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.

I was one of the orginal glory hunters!!!! and am prepared to admit it as I went to see MCFC play against my home team Hull City in the Cup and MCFC won Colin Bell scoring. We went as a gang of 8 year oldfs and had a great time supporting the blues. I have supported them every since and I have even managed to get Hulls Youth Enterprise Programme named after City its Making Changes For Careers now thats great combining work and City. City Fan at work – The Girl must be a Red!!

City beat a strong Everton side 2-0 (Bell and Lee)in round 4 of the cup. But it was the electric atmosphere that night that will live with me forever. I sat on a wall in the old scoreboard end at Maine Road and was transfixed by the colour of the pitch, the size of the Kippax, the glow of matches and lighters in the crowd, and the brilliant green of the pitch (we only saw football in black and white in those days). I was just hooked. My brother-in-law’s brother took me on the bus from Middleton – I was 11 years old and had been desperate to see a live game.

My greatest game came a few months later when we beat Shalke 5-1 in the CWC semi-final – there has never been a performance to beat that since by any City side.

A day I will never forget,attending Maine Road for the first time ever with my Dad for a 1-0 FA Cup Quarter Final victory over Tottenham.On a muddy Maine Road pitch,Francis Lee scored the winner midway through the second half.
My Dad was a Spurs fan,and we had travelled up from London for the game with my Mum and sister.
I fell in love with Maine Road,the friendly and electric atmosphere,the passion emanating from the crowd and the formidable team.
My allegiance changed to City that day,the family moved to Manchester by happy coincidence just two years afterwards, and I remain a passionate Blue still attending with my Mum as a Season Ticket holder 37 rollercoaster years later.And I wouldn’t change anything-it was love at first sight with Manchester City,and my love for the club will stay with me until I die!!

1968/’69, I forget exactly as I was only about 6. It was at Maine Road V Stoke , with my late father and older(red)brother, Frank.We lost 2-1,(gutted)and my (red)brother tried brainwashing me into supporting Utd, all the way back to Newton; fat chance!Still Blue-always will be-CTID…Craig Harrison.

My Dad took me and my friend from school in Kendal. I had got a photo of Francis Lee sent it to Maine Rd and he returned it with a message (Ive still got it) and never stopped supporting since even though the pitch was terrible we lost 5 – 1 (franny scored )and i could be wrong but I think Martin Peters scored with a volley from the half way line unbelievable ! It was a baptism of fire but I have to say that simple photo was magical to a ten year old and ive never forgotten it or the friendliness of the club.

I lived on kippax st as a boy, with a family of reds, i was a bit of a handful, so for a bit of peace on a saturday my mum took me over to maine rd, paid me in and arranged to meet me at the same entrance at the end of the game, we were playing coventry city, cant remember the score, i was only 9! Never missed since, had a season ticket for the last 15 yrs.

me and my mate want to main rd for the first time we were city mad, we got fish and chips from the city chippy and want into the kippax about 1 hour before the game so we could stand in front of the crash barrier at the front,we were 10 years old. been a city all my life and so is my famliy all of them in england and brazil.

I remember my first game at Maine Road was against Stoke City in 1969. My dad was a Stoke fan (later converted to a blue) and City lost a dire match 1-0. My second trip to Maine Rd was the first game of the 70/71 season, a 0-0 draw with Burnley. I then missed the home game with Blackpool (a midweek game played in the afternoon due to the 3 day week – remember that !!) which we won 2-0. My next game was against West Brom, and we promptly went a goal down. I was beginning to think I was a bad omen. However, we then got a goal back and didn’t know when to stop. City 4 W. Brom 1
I’ve followed City ever since, though don’t get to many games these days as I no longer live in Manchester.

Growing up in St Albans in the ’60s, I saw Franny Lee on TV and decided at the age of 5 that City were my team. A year later, my dad wrote to Franny and he met us outside the ground and gave us tickets. I was in heaven and then we won 4-0 with Franny scoring from the half-way line (as I remember it). It doesn’t get any better than that. And no, it hasn’t really, but for better or worse and all that. City til I die – not much you can do about that and I’m now trying to indoctrinate my children.