What was your first match?

Mine was in 79. I can’t even remember who we played, but my family had just come back to Hull after spending 8 years in Oz and I was dying to see my first English footy match.
The team had Gordon Nisbet, Paul Haigh, Roger De Vries and Mick Tait in it, but to be honest it was the atmosphere that really got me hooked.
The stadium, the bright green pitch, the crowd, the trains of supporters emptying (cheering the City ones and abusing the opposition), the first chants, the hostility between us and them all made it clear that this was much more than a football match.
By the time the players ran out onto the pitch the East Stand was heaving and the songs were in full flow.
What a build up! Unfortunately from what I remember of the game it hardly deserved it. I think it finished 0-0 and I was really pi55ed off that we hadn’t won, but it didn’t stop me coming back.

 

November 1958 Tigers V Chester won 3-0 with Bill Bradbury scoring. Got a pass from the School, because I played for the School team, which allowed you to get in for half price 6 old pence rather than a shilling.

 

1990 v west ham 0-0

 

1995 v Coventry, league cup. Lost 1-0 at Boothferry Park

 

Torquay in 1997 I think. The only thing I can be sure about is that it was 1-1.

All I remember is that I was in the Premier Club or whatever it was called back then, and I was probably just a pain the arse to my dad all the way through it, as it was about 3 years before he took me in there again.

 

1983 Boxing Day V Scunny, we won 1-0 from a Brian Marwood pen, Steve Mclaren was playing I remember, and Ian Botham was playing for them, I would have gone a few years earlier than that apart from my dad was scared of football violence at the time, puts the little fisticuffs mentioned on here yesterday into perspective!

 

Hull City 3-1 Bradford City. I may need help with the year. Sometime around '93 I think, Linton Brown and Windass up front, I was 9 I think.

 

I was at that game. There was about 18,000 there and I remember it being announced at half-time that the days gate broke the record receipts for the club. Probably about £100K lol.

 

I can remember it like it was yesterday, amazing atmosphere, was a City fan for life after that, good job I wasn't taken to TWS or anywhere else though!

 

1975 at home to blackpool

 

1965 v exeter city won 6-1 29,000 fans ,tiger till i die.

 

77 or 78 can't remember as I would have been 5 or 6.
Blackpool at home. Nil nil. ****ing Baltic and incredibly boring.

Went on the football special.

That is all.

 

April 1980 v Plymouth. Free schoolboys ticket. Won 1-0. Sunny day, vivid green pitch.

 

Can't remember when it was (poss 1988-89?), my uncle loaded up his estate car with me, my 2 cousins and my uncles 2 sons and took us to Stoke's old Victoria Ground. I think we won 2-1 or 3-1?
My first home game was a similar era and we stood in the Well of the best stand, we played West Ham and I can vaguely remember someone getting sent off for scrapping. I seem to think it was Steve Doyle(?) and Kevin Keen going for it?
I remember the Well being bloody freezing!!!

 

Went to the Stoke game at the Vic. It was 0-1 to us Bobby Doyle scored that day with a pearler - a bit like Boateng against Man City.

 

Jesus! I wish that had been my first game.

 

We won 4-0.

 

Scunthorpe, first game of the 65/66 season. 3-2 win. That season it was hardly ever a question of whether we would win, more often it was how many would we win by.

 

Was that the home game, as I went also to Scunny away that season, and all I remember was the pitch was completely covered is sands with no visible grass apart from 4 small corners where the corner flags where?