Your First Derby Game

United 2 City 3 at OT, September 1962.

I still remember walking down Stretford Road to the ground with The Old Man; Joe Hayes' goal for us (but not Peter Dobing's!); then as the clock was running down with United trying to get a winner at 2-2, they gave the ball away and suddenly Alex Harley was on a clear run at goal with what seemed like the whole United team and crowd chasing him before he planted it past David Gaskell!; and finally The Old Man pointing to Trautmann, shouting 'Look at Bert!' and I saw him outside the area doing forward rolls in celebration of our winner!

We'd had a shocking start to the season (opening day losing at Wolves 8-1, also losing at home to West Ham 6-1 - the first time I ever saw Bobby Moore, btw!) We were full of hope walking home that we'd 'turned the corner'.. but it wasn't to be that season, eventually going down with Leyton Orient.. Eeeee, 'appy days?!
 
johnevans said:
United 2 City 3 at OT, September 1962.

I still remember walking down Stretford Road to the ground with The Old Man; Joe Hayes' goal for us (but not Peter Dobing's!); then as the clock was running down with United trying to get a winner at 2-2, they gave the ball away and suddenly Alex Harley was on a clear run at goal with what seemed like the whole United team and crowd chasing him before he planted it past David Gaskell!; and finally The Old Man pointing to Trautmann, shouting 'Look at Bert!' and I saw him outside the area doing forward rolls in celebration of our winner!

We'd had a shocking start to the season (opening day losing at Wolves 8-1, also losing at home to West Ham 6-1 - the first time I ever saw Bobby Moore, btw!) We were full of hope walking home that we'd 'turned the corner'.. but it wasn't to be that season, eventually going down with Leyton Orient.. Eeeee, 'appy days?!
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Great memories Eeeee .Great story
 
3 3 November 71. One of the best games ever Buzzer equalised from a corner in injury time. Felt like a win.
 
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.
 
September 77 for me (with a couple of other 11 year old mates ) - lovely 3-1 win with Kiddo grabbing a couple....and maybe channon the other.

The noise when we scored bloody petrified me.
Thats when i knew this one meant a bit more than other games.
 
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.
 
Brightwell Bros. said:
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.
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Same - i'm still learning to live with the result from that game.
 
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!
 
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
 
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.
 
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