This game in the scheme of things matters not a jot, but to me it was the day my future saturday afternoons were mapped out. I was only told saturday lunchtime where we going so i didn’t get much notice, i remember walking through the crowds-all around me were giants wearing blue and white, i wanted a rosette, a flag-when i asked my dad why there were so many flags he told me it’s because we’re in the Cup final-the cup final! i could watch them on TV, this was the last home match before the cup final(i think), we walked round the ground and took our places on the benches of the platt lane, i remember how far away the pitch looked-i don’t remember much of the game-i think Dave Bennett scored, i know they equalised, Malcolm Allison may have been their manager but i knew my team wore blue.I knew and let all the other boys at school know that i was the only City fan in the class but i was also the only one who went to the games!! A couple of weeks later i cried over City for the first time-certainly not the last. I went to the schalke game recently, and was very emotional at full time knowing how far we’ve been down and how close to the top we are again.