When did you get into football/City?

Wasn't really raised in a football household.

Watched City play someone on TV at age 4, was hooked on football immediately and just picked the team in sky blue because I liked the colour. 28 years later, here we are.
 
My first ever game was the League Cup semi-final in ‘76 V Boro, in the Platt Lane yellow seats. Which means I never got to see King Colin in his pomp in the flesh, which remains my biggest regret.
 
I think I truly started to get into football and City around 1980, I was born 71.
My dad and older brothers were big blues. However, I started going to games in the 85/86 season and was a pretty regular match goer from then on.
 
1968 ish first game aged 3
i had no say in it
grandad and me dad introduced me to the best gift that could ever have been bestowed on me
i thank them to this day and beyond.
 
Fiftyyearsandcounting said:
My dad went to Wembley for the City v Birmingham FA Cup Final in '56. I watched the game on a rented TV. My dad took me to Maine road later that year but I can't remember the game. What I do remember is climbing the steps and then seeing the pitch for the first time, a vast expanse of green. I had a club scarf, a wooden rattle (painted it myself) and a frozen triangular shaped Jubbly.
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Tetrahedron shaped Jubbly please…
 
Grew up just south of Yokohama and have been a Nissan FC/Marinos supporter since childhood. Started watching CityTV Tunnel Cam on YouTube in 2010. It was great content and I recognized David Platt from Italia '90 highlights. Followed City through the first 2 PL titles, then CFG acquired my Marinos in May 2014. 'Twas just meant to be.
 
Quite apart from the usual stuff, my secondary school (St Pius) didn’t have its own playing fields and we graduated from the swamps of Hough End and Merseybank to have a lot of our games lessons and our school team home games on the astro pitch at Platt Lane. We felt like we were pros, had hit the big time!
 
My brother, who was a year older than me, made my decision for me. He chose United, and left me Hobson's choice - City. Thanks Paul.

That was in the late sixties. I have fond memories of watching City train in Wythenshawe Park in the seventies, and my first season ticket also in the seventies.
 
ITV highlights Sunday afternoon of FA Cup 1969.
Neil Young my first City hero.
Vaguely remember 66 World Cup final.
Celtic v Inter 67 and rags 68.
Started going with mates to East Stirlingshire and Falkirk matches getting lifted over.
 
My dad was at Wembley in 76 and I remember watching that game. I don’t remember going before then but did from the season after aged 7 I think. 46 years this year
 
City were always my club because I'm from a family of blues. My sister took me to my first game in 1978.i couldn't imagine supporting any other team, even in the dark days. Proud to be a season ticket holder of the best team in England and all of the world.. Bluemoon.
 
Winning a ball signed by the likes of Niall Quinn and Keith Curle was my first CTID moment, I was 11, so late by some standards!

Dad is casually Red but isn’t a match goer or evangelistic about it, growing up in Withington in the 80s and always playing in Platt Fields it felt natural for me to be Blue.

Had a best mate who was a ‘Junior Blue’ who was always going on about the Kippax from about the age of five so always wanted to be part of it. Plus it was City who were doing stuff in my area, giving schools tickets and sending players like Alex Williams into school.

Was a lonely road in the 90s as by then I was at school in Trafford and it was a Red area and their era.

Fast forward to 2022, over 30 years from my first match, and I’m proud dad to two devoted Stretford Blues. CTID.
 
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LongsightM13 said:
Quite apart from the usual stuff, my secondary school (St Pius) didn’t have its own playing fields and we graduated from the swamps of Hough End and Merseybank to have a lot of our games lessons and our school team home games on the astro pitch at Platt Lane. We felt like we were pros, had hit the big time!
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We also played in red and black stripes too.
 
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