RodneyRodney wrote:Raised in Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, about 2 miles from the Temple of the Immortals, (. . .but started out as a RED!!).
Dragged along by a diehard Blue from school to City 2 Bristol C 0 , Sept. 77 , & gradually morphed into a Blue over the next few years.
Conversely, my big sis started out as a Blue & changed to a Red ; went out on a date with Stepney ( she says). Attended Parrs Wood HS 70/77 - about 65% Blues (including Stuart Mathieson of the MEN) 35% Reds - though we had one LEEDS fan in our year (!!??). Worked in a pub on Kingsway (FULL of Reds) around the corner from where the Gallaghers grew up.
Highlights - the 4-0 v Standard Liege , Tueart hattrick 5-0 v Notts co., the 10-1, the 5-1 obviously , The Stones in July 90, .
Lived down under since '96 after several years in the S. Pacific/Far East. Really good coverage of Prem League down here , as opposed to the biased tripe you get in England.
I still have the programme from that Standard Liege match, 18 Oct 1978, in the days when programmes were worth buying, reading (and keeping).
I was a late 60s glory hunter, amongst other reasons.
I grew up just south of Shrewsbury and was taken to watch Town play in the early 60s (63-66) with my best friend. I remember we took along crates to stand on so we could see over the concrete wall at ground level.
I have scribblngs on a school file of City, Coventry (I know!), WBA, Wolves (the nearest top club), Birmingham(!), Stoke and Nottingham Forest. I chose City in 67/68 because...
- My best friend was already a glory hunting United fan and I always chose an opposite (so also Cambridge to his Oxford - the best at the time - in the Boat Race). I didn't know that Cambridge were light blue as the TV was black & white.
- City had great players who played for England and the team was right up there in Division 1.
- City's colours were aesthetically pleasing and unlike any other team's (yes, I know... Coventry, but that was the reason why I considered Coventry!)
My allegiance was sealed by the 69 FA Cup final which was the first game of any kind that I saw in colour (round at another friend's house - I remember the negotiations to be able to see it there) and Cty's red and black was absolutely awesome!
Around that time - before or after that final - my father took me to City's away games at Molineux and The Hawthrorns. I remember thinking how big the grounds were compared to Shrewsbury's titchy ground and Maine Road didn't disappoint the first time I went there in the Kippax when a student at Owens.
