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City became re-established as one of the Premier League’s leading sides following promotion as Division One Champions in 2002, but for many fans the story of the early 2000s was the emotional move from Maine Road to Eastlands in 2003. The move caused many to think of their relationship with the stadium and the club and emotions ran high. The first competitive game at the new stadium was a UEFA Cup tie, and since that moment fans have witnessed the full range of emotions associated with this Club.
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August 18th, 2010 Nicolai Bøgedal
My first game was at the 10 of february 2001 at Maine Road against Tottenham. We lost 0-1 in the 89th minute by a Sergei Rebrov goal. Totally crap, cos´ City dominated the game all the time, and Egil Østenstad hit the post and Huckerby got a goal disallowed, even though it shouldnt have been. That was Spurs only attempt on the target the hole game. It was a bit frustrating.
I´ve been a Danish City fan since 1995 – so living in Denmark, being a student, didnt make it easy to come to Manchester before 2001.
My next game was the last game of the same season on the 19th may against Chelsea. A game where we were already relegated. But an incredible atmosphere – sold out Maine Road. And the game ended even before the 90th minute because City fans stormed the pitch at the referee had to call the game off before time. A fantastic memory and yet the best memory at a game i´ve had. I remember Carlos Nash was being held in “Glory Chair” by the fans all the way to the playerstunnel, and i was able to get a little piece of grass from the pitch.
The game ended 2-1 – City´s goal was by Steve Howey – from a corner i think.
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August 18th, 2010 Chloe Partington
My first memory of a special city game was when i was 7, although i was going when i was unborn (with my mum)This day was special because we sayed goodbye to Maine Road. I was a junior blue sat on the front row of the kipppax near the away fans waving my moonchester teddy around waiting to shake his hand at half time. my mum Tracey was being her usual self screamimg when we scored etc. After the game me,my uncles mark and chris and my dad michael all had a game of football outside the kippax entrance. i will never forget Maine road. also my mum and my teddy (and hand) are on page 261. in the Kevin Cummins book were not really here/city final season at main road(page pictured below),
thank you,
from Chloe Partington
(forever blue!!)
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August 18th, 2010 steven westwell
my first game was city-bolton,it was a cold december and i was sitting behind weaver and anelka scored twice. we lost 2-0. not the best 1st game
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August 18th, 2010 Joseba Arzelus
My first game was in Santander(spain)in UEFA Cup December 2008.
Santander is near Basque Country and we went by car in 2 hours from our home.
Lost 3-1 but the ambience was great, unforgetable…we had the oportunity to stay with the city fans in the same place in the stadium. The police saw our city shirts and we were moved to where they were.
AHH we are: Richard Mallet (the real City Fan since was born), Juan, Mikel and Joseba.
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August 18th, 2010 Sultan Alsharqi
it was last season on Saturday Sep/12 vs.Arsenal, I remember how it was really a great game,don’t you love it when we beat a big team with a big score. I hope we do it again with 4 big teams this season.
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August 18th, 2010 Jonty Holden
My Grandpa had got a box at maine road through work and another for Sheffield Utd on boxing day the same year. it was the last sunday game to be played at maine road. it had been agreed that my brother would go to the bradford game and i would get to go to sheffield. however this later changed as my dad thought that the sheffield box wouldnot be as good as the city box so i was to go to the bradford game with my dad, uncle, grandpa and people fron his work. i remember him telling us a story of a guy he knew who had cut his fingernail so that it made things easier to flick (bizzare, i know) any way when the betting psheets came round my dad got me on his knee and went through the sheet with me asking me various questions about what i think would happen. ‘who will score first?’ he asked
‘Goater’
he put goater to score first on he sheet
‘What will he score be?’
‘3-1′
he marked 3-1 on the sheet.
i clearly remember Kevin Horlocks strike from the edge of the box after ali bernarbia played him in from a freekick. when the match had finished, the winnings came round and my uncle had won a lot of money and after the various people had recieved their winnings nothing came my way so i ’subtlely’ reminded my uncle of my bet
‘what about me? i bet i would be 3-1!!’
he ended up chucking £5 my way. i still dont know if that was the right amount. but that was my first city game. ever since we moved to the CoMS, i have always tried to get there
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August 18th, 2010 chris welsh
my first city game was on the 22nd of november 2008 and what a day that was it was a late birthday present for me to attend that game and from then on i will always remember robinhos little chip over almunia to make it 2-0 from the second i walked into the coms east stand i was stunned by the friendly and noist atmosphere and i got straight into the action by getting my photo taken with bluemoon. i will never forget that day!!!cmon city!!
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August 18th, 2010 Matthew Williams
Me, my sister, my mum and my dad went together.All I can remember about the match is that it was 1-0 to porto and the goal was staight from a corner.
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August 18th, 2010 Thomas Grant
It was Xmas 2009 and I wanted to give my dad a really big present, that he would never forget, and as he was and still is a huge City fan, I thought of no better present than 2 tickets to any man city game he liked…………..
A few days later he rang up the box office and got us 2 tickets and upgraded as to the Citizens’ Suite and that was that.
We arrived at the city of Manchester stadium 3 hours before kickoff, and so we went right away into the city store and bought ourselves the latest home kits and a scarf for myself………
We finally came to the door of the Citizens’ Suite and a very nice women checked are tickets and we were allowed to go though………. after the meal, the guy who was presenting the afternoon, told us that kick off was just a matter of minutes away, and so we both walked, just like city players out of the gateway to the stand and took are seats among the thousands of fans that had turned out to see the game with us.
I could not believe it that I first city game would have seen Carlos Tevez smash another ball home from the spot, and I knew from the minute the whistle went for the spot kick, I just knew that city would be a goal up, as Tevez had nether missed a spot kick, and would never
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August 18th, 2010 Thomas Spedding
My First city game was amazing i had never been before and it was new to me i really like being in the ground so close to the pitch and seeing the real game live with my own eyes, I really enjoyed my day and I still do now