Senior Supporter

[Stretford Born Blue]

Great post, SBB.

I've been following City since January 1970, when I was seven, though I didn't watch them live until 16/1/88 at Plymouth. 2-0 up at half-time and lost 3-2.

Once I'd decided to go university, I chose to study at one relatively close to Manchester, so that I could attend home matches and I bought myself a season ticket in BB.

Now, I sit with Mrs Vienna in 328 and still can't get enough of Manchester City. I feel I'm making up for lost time during those 18 years that I didn't see the team live. I love the matchday buzz and though I feel a little down after a defeat, it soon passes, as I look forward to the next game.

Manchester City has been the one constant throughout my whole life, certainly almost since I can remember, apart from my parents and sisters, of course and I fucking love this club. Yes, there are things that annoy me, but nothing will turn me away from it, especially a few 'poor' results that ten years ago, we could only dream about.

Couldn't agree more with you, I like you and mamy others just want to suuport and get behind the team. I first went in the early 70s and have no intention of not going because of others views on pricing. I don't do many aways now, but must go to all home games.
Granted prices are sterp? That's why I pay for a season card, it's cheeper and guarantees a seat. Whats not to like about £44 for two seats for me and my lad per game, yes it will go up when he turns 18, but he's got 2 more cheap seasons yet. I'll deal with that in the future, without getting my undercrackers in a twist....CTID..

 

[mekonmcfc]

You reckon the club don't want that sort of fan any longer? Is that why he still goes every week, to support the team he loves, even if it's a struggle, maybe the club have offered to provide him with help, but he choses to do his own thing. Do you know if his loyalty hasn't ever been recognised?. Maybe he's just happy to get out of the house every other week, because the club welcome him. I await my email from the club telling me I'm not wanted. My Dad is 82 and has just had his inviting him to renew next season..! I'll be him one day, dragging my sorry arse and aching bones to every game until my last breath, regardless of what the club are seemingly doing in some fans eyes. I've never read so much shite on this site in all my life, ill informed, narrow minded opinions abound. You know what, I've watched City for many years, when the club was so badly run and poor, every bugger had 5 jobs to make ends meet, when we had players who couldn't even play the game, when there were fleeting moment's of success which you knew wouldn't last. I can't believe for the life of me why people get upset at the great players we have now having a day off, or new managers not gelling the team quickly enough, or new fans turning up to watch my wonderful team play in a fabulous stadium, with outstanding facilities. Yes I complain at players performing badly, I think Christ, it's gone up again, or how much, but it doesn't stop me supporting my team and less, or even considering not doing so. It's the fans that have changed in the last 20 years or so, replacing the likes of me who are getting too old to spend all day on the lash, then have a good old scream and shout on the terraces. We had passion and never ending support, the noise used to roll down off the terraces at Maine Road, it has done on occasion at the Etihad, away games were bedlam. If some fans put as much effort into supporting the team from the terraces as they do knocking the club for a minimal increase across some areas, or having to move from their seat, which incidentally is owned by the club, or having their season card removed because they're a knob head, which again is the property of the club, a place you enter under conditions of entry, in so much as you comply with certain rules, then we'd have a bouncing atmosphere. I've never been lobbed out for standing and singing at the Etihad, in block 220 by the way...
U16 prices have been extended to U18's now, U21's save a big chunk off adult prices, several thousand remain the same price, most have increased by under a quid per games, many only 50 pence per game, so sodding well stay in for an hour to pay for it. No bugger gave a second thought to drinking themselves and drugging themselves up to oblivion at Wembley recently ffs....
Moaning for moaning's sake over jack shit in the grand old scheme of things, Sorry, pissed off, good fuckin night....

you dont understand tongue in cheek humour do you, i guess my first line showed my feelings. I have also been going since 1975 so you can get off your high horse now.

 

[GX Blue]

now thats love !! unfortunately not the type the club want these days. Unless he was wearing the full kit with City rucksack and bought one of those wanky pies

Haha. True.

Going off what Ladybarn Blue said, why wouldn’t the club offer him free transport to and from the game. He's 90 on Level 3!!!!
Not like its Pandora’s box and every old bugger should get a lift but a 90 year old whose been going 80 years surely deserves special treatment.

 

[mekonmcfc]

Haha. True.

Going off what Ladybarn Blue said, why wouldn’t the club offer him free transport to and from the game. He's 90 on Level 3!!!!
Not like its Pandora’s box and every old bugger should get a lift but a 90 year old whose been going 80 years surely deserves special treatment.

Its incredible, i hope i'm alive at 90 never mind going to watch city

 

[our tommy]

Its incredible, i hope i'm alive at 90 never mind going to watch city

My Dad's 85 and I have bought him his seasoncard for the last 10 years or so. Every year he say's "I don't think I'll bother getting a ticket next season" What he means is he doesn't want me to pay for it for him. We are on the third tier. Earlier this year he fell coming down the steps onto the concourse and it's knocked his confidence a bit. He's also struggling with his legs so unfortunately he won't be renewing. It will be strange him not being there. He took me to my first game in 1967. Seeing his face after the QPR game It was worth every penny of paying for a seasoncard for him.

 

[mekonmcfc]

My Dad's 85 and I have bought him his seasoncard for the last 10 years or so. Every year he say's "I don't think I'll bother getting a ticket next season" What he means is he doesn't want me to pay for it for him. We are on the third tier. Earlier this year he fell coming down the steps onto the concourse and it's knocked his confidence a bit. He's also struggling with his legs so unfortunately he won't be renewing. It will be strange him not being there. He took me to my first game in 1967. Seeing his face after the QPR game It was worth every penny of paying for a seasoncard for him.

Thats a shame hope he's ok, i'm the same my dad is 75 (so a while to catch up your dad) always been going to the matches with him. He's an early leaver to give him time to get to the car, Although he stayed for the QPR game !!

 

[our tommy]

Thats a shame hope he's ok, i'm the same my dad is 75 (so a while to catch up your dad) always been going to the matches with him. He's an early leaver to give him time to get to the car, Although he stayed for the QPR game !!

My dad was exactly the same, early leaver to get the car as he used a stick and so wasn't very quick. I told him before the QPR game he had to stay no matter what the result. At 2.1 down with just over 5 mins left he said he was leaving. I made him stay. The picture I have of him after the final whistle I will treasure always.

 

[mekonmcfc]

My dad was exactly the same, early leaver to get the car as he used a stick and so wasn't very quick. I told him before the QPR game he had to stay no matter what the result. At 2.1 down with just over 5 mins left he said he was leaving. I made him stay. The picture I have of him after the final whistle I will treasure always.

great memories... he'd seen it all before though luckily

 

[Vienna_70]

We saw him again today waiting for the lift down after the game.

So I asked him who was the better goalkeeper, Swift or Trautmann. He replied, "I thought I'd never see better than Swift, but when the other one came along, I did".

@manchester blue, I then asked him how today's players compare to those of the past. He told me he still thinks Peter Doherty is the best he's seen in a Blue shirt.

 

[malg]

He gratefully accepted and we got chatting. He told us that he first started going when he was nearly ten, in 1936, the year City first won the league. He said Peter Doherty was a wonderful player and he recalls reading a book by joe Mercer, in which Sir Joe states that Doherty was the best player he ever played against. He also remembers other stars like Frank Swift, Eric Brook and Ernie Toseland.

So, basically, a fucking 90+ year old glory hunter.......