A day I wont ever forget is my first match at main road, my uncle took me and I wasn’t sure what to expect. My biggest memory from that day I can remember was the blue railings I was sat on in the kippax stand and when city scored I was knocked off to the floor and stood on by everyone cheering, I remember thinking will this happen every time we score and it did but I didn’t care cos it was my 1st game and we were winning . From that day I have been a city faithful. Kippax forever.

My first ever Man City game was back in 1999 at Wembley Stadium for the Division 2 Playoff final Vs Gillingham. What A first game? I always wanted to go to Wembley after being glued to the TV during Euro96 and was given the chance to 3 years later.

I don’t think anyone could have asked for a better game! Coming back from behind at the stroke of full time taking it to extra time and then penalties. Some City fans were leaving in the last few minutes and then when news came through that City had equalised they came running back in.

It was a day of firsts for me:
First City Game
First Time on TV
First Time (and sadly last time to Old Wembley)
First Radio Interview
First experiences of a Penalty Shootout (not on TV)
First time in a crowd bigger than 15,000
Was also a record breaking attendence for a div 2 playoff final with some 79,000+

Still to this day been my favourite game. This was the awakening of a footballing giant

December 2 1990 and the visit of QPR to Maine Road. I’d been to City before in the 88/89 season but i have no memories of that day… however this one i do, and they are quite comical.
Went with my father who was a season ticket holder in the late 70’s and saw that great team of Barnes, Tueart, Kidd, Owen et al. He took me in the old souvenir shop and purchased a pendant, up until i moved home in 2003 it hung proudly on my bedroom wall. We sat in the Main Stand and QPR wore there horrible Red and Black hooped shirt!
Quinn scored both that day, however as i was only 5 i couldn’t hold the Apple juice box for a full 90 mins, “Dad, i need the toilet”! GOAL!! Me nor my father could believe we’d missed Quinn’s second! – Unreal. He never said a word to me afterwards and it was a good 14 months before he dared take me again…rest assured i now go before the game and not during!

Alister Dyson, 23, Bolton-le-Sands, Lancs

it was the game the corner of the north stand was asked to move on the pitch because of the fire below. i can remember the stoke fans singing delilah and the north stand clapping after they had finshed. it was also my first memory of kinki which was amazing

UU stand, absolutely lashing it down!!

I remember this like it was yesterday, was 13 years old, a big group of us drove up from Somerset in a mini bus. I was so excited as it was my first time seeing City, our tickets were in the temporary open stands at Maine Road! The atmosphere was like nothing id ever experienced before, the singing and taunting of the away fans was incredible.

When the first goal when in the place erupted, its a an amazing rush, i couldnt believe how loud a football stadium could be! Then the whole stadium was bouncing, we got a second goal, Richard Edghill, it was his first ever goal for City and again the whole place went wild.

The City fans really made that day special, since then ive been to many games and no other club comes close to having fans as passionate as ours.

City till I die – Ant

7 years old, I’d recently broken my leg and as my dad dodged the dog-dirt, pushing me in a wheelchair through the alleys surrounding Maine Rd, I remember my first sight of the stadium and the muffled sound of the announcer inside and right then, all the dog muck in the world couldn’t have dampened my mood!

Once in the ground, as I came out at pitch side and saw the green of the pitch, the atmosphere had me hooked immediately.

The game we lost and it was certainly one to forget but watching City has never just been about the result; it’s bigger than that. – Mike

My first City match was City vs QPR, the first ever televised ‘Monday Night Football’ and the Blues’ first home game in the new Premier League in August 1992. I was 9 years old and had managed to resist the pressures of my school friends to join the ‘dark side’ and went along to Maine Road with my dad, whose side of the family had always been big City supporters.

Of the game itself, I remember little but was completely overwhelmed by the noise and the swearing! As it was the first game of its kind, Sky Sports organised cheerleaders, fireworks and the Red Devils (who obviously didn’t go down too well) parachuting into the stadium which was suited more to the Superbowl, not a dark, damp Mancunian evening. I was balanced on top of one of the freezing cold metal barriers about half way back in the centre of the Kippax Stand. The crowd sang, swelled and moved like a single organism. My dad had to hold me tightly when David White scored City’s opening goal to prevent me falling off the barrier!

From there on in, I was hooked. – Chris

It wasn’t my first match, but it was the one I remember going to first. I was in the Kippax with my family, I can remember all the flags and celebrations with it being the last home game and the last time we’d be standing in the Kippax. I was only young then, but I did enjoy the standing and it is something that I have missed since then. As a now season ticket holder for 10 years I would love the chance to go and stand with everyone to get the atmosphere back. Needless to say, it started the love I have for City. – Neil

Going to City became a birthday treat for me, my Dad worked weekends so i could never get to many – however on my 12th birthday he took me to watch City/Southampton. We sat in the North stand and to be honest, i don’t remember much of the game apart from ‘that’ Kinkladze goal! Although he was running away from our stand it was such a delight seeing him dance round the defenders for fun n chipping the keeper. The commentator on the highlights that night got it spot on when he said “Oooh, that is mesmeric”. It was. breathtaking and still my fondest moment of being a City fan, with many other things you never forget your first…i’ll never forget Kinky for giving me that moment!

He was brilliant that scoring both in a 2-1 win (i think).

Thankfully i can afford to go myself now & i hope i get more memories to hold on to like this one.

Thank you Kinky, thank you City

Tom