Not sure which was my first game but I do remember seeing City play Sheff Wednesday on boxing day 1970. We were 4-1 down with about 8 minutes to play and ended up drawing 4-4. I was on Bunkers Hill and got jostled by Owls fans who came over the little white fence around the pitch. I was only 8 years old....Big hard South Yorkshire twats!!
HULL CITY 4 Mansfield Town 0 . 26th feb 1966. My dad took me to BP in best seats , west stand ... Hooked ever since .....
Hey blackandambergambler ..... I remember your first game v Sheffield Wednesday , Wednesday scored , I ran onto the pitch towards the Wednesday fans with s few others and got thrown out ......Of course nowadays it would be 6 months and a life time ban ...
Crystal Palace @ home this season. Can't even remember the date. 22nd August? We played pretty ****e and lost (You do remember this, do you?). Couldn't wait for next match though
quite easy for me to trace the season , as i remember watching and having the programmes for City v Spurs and City v Mansfield . I think both were in the 1977-1978 season . I was stood in the well
Boxing Day 1968 at home against Norwich, just a young kid of 8 at the time ...... Got beat 1-0 but hooked since then
1937 my Dad took me to The Circle on anlaby road, almost where city are to day, can't remember a thing about it. but my real match was in 1946 at the half finished Boothferry Park playing Blackburn Rovers FA cup. Me and pal Barry Yates ran from Spring bank after school to get to the match at half time, it was sixpence to get in but the man at the turnstyle waved us through without paying but City lost 3-0. It was an afternoon midweek match no floodlights in those days. I have been almost every year since except three years I was away in 50 to 53.
Very early 70's, I only remember that every team we played were in all red, oxford, orient etc. I wondered why I was given the tangerines - throw them at the goalkeeper Ian McKechnie - so I did as told!!! Thanks Dad
Away at Cardiff in 1966. My dad had moved down south for a few years with his work. City won 4-2 and Waggy scored all 4! Hooked ever since.
I remember leaving this one with about 8 minutes to go. Grrrrrrrr. I have only ever left early three times since. Once agen Brentford in the last 16 of the cup in 1971 (I think). Losing 1 - 0 with not long to go. Won 2 - 1. I remember running down North Road with each loud cheer to get to Tempo records to see the BBC scores coming through on the teleprinter on the tele in the wiindow!!! Also 5 - 1 down at Colchester more recently with Iwelumo scoring 4 (I think) on Phil Parkinson's return to Layer Road. And also, away at Huddersfield on a Sunday lunchtime when Peter Taylor was on secondment to England under 21s and we got humiliated 4 - 0.
FA Cup 1970 - 71 Quarter final v Stoke .....Gordon Banks in goal and he more or less repeated the famous world cup save at Boothferry Park. We lost 2-3 . Hope the link works ... http://northy.footballunited.com/2009/06/21/youtube-hull-city-v-stoke-1971/
WOW Charles Barry Yates is my uncle, he is still alive and well and living in Hornsea now, I stayed with him and Marg this summer when I was home. He is still the prankster always a laugh is our Barry although I doubt if he could run very far these days. Bloody small world innit, I will tell him I have spoken with you on this message board, when was the last time you saw him?
Sad to admit that my dad brought me up to be a man u fan so my first few matches were at OT and one or 2 other grounds including the old wembely but my first city match was the 'last ever' cause of lloydd against cardiff we lost 2-0 and i got my pic in the fail and the old green mail i think avout 3 pic my dad has them somewhere still but after that it was always manu who??? the atmosphere at BP i thought was a lot better and ive never looked back think i went nearly every home game for a few years from then on used to do my paper round then travell straight there with my wages used to love it i do miss BP
