i remember a game in 1956/7 Joe Hayes and Bobby Johnson both playing, the opposition was Aston villa,
As a child , i thought the pitch was blue as the pervailing smoke from 60 plus thousand Woodbines hung over the pitch like a winter’s mist.
I was safely placed at the back of the old Kippax whilst my uncle who had travelled from Birmingham to see his beloved Man City stood just in front.
The overiding memory was Bert Trautman threw the ball at the ref who was walking away from him… it tit the ref (laces down) on the back of the head knocked him off his feet…. and Bert was summarily dismissed…. we lost.
I was hooked…. it still hurts when we lose.