Love This City: Alex Spencer | OneFootball

One day I hope to play at concert at the Etihad, that is my dream.

I'm proud to say I'm a City supporter and I love the club.

City is a massive part of my life and my family is City through and through.

We generally go to all the home games together, so matchdays are always special.

My great grandad was good friends with Ken Barnes and sometimes used to travel with the first team to away games back in the 1950s.

Sadly, he had a heart attack and died at Maine Road in 1974 and for the next home game his ashes were spread across the half way circle!

My dad is a big City fan and has been going since the early 80s. He was at York in 1998 when we lost and was at our lowest ever league position (12th in Div 3!), how times have changed!

I was four in 2011 when my dad took me to my first ever City game. We played Wolves and won 3-1.

My dad was worried that I’d get bored and want to go home early but I loved it. I remember the atmosphere was amazing and I'd never seen so many people in one place and since then I've been hooked on City!

A couple of years back I used to busk around the stadium before the game so I'd get to the Etihad around two hours before and play some tunes for the City fans.

Around 15 mins before the game I'd go in the stadium to watch the game.

More recently I've been going with friends and family.

We'd usually get to the stadium around an hour before and then after the game go to Mary Ds to soak up the atmosphere and celebrate!

One of the best days of my life was when I played some songs for the players and management team at their 2022 title celebrations after we beat Aston Villa 3-2!

I got to spend around 30 minutes afterwards chatting to Pep and the players who were all brilliant with me.

It was an amazing experience and Jack Grealish follows me on Instagram and still keeps in touch.

Being a City fan has also helped my music career. I've been invited on Sky Sports News to talk about City and was the first artist to ever play live on their show!

Watching City under Pep has been amazing, there is certainly no other manager like Pep, he lives and breathes football and has achieved some amazing things with City.

I'm so pleased he has signed a contract extension.

Some of the football has been amazing and my favourite memories were probably the 4 - 0 win against Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-final and the comeback against Aston Villa to win the Premier League in 2022.

The atmosphere in the stadium for those games was on another level and it will stay with me forever!

Alex Spencer

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