Galley is our king Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 I was 7, can't remember who we played or who won but can remember it was great fun to stamp your feet on the floor of the old timber stand where the Dolman is now. So 61 years for me and counting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slartibartfast Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 8 minutes ago, southside said: It was, 18,00 crowd With that crowd, you sure it wasn't Eastville ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBW Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 (edited) No idea when my first game was. I'll just say, 1995 though... so, 27 years? Ish. Edited June 4, 2022 by TBW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enclosure Old Timer Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 1957, can't remember the game but remember dad sitting me on the wall in the corner of the East End, then just known as the Covered End. Before that I used to stand outside our house in Stackpool Road and listen for the crowd roar when City scored. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Army 75 Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 40 years for me. We haven’t had a lot to shout about. But Bristol City is and have been a huge part of my life. And some of the people I have met through watching city are friends for life. Up the City 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip Nolan Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southside Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 51 minutes ago, slartibartfast said: With that crowd, you sure it wasn't Eastville ? Much too low for Eastville 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 1 hour ago, slartibartfast said: Sir Terry Bush, at the open end ! 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 21 minutes ago, Enclosure Old Timer said: 1957, can't remember the game but remember dad sitting me on the wall in the corner of the East End, then just known as the Covered End. Before that I used to stand outside our house in Stackpool Road and listen for the crowd roar when City scored. Could you hear the crowd roar"FFS!" when we conceded? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Leveller said: I moved to Somerset (Sandford) in 1968 aged 12. First game was probably in the 1968-9 season. The first I remember, though, was v Swindon, which I suppose was March 1970; they had just won the League Cup as a Third Division team and Don Rogers had become quite famous. I wasn’t a local and didn’t instantly become a City fan - Ashton Gate was just the closest place my Dad could take us to watch football. Prior to that, we’d been in Yorkshire for a couple of years and he’d had a season ticket at Elland Road. So, for a while, I was a Leeds fan who also watched Bristol City. Gradually, as it does, the tide turned. Since you became a City fan the tide has been mainly out - a la Weston-Super-Mare Beach! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southside Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 3 hours ago, 1960maaan said: First game of the season 1970, City 4 Sun'land 3 Though I think I saw a friendly Vs Go Ahead Deventer or something like that. It was, whatever became of them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 March '74 for me, York city at home, Tom Ritchie hat trick in a 4-1 win. 48 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gillies Downs Leeds Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 August '73 for me so nearly 49 years. Golden anniversary August '23. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidered abroad Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 1 hour ago, Bristol Oil Services said: Think it was Preston. Lost 0:1. Tom Finney pretended to be concussed, and there was a lot of "shit housery." The ref was a disgrace. @Bristol Oil Services As far as I can trace, Tom Finney never played for PNE at Ashton Gate in a league game because Preston were in the First Division from his entire career at the club from 1946 to 1960 and no FA Cup game either. Also, the great majority of players, then, did not fake injuries. Finney, like Atyeo and many others, were never given cautions (now yellow card) let alone a sending off. Finney played in an FA Cup match at Rovers around 1957/8 and I saw that match. Stan Matthews only appeared once at City in a Cup game circa 1958 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidered abroad Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, KernowRed said: I must be one of those having been taken by my Uncle Tom, a St John Ambulance man, in the 1949/50 season. Cannot remember the match but I know Arnold Rodgers, Dennis Roberts. George Lowery, Alec Eisenstrager, John Atyeo and many of the team were my idols in the following years. Always in the East End, but went in the side enclosures for the Reserve's games. Chasing a loose ball in front of the wooden stand, fell took skin off my knees but must have stayed to the end. The packed crowds for the Rovers games were amazing, bells, whistles and rattles and marching bands at halftime. Can remember Tom Burden arriving and he worked at Clark's Shoe factory. Saw early floodlit match against a Scottish club, maybe East Fife or St Mirren, cant remember. Arthur Milton was a cricketer who played as well and can remember the likes of Jimmy Hill running onto the pitch with his chin stuck out! Lasted until the early 60's when moved to North Cornwall for work where I still live. Next door farm belongs to Johnnie Brown, once of Argyle and Rovers fame and still meet him now and then. Still follow online, but must admit my wife wonders why? @KernowRed You've beaten me by a few weeks or months. My first was Good Friday 1950. My Dad saw his first game around 1910 to 1914. Born in South Wales with a father born in Claverham, the family used to visit an uncle in Coronation Road. If City were home all men and boys went to the game. Dad moved to Bristol in mid 1930's and immediately resumed being a City fan. His last games attended were in 1983/4. Ref floodlit games. First year in 1953-4 Wolves, English champs, Cardiff City highest Welsh club and East Fife from near top of Scottish League. Followed by East Fife again the next year and an endless number of European teams. First league game under lights was Fulham in 1957. Edited June 4, 2022 by cidered abroad 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maltshoveller Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 April 1977 v Aston Villa Aged 8 Nil - Nil draw but like an idiot came back!!!! So 45 Years!!!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolandbrisc Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 1956. Home to Barnsley. Sat in the " Cowshed ". Atyeo scored but lost 1-2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidered abroad Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 1 hour 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. @Zip Nolan Couple of years ago, I bumped into Joe Royle when we played Wigan ( he is a director there?) I said I remember your first match here and he assumed I meant the four goals v Middlesbrough. I meant an enthralling evening watching a superb walloping from Everton. It always hurts to see City lose but they were absolutely brilliant. West, Labone, Ball, Kendal, Young and Royle among a great team. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 I probably went to some games in the late 60s, but as I was such a little nipper I can't remember them. I've got a shit memory for games and look on in wonder at people who can remember matches, incidents and even the weather from 50+ years ago. I can remember being at the game Cashley scored and (non-City) I remember being at the Sunderland v Leeds FA Cup final, both 1973 I think, but I must've been at dozens of games before then but time has erased them from my mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperDziek Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 I’m pretty sure my first game would have been in 86 but don’t know who against. Earliest memories are Wembley for the Mansfield game, then us thrashing Doncaster 5-0 in 88 with Walshy getting a hat trick and Bobby Hutch notching as well - not sure of the other scorer. family history of staunch City fans - including @CyderInACanand @oldstandrobin- going back pre First World War so presumably since inception of club. Although ironically our cousin married a R*vers player! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidered abroad Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 1 minute ago, SuperDziek said: I’m pretty sure my first game would have been in 86 but don’t know who against. Earliest memories are Wembley for the Mansfield game, then us thrashing Doncaster 5-0 in 88 with Walshy getting a hat trick and Bobby Hutch notching as well - not sure of the other scorer. family history of staunch City fans - including @CyderInACanand @oldstandrobin- going back pre First World War so presumably since inception of club. Although ironically our cousin married a R*vers player! If you live to a ripe old age, do you realise how many years you will have suffered! Say hallo to @oldstandrobin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheltons Army Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 2 hours ago, Ska Junkie said: March '74 for me, York city at home, Tom Ritchie hat trick in a 4-1 win. 48 years. That 4-1 York Game was 22/11/75 Ska I have a distinct memory of that game of all games as it was my birthday and , more importantly we were IIRC on Match Of Day , which was unheard of - watching us win in style at the Gate and remember the thrill of the thought of us being on the tv to watch again 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malago Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 19 minutes ago, Sheltons Army said: That 4-1 York Game was 22/11/75 Ska I have a distinct memory of that game of all games as it was my birthday and , more importantly we were IIRC on Match Of Day , which was unheard of - watching us win in style at the Gate and remember the thrill of the thought of us being on the tv to watch again It was also quite foggy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfc01 Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 25 minutes ago, Sheltons Army said: That 4-1 York Game was 22/11/75 Ska I have a distinct memory of that game of all games as it was my birthday and , more importantly we were IIRC on Match Of Day , which was unheard of - watching us win in style at the Gate and remember the thrill of the thought of us being on the tv to watch again We won 4-1 away as well that season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malago Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 (edited) My first time at Ashton Gate was a reserve game against Birmingham when I was five. We won 4-2. I also remember a school boy international against Wales. I think my first first team game was a night game against Rotherham. We lost 1-2. Would have been 1966 or 1967. So 55 years and counting for me Edited June 4, 2022 by Malago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ska Junkie Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 35 minutes ago, Sheltons Army said: That 4-1 York Game was 22/11/75 Ska I have a distinct memory of that game of all games as it was my birthday and , more importantly we were IIRC on Match Of Day , which was unheard of - watching us win in style at the Gate and remember the thrill of the thought of us being on the tv to watch again Thanks Shelts, November 75 then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoystonFoote'snephew Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 March 1962 so 60 years for me, diamond jubilee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchay Red Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 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. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciderhead433 Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 Dec 30th 1967 Beat Birmingham City 3-1 Galley(2) and Crowe. So well into 55th year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Portland Bill Posted June 4, 2022 Report Share Posted June 4, 2022 First game was actually away at QPR in 1967. Starting going regularly from 1976. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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