Around 1954 my dad took me to Maine Road, I was about 8 years old. I had my Autograph book with me. When the Sunderland coach turned up I got knocked over in the crush, but got picked up and taken into the City dressing room. Bert Trautman was there with his son in his arms and all the other players. I got all the autographs from both teams. What a day, there was no turning back, I was City!

Around 1954 my dad took me to Maine Road, I was about 8 years old. I had my Autograph book with me. When the Sunderland coach turned up I got knocked over in the crush, but got picked up and taken into the City dressing room. Bert Trautman was there with his son in his arms and all the other players. I got all the autographs from both teams. What a day, there was no turning back, I was City!

First match with my Dad and with hardly anybody in The Scoreboard End, somebody came and stood right in front of me. I told my Dad who told me to tell the bloke to which I said no, then the bloke turned round, it was my Uncle Les

I was 8, and my dad thought I ought to see a football match. Unfortunately, his knowledge of football didn’t even extend to knowing what colour City played in, with the result that we solemnly cheered the wrong team! I went home happy thinking we’d won 1-0, and had a horrible shock when I saw the next day’s paper. 56 years later, I still cringe at the thought of what the rest of the crowd must have thought! For the record, Ronnie Allen scored Albion’s goal and my childhood hero was Bert Trauttman.

I can still remember my first live game back in 1958. I was 10 at the time. It was at Maine Road and I remember standing in the open section between the Kippax and the Platt Lane stand with my school chum, Graham Todd.
It was against man utd and was the ” debut match ” of the original ” Golden Boy ” Albert Quixhall who utd bought for a then record fee of £45,000 from Sheff Wed. CITY won the game 3-1. George Hannah, who CITY bought from Notts County scored 2 Goals and Joe Hayes, with his famous bandy legs, scored the other. Some pillock in a red shirt scored utd’s goal.

the first match I attended was a night game at Maine road in the autumn 09 1958 City 1 Luton 2FROM THIS MAGICAL MOMENT I WAS HOOKED Every home game i paid my tanner for school boys yes 21/2 pence. I saw stars like HAYES,BARLOW, SAMBROOKE, HANNA,BETTS LEVIER AND OF COURSE MY GREAT HERO BERT TRAUTMAN AND EVER SINCE MY HEART STILL MISSES ABEAT AT THE START OF EVERY GAME

I was complaining about being bored over tea so my father took me to Maine Road, where from a good vantage point on a Kippax crush barrier I saw City trounce Sheffield United 5 0 (or 5 1!) on a warm September evening.I was only 11 and I’d been to Oldham Athletic several times but Maine Road was something else! There was something magically original about that sky blue strip.

I was 10 years old and probably saw earlier games but this is the first one I actually recall. My dad got tickets from work on the Friday before the match and we travelled to Villa Park by coach. The weather was awful; it rained all day. I remember queuing in the rain to get in the ground and dad buying me a rosette. The opponents were Sunderland who were a good side with the great Len Shackleton and a big centre forward, ‘Cannonball’ Fleming. The pitch was a mudbath and we went through 1-0 thanks to a goal from Nobby Clarke. By winning we prevented a Tyne & Wear derby in the final as we were to face Newcastle at Wembley. Of course, as all City fans know, we lost that game 3-1 with ‘Wor Jackie’ Milburn scoring after just 54 seconds and Jimmy Meadows being carried off after about 20 minutes. No subs in those days so we played with 10 men for well over an hour. George Hannah, who was to later play for City, also scored and so did Bobby Mitchell. Bobby Johnstone scored for City just as he did 12 months later when we beat Birmingham in the 1956 final. My dad died yesterday (22 December 2008) and this memory is dedicated to his memory.

The first City match I recall attending was the 1955 FA Cup Semi-Final against Sunderland(I might have been at earlier matches, but I don’t remember them). I was just 10 years old at the time; my dad got tickets from someone at work on the eve of the game and we travelled to Villa Park by coach. The weather was horrendous, it poured with rain all day and the pitch was a mudbath. I remember queuing to get in the ground and dad buying me a rosette in City colours. As every City fan knows, we won 1-0 with Nobby Clark scoring the goal. Sunderland were a good side; I think the great Len Shackleton played and a big centre forward called ‘Cannonball Fleming. In winning the match we prevented a Tyne-Tees derby in the final, as we were to find out that Newcastle won the other semi. They beat us 3-1 in the Final with ‘Wor Jackie’ Milburn scoring after just 54 seconds but thanks largely to the terrible injury to Jimmy Meadows’s after just 20 minutes or so. My dad died today (22 December 2008) aged 88 and this City memory is dedicated to his memory.

on the kippax street side,no cover in those days, rain lashed and very wet but it didn’t matter we were winning 3-1 with 10 mins to go but then we lost 3-4.Suddenly I felt very wet again