I was never really into football when I was at school, but at Uni I got into it through some friends who are City fans. They had a spare ticket for the play-off final in May 99 and I couldn’t resist when they offered it to me – a trip to Wembley for my first game! I wore my new City shirt with pride and outside the ground I bought one of those big polystyrene hands to cheer on Andy Morrison (he was my fav player), Weaver, Dickov and the boys! After that game (what a comeback!) I was hooked and started to go to games more regularly. Soon Tiatto became my favourite player and I got his name on my shirt when I went travelling around Australia! I don’t go as much these days as I live in London but I always make it back for the big games (when the missus lets me!) – especially when we play United!

my first ever manchester city game was man city v york city at home in maine road , 1999. i loved it. it was a dream come true . thats when i new i would be a blue for life.the game was absolutley amazing.we won 4-0 . come on you blues .
i was jumping up like mad and singing all of the football songs . at half time i loved it . i started running around .i was 3 years old at my first ever fottie match , i really miss maine road but the city of manchester stadium has made up for it .

I can’t remember a great deal about my first City game as I was only 3 years of age at the time, so i will have to rely on my dad’s version of events to a certain degree. The match was in the First division and was played against Swindon Town in December 1999. What I do remember is being overawed by Maine Road. The ground appeared huge and I was so small. My dad told me that I was shouting ‘City’ constantly and was even cheering every goal that went in past City keeper Nicky Weaver during the warm up as I thought the game was on and City were actually scoring! the result was a good one with City winning 3 nil and Robert Taylor scored his first goal, rather fortunately, with a weak shot that squirmed under the Swindon keepers body. My love afair with City had started and I have been to see them many times since that day back in December 1999.

I was 3 years old at the time,my dad told me that it was the most important game of citys morden history it was a playoff final agaisnt gilligham.my favourite player was nick weaver and shaun goater all i could here was blue moon you saw me standing alone with out a dream in my heat without a love of my own… the game went to penalties and at the end nicky weaver saved a pen to win the gamehe did a celeabration what i have never seen before, it was amazing then on the way home i was singing blue moon

my husband a lifelong city fan queued for around 12 hours to buy three tickets to see city v gillingham at wembly, I had no interest in football until that day, what a game!we went through a full spectrum of emotions, i cant explain the exitement i felt it was wonderful, I have been a season ticket holder ever since and I thank my husband for bringing the great game of football into my life.
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10 years old and having never actually seen the blues play, this was the changing day in my life. awake at 4am looking at a 6 hour drive into london the tension began to mount, the walk up wembley way, the fans chanting. All looked like pipe dreams until kevin horlock popped up with an 18 yrd drive to drag a dull city side a little bit closer to the 1st division, 2 mins l8r time stopped, ecstacy began all around me. grown men crying, seats demolished paul dickov became the hero with the equalising goal to send us into a nail-biting shootout in which nicky weaver introduced himself as a city legend saving penalties galore. yes we had won, up and up, after that i knew i was a blue, always will be.

I was about 4 or 5 and my Dad, Uncle and Grandad decided to take me to a City game. They took me in the shop and bought me a shirt and then we went into Maine Road and sat down at our seats. The game hadn’t even started, but i think i said it was boring and wanted to go, but then it started. I remember us wining and my uncle saying is it boring now? I remember loving every bit of it, the atmosphere was the best and everytime we scored i cheered and got the biggest adrenaline rush i could get at 4 or 5.Pity i couldn’t remember anything else.

Being a City fan from Macclesfield this was a special one for me (embarrassing considering it was division 2) i dont remember much about the game. i do remember walking up to Maine Road and just couldnt wait to get inside. I also follow Macc but on a day like this City had to do the business otherwise i’d return home to some stick.
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This wasn’t my first city game my dad tells me but it is the firt i can remember, everything about the day was like a rollercoaster. Getting the coach down to london and hitting traffic so we was on the coach for about 7 hours haha. The match was just…words cant describe it, as a seven year old kid it was just ‘wow’. Seeing the GOAT, dickov and horlock – the players my dad would come home from maine road and jus talk endlessly about- it was just every blues dream. Seeing weaver run around the pitch, dickov nearly breaking his back skidding on the pitch after the goal, Edghill kissing his shirt after his penalty and the immortal pressence of Andy Morrison. haha not to mention the brilliant Robert Taylor playing for gillingham – yes i was being sarcastic haha.
that day sums up why were all crazy about city !

My first game was when I was 4 years old and it was at Maine Road against Swindon Town in 1999. I was sat in the Umbro Stand with my dad and City won 3-0 with Robert Taylor, who I think was making his debut for City, scoring his first goal – a fairly weak shot that the Swindon Town goalkeeper somehow allowed to squirm under his body. My dad mentioned that as the players were warming up before the game I was cheering every time a shot went into the net past Nicky Weaver (I obviously hadn’t realised that the game hadn’t started yet!). I have been to City many times since and though I loved Maine Road, Eastlands is my preferred ground.

Craig Dentith
Selby
North Yorkshire