Good answer and very apt, my lads initials are MCFC When you get the usual "what happens if?"
It's one of my answers or he'll make a childless couple very happy!!!
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Why are you a City fan?
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Good answer and very apt, my lads initials are MCFC When you get the usual "what happens if?"
It's one of my answers or he'll make a childless couple very happy!!!
It was either City or the streets for me too. Dad a big City fan, Mum's family all born and raised Newton Heath, two of my grandma's brother have/had pulled on the blue shirt. Shame they all died without a pot to piss in.
Thankfully old uncle stan left me a bottle of brandy and £800. Uncle Cliff just a few memories, but there was no way I was supporting anyone but City.
Thankfully old uncle stan left me a bottle of brandy and £800. Uncle Cliff just a few memories, but there was no way I was supporting anyone but City.
Hinchcliffes chin
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1981 aged 11 yrs old i was invited along to maine rd with the two new lads who had recently moved onto our street in clayton, the experience of the kippax that day had me hooked for life, too this very day i still go and watch the boys in blue with the very same mates i first went with as a 11 yr old boy, mcfc realy is a way of life.
Prestwich_Blue
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Because of my pal at primary school Ray Chadfield. Might be some on here that knew him. He was a fanatic and that was in the pre-Mercer days in the 1963/4 when we were getting 8,000 crowds. He just brainwashed me into supporting City and thank goodness he did.
We got back in touch a few years ago and he was living down in Shrewsbury but coming up for games. We were going to meet but he took ill and died before we could do that. Can't quite remember if it was before the ADUG takeover but suspect it wasn't so he didn't live to see the glory days return. Would have loved to have seen him again.
We got back in touch a few years ago and he was living down in Shrewsbury but coming up for games. We were going to meet but he took ill and died before we could do that. Can't quite remember if it was before the ADUG takeover but suspect it wasn't so he didn't live to see the glory days return. Would have loved to have seen him again.
KingCarlito
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Had been football mad from the age of 6, but never really supported a Premier League club properly even though I watched most of the games.
My dad used to take me to a lot of lower league football as it was closer to home and cheaper. Always admired City and their fanbase from a young age after the yo-yo years of Joe Royle, my dad took me to see Maine Road just before City moved from there. Got to about the age of 13 and when I saw City score on TV I'd get a rush like I'd never had before just watching on TV, loved players like Richards when he came through, Samaras, even Barton at the time. Asked my dad if he'd allow me to go to Manchester alone on the train and start going to games - been a season ticket holder now for around 9 years, everything I plan in day to day life is around City whether it be time off work, money etc.
Once that bug hits you with City it's there for life.
My dad used to take me to a lot of lower league football as it was closer to home and cheaper. Always admired City and their fanbase from a young age after the yo-yo years of Joe Royle, my dad took me to see Maine Road just before City moved from there. Got to about the age of 13 and when I saw City score on TV I'd get a rush like I'd never had before just watching on TV, loved players like Richards when he came through, Samaras, even Barton at the time. Asked my dad if he'd allow me to go to Manchester alone on the train and start going to games - been a season ticket holder now for around 9 years, everything I plan in day to day life is around City whether it be time off work, money etc.
Once that bug hits you with City it's there for life.
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN
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Family and living close to Maine Road was the reason for me.
Then became the belonging to the club, fans, players etc and then City became my family and my home.
Then became the belonging to the club, fans, players etc and then City became my family and my home.
goalmole
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Made me laugh.Didnt fancy being homeless
Matty
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My dad was a City fan, season ticket holder in the 70's before family meant he couldn't afford it any more. His dad was at City as a youth player, a goalkeeper. Never got to play for the club as this was in the late 1930's so the Second World War came along, he was called up, and he ended up with a hole in his skull due to a shrapnel injury (used to have a big dint in his forehead which, as a kid, I found fascinating!). Unsurprisingly it was American friendly fire that got him! Anyway, I simply followed the family tradition! My younger brother, on the other hand, decided he didn't want to support the same team as my dad and I, so became a United fan. Fairly stereotypically my dad and I became City season ticket holders whilst my brother barely went to Old Trafford, and now lives in Australia!
Ducado
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I did not grow up in a footballing family, however I have a very early memory of my Grandfather talking about the Edwards meat scandal. which rankled my innate sense of fair play, so United was never a team I could have supported, fast forward a few years growing up in Urmston where blues were rather thin on the ground and worse going to school, but I never liked being a sheep, a very good friend of mine was one of the few City fans I knew and I started going to games with him it's been a turbulent relationship, I moved away stopped going to games had a family and started a careerer and all that jazz, the Pearce era nearly finished me off, but I was trawling the internet one day and found Bluemoon which rekindled my love affair with this great club