My first match was the season after City lost to Newcastle in the 1955 FA Cup Final. I watched it on a small black and white TV and supported City that day. After a few tears my father promised to take me to a live game the next season. I can’t even remember who it was against but I remember standing in the corner by the north bank and watching Nobby Clark take the corners only a few feet away and to this day can remember most of the team…for me they became legends…Bert Trautman, Roy Paul, Joe Hayes,Dave Ewing and the rest. That day I became a City supporter for life. Now my children and their children all support the Blues even though some of them live in London. No game could have a greater impact on a seven year old.

I remember, like most, being taken to Maine Road and watching Bert Trautmann getting very Muddy

First time at eastlands.Been a suppoerter all my life and what an experience for my first game.A GRT WIN…

I cannot remember the exact year but I think it was around 1958. It was at Maine Road with my Uncle Jim who lived in Moss Side which is a while ago now! It was against Preston North End, Sir Tom Finney was on the right wing for PNE and Bert Trautmann was in goal for City. The final score was 1-1 and I was in the Kippax near to the score board end. I have been a life long City supporter ever since.

in the late sixties me and my dad getting the bus to maine road and parking up in a massive line of buses on great western street.then going to watch the likes of oakes,dowd,pardoe,coleman and all the usual great names.what great memories.many thanks

I was given 2 tickets from a mate at the local butchers but at 12 was too young to go on my own. My elder brother took me and i remember it was Alex Stepney’s it was the first game where banners were banned, we lost 1-0 and Dennis Law and Alan Oakes had a fight on the edge of the box, the report in the pink said that oakes was the more sluggish of the 2 punchers – and that was all that was said! We were in the old score board end which had a white picket fence and if you were at the bottom your head was level with players feet. Can’t remember who scored but the city fans mercilessly chanted about Alex Stepney having big ears, something like, ‘come fly with me Alex Stepeny’ and Charltons a skinhead was another chant. I remember the cup final too when the supporters were asked to curb the bad language and the City fans made some creative adjustments, like he’s here he’s there, we’re not aloud to swear Tommy Booth, and ‘the ref’s a naughty boy the ref’s a naughty boy. But i will never forget that first game… the ground was horrid and I have loved the kippax ever since!!

An expectant 9yr
old turning up to Maine Road on an autumn day to watch his team play the winners of the European Cup in Rome in May 1977. Well they may have had Clemence, Hansen, Daglish and others… yet they were no match for Barnes jinking runs and goals by Kidd, Channon and Royle. Channons famous goal celebration was icing on the cake. I never looked back after that…

this game sticks in my memory as it was stuart pearces final game for man city and he had a penalty in order to get 100 career goals!!and true to city, he missed it .

My First Game Was a Home Match Vs Qpr 93/94 season,
i didnt really know who i supported till this game, i was more of a follower before! Although we lost the match the atmosphere was electric, i remember walking into the north stand looking at the kippax, feeling the hair standing up on my neck! I loved it and have never looked back, City Till I Die!!

I remember very little of my first game, I have no idea who we played, I don’t know the date, all I know is that I met the first real love of my life. He had speed, he had style, he had the best haircut I’d ever seen. Ignoring the more glamorous players, I instantly adored David White. Having asked my dad if he was married, I ran down to the tunnel to meet him. I was 4. My love for David White passed, but not for City. I’ve been a season ticket holder ever since.