The bosses reply to my post of "She" is responsible for this new thread I'm 58 and started going in '76, I was at The Valley for the Chelsea 4-0 game in '77 when they wanted to set fire to our home.
56 don’t recall exactly my 1st game but I do recall Flanagan-Hales punch up Tottenham v Millwall at the Valley amd being in Mariyon Wilson park Hills when the WHO played.
February or March 1958……My 10th birthday was in the January. So….if my mathematics are correct, it means I have been a fan for 66 of the clubs 119 years existence. Greatest please in all that time, watching Stuart Leary, worst experience having to put up with self righteous narcissistic trolls on our forums.
Blimey, I can't recall exactly when I began. It would have been roughly the same time as Elfs, mid-late 1970's. I was only an occasional visitor then, as I was not as good at climbing over the wall as most of my peers Sadly my memories are hazy. I recall standing near the top of the East terrace, but no real details of an actual match. 57 this year, so I would have been 9 or 10 maybe.
45 years young. Having said that, things are starting to creak and groan (and it's not the bedsprings, sadly). My first match was during the 84/85 season. I can barely remember it myself, though my old man assures me it was the season leading up to leaving The Valley. I first started going on my own once I turned 11. We were living in Thamesmead at the time. I remember it being a fair old way to Selhurst Park, but the excitement of the whole day was palpable. Great times.
I’m 60 and first went with my dear old dad in the early 70’s . We use to stand on the East terrace where I was allowed to wander down to the front and wait for the peanut seller , a few years later I progressed to going with my mates and jumping the fence via someones back garden in Lansdowne Mews - happy days !
First game 14th October 1975 Charlton 0 QPR 3 in a League Cup replay. Tutt; Penfold, Warman, Bowman, Giles, D.Young, Powell, Hales, Flanagan, Hunt, Peacock. Stan Bowles scored for QPR, and I was 26.
Well it would seem I'm the oldest. I am 75. I was born on 25th may 1949. I can't remember my first match. I believe I was at the famous match versus Huddersfield because my dad told me I was. I think I would have been before that though, because my Aunt would come to our house occasionally to 'Perm' my mum's hair on a Saturday afternoon and myself (I hated the smell of the PERM chemicals), my dad and my uncle were sent out to football. Either Charlton or Millwall in those days, when football was more affordable. I was at Wembley for the play off final on my 49th birthday.
Seventy years young. My first match was 1961. I think it was Sunderland. What struck me was the vast East terrace, the smell of Old Holborn and the shirts which were mainly white with red flashes on the shoulders. I had never seen anything like it.
