Why You Support City

[Mase]

We've got loads of new posters over the last 5-10 years so thought it was worthwhile starting this thread so people can say what got them in to City.

Everyone in my school when I was kid support the rags so if ever I was asked I said I supported them and followed the sheep. My dad's always been a City fan cause of his dad and luckily he got me just at the right time and took me to City Vs Liverpool when I was 8.

I remember everything about the day. Walking to the ground looking at everyone in their matching kits immediately wanting one to fit in. We got in the ground and it was love at first sight. Everything about the club I just adored. We were sat in the corner of the main stand and where the away fans used to sit at Maine Road. It was just before they did the Kippax up.

City ended up winning and I remember walking back to the car with my dad after the match looking up at him and saying "We won dad, we won!" and ever since then I've been blue.

What about you guys?

[Wonderwall]

Family,......I never stood a chance. Born 1970

[Pretty Boy Lee]

Born into a family of blues and never knew any other way.

My earliest memory is of going into Maine road, seemingly surrounded by a million blues. Don’t ask me who I saw or what date as I was 5 or 6 and overwhelmed.

My clearest childhood memories sadly are a few years later after we’d moved to Australia and bombing up and down the garden recreating the goals from the Monday night prem highlights show we got over here at the time. David white and Niall Quinn were superstars in my classics.

Since then it’s been one extreme to the other. Not seeing us for years through relegations and pretty much giving up on football for a few years bar playing fifa as a teenager. To getting pay tv when I started working (not a common thing here back then) and reigniting my love with the blues despite us still being pretty average. Coming back over in 2005 and 2006 and getting that same feeling I had as a small child and never looking back. And now being made to declare how long I’ve been a blue by a bunch of entitled cunts who question me because we’re good now. I usually just tell em I started liking us in 2008 when we got bought and laugh and move on.

[Hutch's Shoulder]

I wish I had a single event I could point to like Mase or a family tradition like WW, but in my case it was just chance (or should it be Fate)?

Neither my parents nor grand parents professed any interest in football, so when at school (must have been around 1966/7) everyone asked if I was City or United, I went with City. I can't remember whether I was following my friends or just preferred blue to red. Anyway, that was me sorted for life, and I can remember watching the '69 cup final on TV and attending my first game in the Kippax against Everton in the early seventies.

Whatever the reason, thank goodness I was not seduced by the dark side. Being logged on to Rag Café and complaining about Mourinho on a Sunday night would be just too much.

[aristation]

Born 1964 in a non-footballing family with a distant relative a blue and really a joined as a glory hunter in about 1972 and saw no glory but stayed loyal bringing up a son as a rabid blue.
I just loved Lee and Bell (and even Marsh) but stayed through the crap that was the 80s and 90s.
it's odd I joined because of how we played the beautiful game and waited almost 40 years with 20 or so season tickets before we did it again.
Crazy thing this football.

[worzel]

Went in 1977 with one of my mates and his dad. Walked up all the steps at the back of the kippax. Got to the top, saw the pitch under the lights, fell in love. Hooked for life.

[City64]

My dad was brought up in Whalley Range close to Moss side , he was blue through and through and could walk to Maine Road before he married my mam. Me and my brother were brought up in Stretford which is full of rags !!! but my dad took us both to Maine Road when I was about 8 or 9 to watch city v arsenal absolutely loved it . That was in the early 70s , Bell , Lee , Summerbee , Corrigan etc , never looked back . Went home and away everywhere when I started work got into allsorts bother watching and following city in the 80s and saw some crazy things , Blackpool away , Oldham away , Birmingham City away , Wolves away brutal era ......... got frogged marched out of the Old Trafford paddock with our kid one derby , rag stewards took us onto the side of the swamp pitch and around to the city end . We got an ovation off the city fans as the stewards escorted us both into the city end Never ever thought the club would be in the position we are in now , just shows miracles do happen , what a fucking football club CTID !

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Born in Stretford, lived on Warwick Rd South. The other side of the railway from the swamp but I am sure I could smell it from there Parents both blues and it went from there although I do remember very very vaguely travelling to Maine Rd with a friend of my fathers who went to watch City and then Utd, whoever was ay home.

When my parents went to mayches and I was too young I stayed with my auntie who lived on ParkSide Rd. Went to the park and could hear the roars from the ground. First games were central league matches and I can't remember what the first first team game was. Pretty sure Joe Hayes was playing though.

[PaulieIrish]

I support City because I’m stubborn. Born in 70 and have a brother a year older. When I started primary school, my mum came home with 2 school bags; one Liverpool and one city. My brother got first pick and picked the red one. He still supports them, and got the better run for most of our lives.

So I got the blue one. The one that meant I only got to watch us at midnight on a Thursday when we were in league 2. The one that my dad and I won 360 each after betting on City against Spurs in the FA cup while down to 10 men. The one that I took my dad to in Wembley for his 70th birthday to see Yaya win the semi 1-0. The one I’ve taken my family to multiple times now, and won every time s9mwhow.

I got the blue one, and I’m a proud, stubborn City fan.

Paul

[iwasthere2012]

Similar to Hutch. Nothing spectacular.
It was 69 or 70 I’d say. I was just lucky that my older brother and next door neighbour were the ones to put the gun to my head and ask who I supported.
They were two of only three on the road that followed City. I became the fourth.

The usual mix for the whole area was United, Liverpool and Leeds and Chelsea also.

I didn’t know who to support so just asked who they thought. My other brother followed Arsenal, but luckily for me City just sounded much more appealing.

It was explained that once you chose, you couldn’t change your mind, so I knew how important it was. A big deal at 6 or 7 year’s old.
I suppose I really took notice in the seventies, when we were nearly there but not quite.

Through our drop off years I always looked at us as a top team that would get back there and always wore my City jersey despite the slagging from the Rags but never in my wildest dreams could I see this era coming.

So I’m just lucky I guess.

[Sparklehorse]

Sitting in a lounge in my granny’s house in Stoke when I was very young and had Man City on the telly and I just latched on to Franny Lee and Colin Bell and that was it, I’ve been obsessing ever since.

[Piccsnumberoneblue]

I've been a Blue as far back as my memory allows. It was never really a question in our house.
The guy across the road (who actually supported Carlusle) just to wind my Dad up persuaded me that I should support the shite. They had Georgie Best, Bobby Charlton and Denis Law etc ext. I went home and announced, " Daaaad, I'm not going to support City, I'm going to be a unite...." Whack.

First games were on the Kippax to watch the reserves, then a first team game in Nov 74 when we thrashed Leicester 4-1, with Tueart scoring inside a minute. I thought it would be glory all the way!

[Beefymcfc]

Family. And it's my family.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Born into a family of rags.....Had no choice.

[dazby]

I grew up a rugby league boy. Valleys were my local team. They wore blue. Royal blue. At age 9 I was choosing teams for all other sports. The 81 FA Cup final had a team in sky blue and a team in navy blue. The sky blue seemed more appropriate. City it is then.

[Tokyo Blue]

Family,......I never stood a chance. Born 1970

This. My Dad is from Moss Side. Also Blues in my Mum's family.

[sheblue]

Since 1989.
But only got interested in internet football forums and social media a few years ago.
Just because lads are new on here or elsewhere doesn't mean they are 'new' fans.

[Ironpot]

When my Dad was young he used to go to Maine Rd one week then Old Trafford the next - whoever was playing at home. Then he got married and moved to Australia - had six kids and moved back to Manchester. We kids were all conflicted - one sibling even supports Oldham.
But then City signed an Aussie ... Danny Tiatto ... it was all over Red Rover!

[Foreverinbluedreams]

I was given a choice in school, Liverpool or United, I chose City because I'm a stubborn fucker and partly owing to the colour of the shirt.

Shortly after that was the Maine Road massacre and I was hooked.

[Mase]

Since 1989.
But only got interested in internet football forums and social media a few years ago.
Just because lads are new on here or elsewhere doesn't mean they are 'new' fans.

I did say "new posters" not new fans. It was just a bit of fun for people to get to know others.