charlton 5-1. One of my favourite games of all time....remember Jim Melrose coming right up to where my Dad and I were sitting after he scored the 3rd goal. If you've never seen it, watch highlights on Youtube...pure magic.
Sadly, on the very same day, 56 people tragically lost their lives in the Bradford City fire disaster.

Absolutely brilliant afternoon. (with the obvious Bradford exception)

This would probably have been mine if it had not been the first game i took my boy to v Crystal Palace, sept 11th 1999. We won 2-1 and Nick Weaver kept doing hand stands in the goal mouth which my boy loved so he kept waving at NW until Weaver suddenly looked our way saw him and waved and winked at him.

That was all it took for him now to be bleeding the blue blood, and its gonna take something special to beat that day.

 

[SJC]

glad you brought that up......................

 

[Lunar Blue]

Wembley 81, my dad managed to get one ticket for the final and gave it to me, he played at a level where each club received a couple of tickets and being a blue he got one. I was 12 at the time and my dad drove me to Maine Road and put me on the coach early that day and would be waiting for me when I got back.

"What an adventure for a 12 year old"

When the coach pulled up I got out and ran towards the huge stadium, there was trouble outside the ground and not many blues had arrived as yet, Spurs fans were everywhere and setting fire to City flags and basically taking the piss.

I looked at my ticket and ran around to the steps with the letter of my ticket for the standing section, I think it was E, when I got there it was the Fuckin Spurs end, There I was decked out in the sky blue tracksuit with umbro diamonds down the side, City Wembley cal, the flag the fuckin lot.

No way was I going in, I sat at the top of a grass verge and watched the trouble as City arrived in there thousands and started to hold their own. I sat and waited it must have been 2.30 and I wasnt going in.

The next thing a party of around 60 blues walked passed amongst them Big Helen Turner complete with her bell, she must of thought I was lost and approached me. I told her I was alone and had a ticket for the wrong end. "Come with me" she walked me round to the City end where the biggest Cockney Skinhead was, Helen went up to him "oi have you got a ticket for the City end? do you want to swap for your end "Fackin ded right" came the reply, Helen handed me my ticket.

Running up the steps, clicking through the turnstyles, I was in, "Fuckin Get In There ! "

The sight as I entered the arena, Hutchisons goal at our end, I was pushed down the giant steps, lost a shoe, lost my cap, lost my flag the lot. The songs, The silence when the bastards equalised. Always hated Spurs since.

That whole day will stay with me till the day I die

The coach pulled in at about 10 at night and there was my dad waiting in his car

Thanks Dad for making me a Blue !!!

That is a phenomenal story. Love it.

 

[bluejimmines]

to be honest the last 3 years have been great for me. I was going to city since 1992 on and off but not with my brothers.Now the three of us are season ticket holders and we've never been closer, yes i'm pissed but these will be my memories. Happy days

 

[solley attwell]

one of my personal favourites was my first city game v west ham in 75 ,we won 3 0 and as the game ended i was burstin for a slash and could'nt make it to the jacks so i just stood up against the wall and had a piss behind the seats while people were walkin past me.at 7 years old i had no shame but my dad was fuckin mortified

 

[Pam]

Blackburn 1
City 4

I enjoyed The goat's equaliser against Blackburn at Ewood on the day we were promoted for the second year running. Blackburn were 1-0 up and had hit the post twenty seven times and their fans were singing their heads off, banging their shite (but loud)l drums and generally taking the piss. Most of them seemed to be out of their seats and dancing up and down. Some of them were beeping their stupid horns and loads of of them weren't really taking in the game. They were still in full flow as the Goat's equalising goal was crossing the line. I never saw a carnival atmosphere turn to shite so suddenly.

Well done our Goat.

 

[hilts]

I'm rubbish at dates but my dad is a red but my grandad was a blue. Anyhow my grandad got his way and the first game i went to was against forest in the late seventies which we won one one nil(wish i could remember the year), remember seeing the smile on my grandads face and i was hooked. Everytime them lot win something my dad says do i regret going to City and i say i got more of a buzz out of us beating gillingham than he did out of winning the champions league, he laughs but i can see in his eyes that he knows i'm right.

I think if we end up being any good none of us will know what to do.

 

[Danny Hoekman]

This.

This.