Easy for Me Tigers 1 vs Lions (Millwall) 0 27th Dec 1966 A goal for Ken Wagstaff in the year we won the League Was a young lad with me dad in a massive crowd... (40,231 for a league match) ... stood for what seemed like half the game on a big thermos flask! Initially attracted to the game as a boy wondering if a tiger would beat a lion.. then... Never forget that roar heard at Boothferry when Waggy scored, hooked for life... so hense the User name... Tigers 1 vs Lions 0
City 5 Orient 1, back in the 1984-85 season, seen from the back of the South Stand. Only memory I have of the game is City winning a free kick and Dennis Booth having to leap to catch the ball as it was chipped back to him. Strange how the memory works...
When i was around ten years old my first away match on my own was to Peterborough on coach, i took a bag of pod peas to eat on the way and seem to remember we won. I do recall a fight between to rival supporters both wearing hard hats, or was that the effect of the peas. Happy days.
Oh dear! I went with my Granddad to City's first game after WW2 (I was 8). We drew 0-0 against Lincoln. There was half a dozen of us went to every home game after that. We would pay a tanner (I think) and go round the back of the ground behind Bunkers where we would climb up to the top. The adults would then form a pathway by stretching their arms out and linking hands together and we would dive on to it and they would toss us all the way to the bottom where someone would pick us up and sit us just inside the fence so we wouldn't get crushed. I remember one match against West Ham (when I was a little older) when it was noted in the Daily Mail during the week that their Goalkeeper, Ernie Gregory, liked Toffee's. When he came to the Bunkers end he got showered with Toffee's and when play was in the other half he gathered them up and threw them to us. All my pockets were chocka at the end of the game.
My first game was at home to Chester City on boxing day in the great escape season and we got beat 2-1 My first away game was also the same season away at Halifax won 1-0 and I think it was David Brown who scored.
My Dad used to take me to reserve games at first - always enjoyed the half time crisps - this would be around 1950. My first experience of the first team, also with my dad, was around the 1952/53 season. Cant recall the actual game but I think it was Blackburn (remember the Blue and White shirts), was big crowd as well and we won. Started going on my own and with mates around 55/56 when I was 11. Have stood or sat in all areas of the Arc. I now have my seat in W4 at the KC . I have lots of fond memories and look forward to many more. (I mislay the bad memories and cant remember where I put them).
