1989 vs West Ham 1-1. Whitehurst equalized for City, Bucket passed round to collect for Hillsborough My dad's first game was 1949, he can't remember who it was against but he caught the train in from Driffield.
City 4 Mansfield 0 1965 , my dad took me at long last as I'd been nagging him for a couple of years .. Sat in west stand ... Also when I was about 4 playing in the garden on 21st ave a girl came and told me she lived in a t pot and did I want to go to a party.. I went with her . Walked what seemed like miles before she ran off .. I saw a man in a uniform and thought he was the police .. Told him I was lost .. He was a bus inspector and he took me home .. Good job I knew my address .. Think I'd been gone about 4 hours and everyone was out looking for me... Got a clip around the ear at first before being bought a bag of sweets on endyke lane by my dad ....thinking about the little twat I turned into by the age of 12 I reckon there's been times my parents wished I'd never come back .....
Brilliant. BTW did they catch the girl who lead you away? Surely she was easy enough to find living in a giant tea-pot.
League cup 1995 v Coventry. The ground was empty unfortunately, not a good atmosphere and we lost. My dad said to get used to that result, if i was to watch them every week. Still got over the disappointement and carried on watching us when my dad took me back to BP when i was a little older.
First game at Boothferry for me was in the 80's v Blackpool I think. Finished 3-1 sure Marwood scored and I think Mike Ring got one. Just remember going through the turnstiles and thinking how big the floodlight were, I was **** scared walking underneath thought it might collapse on me!! Must have been about 6 then.
Reference Crook Town game: I was at that game and it was my birthday. We went 1-0 up and then 3-1 down by half time. Crook scored just after half time to make it 4-1. McSeveney went on the rampage on the left wing and fed Chillo. We pulled it back to 5-4 and then had another goal disallowed.
my first game was in '65. I just remember being amazed by all those people in the same place at the same time and the noise.
Cheers Melbourne! Appreciate you looking through, it was definitely Millwall, I wonder if it was a reserves game or cup game?? I cant see it being a league game but i do have trouble remembering where my feet are these days, I do remember what I thought was a lot of people (this was my first game so never really seen any crowds) looked about 1/5 full so 2-3000 people. Must get one of those books!
My earliest proper memory was the play off final against Leyton Orient in 2001. I can still remember John Eyre scoring in front of the south stand and then spending the next few days dreaming of a trip to the Millenium stadium but alas it wasn't to be. Also remember going to a few games earlier on in that season, think we beat Darlington 1-0 in early November and we lost 2-0 to Cheltenham in what I can vaguely remember as being an awful performance from us.
I checked the FA and League Cup matches for that period lt and there weren't any with Millwall, also I'm not certain but I think the reserve leagues were on a regional basis so a game against Millwall seems unlikely. Sorry that doesn't help.
I am pretty sure my first game was against Ipswich, I remember it being a draw so I am going for New Years Eve 1988, 1-1. Though maybe it was the 1-0 victory the year before. I cannot say for certain. I remember it taking a while for me to stop shouting for a penalty every time there was a foul (I had previously been taken to the egg-chasing) no matter where the offence had taken place. Andy Payton and his mullet soon became my hero. I assume I was taken to the football because I had started to take an interest in supporting Liverpool...a quick rescue situation was required by my mother.
I cant remember who we played or even what score it was of my first memory of Boothferry Park. What is still as fresh in my mind is that I was about 11 or 12 There use to be a gang of kids that used to go to City and they always seemed to have a laugh and talk about Waggy an Chillo, and how they look for away fans to do in haha, looking back now if they did find any away supporters they would of **** thereselves it was all playground talk, but I wanted to be part of this gang. I wanted to be "hard" like them, so the next home game off we went I remember that we got one of the kids elder brother to get us a bottle of woodpecker from Spotty Dog Offy and remember us getting some cans of Topscore from some where, also the game was going to be on Telly on Sunday afternoon. Getting close to BP with my ben sherman on brown star jumper and lime green socks, cherry red loafers and Prince o wales checks. The first thing was the chanting, It sounded like a gang of warriors I,d heard on Television, I was **** scared with anticipation, the other kids knew their way about and they knew crack, I didnt and I was frightened to death that I,d get split up from them, I didnt. Then I entered South stand. OMG look at the size of that pitch, it was massive and I always remember the smell of it earthy, grassy. We took our place right at the front behind the goal so that there maybe a chance that we get on the Telly on Sunday afternoon, all the time aware of the chanting and singing the noise seem to reverberate through my body then as I felt safe in my new experience it was time to learn the songs they were singing so I could join in and become one of them. The game started and ended, we got the bus home singing all the City songs I,d learned at the back of the bus with the "lads" I couldnt wait to get to school on Mon, to be in the playground to be part of that gang and share my football staories. We even got on Telly. Priceless
my first game was in 1954 when my dad took me to watch wilf mannion cant remember opponents he only played a few games for us before being banned from professional football because of some newspaper articles he was alleged to have written
