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

[Keeper!]

City Vs Liverpool

Liverpool doing everything to let us win the game to stay up, and us thinking we only needed a point and trying to keep the ball at the corner flag, an utter disgrace that we went down and summed up the utter state the club was in at the time.

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

Friendly against Feyenoord at Maine Road back in 1994 at a guess. Peter Beagrie picks the ball up on the left flank and starts running at his man. Then there’s a cracking over lap by some guy in a City shirt with jeans on, for a split second Beagrie noticed him and was going to pass the ball to him. Game stopped and said blue is being chased round the pitch by the stewards.

Also who remembers the streaker during the City v Oldham game back in 1999. We lost shite game but some guy runs on stark bollock naked when Nicky Weaver is about to take a goal kick. Slots it beautifully into the bottom corner of the goal at the North Stand and then proceeded to avoid the stewards for a good few minutes running towards the corner of the Kippax and the Platt Lane End.

Final one who remembers when Bruce Grobbelaar was up to his dodgy match fixing and he had an absolute stinker for Southampton in a game that ended up 3-3 at Maine Road. There was a guy in the Platt Lane taunting him with a rubber chicken.

That was my mate " Pip " who was pissed as a fart that day.
Ho longer with us but he was a rum bugger.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Having a piss next to Shinawatra in the south stand. Surreal

I must have been the other side of him.

Fucking mad times.

To add one to the list Bernie Clifton on an ostrich running round the pitch before social media being announced over the tannoy at the first game of the season as our new centre forward.

 

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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.

 

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Not exactly during a match, but a drunk City fan chasing me around a car outside the main stand Maine Road, after a televised 1-1 draw in the derby (Mick McCarthy scored the equaliser with a header). It had kicked off after the game and a drunken clown saw my red and black badge (it was the away kit one) and decided I was a rag. He came at me swinging. I managed to avoid his first attempts at hitting me, then he wouldn't quit and started chasing me. I kept shouting "I'm a blue" but he was so drunk he wouldn't listen. A copper showed up on a horse and started chasing him with a baton in hand. I was 15 years old and never wore that badge again.

One of the many reasons City should never wear red.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I have a very vague recollection of martin margetson playing right wing in a game at maine road anyone else remember that?.....dont think he lasted long coz he was just as bad outfield as he was in net. It must've been a cup game although I did used to go watching the reserve games as a kid so maybe it was in a reserve game can't remember but im sure it happened & wasn't a dream.

Think it was a cup match possibly Torquay?

In the days of 2/3 subs and he'd injured his shoulder so just stood on the halfway line.

 

[KS55]

Think it was a cup match possibly Torquay?

In the days of 2/3 subs and he'd injured his shoulder so just stood on the halfway line.

….where he was more use than he was in goal.

 

[BlueRockape]

Just checked. 21st March 1970.

Franny Lee for City, Greaves (2), Hurst (2), Boyce and for West Ham. I was near the back of the Platt Lane.

Footage here:

Right ruck at the back of the main stand about 15 minutes before the final whistle.
I ended up with a right shiner

 

[Nevizade]

Friendly against Feyenoord at Maine Road back in 1994 at a guess. Peter Beagrie picks the ball up on the left flank and starts running at his man. Then there’s a cracking over lap by some guy in a City shirt with jeans on, for a split second Beagrie noticed him and was going to pass the ball to him. Game stopped and said blue is being chased round the pitch by the stewards.

Also who remembers the streaker during the City v Oldham game back in 1999. We lost shite game but some guy runs on stark bollock naked when Nicky Weaver is about to take a goal kick. Slots it beautifully into the bottom corner of the goal at the North Stand and then proceeded to avoid the stewards for a good few minutes running towards the corner of the Kippax and the Platt Lane End.

Final one who remembers when Bruce Grobbelaar was up to his dodgy match fixing and he had an absolute stinker for Southampton in a game that ended up 3-3 at Maine Road. There was a guy in the Platt Lane taunting him with a rubber chicken.

My first City game that. Remember asking my dad if that counted as a goal or not.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

My first City game that. Remember asking my dad if that counted as a goal or not.

Apparently he was offside..well, he wasn't, but his bollocks were! ;-)

 

[bavarian blue]

Right ruck at the back of the main stand about 15 minutes before the final whistle.
I ended up with a right shiner

Remember that well.

 

[BlueRockape]

Remember that well.

Kicked off in the Clarence later blue on blue a mate of mine got a crack for doing a runner.

Those were the days : (

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

That was my mate " Pip " who was pissed as a fart that day.
Ho longer with us but he was a rum bugger.

Was a cracking finish right into the bottom right hand corner, he kept them stewards busy chasing after him for a bit.

 

[Keeper!]

A red card for aggressive walking

 

[East Level 2]

A red card for aggressive walking

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Might have been a second yellow rather than a straight red. I was there but the view was bloody awful.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

This was voted as the Worst Football of the 20th Century in the Italian football magazine, L'Ultimo Uoma.

Wasn't that the first televised Monday night game or something lol? It's a wonder it ever took off!

 

[rice10]

Eddie Large sat on the bench

Eddie is my Dad. He absolutely loved that he got to sit on the bench. In fact strictly speaking up until the day he passed away he was banned from Stamford Bridge as Ken Bates gave him a lifelong ban for sitting on the bench at a game there. He used to tell me that he would have loved to have written a book about all the stories from that time, said he would have titled it "6 years on the bench but never got on". Glauber Berti was close to being able to write a similar book.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Eddie is my Dad. He absolutely loved that he got to sit on the bench. In fact strictly speaking up until the day he passed away he was banned from Stamford Bridge as Ken Bates gave him a lifelong ban for sitting on the bench at a game there. He used to tell me that he would have loved to have written a book about all the stories from that time, said he would have titled it "6 years on the bench but never got on". Glauber Berti was close to being able to write a similar book.

Just had a little tear in my eye over the news of Tony Book's passing and then read this which made me laugh out loud. That's City for you.

 

[JPAMCR]

Eddie is my Dad. He absolutely loved that he got to sit on the bench. In fact strictly speaking up until the day he passed away he was banned from Stamford Bridge as Ken Bates gave him a lifelong ban for sitting on the bench at a game there. He used to tell me that he would have loved to have written a book about all the stories from that time, said he would have titled it "6 years on the bench but never got on". Glauber Berti was close to being able to write a similar book.

Brilliant! Would’ve loved to have read that. Bet he’d have some tales to tell.

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

Was a cracking finish right into the bottom right hand corner, he kept them stewards busy chasing after him for a bit.

Anything for a laugh, that was Pip