I was a young boy, and I went with my mate Raymond Barlow, straight from school, St James C of E in Gorton, to Maine road, if I remember rightly it was a cup tie in the afternoon, midweek, and city played in all maroon, at a guess the opponents were Leicester, as we arrived in the scoreboard end my mates family were all there and as it was filling up quickly, they told us to get over the wall at the front where we would be able to see, we were right behind the goalmouth and I remember the atmosphere and the greenness of the turf, it was all new to me. As regards the year it was a guess but I do remember Johnny Crossan was playing so it must have been in the second division years…