Surreal Moments at City Games

feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
Most surreal and funny moment I remember watching City was a preseason friendly against Rotterdam at Maine Road in 1994. We lost the game 4-2 from what I can remember, however the moment that stuck with me was Peter Beagrie picking up the ball and dribbling at the full back. Suddenly there’s a darting run behind him on the overlap. Beagrie for a split second thinks about the pass to the blue shirt. Except instead of having white shorts on the guy had stonewash jeans, some blue thinks he should be getting a game. Instead the game stops and he spends the next few minutes dodging the stewards and runs off into the empty brand new seats of the Kippax.
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I remember that (Feyenoord). Nicky Summerbee had the ball at one point and was about to pass to him then seemed to notice he was wearing jeans. I was sat in the Main Stand and a bloke near me shouted: 'If that was his dad he'd have passed to him for the laugh.'
 
Gary James said:
I remember that (Feyenoord). Nicky Summerbee had the ball at one point and was about to pass to him then seemed to notice he was wearing jeans. I was sat in the Main Stand and a bloke near me shouted: 'If that was his dad he'd have passed to him for the laugh.'
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Wrong team and wrong player, my bad. We started well in that game and scored the first from what I can remember. It gradually turned into a walloping, which led to some bored blue thinking he could play full back.
 
mancityvstoke said:
Sitting down (standing terraces) en masse at Derby away .....refusing to watch the game. Everyone chatting about where they were going that night in town.

Or was I on drugs ?
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I remember one of those sit-downs on the terrace at West Brom (late 70s/early 80s?), the West Midlands cops were debating whether to throw out those sitting down!
 
Gazza said:
WBA away late 80's. It was at the peak of the inflatables - I remember a big fight between a blow-up doll, Frankenstein, a shark and a banana - then an inflatable bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale pitched in to the tune of "You Dirty Geordie Bastard"
Hopkins the ex-City player came over to us to take a corner, saw it and just shook his head in dis-belief.
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The same match where Brian Gayle was "dazzled by the floodlights" and missed his header leading to the only goal of the game.
 
I was at Maine Road in the North Stand when we played Swansea. It was a typical shit Manchester day weather wise, October 1983 and a truly awful game which was petering out to a 1-1 draw. We got a last minute corner and I shouted to the ref, "Bloody hell ref hurry up and blow your whistle so we can all go home, this is crap!"

To my astonishment he looked up at me, then his watch and shouted back, " Sorry five more minutes yet!" Everyone laughed. A few minutes later one of our many forgettable players at that time, Duncan Davidson scored one of the stuffiest goals ever which won us the game. Happy days lol.

CITY 2 SWANSEA CITY 1

Canon League 2nd Division

8th October 1983

attendance 23,571

Scorers
City Parlane(12), Davidson(90)
Swansea Latchford(25)

Ref T Holbrook

City Williams, Ranson, Davies, Reid, Power, Caton, McNab, May, Parlane, Baker, Tolmie – sub Davidson(79)

Swansea Rimmer, Chivers, Hughes, Marustik, Stevenson, Lewis, Lake, Walsh, Latchford, Maddy, Richards – sub Pascoe(unused)
 
I recall an incident involving the City mascot against Liverpool at Maine Road soon after promotion in 1966.

City had used the same mascot since before relegation in 1963. He was a callow young boy when I went to my early matches at Maine Road. By the time that City were promoted he was more burly but still running around the pitch before home matches.

At the early-season Liverpool match, there was an unofficial scouse mascot dressed as Batman in a red Batsuit. He also ran onto the pitch and confronted the City mascot in the centre-circle. The two started fighting to the delight of both sets of fans. Both were promptly ejected from the stadium.

If I recall correctly, City won the match 2-1.
 
I was there in the away end in January 2008 when a lad on the second tier at Bramall Lane let a load of balloons off as City and Sheffield United came out for the FA Cup 3rd round under Sven. And rather than pop them, like any sensible person would have done, Richard Dunne, Michael Ball, a young Joe Hart, etc. just let them drift around the City penalty area until Sheffield United scored two goals directly as a result of our lads not knowing the difference between a ball and a balloon and knocked us out of the cup.

Also, a home game against Hull around 2008, 2009. Down by the right corner flag where the Colin Bell Stand meets the South Stand, a City player and a Hull player - who I think was Paul McShane - went into a tackle and McShane ended up on the floor. Instead of just getting up like a normal person he decided to try catapulting himself off the floor by (sort of) body-popping? He just flipped into the air and slammed back down on his front. He got a load of sarcastic cheers from the City fans who couldn't believe what they'd just seen.

Not the only one who remembers:

 
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