What is the daftest thing you've seen at a City match?

[Scaring Europe to Death]

The guy who used to wave a rubber chicken around his head in the Umbro Stand at Maine Road

Daft Neil the Chef from Whaley Bridge

 

[bernard o'silver]

He touched the ball twice so it was a fre kick to City. - I've not seen it before either.

Mahrez took the penalty didnt he ?

 

[ComfySeats]

Anyone remember a midweek Fulham game about 13-15 years ago. The snow was terrible and they were clearing the lines with shovels only for it to be covered again within seconds....I'm sure it was Fulham anyway

 

[The Colonel]

Boxing Day mid eighties at the old Stoke Ground. A good few thousand City fans all with inflatable bananas.
At half time iirc 2 city fans dressed as Laurel and Hardy run on the pitch with about 5 coppers trying to catch them.

 

[bluebarry]

Mahrez took the penalty didnt he ?

It was.

 

[BeerIsTheBest]

For me, a worse blunder by Joe than that was in the FA Cup vs Sunderland in 1973 at home when he took a free kick from inside his area, had to re-take it on the ref's instruction and then completely failed to see or avoid Horswill who stuck it away.

It was horrid wasn’t it. The whole crowd could see it was going to happen. Then we went and bought the ginge - mind you Dennis T came as well

 

[Franny 1234]

Got to be the famous Stoke away match fully grown men in fancy dress kicking shit out of each other.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Here's one I was actually responsible for and not exactly that proud of :)
I threw a crutch at the ref v Huddersfield in the cup game, the funny thing was it missed by a whisker and he picked it up gave it to a copper and he brought it back to me !!!

I remember that, wasn't that away? And didn't it go to 2 replays? The 3rd game was foggy as fuck driving over to Huddersfield?

 

[Franny 1234]

Page nine gave me a good old flashback.
The ladder at Oldham away and the same game the coppers helmet getting launched around our end behind the goal.

 

[JGL07]

City had just been promoted and, in 1966, an early home match saw Liverpool visiting Maine Road in midweek.

Before the match, the official City mascot, who had done the job for a few years, did his usual run around the pitch. By then, he had grown up and filled out somewhat.

As he took the field pre-match as usual, an unofficial Liverpool mascot dressed as a sort of Batman in red, also came on the pitch. Amid cheering from the supporters on either side, the pair started scuffling. This ended with them fighting on the ground within the centre-circle. Then the spoilsport police arrested the pair and threw them out of the stadium.

All very good natured and the best pre-match entertainment ever. City won the match 2-1 with goals from Colin Bell and Jimmy Murray.

 

[Blue and still suffering]

I remember it. It came from the seats. Shortly before Gidman’s equaliser I think.

Me too! Been telling the story about it for years.

 

[Indaparkside]

Was against QPR, if I remember correctly (although, I have tried to forget it ever happened!).

Yes sorry meant that got York on the brain:)

 

[Worksop Blue]

I think Boro away in the fog. Pretty much summed up watching City back then. Oh, and watching those absolute puddings invade the pitch v Spurs in the FA Cup QF thinking they’d get the game replayed. Yeh, that was going to happen!

 

[Eccles Blue]

Everton away when one of their fans handcuffed himself to Joe Hart’s goal post! They had to find wire cutters. Wasn’t even protesting about football something to do with job losses on an airline company!

Plus, I think it was Stoke car park, with a snowball fight that started off friendly until some fool put a stone in a snowball and it hit a policeman!
Until then the police had been just watching and laughing with us all.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

The Phil Brown HT team talk when Hull were 4-0 down.

 

[Bluekiwi]

Cannot remember the date (1960s) but we were at home (Maine Road) to Spurs. Joe Corrigan cleared the ball from the corner of his penalty area and trotted back to his goal with his back to the play. I think the ball landed in the centre circle where Alan Gilzean (sic) was standing, and he volleyed it into Joe's net - the expression on Joe's face was "where the hell did that come from?" as he retrieved the ball from his net. If I remember correctly Joe went on loan to Shrewsbury soon after that.
Please correct me if my memory has played tricks with any detail.

 

[yerwot?]

The Phil Brown HT team talk when Hull were 4-0 down.

jimmy bullards parody of it was funny. "Todays attendance figure"....usually the most entertaining part of a match day

 

[surprisedbygrass]

There’s posh.

You were sitting next to me , if I remember rightly ....

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Wilfred Bony

 

[geoffhammonds40yarder]

Anyone else remember a Birmingham City away match when a load of the Birmingham supporters invaded the pitch then all proceeded to lie on their backs and wave their arms and legs about?

I was utterly mystified at the time. Later discovered it was something to do with Tiswas.

Haha yeah I was there ,it was the dying fly ?