TRUE BLUE STORIES

Christopher Gee

I was born in Stockport in 1960. In March 1962 my dad decided to purchase a shop to help supplement the family income. In April we made the big move to No 4 Hart Road, Fallowfield, don't laugh, it was nice back then. In those days it was a MACE shop. GEE'S, FOR YOUR BACON BUTTER AND CHEESE, YOUR ORDER MADE UP WITH EASE, WHEN YOU PHONE 2244991 PLEASE. From our living room window, which was above the shop, we could see the flood lights. I vaguely remember seeing them light up the night sky, and hearing the roar of the crowd, sometime in the mid sixties. I remember going down to Maine Road every Saturday morning to get the players autographs as they would turn up for the game and then I'd come back later at "free quarter time" to get in for nowt.

Eventually, I was allowed to go every week, my brother Kevin would take me just to get me from under my mum's feet! I regularly went from 1968 onwards. I got my first season ticket in 1972. Original price was 15 pound but if I bought it before the end of the previous season, I could get it for 12 pounds, which I willingly did. I was a regular season ticket holder until I emigrated to Vancouver in 1990. My most memorable memory???? so many, Dennis's overhead at Wembley. Rodney's brilliant hat-trick against Middlesborough (74 ish ).The night King Colin died???( 4-0 win?) The night when Peter Barnes destroyed Standard Lierge.(Kidd scored two) The game when Ron Saunders was sacked and Tony book took over, Mike Summerbee had the game of his life. And then that Saturday in September 1989, what can one say about that!!!!! I moved back to Stockport in March 1976 but I still went with my friends from "the old neighbourhood" And at every away game we would sing "Fallowfield Blues we are here Oh, Ohhh! Ah! the memories. My best team-Corrigan, Book, Hinchcliffe, Watson and Doyle. Summerbee, Hartford, Bell, Tueart. And a front two of Royle and Lee. As I sit here now, I am getting all sorts of memorise flooding back. So I'd better sign off or otherwise I'll be here all night reflecting on what might have been????