Who have you brought into the City family?

[CITY FOR LIFE]

I am 49 years old, City mad like the rest of you, lived for a while in the shadow of the light of the ticket office floodlight at Maine Road.
Spent 34 years in the forces with still 5 years to serve, but I have still managed to get my 3 kids 19, 20, 23 into City in a big way, not easy when you end up living away for 8 years, serving overseas in 'hot places' but still last night up in EL3 I looked at the kids and thought at least we are one family 'City'
They have sat in the North stand watching Crewe, been to York, went to Wembley 99 stood at Boro last year in the snow and rain and will be there next time.
Would we change anything ? no, what did they enjoy most I ask them? Keegan days, you score 2 we will score 3, the City banter, the highs and the lows, what did they dislike most, me making them walk the entire ground last year putting the ticker tape out 2 hrs before the Derby :) but I take great pride in the fact that they have stuck by the team and still beg me to buy them tickets.....oh ye that part has never changed.
Who have you brought into the fold and have they stayed?

 

[skybluepete]

I am 49 years old, City mad like the rest of you, lived for a while in the shadow of the light of the ticket office floodlight at Maine Road.
Spent 34 years in the forces with still 5 years to serve, but I have still managed to get my 3 kids 19, 20, 23 into City in a big way, not easy when you end up living away for 8 years, serving overseas in 'hot places' but still last night up in EL3 I looked at the kids and thought at least we are one family 'City'
They have sat in the North stand watching Crewe, been to York, went to Wembley 99 stood at Boro last year in the snow and rain and will be there next time.
Would we change anything ? no, what did they enjoy most I ask them? Keegan days, you score 2 we will score 3, the City banter, the highs and the lows, what did they dislike most, me making them walk the entire ground last year putting the ticker tape out 2 hrs before the Derby :) but I take great pride in the fact that they have stuck by the team and still beg me to buy them tickets.....oh ye that part has never changed.
Who have you brought into the fold and have they stayed?

MY FATHER SAID TO ME ONE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dw7]

my son seson ticket holder when he was 4 week old

 

[Glazers_Wallet]

well im only 22 but my missus and daughter are both blues, my daughter runs around the house singing the adebayor song lol and has city kits and city flag on her wall everytime she sees football she says city n everytime she sees a city top she says city. if you ask her whos the best she will say "city are the best!"

yes to bring either of them to a game. me daughters only 3 so i think she is too young to come and stand with me in 110 maybe ill bring her to the fulham game :)

 

[bluebrady]

took my daughter when she was only 3, she had a season ticket since she was 8 16 now, her middle name is blue so don't think she got much choice
other than being a blue maons at me when she can't got to the away games
but she is busy captaining City Ladies to being champions of britain and england in last 2 years.

 

[more lazy than useless]

I left Manchester a long time ago and when my two boys were born I decided to try to let them choose their own teams to support when they were old enough. I wanted them to fall for a team that caught their heart or attention, or a player they admired. You know the sort of thing.
At the time I didn't know any other City fans around here (have discovered a few since) so knew there was a chance they would be influenced by friends etc, but decided it was the right thing to do.
They spend a good bit of time at my brother-in -laws' house, after school etc, and he's a utd fan, the obsessive kind! Nice bloke, but hard work. His son is a couple of years older than mine......you can probably see where this story is going!!!
My eldest starting saying a few things about utd, so I explained the 'let him choose' theory to my Brother-in-law. Then one day I arrived to pick him up and they had put him in a utd shirt. I took my kids home and told them they were City fans. Did it nicely, in a way that they accepted they didn't get to choose. If somebody was going to choose a club for them it was going to be me.
When I had calmed down I spoke nicely to my brother-in-law!
Now, not only are my lads City mad, but a couple of their friends (who wouldn't have chosen City without somebody to make them think of it) are Blue as well.

The way I see it, a few lads have been put on the right path, and my lads were saved from the 'dark side' along the way!

 

[CITY FOR LIFE]

well im only 22 but my missus and daughter are both blues, my daughter runs around the house singing the adebayor song lol and has city kits and city flag on her wall everytime she sees football she says city n everytime she sees a city top she says city. if you ask her whos the best she will say "city are the best!"

yes to bring either of them to a game. me daughters only 3 so i think she is too young to come and stand with me in 110 maybe ill bring her to the fulham game :)

Love it, bring them along its the only way :)

 

[u2fme2]

son and 2 daughters and no they had no choice

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

My grandson who is nearly 4. Hopefully when he gets to see himself in the mirror on Christmas day wearing his new kit he will feel how I felt the first time I pulled on my sky blue shirt. I will tell him ' Once you put it on you wear it for life '

 

[chedinho]

five sons.