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nozer · Joined: 24 Mar 2011 Posts: 1109 Location: Liverpool

Was just wondering if posters can remember the first game thay went to and anything thay found significant about it. My first game was Evertons opening fixture of the 61/62 season v Aston Villa ,it was a glourious summers day (funny how the sun always used to shine back then, Villa had a young center-forward makeing his Football League debut for them a certan Derek Dougan Yul Brynner hair cut et al and i became a big fan of his thereafter and though only 12years old at the time my mates and i would always go and se the Doog play wenever he was local.anyone else have a tail to tell from that all importent first game.

pastpirate · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 10:03 pm Post subject:

August 1972 Rovers v Sheffield United in The Watney Cup Final.
Same a Nozer it was a bloody hot evening and I loved every second of it especialy as we won.
As a youngster I thought we had won "THE" Cup and in the 5-6 games I saw the following season I kept wondering why I wasn't getting to see Man U or Liverpool. It was only at the end of the season when we got promotion the the 2nd division that I sussed the Rovers were not a top team. Too late a life long love affair had begun and even though I have probably seen us lose more than win I am still loving every second. Stupid game football isn't it.
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nozer · Joined: 24 Mar 2011 Posts: 1109 Location: Liverpool

I was at the Bristol Rovers v Wolves WC game 29/7/72 now that was hot (blame the heat on Wolves poor performance ) have to admit though we were well and truly beaten that day 2-0 ,spent a lovely week-end in Bristol though have nothing but fond memories of my stay ,it realy was hot that w/e and what a strange (unique) ground.

Posh1959 · Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Posts: 1227

November 5th 1966 Sheffield Wednesday v Everton only 7 years old and wanted to see Alan Ball play pestered my mum to take me. Cant remember much about the game apart from Ball was rubbish that day.

mark01 · Joined: 13 Nov 2010 Posts: 384

hi past pirate - yeah great game wasnt it - heres one for you - what was unique about the competition that year, that I think has never happened before. Fingers crossed on this one - this fact I dont think you'll find anywhere else! Any Sheff utd fans want a guess?

matt blue · Joined: 08 Jan 2009 Posts: 1519 Location: Coity

Jacks at home boxing day 1986 0-0 draw

pastpirate · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:49 pm Post subject:

mark01 wrote:

hi past pirate - yeah great game wasnt it - heres one for you - what was unique about the competition that year, that I think has never happened before. Fingers crossed on this one - this fact I dont think you'll find anywhere else! Any Sheff utd fans want a guess?

Only thing I can think of is that the game was decided on pens. Was that it?
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nozer · Joined: 24 Mar 2011 Posts: 1109 Location: Liverpool

I to would have gone down the peno road , but did thay not tamper with the off-side ruling as well ?.

AshPerry · Joined: 29 Jun 2011 Posts: 40

Bristol Rovers v Wolves 13th March 1993. David Mehew and Steve Bull scored (I think!)

Relegation season. Not much has improved over the last 20 years!

ToffeeDan · Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 2148 Location: Wirral

No! I can't but I guess The Golden Vision, Alan Ball, Brian Labone, Howard Kendall, Colin Harvey, Gordon West and a few others were playing.

CelticViking · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:29 pm Post subject:

My first game was back in October 1958 South Liverpool V Rosendale united in The Lancashire Combination First League game was Everton v Preston North End think that was in 1960

dj0505 · Joined: 25 May 2010 Posts: 375 Location: Newport

1974 Wales v West Germany Schools at Cwmbran Stadium, cant remember much, other than the game was boring and that I didnt really like football then !
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kenners46 · Joined: 18 Nov 2010 Posts: 745

My mum worked at Fulham in the mid 1960s washing the shirts after the games. She got to know a lot of the players and always got freebie tickets, i was dragged along, no idea who against as had no interest as a 4 yr old. In hindsight why didnt my mum lose a few shirts, Bobby Robson, Johny Haynes et al. Although i do have a faded signature of his on a pair of old football boots

WileBrownAstle · Joined: 03 Nov 2009 Posts: 1042 Location: Crewe

2001/2002
WBA V Wimbledon
Got an Albion kit, crowd of about 17,000 there only a handful from Wimbledon there, Albion created lots of chances, andWimbledon had a man sent off and they scored right in the last minute.
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mark01 · Joined: 13 Nov 2010 Posts: 384

past pirate/nozer

Games involving Rovers and United in 72/3 Watney cup were Rovers 2 Wolves 0, Notts C 0 United 3, Burnley 0 Rovers 2, Peterbro 0 United 4, and the final Rovers 0 United 0.

So both teams reached the final without conceeding a goal - and Sheff United lost in the final without conceeding a goal in 90 minutes. Surely this has never happened before in a national competition.

regards, Mark

past pirate - were you in the open end or tote? I was in the open end and was surprised they had the penalty shoot out at that end. Long time ago now, but I cant remember a lot of Sheff U fans there Wink

nozer · Joined: 24 Mar 2011 Posts: 1109 Location: Liverpool

Thanks for that Mark ,although i checked up on fixtures i would never have picked up on that one.Wolves had come stright from a Euro tour for that game ,so dont think thay were in the best of nick ( after all these years still looking for an excuse for there poor performance that day) prob beaten by a beter team who wanted it more on the day.Noz aka Molineux Phil.

rogerclunn · Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 133

December 1960. Millwall 3 York 2. Two nil down and came back to win. Caught the bug, fifty years a Lion.
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ForestMick · Joined: 24 Nov 2008 Posts: 1645 Location: Nottingham

Used to watch Leyland Motors from as soon as I could walk, as my dad was chairman. This meant that I didn't get to got to a professional game until much later. I remember going to a schoolboy international in about '81 at Wembley, and I wore an England youth player's shirt that my dad had got me, and it looked like a dress!!

I also remember going to watch Forest v Man City 13th. March '82. I remember meeting the late, great Cloughie, as my uncle was mates with Ronny Fenton, and my idol at the time, Shilts. One of the happiest days of my life, never stopped going on about it for months!!
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thewednesday · Joined: 09 May 2010 Posts: 144 Location: Elgin, Scotland

Sheffield Wednesday 5 Hull City 1. first game of promotion winning, League Cup winning season 90/91. Easy

David Hirst scored 4, Paul Williams the other. Can't remember who scored for Hull.

hulldon · Joined: 07 Aug 2009 Posts: 224

My first game was on 5th December 1970, Aberdeen v Cowdenbeath. We won 7-0 and I was 6 years old and from then on hooked. Joey Harper scored a hat-trick, and we went on to finish second to Celtic. If we had beaten them in the second last game of the season, we might just have pipped them and thus ended their eventual nine-in-a-row.
41 years later and I'm still a Don, albeit displaced to Hull, East Yorkshire!