My first game was Manchester City vs Queens Park Rangers at Maine Road when I was 14 years old

My family had travelled to Manchester from Aberdeen
We had been season ticket holders at Pittodrie and enjoyed a succesful period of football under Sir Alex Ferguson – we all loved football but had never experienced a live English football match.

I had never followed Engish football much but as massive football fans my Dad and I decided to take in some matches when we were in Manchester

It was the first live Premier League game on Sky TV (BSkyB) and was on the 17th of August 1992

A buzzing Maine road was the host for Skys first outing with us playing Queens Park Rangers, David White giving us the lead before half time.
This also gave him the honour of being the first Goal For Manchester City In The Premier League
It finished 1-1 with QPR equalising after halftime through Andy Sinton with a strike from outside the box.

It was a great game with Keith Curle, Paul Lake, Steve McMahon and Niall Quinn all playing well; something blue was born in my blood that night!

Oddly it wasn’t only the football that made me become a City fan as for long spells of the match we were outplayed by QPR who looked dangerous with Darren Peacock dominant in the air

it was the fans, we were really loud and I remember bouncing up and down and the singing throughout the game

I’ll always remember there was lots of entertainment with Sky Strikers cheerleaders, a skydiving & parachute display and live music at half time – I had never seen anything like this before.

To make the week even better we went to old trafford on the Wednesday night and watched Everton beat them 3v0 in front of very quiet United supporters
Goals from Beardsley and Mo Johnstone against a United team including Ryan Giggs, Darren Ferguson and Mark Hughes

I travel down from Aberdeen every other week and have a season ticket in the Colin Bell stand Tier 2 – looking forward to many more great games this season and appreciate the effort our new owners have been making

I have to thank my Dad and the atmosphere on the terraces that night for me being a blue.