First Saints Match

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Home to Fulham, League Cup in Aug 1998 (the 1998 World Cup had me interested in football, thus a soft spot for Michael Owen ever since).

Paul Alcock (just weeks/months away from Di Canio fame) sent Carlton Palmer off. We lost 1-0, going out 2-1 on aggregate. I'm 90% sure it Beattie's home debut.
 
Home to Everton 1998 I think. Last day of the season on my birthday and we win 2-0 to stay in the Premier League. Marian scored both I think. Was in the paper as well the next day.
 
ChrisMarsdenFootballGenius said:
Didn't Le Tiss score from a corner in that one?

Mine was 1999 away at Aston Villa. 0-1 to Saints, 81st minute headed winner from Dean Richards RIP. "Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. / Oh what fun it is to see Southampton win away!"
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Didn't realise Dean Richards had died feel very out of touch. Very sad only 36. He was a cracking defender, was gutted when spurs nicked him.
 
tomw19 said:
Home to Everton 1998 I think. Last day of the season on my birthday and we win 2-0 to stay in the Premier League. Marian scored both I think. Was in the paper as well the next day.
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1999 in that case. Late April/early May. And yes, it was Marian twice.

Came quickly on the back of heels of the above mentioned Le Tiss scoring direct from a corner vs Wimbledon. Although, my favourite memory of that whole wonder late survival run was Beattie scoring from an impossible angle vs Leicester.
 
Lovelocum said:
Didn't realise Dean Richards had died feel very out of touch. Very sad only 36. He was a cracking defender, was gutted when spurs nicked him.
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There's a minute's applause for him at the game today, apparently.
 
Confused memories, but having done some research it would appear to have been Boxing Day 1952 Home to Brentford W 2 1. Must have been part of my Christmas present.
 
hmmm.I know it was at home to Sheffield Wednesday at the Dell, and I was about 8 or 9 I think I'm going to research it!
 
My first game was at the dell against sheffield wednesday. Finished 1-1 with ken monkou scoring the equaliser! I had been bugging my dad for months to take me!
 
Can relate to this. My Dad, still alive, was a season ticket holder until the age of 95. Will be a 100 next March. The longest lasting memory is standing with friends about 10 rows from the back at the 76 cup final. I'd gone, fairly drunkenly, with friends. Dad had gone on a works coach with colleagues. Anyway come the 81st minute I spy Dad about 5 yards away and push my way across the terrace to him, a big hug and I say 'we're going to win' 30 seconds later Bob Stokes did what he was born to do....
milton archer said:
Like you Beddy time plays havoc with memory but I think mine was c1952 and my Dad took me to a Saints v All-Star XI match to celebrate the first match played under those very floodlights...Stan Matthews played that night as well and we were excited about seeing him....I remember stepping from the dark night and seeing the pitch lit up a brilliant green, it was magical. He took me as often as he could afford to after that as I was hooked. When it was really packed they'd send all us nippers to the front and lift us over the wall to sit pitch-side, we had to hug our knees as we were so close to the pitch and wingers.

FTL you are a sod for reminding me of this, I'm ashamed to say that tears are welling up as I write it, the old man is still alive....I last took him to St Mary's when he was 95, returning the favour.
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Saints 0-1 Chelsea in 2003/04, the first season Chelsea had Abramovich's money. Mario Melchiot scored the winner, and Kevin Phillips put a header about an inch wide of the post in the last minutes :p
 
I've been racking my brains all day trying to remember, my mum bless her despite having no interest in football took me and my brother to a game or two a year when I was little, so my first game must have at some point in the second half of the 90's. First game I can remember was the last at the Dell, then I remember us playing Bayern in a friendly (Ted Bates memorial game?), drawing and being absolutely chuffed about it, and the home leg of our UEFA cup game against Steau. Would have been a few league games in between but I can barely remember anything before I was about 11, so they just fade together unfortunately.
 
milton archer said:
Like you Beddy time plays havoc with memory but I think mine was c1952 and my Dad took me to a Saints v All-Star XI match to celebrate the first match played under those very floodlights...Stan Matthews played that night as well and we were excited about seeing him....I remember stepping from the dark night and seeing the pitch lit up a brilliant green, it was magical. He took me as often as he could afford to after that as I was hooked. When it was really packed they'd send all us nippers to the front and lift us over the wall to sit pitch-side, we had to hug our knees as we were so close to the pitch and wingers.

FTL you are a sod for reminding me of this, I'm ashamed to say that tears are welling up as I write it, the old man is still alive....I last took him to St Mary's when he was 95, returning the favour.
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Lovely story; I'm sure they are joyful tears welling up. I love the description of the brilliant green pitch lit up by the lights. My first game was under floodlights too.
 
ChilcoSaint said:
August 20th 1966, Saints 1 Man City 1. The whole country was on a high after England winning the World Cup just 3 weeks before, and my dear old Dad introduced me to Saints heaven.

As FLT says above, Happy Days.
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Exact same match and the exact same motivation to go. At the age of 7, I went on my own because I was the only person who loved football enough to go and watch a match. I think it was 7/6d to get in at the Archers end. I couldn't believe how big and noisy the crowd were, and barely saw a thing until a kind adult helped me down to the wall at pitch side.

It was character building, to say the least. :)
 
Blackburn at the Dell, Sept 1975. Saints won 2-1. I stood in the Archers end, and this old guy kept shouting `Come on you Sinners !`
 
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