15th October 1960, Cardiff City 0 Bolton Wanderers 1. I was just a young tit, and my father took me to NP on the old Bob Bank. I started my following of City with a defeat and so the feeling of disappointment is part of a lower league team! The thing I remember well is the England reserve goalkeeper Eddie Hopkinson was in goal and saved everything city threw at him....he would not concede! He played over 500 games for BW....who were a big side back then! Anybody else remember their first game? OS was Hamburg if I recall! Joe Rall for sale!
Was at the Hamburg game Masky (about '68 ish?) but it wasn't my first - I was a veteran by then. Can't think who we were playing for my first one but can distinctly remember being sat on the wooden benches of the Canton Stand by my dad and my uncle Jim - Graham Vearncombe was right in front of me in goal for City. Graduated to the right hand Grandstand enclosure after that and can also remember Peter Rodrigues playing at right back (we could do with him right now!), so it must have been around the mid 60's.
No idea what game it was but would have been mid 70s. My dad had grown up a bluebird going back to the 50s. I preferred egg and he was easing me in. Saw a couple wales games in home internationals while stood in the grange end before a few odd city games then a few season tickets on the Bob bank.
Bloody Hell Masky!!!!! you must be about as old as me!!! First game with the old boy, aged 6, Boxing Day 1960 v Notts County 2-2 draw. Went on my own in '66/67 the promotion season. The likes of George Curtis and Ron Farmer, proper tough defenders in those days.
Hamburg was my first City game but had been to Ninian for several Wales games before that. My frst ever game was Newport v Oldham in 1963. A very boring 0.0. In fact I saw 2 Tottenham home games before I saw City. My Dad's uncle lived at Neasden so only a short hop across North London to WHL.
1959 for me. Can't remember too much about the game but I was in the boys enclosure in the Grange End. I've still got the programme somewhere and that's the only reason why I know that we beat Liverpool 3-2 in that game. My dad took me to every home game for the rest of that season. My notes on following programmes show that we completed the double over Liverpool with a 4-0 win at Anfield! Promoted to the top flight in my first full season by finishing second to Villa. Didn't stay in the boys enclosure for other games as the view was rubbish. On the white wall at the corner of the Grange End and Bob Bank thereafter. My dad was convinced that I was a good luck charm but he soon realised that wasn't the case!
Ahh, the Don. A player may go past him, the ball may go past him, but never both... We also had a great midfield clogger - remember Mel Sutton?
first game wba cant remember the score but since then 1953 my heart has been broken many times,in fact had a heart op in Toulouse 13 years ago,so I blame them ,nothing to do with eating and drinking.just saying.
First game was late 60s...gave Pompey a drubbing. Hitch-hiked form Wick in the Vale. Although I can remember walking from the station to the ground and having a pint in a pub on the way. I stood outside while my cousin went in and bought and we drank it standing by the door. Must have been 14/15.
Ah Wick. Lived there for about a year going back a while. Never got out of The Star in a sober state but did manage it once from the Lamb and Flag.
I moved to Cardiff in 1979 but my first game was against Hereford maybe a year or two before that. The Bluebirds won 2-0, I think, but I do recall that there was about 34,000 at the game. Fantastic atmosphere as it was a top of the table clash although not sure what division we were in then.
I think it was the 3rd tier (totally different meaning with todays situation) and it was a record crowd for that division I believe.
Nothing wrong with Wick or the pubs except we rarely had enough fuel in my mates Morris Minor to make it there and back from Bridgend..... We usually stopped and "watered" in either the Fox or the Farmers (or both) on the way at St. Brides. Mind you, this was pre-breathalyser times.....
Fug me OS, my sincere apologies pal, it was BFB’s first game not yours! To be mixed up with those two fella’s would spoil my day! How do you do it.... emoji for sale!
It was the old third division IB, Masky was there and remembers it well, Doug Livermore and Alan Campbell scored that night....heaving it was! Hereford were top and unbeatable, we were in the chase and turned them over! Only thinking about Hereford and Colin Addison....and what happened to them last week! Ground for sale!
First game with the old boy eh, a story for a different day.....but I remember mine clearly, and Marianne Faithful was involved! Winky Wannky Bird for hire!
