RaspberryRed Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 Looking forward to the new season with much anticipation combined with the onset of middle age it got me thinking back to my first ever game watching the Mighty Reds Bristol City vs St Mirren 0 - 2 1979/80 I was eight years old but clearly remember being in awe of the crowds of people around the ground, the brightness of the floodlights before being manoeuvred to the front of the old Williams Stand terracing and perched on a concrete block wall to watch the game. I can't remember anything about the game whatsoever but was obviously bitten by the bug as am still coming back. There's been some immense Highs & Lows in the subsequent 36 years from being huddled around a transistor radio by an old school portacabin to hear the news that the club had been saved from bankruptcy in 1982 (at the 11th hour) right up to the double winning season we have recently experienced So what are your recollections of your first match? COYR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 Not a lot except a few vague recollections as I was only about 3-4 years old. It was against Palace (my Dad is a Palace nut) at The Gate circa 1963. Apparently I couldn't understand why they players ran the other way after half time ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Army 75 Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 I was about 14 can't remember her name though . First match 1982 old man took me down. Sat on the wall in the enclosure. Can't remember the team . Even though it was smaller crowds and we weren't very good I absolutely loved it . Still do but it's very different today obviously . Looking forward to Saturday the same as when I was a kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 Sometime in 1967, it was against Oxford I think. I was 12 and don't remember anything about the game. I do remember the feeling of being in a football crowd. Very thrilling for a young lad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 some time in 1984 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviestevieneville Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 Against Stoke when cheese done his knee. My dad had taken me down to reserve games the season before to get used to crowds . Can't remember much I was five. All I can really remember about the first division years was the fighting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinreliant Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 Back in 1964. Can't remember who we played but I remember John Atyeo was playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COACH2 Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 1972 v Chelsea age 10, it was a testimonial match for Gordon Parr, It was a night match and we went by coach from Clevedon the the excitement when we scored has had me hooked ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reformed_red Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 At home V Newcastle in the League (Coca-Cola) Cup. Geordies won 5-0, the roar after their first goal made me jump out of my skin (I was 7). Numerous season tickets and away days followed ever since (City that is, not Newcastle). My Dad knew Martin Khul so we went in the players lounge after the game. Was awesome. I didn't get to the game when they were last relegated, but really looking forward to playing them in a couple of weeks to taking my daughter who has also caught the bug since she experienced her first game (JPT Final). I managed to convince her she wanted a ST last season. No such luck this year though. Be nice to experience the new Williams Stand with her against the team I first saw play from the old stand, will try and get tickets as close to where I say that first ever time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Exile Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 1969. Family lore states that my brother (late of this forum) went to watch Pinocchio or some such with my Mum at the Rex, while my Dad, Uncle and cousin went down to the Gate. I never let him forget that choice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBobSuperBob Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 Nov 1970 City 3 Watford 0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiale Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 Sometime in the early 70's, know nothing about the game or date though. Dad was a lifetime City supporter (he was born, lived and worked in Ashton) and he just took me to games.. I did not really start enjoying football until I was about 9-10, all the previous years.. well I just did not have the attention span, the thing that I most looked forward to was we always bought a cone of chips on the way home after, and sometimes had a full fish and chips... those were simpler days though, i think I went through a couple of years owning just 2 pairs of jeans/cords that were just endlessly patched from pieces of old clothes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 16 minutes ago, COACH2 said: 1972 v Chelsea age 10, it was a testimonial match for Gordon Parr, It was a night match and we went by coach from Clevedon the the excitement when we scored has had me hooked ever since. I remember that one as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 1967 FA Cup 4th round v Southampton as a 12 years old. Crowd about 38,000 - I had never seen so many people in one place and still remember the feeling of excitement coming into the ground between the enclosure and East End for the first time, the smog of tobacco smoke hanging over the ground and being carried out of the ground at the end in the crush of people with my feet not touching the ground. Saints forward line that day was Martin Chivers, Ron Davies and Terry Paine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dolman Pragmatist Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 1962, 2-0 win over QPR. I was eight and hooked from the very first match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollywhyte Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 Vs Man City pre season friendly 1999, was only 4! Can anyone remember the game, or am I making it up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidered abroad Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 7th April 1950, Good Friday. Home to Aldershot Town and won 2-0. 18,291 and I was pressed up against the railings behind the Covered End goal. Life has never been the same since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobArnold10 Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 1994, home win vs Stoke, 3-1, barely remember a thing but it gave me a taste. First real memory was the St Albans game a year or so later when Ago ran rings round them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrs Court Red Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 Around 91 I think. City lost 2-0 to Charlton, Carl Leaburn scoring; which he always seemed to do v City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richwwtk Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 Having no decent City influences in my family, I supported Man Utd as a youngster and so my first ever game was a 1-1 draw with them at Ashton Gate in about 1977 that my grandad took me to as a 9 year old. I also saw a testimonial of some kind at eastville on a school trip and a random Reading match at Elm Park before I went to my first game under my own steam as a City fan in the 1983/84 season. I think it was against Reading and Steve Neville scored but can't remember too much else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unan Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 05/06 3-0 vs Walsall, I was 10.. and that's scary how that's almost half my life ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelts Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 83-84 York home on a midweek. Remember Notts County and John Shedoze( not sure of spelling) he was a standout , not sure of date Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unan Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 05/06 3-0 vs Walsall, I was 10.. and that's scary how that's almost half my life ago. edit: just over half my life ago.. feeling old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Colby-Tit Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 1976 versus Leeds, with fog so thick I couldn't see the ball for most of the game. I was squashed in at the front of the enclosure and I think there was a crowd of 30k+. The game was abandoned at HT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1960maaan Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 9 minutes ago, Sir Colby-Tit said: 1976 versus Leeds, with fog so thick I couldn't see the ball for most of the game. I was squashed in at the front of the enclosure and I think there was a crowd of 30k+. The game was abandoned at HT. Lucky the thread heading isn't the 'first game you saw' !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welcome To The Jungle Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 2001 vs Port Vale aged 6 or 7. Steve Brooker scored for Vale but Scotty equalised for City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southstandoriginal Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 Taken by my dad and grandfather against Bolton in 1970 when I was 9. We were behind the goal at the open end. The ground was 3 sided at the time with the area cleared ready for the Dolman to be built, lots of people were watching for free from Nelson Mandela House. The match ended 2-2 and I remember Bobby Kellard scoring a penalty in front of us at the open end and England world cup winner Roger Hunt playing for Bolton. If only I could remember so much about some of the matches I saw last season. . .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1960maaan Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 I remember the first games I saw after I was allowed to cross town on my own , well with mates. 1970-71 friendly Vs Go Ahead Deventer won 2-0 and the First game of the season was Sunderland at home. In the middle-ish (slightly to the right as you looked at it) of the EE City won 4-3 and I could barely see a thing awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCFC_Dan Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 26 April 1997 (looked it up on Soccerbase). City 3 Plymouth 1. Came back to win from 1-0 down. Darren Barnard scored with a cross over the head of a Plymouth keeper the size of Lee Johnson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Brent Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 Home to Forest in December '93. Collymore ripped us apart and scored twice. I was 6 and loved it. I remember thinking it was packed and since found out the attendance was over 20k! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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