When did you get into football/City?

Went on the match day thread in 2008, that was it, hooked :)


Actually my old fella took me to a game v Burnley in 74ish. Won 2.1 If I remember correctly.
 
Born and bred in Salford, and probably would have been a Rag, until I found out my dad was on City's books as a youth!
He didn't have the best of luck, breaking his leg at Southport, and ended up at Alty!
 
First City match in 1978 against Liverpool.I was 8 and spent many a season in Platt Lane.Eventually ended up in the Kippax about 1985.Best days ever late 80's early 90's following City for me personally even if the football was shit.The memories of Maine Road still give me goosebumps.
 
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Growing up in the 70s and 80s in a town on the north west coast littered with supporters of two teams playing in red I did well to become a City fan.

My old man and older brother are blues and I had a primary school teacher who supported City too. He arranged for our class to attend City v Cardiff in ‘84 which was my first game.

It wasn’t easy growing up amongst masses of reds but I am eternally grateful that I had some good influences to steer me in the right direction.

Incidentally, I have always wondered if any of the blues in this picture post in here? I was a ball boy via the ‘junior blues’ club and this photo was taken before City v Arsenal in ‘87, a game we won 3-0.
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Born in Fleetwood dad a Manc from Whalley Range Iinstilled in me a love of City from a young age. Took me to see City at Blackpool about 1962 aged 6 all I can remember it was a 3 3 draw and I was scared by the noise. Dad said we should support Burnley in the cup final as they were a Lancaashire team, only one year in the 60s without a Lancy team in the final.
First game I can really remember was Fleetwood v Rochdale a 2 2 draw great result for non league Fleetwood and I was hooked on footy. Only blue in my year at secondary school two Manc exiles in the year above both keen blues. Asked me if I wanted to go to the Spurs FA Cup quarter final. Franny scored won 1 0 and a fan forever, the rest they say is history. Thanks dad for making me a blue sorry you died in 1996 when we were shit.Thanks Jimmy and Tony for taking me to that first game CTID
 
A parent organised a trip when I was in the cubs, it was City v Everton, midweek, in April 1968 when City were going for the league, Everton had a good team too, Ball, Kendall and Husband in midfield. City won 2-0 and as a nine year old I couldn't believe the floodlights, and the noise, it was like another universe
I was a fan from then on. City were playing with Coleman and Franny on the wings with Buzzer as c/f

54 years on (jeez) and its still with me , a part of who I am

Thanks Steve Smiths dad, it wouldn't be allowed now, six of us in his car, walking to the Platt Lane benches, as they were then
 
Would have been six or seven years old I guess, chose City because everyone else at junior school seemed to support the Rags. That was in Southampton, over fifty years ago. So I did it because I wanted to be different, which, knowing me as I do, does not surprise me one jot.
 
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A parent organised a trip when I was in the cubs, it was City v Everton, midweek, in April 1968 when City were going for the league, Everton had a good team too, Ball, Kendall and Husband in midfield. City won 2-0 and as a nine year old I couldn't believe the floodlights, and the noise, it was like another universe
I was a fan from then on. City were playing with Coleman and Franny on the wings with Buzzer as c/f

54 years on (jeez) and its still with me , a part of who I am

Thanks Steve Smiths dad, it wouldn't be allowed now, six of us in his car, walking to the Platt Lane benches, as they were then
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Classic glory hunting - surprised you stuck with it through the dark days of 2020 when we didn't win the league.
 
I watched the All or Nothing Documentary and fell in love a bit with the club and the people, and fans.

I'm a Guiseley fan through and through. And it's been hard times. Just to prove i'm not a glory supporter, I went to Torquay away when we were already relegated... on a Tuesday night.

My first game was City 2-0 Dynamo Zagreb. I was hooked.

This last season I have been to 14 games including 2 Wembo and 1 away at West Ham.
 
Was in deepest Essex in the mid 70s - everyone supported either West Ham/Chelsea/Arsenal or of course the rags........ To be different I decided to be the only kid in school to support City - then in moment of madness started to actually go to games - bloody lonely life going to City games back then in the 70s and 80s,all City fans heading back up north and me heading back down south on my own (used to be quite scary on the underground after City games heading back across London -used to see some nasty clashes between teams not even playing each other)
 
November 1977 was my first game.
Got beat at Maine Road 2-3 by Leeds.
I was 8 and my 2 teenage aunties took me. They took me down the Kippax and plonked me on the wall at the front, I was hooked from that moment.
Dad was a musician and wasn't into football and my grandad supported Bury and glory hunted the Dippers who were always on the TV then.
So I was the first male blue in the family but that as spread over the decades to all blues in the family now, brothers sister cousins nephews nieces.
So thanks auntie Carole and auntie Julie for taking me my first game all those years ago.
 
Around 1976. My Mum took me to see the City team in Albert square at the town hall (the league cup parade) but i couldnt understand why they weren't wearing their kits. I asked why and it gave a few people in the crowd a laugh. I was hooked from the moment i heard that cheer when the team came out.
 
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