June 3, 1981. Living in the Vancouver Canada area at a time when there was next to no football on the TV I’d been a City fan for 10 years but had never seen the lads play.

I became a fan when as a youngster I played for a team in sky blue. I had also played for a team called Rangers aand Rodney Marsh transfered from QP Rangers to City. I took those two facts as a sign as to which team was for me.

I was a season ticket holder for the Vancouver Whitecaps when it was announced that Man City would play an exhibition game vs the Caps at old Empire Stadium.

I’d followed the Whitecaps to New York to see them win the Soccer Bowl in 1979. Ironically Rodney Marsh was playing for Tampa Bay in that game. But despite that I was cheering for City in that game in Vancouver. However it wasn’t a great day for City as the Whitecaps crushed them 5-0.

Sadly that still remains the lone time I’ve seen City live. I’ve never been in Britain when the season was on. However I will be in London this March when we are at Chelsea. It will be a couple weeks before my fiftieth birthday. So if you want to swing me a ticket….

Just kidding. Always proud to be a fan.