Your First Derby Game

[xgorton]

The 3-3 in 71-72, still the biggest home crowd I've seen us play Infront of.

Yes just over 63,000,our last 63 crowd seats went in North stand following season so reduced capacity.

 

[gazinho]

The Maine Road massacre was my first, it went downhill in a big way from there for a good number of years

 

[Mike N]

September 77 at Maine Road. 3-1 win. We were a much better team than them. Remember being really disappointed at the number of Rags in the seats behind both goals. I couldn’t understand where the blues who usually sat there were.

It was a bit dodgy outside afterwards.

 

[SS2dan]

This was my first Derby. Franny got a hat-trick at the swamp. Bloody fantastic. I was in with the Rags. No segregation then.

This was also the first one at the swamp I remember fairly sure Franny hat trick was what is described as perfect left foot right foot and header

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

The 3-2 in 93 where Quinn scored twice and we were 2-0 up at half time but lost 3-2. I would have been 6 or 7. Cantona scored twice and then Keane into the goal I was sat behind. Needless to say it was a pretty decent taster for what supporting City would be like for the next two decades.

Same - i'm still learning to live with the result from that game.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Can't remember the first one. In fact, can't remember the last one. But I can remember a reserve derby at Maine Road where the fat bastard Dawson was playing for the Rags, and gave Maradonna a dress rehearsal for his 'hand of God'. Clear as fuckin' day he swung his arm over his head and guided it into the net. Ref didn't want to know, the cheating bastard. That was the day I started to fuck refs off!

 

[BlueRockape]

Old toilet 1974

 

[WickyWain]

First one I went to was at Etihad in 2005 (or COMS back then), we lost 2-0 with Rooney scoring so I like to forget about that one and remember the next one I went to which was the 2008 1-0 win with Geovanni scoring

 

[willipp]

3-3 in 90 and think we were 3-1 up with about 5 minutes to go and drew 3-3. Remember being in utter joy singing we want 5 and then suddenly being on the floor at full time. Typical City.

 

[glasg0wblue]

4-1 at the Etihad with SWP scoring a worldie.