I did not go to the game but I remember as a 6 year old watching it on a black and white portable telly in the kitchen in our home in Chorlton. At the end my dad turned to me and said ‘Don’t worry son I will take you the next time we are at Wembley!’ I thought how cool was my dad but now I realise how clever he was…. I am hoping that my 5 year old now gets the chance to see more Wembley Finals than me!!!! (Just the one in ‘99) COME ON CITY!!!!

My very first City match was Tommy Booths testimonial match in 1981 when I was 11 years old. My dad took me to the match and i watched in awe from the Kippax stand as my dad pointed out such greats as Franny Lee, Dennis Tueart, Tommy Booth etc played before me. I was hooked and have spent years following ‘MY’ team through good and bad times. I love, and will always love City.

My 1st game was when my dad took me to the cup final replay in 1981 against tottenham(spurs) and despite the fact we lost the final we lost it to a wonder solo goal by Villa…hence the title villa thriller…i will laways remember the true support from both teams,since that day the song blue moon will always play a massive part in my life and now my 6 year old sons life names Jensen after nicholas jensen.

It was January 1981, and we had Norwich City at home in the FA Cup. I was 7 years old and sat with my Dad. Maine Road looked huge, I was sat right at the front of the Main Stand. The smells, the atmosphere, the friendliness of the people around me, the noise, oh the noise !!
We won 6-0, naturally I was hooked, however I would have been had we lost 6-0 ! Amazing experience.

Although I had been to one or two games before this is the first one I really remember – the 1981 FA Cup Final – I was awoken by my father at 6am, and shouted at him for waking me up as i knew i couldn’t go to the game as i didn’t have a ticket. My dad laughed and shoved a ticket into my face and said ‘well if you don’t want to go i’ll give your ticket to someone else!! I got washed and dressed in double quick time….then on the coach as we arrived in London we saw a cockeral (it was really a man dressed up) and the whole coach started singing ‘get him stuffed, get him stuffed, get him stuffed’ It was my first song as a city fan. Then Hutch scored at both ends and the rest is history!!

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.