walshys shuffle Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 Deffo went in 73/74, but earliest memory is hull 75? 3-0. I was stood at the front of the enclosure hanging on to the railings. Main memory of the day was how cold I felt, only warmed up with each goal going in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Shadow Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 I can remember Hugh McIlmoyle was playing so must have been start of 1967/68 season. 55 years clocked up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 15 hours ago, MattWSM said: With Jubilee in mind, how many years service for Citys longest serving fans Taking it from the first time you attended a City game at AG or away, how many years are you at now. My first game was v Liverpool at AG in Dec 78, so Im at 43 years Mine was circa 1963 ish. City vs Palace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmite Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 7 hours ago, redysteadygo said: Dad took me in either 55 or 56 on the railings in front of Crackers Corner. That was my starting time and place. I think I might have seen you. Did you wear short trousers and use Brylcream? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redysteadygo Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 1 minute ago, marmite said: That was my starting time and place. I think I might have seen you. Did you wear short trousers and use Brylcream? Brylcreem didn't come until I was in senior school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmite Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 5 minutes ago, redysteadygo said: Brylcreem didn't come until I was in senior school. Memory must be playing up again. Blimey, I ve been watching about 67 years. Surely I'm entitled to a free S/T soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redysteadygo Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 6 minutes ago, marmite said: Memory must be playing up again. Blimey, I ve been watching about 67 years. Surely I'm entitled to a free S/T soon. Must admit that from age fourteen to early fifties I played regularly and only got to games when they didn't coincide with our matches. So I haven't suffered the same agony as other long time serving fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheltons Army Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 To brink back that nice memory Ska https://youtu.be/k529LiWS0Ps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Oil Services Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Frenchay Red said: I was 3 when my parents first took me. They used to stand at the front, by the railings in the old East End. At that time I used to take a tennis ball and other toys to play with in the walkway behind them because I didn't watch the game very much and would get bored. That was 70 years ago. You don't get bored now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quedgeley Exile Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 Against Oxford I think. 0 - 0 1974 .. So 48 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
italian dave Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 7 hours ago, BTRFTG said: 28/12/65 - The 'Floodlights' Fixture. We lost. About the same place in the hierarchy today as we were then. Plus ca change. Five weeks later for me. 5 Feb 66 home to Man City. Wasn’t it Tommy Docherty (the Man U manager, not the City player) who once said that it was “good to see Bristol City back where they belong - 11th in the second division”? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bredwood Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 We March 67 I think 1-1 vs Ipswich who were 1st Division Champions only 5 years earlier. I think I spent most of the game wondering why all the adults around me were swearing and getting agitated at the sight of 22 men running around chasing a ball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchay Red Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 51 minutes ago, Bristol Oil Services said: You don't get bored now? Yeah, but I'm used to it by now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 27 minutes ago, bredwood said: We March 67 I think 1-1 vs Ipswich who were 1st Division Champions only 5 years earlier. I think I spent most of the game wondering why all the adults around me were swearing and getting agitated at the sight of 22 men running around chasing a ball. 55 years later you have learned the reason why! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nogbad the Bad Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 56 minutes ago, Quedgeley Exile said: Against Oxford I think. 0 - 0 1974 .. So 48 years Huge queues that day due to vouchers being given out to enable fans to get tickets for the Liverpool F.A. Cup game. Very clever by City, you had to pay for that game to get a ticket for the Cup game. Remember seeing many fans pay to get in, get their voucher, then leave the ground straight away. From memory the official attendance was almost 26k, in a season where City averaged 14k. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTRFTG Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 54 minutes ago, italian dave said: Five weeks later for me. 5 Feb 66 home to Man City. Wasn’t it Tommy Docherty (the Man U manager, not the City player) who once said that it was “good to see Bristol City back where they belong - 11th in the second division”? Ha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Oil Services Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 2 minutes ago, Nogbad the Bad said: Huge queues that day due to vouchers being given out to enable fans to get tickets for the Liverpool F.A. Cup game. Very clever by City, you had to pay for that game to get a ticket for the Cup game. Remember seeing many fans pay to get in, get their voucher, then leave the ground straight away. From memory the official attendance was almost 26k, in a season where City averaged 14k. Next time we drew Liverpool in the cup, we managed to squeeze three games out of it and three times the ticket sales. Not as dim-witted as many like to think, the City board of directors 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 6 hours ago, downendcity said: 38,000 odd in the ground that day and it felt like all of them rushed down behind me in the East End after the goal went in! I think I left the ground without my feet touching the ground, such was the crush. As I remember it, there was some dispute (long before the dubious goals panel) whether the goal was an OG by that dirt cunt Cliff Huxford (who nearly maimed Lou Peters in the promotion decider at AG the previous Easter) ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 6 hours ago, Zip Nolan said: Can remember watching City playing Everton in League Cup and getting hammered 5-0, maybe 1967, stood on terracing where Dolman Stand now is, Alan Ball playing. Next time I saw a World Cup winner play was when City beat Fulham 6-0 with George Cohen playing for them, 1969. Yes, but Jimmy Husband was the star of that game, tore our defence a new'un ! The worst side i'd seen up to that time, a very old Johnny Haynes played (if you could call it that), they went down that season. First to third in consecutive seasons! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandadFrank Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 For me my First game was around `74/`75. Always stood on the Open end, my Dad took me. I was put on the wall at the front behind the goal. He would stand halfway back up the steps, obviously to shout all good things to the Ref ! Good times. BTW, My Grandad started going as a school kid in the 1920`s. Ashton Gate was on their way home from School. So with matches being played on Wednesday Afternoon (no floodlights back then) They used sneak under the turnstiles to watch the 2nd half of games. Standing on Crackers Corner. Some good stories were told from there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 1 hour ago, bredwood said: We March 67 I think 1-1 vs Ipswich who were 1st Division Champions only 5 years earlier. I think I spent most of the game wondering why all the adults around me were swearing and getting agitated at the sight of 22 men running around chasing a ball. Galley scored his fourth goal in three games, but I think Bill Baxter equalized late on . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 1 hour ago, italian dave said: Five weeks later for me. 5 Feb 66 home to Man City. Wasn’t it Tommy Docherty (the Man U manager, not the City player) who once said that it was “good to see Bristol City back where they belong - 11th in the second division”? Was the first time we were on MOTD . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redrascal2 Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 1967 League cup versus Everton. Lost 5-0. Bloody hell that is 55 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolman Original Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 16th March 1957 v Bury. I was 9 and Ayteo scored after 12 seconds. Been downhill ever since! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick jones of hereford Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 12 hours ago, cidered abroad said: Were you still in the womb or was it your first week out in the fresh air? And the only forward not to score was wearing number 11. Jantzen Derrick. The City crowd were urging on the Chichester amateurs to get at least one goal. @nick jones of hereford I was 7 years old when we beat Chichester, it was 61 (or so) years ago. I was seven years out of the womb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
italian dave Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 1 hour ago, slartibartfast said: Was the first time we were on MOTD . Some remember it that way. Others remember it as the first time Italian Dave went. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 5 minutes ago, italian dave said: Some remember it that way. Others remember it as the first time Italian Dave went. It`s why the cameras were there in the first place................................... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Stone Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 1977 Yep a 1st Division glory hunter back in the day but it was all down to the old man as I was only 11. 45 yrs but weve clocked up a lot of miles as we live in Tetbury Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fat Controller Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 (edited) Otib is full of old timers, how you all must have suffered watching this lot over the years A mere 30 years for me. 2-0 v Wolves March 1992 Edited June 4, 2022 by sinenomine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
italian dave Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 5 hours ago, Portland Bill said: First game was actually away at QPR in 1967. Starting going regularly from 1976. Glory hunter. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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