I was four years old when my Dad took me to my first City game. All I can remember of it was sitting on one of the steel bars in the old Kippax at Maine Road, the yellow shirts of the team we were playing and colourful fireworks going off above the main stand.

After a bit of detective work I’ve managed to track down the match that it probably was – a League Cup tie with Norwich on the 25th October 1989. We won 3-1 with goals from Clive Allen, Ian Bishop and David White. Less than two years later I remember bursting into tears when my Dad told me that the hero of that night, Clive Allen, had been sold. Suffice it to say, I was hooked!