What a great picture

[HelloCity]

Magical..I get it, its wonderful to the see the blues successful again but I'd swap it for watching city at maine Road again in the 90s..win lose or draw the match day was magical

Don't think you can get more rose tinted than this. Could understand if you said the 70's or something but not the 90's.

I grew up watching City from the early 90's and it was seriously grim for most of that time. Anger, sadness and disappointment and easily the 'darkest' atmospheres I've ever experienced. This retrospective fit of the match day being 'magical' during that time....yeah, not for me, Clive.

I'm sure in another 10 years there will be people posting on here saying how magical it was in Pearce's final season!

 

[splinter]

Don't think you can get more rose tinted than this. Could understand if you said the 70's or something but not the 90's.

I grew up watching City from the early 90's and it was seriously grim for most of that time. Anger, sadness and disappointment and easily the 'darkest' atmospheres I've ever experienced. This retrospective fit of the match day being 'magical' during that time....yeah, not for me, Clive.

I'm sure in another 10 years there will be people posting on here saying how magical it was in Pearce's final season!

Agreed it was hard going watching the match..but the other 12 hours on the piss with the lads was magical;))

 

[Jazzyblue]

Don't think you can get more rose tinted than this. Could understand if you said the 70's or something but not the 90's.

I grew up watching City from the early 90's and it was seriously grim for most of that time. Anger, sadness and disappointment and easily the 'darkest' atmospheres I've ever experienced. This retrospective fit of the match day being 'magical' during that time....yeah, not for me, Clive.

I'm sure in another 10 years there will be people posting on here saying how magical it was in Pearce's final season!

Respect for your honesty. Being a City fan in the 90s was hard for a lot of us. It was lonely and inaccessible unless you could go to the match all the time, all the glamour and glory was on the other side of Manchester so people thought you were an oddball, the club was badly run and a LOT of the performances were abysmal. TBH it was enough to put you off football. And we put up with all that to get called glory hunters today. They'll never know. That said, you can't beat a matchday.

 

[Irlamblue]

I absolutely love this photo!

should be on a wall in the stadium

 

[berryblue]

£10 a week and a bus to the ground.

 

[xgorton]

Magical..I get it, its wonderful to the see the blues successful again but I'd swap it for watching city at maine Road again in the 90s..win lose or draw the match day was magical

70s for me standing on the Kippax with my mates,away games pay on the gate fun and games happy days.

 

[A57 the snake]

Two of our finest !! Both have football legacies behind them ,my old fella me dad ‘ was proud in all things blue and always said don’t believe in everyone went to watch city and the rags at home in turn , it didn’t happen he never ever went to watch the dark side at the swamp.
Many would hitch a ride to the away game where we was as at. Great times for my old fella back in the day and even better now for us.

Up the blues.

 

[Vienna_70]

I think I’m right in saying that those two gentlemen were our goalkeepers for the best part of 30 years, and only missed a handful of games between them.

I know that WW II took away a large chunk of Frank's career, but it’s still an impressive record.

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

Don't think you can get more rose tinted than this. Could understand if you said the 70's or something but not the 90's.

I grew up watching City from the early 90's and it was seriously grim for most of that time. Anger, sadness and disappointment and easily the 'darkest' atmospheres I've ever experienced. This retrospective fit of the match day being 'magical' during that time....yeah, not for me, Clive.

I'm sure in another 10 years there will be people posting on here saying how magical it was in Pearce's final season!

Only home game i missed in Pearces final season was Everton, think it was NYD and we scored 20,% of our home goals for the season.

 

[pride in battle]

I was.

When I look back, I can't believe how different everything was. And I mean everything. Totally.

Perhapd it is because I was a small boy and the whole thing was an obsession with me. I couldn't wait for Saturday afternoons and when they arrived I was transported into a wonderworld. I can't recreate that magical feeling now, despite the marvellous stuff that City play.

To adapt Worfsworth.....
"There was a time when going to watchthe Blues
To me did seem
Appareled in celestial lght....
The glory and the freshness of a dream."

Ah well. That's the way of the world. Gone but fondly remembered.

Eheu fugaces labuntur anni, said Horace the Roman poet.

I must stop now. I'm getting maudlin.

How old are you if you don't mind me asking ?