My first game was v Middlesborough on Feb 18 1950 when I was 8. The memory i have is of the 2 blonds – Bert Trautmann and their inside right Wilf Mannion. Mannion had a flying header saved by a diving Bert. last year I dicovered the date of this game as one of my mates was selling his programmes on Ebay (he’s a Oldham fan) and he told me he had and old 1950s City programme on sale. Lo and behold it was my first game so i made a very high bid and we pretended that we had done a deal and I have the programme – it cost 2 pence! I have tried to upload a photo of the programme but it says it’s too big a file. It says of Mannion that “he is one of the finest inside forwards in football today”. We were next to bottom of the League with the rags next to the top and an article in the Evening Chronicle by Frank Swift was headlined “Footballers cannot play and work”