was 16, not my first game but memorable for many reasons, managed to get tickets for the replay, it was my maths o level next day so parents said i couldn’t go, so me and my friend walked to the motorway turn on, {leyland one} with a sign, “got tickets , no transport” within 5 mins a coach full of city fans stopped, went to wembley, low light of my city life was the luton game, live in australia now but still up at 2am to watch, best compliment ever was when a mate said, dave, we cann call your wife ugly, your dog a mongrel and you don’t stir, but call city and you rise up like a cut snake

I was 9 years old when I went to see my first CITY match. It was Tommy Booth’s testimonial in 1981 (cup winners of 69 verses cup finalists of 81), and my dad took me and my friend Lee Riley. I remember being at the front of the kippax sat on the wall. I just saw all these goals go in and loved every minute of it. I think it ended up 9-2, and Tommy played one half for each team. I was hooked, and I now I watch CITY with my son.

Tony Mayor

June 3, 1981. Living in the Vancouver Canada area at a time when there was next to no football on the TV I’d been a City fan for 10 years but had never seen the lads play.

I became a fan when as a youngster I played for a team in sky blue. I had also played for a team called Rangers aand Rodney Marsh transfered from QP Rangers to City. I took those two facts as a sign as to which team was for me.

I was a season ticket holder for the Vancouver Whitecaps when it was announced that Man City would play an exhibition game vs the Caps at old Empire Stadium.

I’d followed the Whitecaps to New York to see them win the Soccer Bowl in 1979. Ironically Rodney Marsh was playing for Tampa Bay in that game. But despite that I was cheering for City in that game in Vancouver. However it wasn’t a great day for City as the Whitecaps crushed them 5-0.

Sadly that still remains the lone time I’ve seen City live. I’ve never been in Britain when the season was on. However I will be in London this March when we are at Chelsea. It will be a couple weeks before my fiftieth birthday. So if you want to swing me a ticket….

Just kidding. Always proud to be a fan.

This game in the scheme of things matters not a jot, but to me it was the day my future saturday afternoons were mapped out. I was only told saturday lunchtime where we going so i didn’t get much notice, i remember walking through the crowds-all around me were giants wearing blue and white, i wanted a rosette, a flag-when i asked my dad why there were so many flags he told me it’s because we’re in the Cup final-the cup final! i could watch them on TV, this was the last home match before the cup final(i think), we walked round the ground and took our places on the benches of the platt lane, i remember how far away the pitch looked-i don’t remember much of the game-i think Dave Bennett scored, i know they equalised, Malcolm Allison may have been their manager but i knew my team wore blue.I knew and let all the other boys at school know that i was the only City fan in the class but i was also the only one who went to the games!! A couple of weeks later i cried over City for the first time-certainly not the last. I went to the schalke game recently, and was very emotional at full time knowing how far we’ve been down and how close to the top we are again.

I cannot remember the exect year but my first game was at Maine Road against Southampton and future manage Kevin Keegan was playing for ‘The Saints’. The game finished 1-1 and I was in the North Stand as a young 6 year old. The roar when City scored was so loud that I started crying and my Dad gave me a packet of fruit pastiles to calm down. Despite this I became hooked and later in my life became a season ticket holder and enjoyed contributing to the noise when we score.

The abiding memory of my first city game is that It was Alex Williams debut and i was sat in the Platt lane stand with my dad on those yellow benches. It was in the days when keepers wore green but because WBA’s kit was green and yellow both keeper’s had red shirt’s on i thought they were the best thing i’d ever seen and plus the fact we won made it a day i’ll never forget.
Glyn Billington , Oldham

My first City match was the FA cup replay against Everton in 1981, it was a night match and I could here the roar of the kippax as I walked to the ground. The atmosphere inside Maine Road was electric and I knew straight away that I would be a blue forever. CTID!!!

My 1st City Game was the last home game of the 1980/1981 season at home v Crystal Palace the week before the F.A cup Final. The final score was 1-1 and Dave Bennett scored if I remember right?

This game was my first taste of the Maine Road atmosphere. City were on a high after just beating Ipswich in the FA Cup semi-final. I sat on the old wooden bench seats in the platt lane stand. City scored three times through Steve MacKenzie,Dave Bennett and Kevin Reeves. I was hooked and by a spooky coincidence i was born during the 1970 Cup winners Cup Final win where the winning goal was scored by Francis Lee whos birthday was that day also….Seems i was born to support the blues.

we played norwich that year on the way to the final. my brother took me with some of his friends to watch city. i think it was about a £1 or £1.10 to get in and the programme was either 25 or 30p. the score was 6-1 to city and i have watched them ever since.