this was first game my dad took me to we sat in the north stand and what a game it was brill and been a blue ever since i met my wife mandy at a city match and are first date was man city v blackpool in 80s in the fa cup and now our children coe to the matches with us we are all season ticket holders in the north stand

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!!!

Before to many eye brows get raised, I’ll explain…….
It was August 1989 and I’d had a little bit, well a big bit of a thing for Gary Lineker!! It was silly I know but there you go…. A friend at school told me that he was going to the City game at the weekend and that they were playing Spurs. Now, I didn’t know much about football at the time, didn’t know anything about City, didn’t know much about United either (oh how I wish that was still the case!!) I did know that my dream man played for Spurs. My dad didn’t see it my way…. “Girl’s don’t go to football matches”. So, I did what every good girl did – I lied and went anyway. Sorry dad!!

I remember the walk from the bus, there were people everywhere….. I don’t think I’d ever seen so many people in one place. The colour, the smell of that chippy on the corner – it was all very odd. Walking up the stairs with the corrugated iron sides then to walk onto the Kippax, I’d like to say the hairs standing on the back of my neck were for the Blues as they do now but they weren’t…. and if they were it wasn’t for the blues. The players were warming up, City players near the North stand and Spurs players at the Platt Lane end – all the fans were at the City end but I headed straight to see him…….. I’d stood there for about 10 mins watching him, oblivious to anything else, then it happened…… the inevitable……… he slipped while sprinting side to side and fell right on his back side – all the City fans jeered and I was trying to hush them all on my own!!

The game started and my love for Gary was suddenly overtaken with a new feeling. The noise, the singing, the game – a new love was born. I remember talking about the game all the following week and pestering my school friend for the next fixture…… That’s why I’m a city fan – kind of fell into it but a love that you can’t explain or replace – It is like a marriage, for better or for worse. I often ask myself why Blue, was it the football…… is the humour……Who does come up with the chants that you’d never get at any other ground. Is it the ability to laugh at ourselves? I remember playing Arsenal at Maine Road – night game, god awful weather! Getting beat, convincingly at half time. The north stand in unison starting to sing “can we play you every week” and when the inevitable chants by the Arsenal fans – “going down, going down, going down – City fans singing “so are we, so are we, so are we”. Didn’t hear much from the gunners after that! Confusion mainly kept them quiet!! My school crush on Mr Lineker soon died…… Well mostly!

Caroline Tonge
P.S – Genius idea City……

Well what night match, sat in the north stand, the weather was gloomy, City strode out and what a display. My Dad had taken my as my birthday present, I was 9 years old that day. The atmosphere was electric. I was with 2 school friends and my Dad, the match was amazing. David White, hat trick, Tony Adcock, hat trick, Paul Stewart, hat trick. And the old gaurd himself, Neil McNab, sneaking in 1 himself. 10 – 1, I was a blue forever. I still have the match highlights from Granda Soccer night on VHS. What an awesome first match.

although id been a fan many years before it wasnt till may 89 when i went to my first game it was the last home game of the season if we had won that that game we would have won promotion i remember standing on the kippax and being blown away by the atmosphere we were 3 -0 up by half time and ended up drawing 3 -3 me brother swore he would never take me again but he did we went up the week after drawing 1-1 with bradford

my 1st ever trip to see city was the above date, been irish it was hard in those days to see regular games.my unc in law and i got the train to dublin from limerick junction,the boat to liverpool,train to manchester travelling 4pm fri-9am sat morn of the match, dont remember much of the match, but mark lillis scored the winner in a 1-0 win.i also asked peter beardsley for an autograph, wen he signed it, i said, ”thank you”, he said, ”its my pleasure”,a great weekend to say the least, the following monday my uncle in law took me to platt lane where i met most of the players and got a poster signed by most of the players that were there that day,to which i still have to this day, such a shame i had to go home and tell my skool m8s about dat wonderful weekend,wen i was 12 yrs old. c.t.i.d 4life.

i remember bein at wembley in the full members cup what a game 1 nil up 5 1 down then up steped mark lillis 5 4 with about 1min left we lost 5 4 to chealsea,most city fans left but when we made it 5 2 they were coming back in.if we had a couple of more mins we would av won 6 5

We were playing Charlton Athletic and Billy Mcneill was in charge and we had too win to gain promotion to the old 1st Division.I remember it being a really hot sunny day and before the game kicked off all of the sprinklers were on the pitch.I can recall David Phillips banging in the 5th goal and remember getting crushed in the kippax with eveyone celebrating.

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?