mancitymick
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Honestly cant remember mine. It would of been late 70's
You never forget your 1st Derby
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mine was in the late 60's....rags used to be allowed in the kippax then with a rope and half a dozen coppers between us...what fun we had!!
In this particular derby ( poss 68/69 ) city ran down the kippax steps at
half time and up into their section..cue mayhem and if i remember correctly
all the rags were evacuated onto the pitch ( red scarfs,programmes and
shoes left all over the terraces ).
This also caused a lot of panic in the red scoreboard end...which emptied
like a chamber pot down the loo as city ran in from windy corner!!
Some reds I knew from Brooklands came over to stand with me and my mates cos they were shitting it!!
What a first derby...beat them off and on ( i think ? ) the field .
feel free to correct any dates :)
In this particular derby ( poss 68/69 ) city ran down the kippax steps at
half time and up into their section..cue mayhem and if i remember correctly
all the rags were evacuated onto the pitch ( red scarfs,programmes and
shoes left all over the terraces ).
This also caused a lot of panic in the red scoreboard end...which emptied
like a chamber pot down the loo as city ran in from windy corner!!
Some reds I knew from Brooklands came over to stand with me and my mates cos they were shitting it!!
What a first derby...beat them off and on ( i think ? ) the field .
feel free to correct any dates :)
RobertFish
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First and, so far, only was November 10, 1994. Lost 5-0, surrounded by scum but still a day to remember.
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Rosler1985 said:
That was my 1st Derby as well. Every time we go ahead against them memories of that game come flooding back!!
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Have we really played them 44 times since the 5-1? Blimey!bluetonium said:
I racked my memory but can't think of anything before the Youth Cup final - just read Paul Lake's book and nice (but also sad) to see it was a highlight for him too!
I'd been watching City for ten years by then, but my Dad only ever seemed to take me to City v Bolton (in my memory they played at least five times a season I saw them so many times, and it was always a draw!).
Went to both legs, and hadn't been back to the swamp until the olympics this year. It's not improved.
I'd been watching City for ten years by then, but my Dad only ever seemed to take me to City v Bolton (in my memory they played at least five times a season I saw them so many times, and it was always a draw!).
Went to both legs, and hadn't been back to the swamp until the olympics this year. It's not improved.
The first I remember was the 0-1 at Maine Road in 00/01; the first I was in attendance for was the 4-1 in 03/04, the first Eastlands Derby.
The 4-1 was just a magic day; it was a month before I turned 11 and I could never imagine us being able to chant "We Want 5" in a Derby.
The 4-1 was just a magic day; it was a month before I turned 11 and I could never imagine us being able to chant "We Want 5" in a Derby.
baildon blue
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My 1st derby i went to was November 2ooo at Maine Road 1-0 to Man United great atmosphere that day.I remember Frankie goes to hollywood was played 2 tribes brilliant but not the result.
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Manchester City 0 Manchester United 0:
November 10th, 2010
This was a game of equality but little quality. Manchester City proved they are noisy neighbours but to become a truly big noise, locally and nationally, Roberto Mancini needs to gamble at key moments. Keeping Emmanuel Adebayor in reserve until the final moments was adding insult to injury time, although the substitute hardly helped by spending almost as long as a Prom pin-up getting his hair and outfit ready.
Risk seems a four-letter word to Mancini, a good manager who just needs to throw caution to the wind at times. City will not appreciate the comparison but Mancini’s counterpart, Sir Alex Ferguson, would have gambled.
Gone for it. Win or bust. It is why United so often prevail late on in games when attacking substitutes make their mark. Manchester United won a European Cup this way.
The concept of adventure appears alien to Mancini, whose tactics turned a Premier League game into a Serie A one. Yet the waves of criticism rolling back towards the Italian again after this exercise in caution must be tempered by two facts. The man of the match was Nemanja Vidic, a slab of Serbian granite at centre-half, who earned the bubbly as reward for so expertly slamming any window of opportunity shut on Carlos Tévez, James Milner and Yaya Touré.
The other undeniable truth is that Mancini would have been marched back to the public stocks had City lost. Having been punished so painfully by United in the Premier League and Carling Cup last season, City did not want a repeat. So Mancini closed the game down, producing the first draw in a derby at City since 1993 when Niall Quinn and Eric Cantona traded goals.
By the end it was United, through Javier Hernández and Ji-Sung Park who were pushing more forcefully for the points as City sat deep.
In drawing with United, following last season’s defeats, Mancini can argue that City are slowly, but surely, improving and he has undeniably made them difficult to beat.
Kolo Touré and Vincent Kompany did well at the back, while Joe Hart dealt comfortably with what little came his way. Aleksandar Kolarov will also give City more invention from full-back when fully fit.
City would have a sharper cutting edge if Mario Balotelli had not been suspended. A strike-force of Tévez off Balotelli would trouble most defences.
United also thought ruefully about an absent friend. Wayne Rooney would have given Ferguson’s side that little bit extra class up front.
Dimitar Berbatov, who headed United’s 4-5-1 system until replaced by Hernández, demonstrated some neat touches but not enough to elude Kolo Touré and Kompany. In truth, this was a damp squib of a game, a contrast to all the usual Premier League fireworks. The atmosphere was good.
Stoked to fever pitch before kick-off, the lights dropped and expectations raised, the City fans brandishing banners that read “LOVE GLAZER HATE UNITED’’, the lack of neighbourly love had been immediately, spitefully apparent.
Within 30 seconds, Paul Scholes had stormed in on Milner, forcing the England winger to take evasive action. Scholes seemed on a mission to earn a booking simply through offences on Milner, eventually pushing referee Chris Foy too far and earning a caution which rules him out of Saturday’s visit to Villa Park. This was a war of attrition. Even Berbatov tracked back to bring down Nigel de Jong, the biter bit. Even David Silva, usually more elegant, caught Nani. The midfields were packed to bursting point. City had Gareth Barry and De Jong holding with Yaya Touré just ahead of them while Milner and Silva sought fruitlessly to stretch the visitors. Tévez led the line, led the attack on United’s local hegemony, even turning this Manchester derby into a South-American scrap by rucking with the feisty Brazilian Rafael as the half closed.
Having left behind the warmth of Buenos Aires, Tévez ignored the sinking temperatures in the north-west of England. Far from fully fit, the stocky little Argentine gave everything against his old team-mates, keeping Rio Ferdinand and Vidic fully occupied. Vidic, in particular, relished the challenge.
United also started with five in midfield, the anchoring done by Scholes and Michael Carrick with Darren Fletcher granted a more attacking role. Park and Nani supplied the width but most of United’s creative touches in the first half flowed from Patrice Evra, who exchanged passes with Park early on and drew a low save from Hart.
Still the tackles flew in, Barry burying his studs into Nani’s ankle, but at such speed that Foy did not notice. The tempo was high, the endeavour admirable but little technical class pervaded events. Milner did keep raiding forward, first stopped by Vidic and then by Ferdinand.
Scholes continued his close inspection of Milner’s socks and shin-pads, bringing down the City No 7 about 25 yards out, conceding a free-kick perfectly placed in Tévez country. City’s captain stepped up and steered the ball past the leaping Scholes, over the heads of Nani and Berbatov in the wall, forcing Edwin van der Sar into a despairing save. It was the closest City came.
Still the tackles went in, Jérôme Boateng timing an immaculate challenge to nick the ball from under Evra’s feet. Vidic then powered into Yaya Touré who had progressed 40 yards upfield like a runaway prop. United attempted to hit back, Fletcher and Evra working the ball to Berbatov at the far post but the Bulgarian could not get his effort on target.
Touches of skill punctuated the second half, Scholes effortlessly guiding the ball along his own 18-yard line past Tévez and Silva. Nani then wrong-footed De Jong.
Mancini then sent on Adam Johnson, a winger whose immediately embarked on one promising run but a player who clearly needed to convince his coach that he can trust him. If City are to move up another level they will need Johnson starting, twisting and turning opposing full-backs into submission.
Adebayor then came on but it almost seemed a case of running down the clock.
Not a classic.
November 10th, 2010
This was a game of equality but little quality. Manchester City proved they are noisy neighbours but to become a truly big noise, locally and nationally, Roberto Mancini needs to gamble at key moments. Keeping Emmanuel Adebayor in reserve until the final moments was adding insult to injury time, although the substitute hardly helped by spending almost as long as a Prom pin-up getting his hair and outfit ready.
Risk seems a four-letter word to Mancini, a good manager who just needs to throw caution to the wind at times. City will not appreciate the comparison but Mancini’s counterpart, Sir Alex Ferguson, would have gambled.
Gone for it. Win or bust. It is why United so often prevail late on in games when attacking substitutes make their mark. Manchester United won a European Cup this way.
The concept of adventure appears alien to Mancini, whose tactics turned a Premier League game into a Serie A one. Yet the waves of criticism rolling back towards the Italian again after this exercise in caution must be tempered by two facts. The man of the match was Nemanja Vidic, a slab of Serbian granite at centre-half, who earned the bubbly as reward for so expertly slamming any window of opportunity shut on Carlos Tévez, James Milner and Yaya Touré.
The other undeniable truth is that Mancini would have been marched back to the public stocks had City lost. Having been punished so painfully by United in the Premier League and Carling Cup last season, City did not want a repeat. So Mancini closed the game down, producing the first draw in a derby at City since 1993 when Niall Quinn and Eric Cantona traded goals.
By the end it was United, through Javier Hernández and Ji-Sung Park who were pushing more forcefully for the points as City sat deep.
In drawing with United, following last season’s defeats, Mancini can argue that City are slowly, but surely, improving and he has undeniably made them difficult to beat.
Kolo Touré and Vincent Kompany did well at the back, while Joe Hart dealt comfortably with what little came his way. Aleksandar Kolarov will also give City more invention from full-back when fully fit.
City would have a sharper cutting edge if Mario Balotelli had not been suspended. A strike-force of Tévez off Balotelli would trouble most defences.
United also thought ruefully about an absent friend. Wayne Rooney would have given Ferguson’s side that little bit extra class up front.
Dimitar Berbatov, who headed United’s 4-5-1 system until replaced by Hernández, demonstrated some neat touches but not enough to elude Kolo Touré and Kompany. In truth, this was a damp squib of a game, a contrast to all the usual Premier League fireworks. The atmosphere was good.
Stoked to fever pitch before kick-off, the lights dropped and expectations raised, the City fans brandishing banners that read “LOVE GLAZER HATE UNITED’’, the lack of neighbourly love had been immediately, spitefully apparent.
Within 30 seconds, Paul Scholes had stormed in on Milner, forcing the England winger to take evasive action. Scholes seemed on a mission to earn a booking simply through offences on Milner, eventually pushing referee Chris Foy too far and earning a caution which rules him out of Saturday’s visit to Villa Park. This was a war of attrition. Even Berbatov tracked back to bring down Nigel de Jong, the biter bit. Even David Silva, usually more elegant, caught Nani. The midfields were packed to bursting point. City had Gareth Barry and De Jong holding with Yaya Touré just ahead of them while Milner and Silva sought fruitlessly to stretch the visitors. Tévez led the line, led the attack on United’s local hegemony, even turning this Manchester derby into a South-American scrap by rucking with the feisty Brazilian Rafael as the half closed.
Having left behind the warmth of Buenos Aires, Tévez ignored the sinking temperatures in the north-west of England. Far from fully fit, the stocky little Argentine gave everything against his old team-mates, keeping Rio Ferdinand and Vidic fully occupied. Vidic, in particular, relished the challenge.
United also started with five in midfield, the anchoring done by Scholes and Michael Carrick with Darren Fletcher granted a more attacking role. Park and Nani supplied the width but most of United’s creative touches in the first half flowed from Patrice Evra, who exchanged passes with Park early on and drew a low save from Hart.
Still the tackles flew in, Barry burying his studs into Nani’s ankle, but at such speed that Foy did not notice. The tempo was high, the endeavour admirable but little technical class pervaded events. Milner did keep raiding forward, first stopped by Vidic and then by Ferdinand.
Scholes continued his close inspection of Milner’s socks and shin-pads, bringing down the City No 7 about 25 yards out, conceding a free-kick perfectly placed in Tévez country. City’s captain stepped up and steered the ball past the leaping Scholes, over the heads of Nani and Berbatov in the wall, forcing Edwin van der Sar into a despairing save. It was the closest City came.
Still the tackles went in, Jérôme Boateng timing an immaculate challenge to nick the ball from under Evra’s feet. Vidic then powered into Yaya Touré who had progressed 40 yards upfield like a runaway prop. United attempted to hit back, Fletcher and Evra working the ball to Berbatov at the far post but the Bulgarian could not get his effort on target.
Touches of skill punctuated the second half, Scholes effortlessly guiding the ball along his own 18-yard line past Tévez and Silva. Nani then wrong-footed De Jong.
Mancini then sent on Adam Johnson, a winger whose immediately embarked on one promising run but a player who clearly needed to convince his coach that he can trust him. If City are to move up another level they will need Johnson starting, twisting and turning opposing full-backs into submission.
Adebayor then came on but it almost seemed a case of running down the clock.
Not a classic.
stimo
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3-1 at maine road. my first and maine roads last, happy days