Home to Fulham, League Cup in Aug 1998 (the 1998 World Cup had me interested in football, thus a soft spot for Michael Owen ever since). Paul Alcock (just weeks/months away from Di Canio fame) sent Carlton Palmer off. We lost 1-0, going out 2-1 on aggregate. I'm 90% sure it Beattie's home debut.
Home to Everton 1998 I think. Last day of the season on my birthday and we win 2-0 to stay in the Premier League. Marian scored both I think. Was in the paper as well the next day.
Didn't realise Dean Richards had died feel very out of touch. Very sad only 36. He was a cracking defender, was gutted when spurs nicked him.
1999 in that case. Late April/early May. And yes, it was Marian twice. Came quickly on the back of heels of the above mentioned Le Tiss scoring direct from a corner vs Wimbledon. Although, my favourite memory of that whole wonder late survival run was Beattie scoring from an impossible angle vs Leicester.
Confused memories, but having done some research it would appear to have been Boxing Day 1952 Home to Brentford W 2 1. Must have been part of my Christmas present.
hmmm.I know it was at home to Sheffield Wednesday at the Dell, and I was about 8 or 9 I think I'm going to research it!
My first game was at the dell against sheffield wednesday. Finished 1-1 with ken monkou scoring the equaliser! I had been bugging my dad for months to take me!
Can relate to this. My Dad, still alive, was a season ticket holder until the age of 95. Will be a 100 next March. The longest lasting memory is standing with friends about 10 rows from the back at the 76 cup final. I'd gone, fairly drunkenly, with friends. Dad had gone on a works coach with colleagues. Anyway come the 81st minute I spy Dad about 5 yards away and push my way across the terrace to him, a big hug and I say 'we're going to win' 30 seconds later Bob Stokes did what he was born to do....
Home to Aston Villa in the late nineties (don't know what year), we lost 2-0 and I cried most of the way home
Saints 0-1 Chelsea in 2003/04, the first season Chelsea had Abramovich's money. Mario Melchiot scored the winner, and Kevin Phillips put a header about an inch wide of the post in the last minutes
Away to Millwall Jan 2010. Wasn't able to make it over for a game before then. Dreadful game until the 90th minute then bang two goals!Took 22 years to go to my 1st game but have caught the bug and have been to about 15 more since and am heading to sunderland next week! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBXomnqTpOc
I've been racking my brains all day trying to remember, my mum bless her despite having no interest in football took me and my brother to a game or two a year when I was little, so my first game must have at some point in the second half of the 90's. First game I can remember was the last at the Dell, then I remember us playing Bayern in a friendly (Ted Bates memorial game?), drawing and being absolutely chuffed about it, and the home leg of our UEFA cup game against Steau. Would have been a few league games in between but I can barely remember anything before I was about 11, so they just fade together unfortunately.
Lovely story; I'm sure they are joyful tears welling up. I love the description of the brilliant green pitch lit up by the lights. My first game was under floodlights too.
Exact same match and the exact same motivation to go. At the age of 7, I went on my own because I was the only person who loved football enough to go and watch a match. I think it was 7/6d to get in at the Archers end. I couldn't believe how big and noisy the crowd were, and barely saw a thing until a kind adult helped me down to the wall at pitch side. It was character building, to say the least.
Blackburn at the Dell, Sept 1975. Saints won 2-1. I stood in the Archers end, and this old guy kept shouting `Come on you Sinners !`
