I had you down as being a similar age to myself and old enough to see us winning the Third Div title in 65/66 season (sincere apologies for my assumption )? It was my first season, I only got to 7 or 8 home matches as my parents thought travelling from east of the river to BP was too far for a 12 year old to travel alone - I only went when someone, usually my grandad, could take me.
Huh! Parents . All you had to do was get a bus into town and then get a train right to Boothferry's door.
Tried that argument ............ just the once like ........ 50's/60's parents weren't big into reasoning with their kids!
65/66 was my 2nd season. I went to every home game except Qpr when I was forced to go to a cub event. I gave up cubs shortly afterwards. What was amazing was i only 10/11 years old and was allowed to go provided my friend was with me, he was 2 years older. We also went to about 4 away games.
I've seen us scrape by in the 90's, get promoted to league 1, piss said league, get to the Championship and survive, nearly go back down, then go up, then survive, then down, then two years of boredom, then up again, then survival again, then an FA Cup final, then Europe, then back down again. If we quit the league tomorrow I'd have had a decent career as a supporter.
It was '68 season before I was allowed to go with mates - 65/66 we still lived down Holderness Road, all the similar aged kids around us went to rugby at Craven Park, I was the only one interested in City, I didn't really meet City fans in any numbers until we moved onto the shiny new Bransholme Estate in '67.
No. Can't remember my first match. The first one I remember is a friendly match with Blackpool as part of the deal for signing Stan. Mortensen in 1955/56 ?. 4-4 I recall with Stan scoring a hatrick and being carried off injured. Lived on Hall Road so caught the dedicated football bus to North Road and back.
