The first time I saw City play was at Bramhall Lane in April 1967, but the first proper away game I went to was Derby County in 1972.
A Finglands coach for an evening kick off with my mum and dad, Helen Turner was in full command, and City lost, I think it was 2-0, but City lost just about every game for months at the start of that season.
It was a sunny afternoon, and the turnstile operator was very pleasant, asking us if we had had a nice journey down.
Derby didn't have a programme, they had a newspaper, 'The Ram' which I still have.
The coach had parked in an old barracks, and after the game, the coach driver wanted to set off, but Helen was having none of it.
Two lads were missing.
We were going to wait, wait we did, and after about 10 minutes, the two lads came on board, Helen was happy, and off we went.