My first City game was a Manchester derby in Maine Road on Sunday 7 November 1993. I was with my best mate, Graham, and the Dublin Branch of the Supporters Club. We travelled on the Saturday morning by ferry from Dublin to Hollyhead and then by coach to Manchester, staying overnight before the match on Sunday. What a match it was, Irish hero the Mighty Quinn had us 2-0 up at half time and life couldn’t have been better. Then the French villain Cantona scored 2 to even it up before the Irish villain Keane scored the winner. We were all gutted by the result that day, but, 17 years later I still have my best mate and many more in the Supporters Club in Dublin and beyond. As I have learned throughout my 35 years as a City fan, you will have good days and bad days but you will always have City and your mates. A True Blue forever.
Noel O’Connor