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MY FOOTBALL

Which was the first game that you ever attended?

A League Cup game in August 1999, Manchester City vs Burnley at Maine Road. It was shortly after we won promotion from the Second Division via the play-offs against Gillingham, so I was already falling in love with football at that point. That summer, I would have been at my mum and dad, saying, “Get me to a match!” [] I didn’t really have any kind of concept of how bad things had got for City compared with what they used to be like in the ’60s and ’70s – the Gillingham game was a turning

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