Stolen this off Amber Nectar forum but never mind...when did you fall in love with Hull City AFC and know it was for life? When did you get that real buzz and know there was no going back? As one of the younger ones on the forum, mine was in the 2006/2007 season, I had been going seasons before that but I was only really young so it's all sort of a blur. I hadn't been to many games that season as my dad had lost his job bla bla not gonna give you my life story, but I remember them selling tickets on the cheap for the QPR game at home and me and my dad went, I remember us being 1-0 down Stuart Elliot came on scoring in the dying minutes, and then seeing him moments later rising above everyone to nod it into the top corner, that was it for me there was no going back. I was only 10 so that's probably why I don't remember much before it! So there's mine! What's yours?
I first went to watch us play Scarborough (think it was a cup game, remember them being a division below us. It was definitely somebody in red) in 93, shortly before my brother was born. That's my earliest memory of going, but I might have been before then. I really fell in love with the Tigers in my first year of South Hunsley, which was 1999. I went to most of the back end of the 1998-99 season (our great escape), but wasn't really old enough to appreciate what a fantastic job WJ did and how important it was. I pestered my Dad to take me with him to every game. I got my own season ticket in 2000 and went from there. I remember being taken round the KC before it opened (my Dad had some serious pull back then - he also got us into Xscape the week before it opened. I was the first person to ski down that slope ) and just being blown away. I've never supported anybody else, I never saw the point to be honest. I still get the same childish feeling going to a game as I did when I first went to my first game at Boothferry Park. I'm not ashamed to say that Saturday afternoons are what I look forward to most in life and I get a weird sort of floaty feeling when I walk out of the concourse and towards my seat. Mrs TT has accepted her fate and despite being a hardcore Newcastle fan, I caught her using the word 'breadcake' the other day. It's begun.
I saw the topic title and got all reminiscent, then I opened it and realized what you were talking about. For me I was at Mecca Bingo with the old man and he started talking to my uncle about Citys woes. I used to go with my grandad to BP when i was younger. My dad never bothered to take me, so when my grandad passed away, I kinda lost interest. But now that I am older my passion has been reignited. it's a wonder that Bingo hall hasn't been bombed yet.
Born and bred in Sheffield so although Dad was avid I never got to attend many games, maybe 1 or 2 a season in the early 80's. Then work, money, relationships conspired to distract me up until I started working for Billy Hills in 2000 and sport was all around, that's when my love for HCAFC was reignited.
1952 - Raich Carter's last season. My gran new him (through his wife if I recall) so she coaxed my grandad into taking me to B.P. Loved Hull City A.F.C. ever since - no regrets. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49twFTgL-R0 Edit. Carter was instrumental in nurturing one Ken Wagstaff at Mansfield and coaxed him into moving to The Tigers. The rest is history !
When Ashbee scored against Yeovil. Never forget that day. The start of something special, in more ways than one. I was only 9 at the time, so most of my time at City before then (been going since '99) is quite blurred.
1976 (or 77) City 3 Sunderland 0 John Hawley amongst the scorers. Was at Hull University at the time, my first proper football match. Think it was 70P admission, a friend and I walked from Cottingham to save the beer money!
Mr Hayden @ Clifton street primary school used the league table to teach us maths in the early 70's. nobody in my family was interested in sport so I used to have to sneak a look at the n.o.t.w. for the result and the match report. Many a time I did not find out the result until the Monday morning of Mr Hayden and then we would discuss the game and what it meant to the league table. I was fascinated for the football and the maths.
First game v Coventry in the League Cup in 95, we lost 1-0. Started going regularly in 2000 season. First of them regular matches was against Carlisle & then the Leyton Orient match (the league match not in the playoffs) where everyone was protesting about the locking of the gates of BP got me hooked. Hence the signature.
Being raised in Australia 'til age 15, I knew nothing of City other than stories from my Dad and football magazines (hopelessly out of date), that I bought over here. Then we went to England. It was 1974 and I was 15. My Dad and I walked across the fields from Airmyn Avenue where my Nana and Grandad lived and into Boothferry Park. There was no turning back from there. It might sound strange but it was kind of like going home and I still feel that way every time I visit. Long live Hull City!
Long time lurker, signing up just to post. Campbell to Windass at Wembley and the celebration that followed. Wasn't much of a football fan until that moment. Probably one of the most cool, calm, and collective goals I seen in my albeit brief time of following the game. I still get chills watching it.
Having no family that even had the smallest liking for city I saw sunderland at their ground and rangers at theirs And york city a few times in division three After that i wanted to go see hull city to watch regular football, first game i went i was a little underwhelmed after seeing crowds of 20-30-40k but i loved it and never looked back Use to love the shirt that was sponsored by hull uni very nostalgic I didn't really understand the players, i just loved it when a goal was scored and now im stat crazy Youd really struggle for highlights in the division 3 then I once begged my maw to take me to doncaster rovers away and it pissed it down on the open terrace, i just wanted to go home there was quite a regular same scene away group back then The first game i remember watching on sky was when i was away about 12-13 against bradford city at home and we had to wear our away kit or something
Was a mascot in 83 aged 8. Been going a couple of years with my grandad. Guess it started there. Still gutted my Grandad never got to see us in the top division
First game I saw was about 1980. Sat on the white crossed fence round the pitch at bottom of Kempton, it was the pitch and how green and smooth it looked as they said it was like a snooker table. Seeing the players close up, feeling part of the game sat that close for a young lad into football thats the best thing in the world, close enough to actually be part of the game, not TV this was the real thing. Then a goal. The noise surrounded me, it felt like 100,000 fans to my little ears. How can anyone not get hooked on City when that was how it felt??????
The League Cup game against Leicester at Boothferry Park in 2002, that we lost 4-2 after extra time. Big crowd, night match, great atmosphere and a good performance against a team of players I'd been watching on TV the season before. That's when I really caught the football bug. Shame we finished 13th that season...
The 1985/86 season was the first I'd started to tell my friends that I was no longer supporting Liverpool or Man Utd like them & I had decided to fully support Hull City, that Christmas I got my first piece of Hull City AFC merchandise, a scarf from my sister. I was very excited & asked my Dad to take me to see City play, but he never did so it wasn't until 88 when I saw them play at Rudston against Kilham: Wed 11/05/1988 TOUR Kilham N 10 0 W 450 Saville (2); Edwards (2); Norman; Jobson; Payton; Roberts G; De Mange; Daniel http://tigerbase.hullcity.com/tigers-friendlies.php I never got Boothferry Park until my first proper game was the 91/92 season but it was a loss to Peterborough, so I went again a couple of weeks later against Bury, another defeat. Didn't go again until the last game of the season v Swansea & finally a win. I was already hooked from the 85/86 season, I was listening on Humberside all that time in between, nothing will stop me. First shirt 1992/93. http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Hull_City/Hull_City.htm
Around 1957/58 I was allowed to venture to Boothferry Park on my own and because the gates were opened just after half time in those days I got in for free. My alliegence since then has bordered from the fanatical to indifferent and as I have mentioned before I am more or less an armchair supporter these days. I'm afraid the sheer cost of attending matches these days is ample deterent enough, my income only goes so far. And I have to say that of the matches I have attended at the KC none had the excitement or atmospheric euphoria generated on the Bunkers Hill/South Stand of BP. KC is a magnificent stadium compared to BP but is devoid of any feeling or atmospher, it is sterile.
From the very first time I went to Boothferry Park at the beginning of the 65/66 season. That was a great time to start out being a supporter. We scored goals for fun, there were big crowds, it was overwhelming for an 8 year old. There have been some ups and downs over the years and times when I have thought about a divorce. But you end up sticking together. For the kids.
