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

I remember being at a game in the 1980s at Maine Road and the team were getting a fair bit of stick from City fans. Paul Power in particular got a fair amount of abuse. Anyway, the ball few innocuously towards Paul Power near the touchline and he went to head it to his left, but somehow he managed to head it to the right. Sounds trivial, but it gave us City fans some light relief during a particularly bad game for City.
 
Half time at Selhurst park, palace away, 10 or so City fans run on the pitch and have a kick about having pumped up a ball (Twas the inflatable bananas era). Took the stewards five minutes to notice. Quinn hat trick in second half 0-3 to the blues. No idea the result of the kick about though one bloke had forgotten his belt and his trousers fell down. And then he did.
 
I think mid second half one away match - probably palace away again - seeing two full size paddling pools spinning round and two huge inflatable boxers having a “fight”. Hilarious away days those. Hearing the paddling pool chant 5 mins before it appeared just built the madness.
 
Abattoir Blue said:
Barry Conlon's introduction from the bench v Swindon (?). The murmurings in the Kippax start when he is spotted coming to the touchline. 'Who the f*ck is he?' ' How f*cking old is this lad?' 'Did this guy win a competition?'. Etc
Then a genuinely Maine Road-wide frenzied roar every time he got near the ball. Pretty sure he hit the post with a bobbled pea roller and the roof nearly came off the Kippax.
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Barry, Barry, Barry!!!
 
Platt Lane 59 said:
That was our youngest son's first match.
Informed him that you never knew what you were going to get, supporting City ?
Last 12 years haven't been too bad though...
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My son grew up in Edinburgh and hadn't been to a live City match until we had a weekend in Manchester and went to a match against Barnsley. That should be an easy match I thought. Barnsley won 2-1! Later that season we went to another match against Bolton and despite leading 1-0 through Kinkladze, Bolton equalised and later won the match on the way to a 100 point season and the title. Barnsley came second and were also promoted automatically!

I said to him that things can't get much worse. They did!
 
Not daft but funny.

Home game, late 90s. This bloke proposed to his girlfriend on the pitch at half time, all four sides of the pitch started chanting "You don't know what you're doing"

Walsall away in the FA cup, mid 80s. It snowed heavily. Steve Daley turned out for Walsall and happened to be their corner taker, making him an easy target for the pelting he got with snowballs from the City end when he took one.

Also, there was a bloke who sat in the Kippax, I think it might have been the season Royle's side was relegated from the prem. As the match started he would regularly shout, "Come on City, this is fuckin shit"
 
Ball's instructions for Lomas to take it to the corner flag against the vermin is up there as "daft" (even though I wasnt actually there)
 
Mike Summerbee was always known as a joker.
One game at Maine Road the ball had gone out for a corner for us and Tony Book I think placed it down in the corner segment and buzzer held his hand out to Tony Book as if to shake it but he walked right passed him and shook this anonymous man in the crowd. Everybody pissed themselves including the players on the pitch.
 
ColinBellsjockstrap said:
The fist fight between City's mascot and Liverpool's mascot in the centre circle at Maine Road before the match around 1966. Police had to drag them apart,
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I posted about that upthread. It was City's first home match after promotion.

The City mascot was real. He had been running around the pitch pre-match since 1963 or earlier. The Liverpool mascot was not official. He was a nutter dressed as Batman with a red cloak. He ran on the pitch and confronted the City mascot.

The crowd loved it as the two slugged it out. The were both ejected by the police. We never saw that City mascot again. Anyway City scored a memorable 2-1 win over Liverpool. It was the second match of the season after an opening 1-1 draw with fellow promoted team Southampton.
 
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