My dad took me to my first game in 1948. I can’t remember who they played but Frank Swift was in goal. I also remember Ron Phoenix playing at left half.No. 6, and George Smith playing inside right, No. 8. He think he’d lost his right hand when in the army in WW2 wiich had only ended 3 years before.
Before the game started my dad sat me on the wall, just to the right of the goal at the score board end and he said. “What you must remember is that City have got a knick name. They are called “The unpredictables” because they can beat the top of the league one week then get beaten by the bottom of the league the next.
How right he was, because 60 years on, nothing has changed!!!