Feb 12th 2000 City 3-1 Norwich. What a day, my first time at a City game…and what a boring 1-1 draw we were heading for until Joe Royle pulled in Mark Kennedy to the sideline and made the gesture for Kennedy to cut inside the right back (Mark was trying to go outside all afternoon) 5 minutes later it was 3-1 with 2 exquisite strikes from the Dub. The icing was laid so thick on the cake that day as the Rags lost 3-0 in Newcastle. To top it off that day too, I had a radio so nothing really beats delivering the news to thousands of your fellow City fans that the rags had conceded a goal, whats even better I got to do it 3 times!!! We headed to the Nelson after for a few pints and when the crowd discovered we were paddies over for the game they broke in to song “There’s only one Mark Kennedy”. Magic!!!

I travelled from Glossop on the train with my close friend Eric – we still meet up at each home game even though we live 200 miles apart – and got the bus to the ground from Aytoun Street. The game was against Birmingham City and lasted about half an hour because of a waterlogged pitch! The score was 1-1. The whole day out cost me less than 10/-d (50p). The good old days!!

I was 9 when I attended my first City game with my Dad and older brother. I remember we sat towards the front of the Main Stand on the bench seats. City won 3-2. I particularly remember the City forward line of Summerbee Bell Lee Marsh and Law which I still think to this day takes some beating. I was hooked!……..

My Husband Rob is Blue through and through but due to work commitments hadn’t been to a match at Eastlands. Finally he had a Saturday off I plotted with our sons we would say we where going to the Science and Industry Museum we arrived at Piccadilly and got in a taxi his jaw dropped when I asked the cabbie for the City Of Manchester Stadium!!! We arrived at the ground I was impressed by the size of the place we got our tickets and even met Moonchester outside. We where in tier 3 of the East Stand. Match time the noise was great the singing and cheering Elano scored a great goal in the bottom corner Rob nearly lost his voice!! 45,000 Left happy at full time me included I really enjoyed the day and I think Rob forgave me the lying about where we where going

I’m not totally sure who we were playing, but I do remember it was at Main Road, I was only a young kid, I was skipping a doctors appointment to see the match with my older brother who was a season ticket holder. I lost my voice do to being unwell about 10 mins before k.o, though i still tried to scream and shout along with the fans. the atmosphere at main road i feel is lost at COMS, it’s not the same camaraderie that I once felt. However, I’ll never forget the smells, the walk up the old concrete steps and then the view, centre of pitch mid level, and 3 goals for City, c’mon you blues!

My earliest and greatest memory as a ciy fan was outside main road(by the way i think city’s new stadium should be called new main road.)I was about 9 and in those days you could wander around outside the ground,without the security problems that you get today.I was waiting to go into block H which we always went into as Alan Oakes, mum was a dinner lady at our school and she sold me the tickets that he had been allocated to him.We were outside the ground when i felt someone put their hands on my shoulders i turned and looked up and it was Joe Mercer.I don’t think anyone believes me to this day,but it happened and it happened to me.I wonder what the great (and let’s not forget that’s what he was)Joe Mercer would have made of our great club today.

was 16, not my first game but memorable for many reasons, managed to get tickets for the replay, it was my maths o level next day so parents said i couldn’t go, so me and my friend walked to the motorway turn on, {leyland one} with a sign, “got tickets , no transport” within 5 mins a coach full of city fans stopped, went to wembley, low light of my city life was the luton game, live in australia now but still up at 2am to watch, best compliment ever was when a mate said, dave, we cann call your wife ugly, your dog a mongrel and you don’t stir, but call city and you rise up like a cut snake

As a wide eyed 10 year old, I was taken to the game by my dad’s mate, Frank Boardman.

Instant memeories…the scale of the ground…instant aromas for ever associate with maine Road and particularly the Platt Lane…pipe tobacco(Frank smoked a pipe)..so many of the fans smoked, the pies, bovril….a heady mix.

And what a game to start….City ran out winners 8-1….and the only reason Scunthorpe scored wa sbecause Harry Dowd 9who always wanted to be a plumber ) tried to head a goalbound shot around the post.
I think Murray and kevan both scored hat tricks….I was hooked.
Followed them now for 45 years and my Dad still follows them with me at the ripe old age of 98 (99 in August)…as does my son now 17.

Supporting City …pure passion.

Now had scunthorpe won….where would I be now!

yoh!!!!manchester city rule!!!

was against blackpool at maine rd i was only 5 & went with my dad,i can remember sitting down in the north stand & seeing all the fans & hearing the singing.we won 3-0 & my dad picking me up & holding me up in the air when we scored,i have been going ever since & i will not stop going no matter what,once a blue always a blue.