The mancityfans.net football forum

The Ex-Players thread was nostalgic. Who else has got some vacant City memories?

Maine Road: The sign on a pillar of the Maine Stand (did it have an "e" at the end?!) saying "Thank you for not using foul and abusive language" was unecessarily gracious when certain Blues were around and there used to be something hanging from the corner of the Kippax. A bird. Was it an Albatross or something? Hazy days.

HALF TIME DRAW TICKETS!!!

That bird came to CoMS with us and was hanging from the left hand side of the Colin Bell Stand, but disappeared for the last few games of this season

A RAG I used to work with claimed some of the Builders working on the COMS buried their U****d scarves in the foundations of the Ground as it was being constructed. Something they forget to take photographic evidence of and thusly something that will never be proved! Personally, I'd have done a shoddy job and watched the thing fall down. Ain't happened...

Until the last couple of games this season, I had forgotten that it was once possible to order a pie and a pint in my native tongue at Maine Road.

More than once I have asked for chips, to be asked "what flavour" and my personal favourite was when I asked for a steak pie and was given a bag of fruit pastilles.

It seems that this has been taken on board by someone at the club before the end of this season, probably as a result of a Immigration Service raid, as all the foreign bar staff seemed to disappear all of a sudden. Anyone else notice this?

Relergation??

How can you have forgotten these things if you're posting about them here?

LookMumI'mOnMCF.net wrote:How can you have forgotten these things if you're posting about them here?

checkmate.

yr good pal. Very good.

cheers

LookMumI'mOnMCF.net wrote:How can you have forgotten these things if you're posting about them here?

I remembered mine a few weeks ago, but had previously forgotten about it, does that count?

LookMumI'mOnMCF.net wrote:How can you have forgotten these things if you're posting about them here?

Mr pedantic strikes again.

Bet you're great company on a night out.

CityGer wrote:

LookMumI'mOnMCF.net wrote:How can you have forgotten these things if you're posting about them here?

Mr pedantic strikes again.

Bet you're great company on a night out.

Mr CityGrrrrrrrrr strikes again.

My nights out are fine thanks, especially as I don't have people like you following me round criticising everything I say.

Try lightening up.

LookMumI'mOnMCF.net wrote:

CityGer wrote:

LookMumI'mOnMCF.net wrote:How can you have forgotten these things if you're posting about them here?

Mr pedantic strikes again.

Bet you're great company on a night out.

Mr CityGrrrrrrrrr strikes again.

My nights out are fine thanks, especially as I don't have people like you following me round criticising everything I say.

Try lightening up.

i just got my match tickets to the NY City matches last week, so hopefully, with a pinch of luck, i'll be able to report back about how droll and tiresome you truly are in the flesh. I'll bring a thesaurus and a sleep mask. Hey. Ho.

cheers

CityGer wrote:

LookMumI'mOnMCF.net wrote:How can you have forgotten these things if you're posting about them here?

Mr pedantic strikes again.

Bet you're great company on a night out.

I have it on good authority that his nights out include flicking his fringe out of his face, saying "oh ya" and "for sure" repeatedly and getting pissed on two Pints. Mwah!

It's my thread so I should defend the title. Basically, I want people to think about things they liked about City from the past that were never usually at the front of their minds whilst they made contributions to the debate on here. Stuff they can recall when pushed etc. Nostalgia? I'll inevitably think of something whilst I'm doing the ironing or feeding Flea Bag. Who, as it goes, is chasing a fly around the House at this moment in time.

How about that electronic sign at Maine Road in the corner of the Main(e) Stand and Platt Lane that displayed a clapping hand going "COME ON CITY." It should've said CITEH. Comedy Gold.