who's the biggest blue in your family.

Me as everyone else in my family are rags, i have always only wanted to be blue dont know why. i had a lucky escape
 
I never met my Dad's Dad (never called him Grandad really since I never met him). He died when my Dad was seventeen. But apparently he was a proper big Blue. He was born in 1906. In the 1920's he used to deliver milk on a horse and cart on a Friday to businesses in town and stayed in his cart and went to watch City on the Saturday. He did go to Hyde Road a few times. My Dad said he always used to bang on about the old Maine Road and how it used to be in the 1930's and he always talked about Erick Brook, Fred Tilson, Peter Dogerty, Ernie Towsland, Sam Cowen and Frank Swift. He was City mad. In the 1960's he used to take my Dad and my uncle (who is the only red on that side of the family, got one red uncle on the other side of the family too strangely) to City one week and United the next and my Dad says he will never forget being in the Stretford End when Mike Doyle scored at that end in a big City win and he said his Dad was jumping for joy and it was my uncle (the red) who got a punch for it! Haha, my Dad still laughs about that now. But my Dad always says his Dad was City mad!

My Nan (my Mums Mum)(also not with us anymore, died 11 years ago) was a proper Blue! She was from Moss Side and went to City every other week from when she was a kid in the 1940's until the 1970's when they were moved from Moss Side to Wythenshawe. She went a lot less after the move, but still went to some games. We couldn't really afford season tickets for everyone when I was younger in the 1980's and 1990's so we'd have two between us in the family and two out of around five or six of us would go and change around throughout the season. Of all the people I'd go with it was my Nan who I though was the biggest Blue. You could just tell. And she proper hated United. She wouldn't let my mate in her house once because he had his United shirt on, haha, get in there Nan!

Blue Army!

Now it's definitely me who is the biggest Blue in the family. And I'll be singing my heart out today but will also be singing for my Dad's Dad and my Nan today as well!

Come on City!
 
me my 2 brothers, 2 uncles and about 5 cousins are all mad blues on my mums side of the family. my dad is a red but i have to thank him for taking us to city games when we were kids.
 
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