When did you get into football/City?

Both my parents are Blues but my Father never pushed City on me. He was quite laidback and used to ask me which football team I wanted to support and he’d take me wherever I wanted. And when went to buy my first ever footy top, he asked me which team I wanted before simply taking me down to the City souvenir shop and making me wear City stuff.

I can see why he did that. I think brainwashing kids makes them grow up to be myopic cunts.

But I still chose City.

It was the 1989 promotion season, then the 5-1 was the first derby I went to, then Italia 90 in a row and I was hooked on City and football in general.
 
Dad was a blue,after a lot of nagging and moving finally beginning of Oct 53-54 season,get your coat on son we are going to see City.Dad thank you,followed in his footsteps whe my daughters reached reached 7-8 years old ,come on girls we are off on a wild journey.And as you all know it’s been some journey.
 
My 80 year old dad who still comes with me and my lad every game took me to my first game at Wembley 1976. I thought every game was going to be like that, how wrong was I !
My Dad was one of those youngsters who used to go to city then the rags weeks about. He always loved city because of Bert Trautmann but is adamant one of the best players he saw was Duncan Edwards (RIP) he’s struggling now and have to Uber him there and back now but goes in Mary D’s every game! He met my mum there when it was Bradford labour club.
 
my first game was 1st of April 1972. when we fucked it up against stoke, c'ant remember the game to much, but got totally hooked on City. Next couple of games i went with Pete the badge. and my old man . What memories.
 
I was more of a cricket fan growing up - but still had a great interest in city and watched all the highlights on tv intently. In 80 one of my cricket mates persuaded me to watch Oldham. I was quite a wimp growing up and takes of trouble at footie put me off- ironically one of the first games was Sheffield Weds which rapidly became a pitched battle !!
At half term city we’re playing notts county in the league cup and suggested we go there .
We paid on the gate and walked into the platt lane - I was amazed at the atmosphere and felt so comfortable there, as if I had been there hundreds of times.
We won 5- 1 - tueart got four and I was hooked.
As we walked hone, I can still remember my mate saying we will be watching Latics on Saturday ?
Nope - I’m going to city I replied!
He didn’t believe I would go on my own - three buses and that but I have been a regular ever since.
Again I can echo a previous poster - greatest regret not watching Colin the King …
 
We arrived in Cheadle Hulme in mid-60's. Dad had no interest in football, but I was playing in street and school and most people around were City fans. I supported Celtic - but first live match was Clydebank v Dumbarton with Grandpa and then a cousin took me to Ibrox to try and convert me. But 1971 first visit to Maine Road for 10th birthday, 2-0 win v Blackpool, Dad was also hooked and so we started going to City regularly and I haven't stopped. Still follow the Bankies via Twitter and have a preference for Celtic over Rangers, but it's been City since about 1974.
 
AshtonBlue1980 said:
I was more of a cricket fan growing up - but still had a great interest in city and watched all the highlights on tv intently. In 80 one of my cricket mates persuaded me to watch Oldham. I was quite a wimp growing up and takes of trouble at footie put me off- ironically one of the first games was Sheffield Weds which rapidly became a pitched battle !!
At half term city we’re playing notts county in the league cup and suggested we go there .
We paid on the gate and walked into the platt lane - I was amazed at the atmosphere and felt so comfortable there, as if I had been there hundreds of times.
We won 5- 1 - tueart got four and I was hooked.
As we walked hone, I can still remember my mate saying we will be watching Latics on Saturday ?
Nope - I’m going to city I replied!
He didn’t believe I would go on my own - three buses and that but I have been a regular ever since.
Again I can echo a previous poster - greatest regret not watching Colin the King …
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I went to that match v Notts County from university in Loughborough with four Notts County lads! They threatened to leave me behind afterwards, but in truth they were staggered at seeing Tueart live. They were chasing promotion at the time (and succeeded at the end of that season) so they were realising just how much they had to improve - they did, we didn't.
 
cyan said:
We arrived in Cheadle Hulme in mid-60's. Dad had no interest in football, but I was playing in street and school and most people around were City fans. I supported Celtic - but first live match was Clydebank v Dumbarton with Grandpa and then a cousin took me to Ibrox to try and convert me. But 1971 first visit to Maine Road for 10th birthday, 2-0 win v Blackpool, Dad was also hooked and so we started going to City regularly and I haven't stopped. Still follow the Bankies via Twitter and have a preference for Celtic over Rangers, but it's been City since about 1974.
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I did go to a match at Kilbowie Park once around 1995. I can’t recall who the visitors were. Subsequently I saw Clydebank play a couple of times each at Boghead (well named) and Easter Road.

That was before the comic-farcical end to the club that started with a proposed move to Dublin and ended with its sale to a consortium only to be renamed as Airdrie United and moved to the Shybury Excelsior Stadium in darkest Lanarkshire. This was to replace the liquidated Airdrieonians club.

Clydebank later re-emerged as a as a new Junior club. Ironically this is where they started out in the mid-1960s before the Steedman family tried to get them into the Scottish League by taking over East Stirlingshire in Falkirk and moving them to Clydebank as ES Clydebank. This was eventually rejected by the SFL and ultimately Clydebank were admitted under their own colours and remained there for 35 years.
 
Bert Trautmann's story and Bobby Johnstone's skills first drew me in and i was taken to both Cup Finals in 1955 & '56. But it was two bus rides to Maine Road so for a long time I watched rugby league as i could walk to the ground and pay sixpence to go in.
 
Born into it, to the extent that my Mum was pregnant with me when she went in the Kippax back in 1963.
My Grandparents were blues and my parents were too.
My maternal Great Uncle (born 1907) was the one who held a season ticket longest though, and he bought me one for the Platt Lane when I was about 14.
 
First footballing memory is the 76 cup final. Even as a five year old I remember wanting Southampton to win. The following season is when I fell in love with City.... It was the kit that did it for me. That umbro shirt with the solid diamond sleeves was a thing of beauty. first game was West Ham away Sept 77.

I was lucky my dad loved football with no particular club allegiance, so he was happy with my choice of club. Growing up in Oxfordshire, we'd go to all the London/Midland games and up to Maine Road two or three times a season.

Only period when I didn't go to any games was in the late 80s early 90s when acid house took a firm grip of my weekends.

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I had no real interest in football as my dad wasn't into it, funny as we originally lived fairly close to Maine Road in Hulme before moving to Wythenshawe when I was eight. The kids there pestered me into playing football and I started enjoying it and my interest grew. I read an interview with Malcolm Allison about how City were the underdogs but he was going to make them successful and have loads of kids with blue scarves in the City. This struck a chord for me so I said I supported City. Me and my sister used to go to the Saturday morning minors of the ABC at the forum in Northendon, but had played up on the Friday night so we couldn't go as punishment. My mate Noel saw me moping about the street and asked why I didn't go to the match with him. My dad, probably feeling guilty for stopping me going to the minors agreed, much to my astonishment. It was 23rd November 1968 and we beat West Brom 5-1. I was hooked.
 
I grew up abroad, in Austria, and a friend of my parents was from Rochdale and a lifelong City fan - it rubbed off!
 
1983... not the best ever season for us...my old man (RIP) Liverpool fanatic... I had really hard days for years as a child...
 
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