Love This City: Andy Quarry | OneFootball

My love for Manchester City Football Club started back in 1994 when my dad took me to my first game.

We beat Norwich 2-0 at Maine Road with Niall Quinn and Uwe Rosler scoring in the second half.

From the moment we arrived to moment we left I knew that was my club not because we won but because of the whole experience especially it being with my old man.

That is a moment that I hold in my heart forever, that was the day I became a blue.

For matches now, we travel down from Kendal in the Lake District for every home game and we also do a lot of away days. I take my boys Jake (17), Callum (16), and Kylo (4) and my 19-year-old daughter comes when she can.

The day normally starts with me and the boys getting our tops sorted. I will not leave the house until we are all wearing our colours. They know the rules no club colours then no football.

We usually get there and go straight to Mary Ds and meet the lads, have a drink and get something to eat from the chippy then head over to the ground.

One of the things I love the most is when we are all walking towards the stadium. It makes me feel alive.

I also love seeing my boys' faces. They are beaming from the moment we get there. We all have hairs stick up on the back of our necks and butterflies in our bellies. We all get it, it's football and it's our club.

Supporting City is my life, it has taught me a lot about how to take disappointment and it's taught me that nothing good in life comes easy.

As we all know we never do things the easy way. Typical City! Always leaving it the last minute, aging me by about 40 years in the process.

But we have certainly reaped the the rewards and wouldn't change any of it. To be honest it actually adds the the shear ecstasy the I've felt many times with the Agueroooooooo moment and the Gundooooooooo moment.

Moments like these make every penny spent and every tear shed all worth it.

I have met some of the best people I have ever met watching football over the years. The love we all share for our football club is love at its purest form, and that creates bonds that will never be broken.

The best moment we shared was probably the best footballing experience I will ever have when we all went to Istanbul for the Champions League final.

That whole trip from dancing in the streets of Istanbul the day before the game to seeing Rodri smash the ball in the back of the net right in front of us to claim us our first Champions League trophy is up there with the birth of my children.

Even talking about this now is sending tingles down my spine and tearing up that's honestly how good it was. I WAS THERE!

Watching our team under Pep Guardiola is like watching Leonardo da Vinci paint one of his masterpieces. He's unbelievable.

The man is a genius, I truly believe that. What I admire about him the most is how he has created a family amongst the players.

He brings the youth players through and makes them some of the best players the Premier League has ever seen. The man is just the gift that keeps giving.

Thank you to Pep, the players, the backroom staff. the stewards and all the Blues that turn up every day to work that make this football club the best in the world.