Where were you when we were s**t?

Always supported City from when we were good but managed to live in the USA from 1995 to July 2000. What happened???
 
Where was I?
67-68 - One game in Main Stand
68- Sept 71 - Usually Platt Lane
Rest of 71-72 season - North Stand
72-88 Kippax
88-94 Main Stand block H
94-96 North Stand
96-03 Kippax lower
03-15 East Level 2 (towards south stand)
15-17 CB Level 2 (towards north stand)
17 onwards - East level 2, though it's just been renamed East level1

And away grounds all over the place, here and abroad. Relegations were great for two things: seeing new grounds and making heroes out of very average players.
 
Master-Lotus said:
I was 6 years old when I got into football. It was time for me to choose a football club. I choose Man City who were mid table at the time (2004-05 season) because I was always into underdogs and I liked the colors and the badge.
I don't remember my dad (who was and still is a Juventus fan since 82') being outraged by my pick or because I didn't pick a 'bigger' club. He just said 'huh, an interesting choice!'. He bought a PL TV subscription next season which was crazy expensive and exclusive at that time since it just became available in our country, just so we could watch my club on a TV. To this day, despite being a Juve fan, he celebrates every Man City trophy together with me. In 2012, we went on to watch the last match day in our local pub that was showing it on a big screen. I'll never forget how the entire neighborhood went bananas after Aguero scored despite all of those people being neutrals from a different country. He got us tickets for Manchester derbies in 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2024. I never thought I'd see Man City play in person but he made sure that happens. He was crying when we won UCL because my club finally won it (he wanted me to witness how it feels like to be on top of the Europe) and because it was against Juve's biggest rival. After that, he took me and mom to the most expensive restaurant in the city and told us to order whatever we want. He said it was one of the best days in his entire life.
I love you dad!
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What a fantastic read that was !! Are you Italian ?
 
TheGhost said:
I think that’s really disrespectful to both of them.

I bumped into Mark in Istanbul before the Champions League Final. What a lovely bloke. He’s still a huge Blue. You could see from the terraces that he gave everything wearing the shirt.

I think he had a lot more talent than the likes of Dickov, Bradbury, Robert and Gareth Taylor, Creaney, Russell, Greenacre, et al.

He was one of the shining lights in a really dark time under Swales. In fact he kept us up in 85-86. He scored 11 in 39 (15 in all comps). Taking us to the Full Members Cup Final.

Other than the tache, him being Scotch and a decent number of goals, I remember a lot less about Gordon Davies.
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Davies was Welsh. Scored a cracking diving header v Watford in the cup but dont remember too much more from him. He'd clearly been decent for Fulham as he is apparently their record scored. Left to return to Fulham and replaced by Varadi IIRC.
 
Sky Blue Thinking said:
Davies was Welsh. Scored a cracking diving header v Watford in the cup but dont remember too much more from him. He'd clearly been decent for Fulham as he is apparently their record scored. Left to return to Fulham and replaced by Varadi IIRC.
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FFS. I was getting Derek Parlane and Gordon Davies mixed up.
 
jazzy said:
Was based at RAF valley on Anglesey so got to most home games , before posted to Norfolk which was a right pain to get anywhere apart from Norwich & Ipswich
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I've done the drive from Valley to Maine Road a few times in the early 90's. Hell of a drive when your shift boss doesn't let you away until 11:30 on a Saturday morning...
 
I was in the Kippax behind a barrier in line with the 18 yard box North Stand end. All 5 foot 6 inches of me half an hour before KO only for a 6 ft 5 inch bloke to come in and blonk himself in front of me 5 mins before KO.
 
I am ashamed to admit I was missing in the eighties. Somehow along the way I acquired a wife, two young children and a massive mortgage. The journey by public transport from Yorkshire was expensive and I had to put my young family first. I was always overdrawn, so I’m afraid City had to do without me.
I’m sure someone kept my place on the Kippax warm for me.
I’m missing again now due to ill health but luckily modern tech allows me to see the games.
Missing or not my love for this bonkers club will never die.
 
I was in the main stand in my early days with my dad (82 onwards) although I had a couple of games in the old and new Kippax (Leeds opening day under Peter Reid and Steve Coppells’ first game v Norwich), then my season ticket was in H center block row E seat 750 (98 onwards) until we moved grounds, then when we moved grounds my row and seat number got transferred like for like into the Colin Bell stand level 3 and I remember going to the open day on a Sunday to go and find and sit in my new seat at Eastlands/C.O.M.S.

The best part of it all is that I made some wonderful friends when I had my season ticket and we were all sat together in the exact same seats when we moved grounds.

Happy days and the best days ever supporting this wonderful and beautiful club.
 
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First game in the 50s, kippax st , then North stand, then Etihad till 2019, then armchair and occasional freebie off friends, so yeah I've seen it all
 
TheGhost said:
I think that’s really disrespectful to both of them.

I bumped into Mark in Istanbul before the Champions League Final. What a lovely bloke. He’s still a huge Blue. You could see from the terraces that he gave everything wearing the shirt.

I think he had a lot more talent than the likes of Dickov, Bradbury, Robert and Gareth Taylor, Creaney, Russell, Greenacre, et al.

He was one of the shining lights in a really dark time under Swales. In fact he kept us up in 85-86. He scored 11 in 39 (15 in all comps). Taking us to the Full Members Cup Final.

Other than the tache, him being Scotch and a decent number of goals, I remember a lot less about Gordon Davies.
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I had a beer with Mark Lillis a couple of years ago. Still talks about City as "we". He stood on the Kippax as a kid.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I had a beer with Mark Lillis a couple of years ago. Still talks about City as "we". He stood on the Kippax as a kid.
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I’ve got a great photo of him, my teenage daughter, my mate and his son on the streets of Istanbul on the afternoon of the Final.

The rest of the people in the photo had no idea who he was.

I will have been 9 or 10 when I was watching him play for City from the big white walls of the Piccadilly Tunnel on the Kippax. He was one of my first blue shirted heroes. I had posters of him on my wall. He did something that everyone on here or dreamed of doing. Even at that age you could see, the way he played, that wearing the shirt really mattered to him.
 
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