When / why did you become a City fan?

[xgorton]

Surprised they let you in mate.

Pay on the gate,stood our ground no bother lots of City in that end but never happened again.

 

[Barcon]

Pay on the gate,stood our ground no bother lots of City in that end but never happened again.

I meant the lezers ; )

 

[xgorton]

I meant the lezers ; )

Yes the lezers.

 

[andyhinch]

I meant the lezers ; )

Yeah they can be a bit tasty.

 

[xgorton]

Yeah they can be a bit tasty.

The Gorton lads back then up for anything.

 

[xgorton]

October 31st 1959. Lost 2-1 to Spurs. Stood in the North Stand and noticed that the atmosphere was in the Kippax so went in there for the next games.

You mean the scoreboard end mate,North stand was the 70s.

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

First match v Blackpool 1961

 

[kaz7]

1979, my ex said he created a monster , city wise , when we got back in touch after thirty yrs he was surprised i was still a blue

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

I’m guessing the minute I was born. My lad was the minute he was born, and I’ve recently become a granddad and she was the min she was born!

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

My grandparents were born and bred in Saddleworth, everyone there with a heart supported one of City, Oldham, Huddersfield or Stockport. I went to all four as a child, but it was in 1964, when I was nine, that I first saw City, and I was excited by the atmosphere at Maine Road. Then the glory years followed, then the not-so glorious years, I was there protesting against the owners after an inglorious defeat to Bury, which ultimately led to relegation to the third tier. i was there for that “own goal” against QPR. Living on the south coast, it is all-but impossible to visit the Etihad these days, but I am loving these times