BigCyrille87
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One of my first games was back in the 1977/8 season when my dad took me and my brother to a Christmas game... I think we beat Norwich City 5-4, and Highfield Road was bouncing! I was only 6 - happy days
Anyone remember the pre-season friendly that we played Benfica at Highfield Rd? It was 10th August 1996. Can't remember the score. I'd not long met the current 'er indoors and was trying to impress her with footie. Don't know what went wrong though. She now has as much interest in footie as I have in synchronised swimming!
Yeah we got battered, I know they scored 7, and from a quick check it appears we scored 2. There's a video of some of the goals on here, not sure how to link the thread though.
That was when Blyth saved a last minute penalty to earn us the win. What a game that was one of the most thrilling ever !One of my first games was back in the 1977/8 season when my dad took me and my brother to a Christmas game... I think we beat Norwich City 5-4, and Highfield Road was bouncing! I was only 6 - happy days
That was Riddys army and navy surplus shop. The pub was probably the White Lion ? Nearly next door to Riddys. That was a great shop, when I was a skinhead I bought grandad vests there !I can't remember the exact game, I was about 4 or 5.
Strangely the only thing I can remember is walking from a pub on Gosford St, a Shop that sold army type jackets and having a Lemonade Panda Pop.
That was Riddys army and navy surplus shop. The pub was probably the White Lion ? Nearly next door to Riddys. That was a great shop, when I was a skinhead I bought grandad vests there !
That was Riddys army and navy surplus shop. The pub was probably the White Lion ? Nearly next door to Riddys. That was a great shop, when I was a skinhead I bought grandad vests there !
Riddys is a Cov legend shop. The stuff you could get in there was an Alladins cave. I would get vests, and they sold army haversacks, all the rage back then. Also Sweeney barbers was there too, to be in with the crowd that's where you had to have your haircut !Yeah, I think it had like a big canopy (like a market) that came out with all of the stuff in.
Weird things to remember really.
Riddys is a Cov legend shop. The stuff you could get in there was an Alladins cave. I would get vests, and they sold army haversacks, all the rage back then. Also Sweeney barbers was there too, to be in with the crowd that's where you had to have your haircut !
Same here. Forest were champions I think or would go on to be that season. Smell of Bovril, cigar smoke. 3 wheeled pensioner vehicles at the side of the pitch and David Essex's 'Oh what a circus' blaring out the tannoy. Attended v Norwich a few days/weeks later and we won 4-1. 5 years old.Cov v Nottingham Forest 1978, not sure whether it was at end of 77/78 season or start of 78/79 season, both games finished 0-0 stood in the west end
I remember a home game v Stoke around that time where we lost 0-3 and City had a late penalty. Plenty of us were leaving the Sky Blue Stand and tried to get back in to see the penalty....which was missed.I was hooked long before I went but my dad, although he liked to see that we had won, was not a fan and was never going to take me. I used to religiously watch Grandstand to get the final scores coming through from the early 70s and when we had midweek games I used to get up early so that I could get the score from the Daily Mirror that my dad had bought on his way home from the nightshift at Massey's, sometimes they read the scores out at the end of the 9 o'clock news on bbc1. I remember crying when I went downstairs full of excitement to find out that we had lost 6-1 to Bayern Munich. My mum & dad had friends who lived just off the Binley Road at Stoke Green and I remember watching all the fans come out after wishing that I had been to watch them, I was not happy when I found out we had lost 3-0 to Stoke! I am sure the game kicked off at 3:15 and the result was late in and I think this was the norm and our home games alway kicked off at 3:15 in the early 70s.
Finally on 17th April 1973 my brother came home to say he was going to watch us play LIverpool and I went along. I stood on the Kop and couldn't see alot and even though we lost 2-1 I knew I would be back.
Think that was the game Forest got the point that won them the title. Big crowd c.36k and a worldie save from Shilton to deny Mick Ferguson.Same here. Forest were champions I think or would go on to be that season. Smell of Bovril, cigar smoke. 3 wheeled pensioner vehicles at the side of the pitch and David Essex's 'Oh what a circus' blaring out the tannoy. Attended v Norwich a few days/weeks later and we won 4-1. 5 years old.
1977...pre season friendly against a japanese side i think - no idea who ?
Fab experience though, and fan ever since.
Wow...no one i've mentioned it to in the past, remembers it.I think it was the Japan National side. I must have gone as I have the programme at home but cant remember much about it.
Yeah, I can remember it wasn't cheap printed camo stuff. It was more stuff that has actually been in the middle of a desert or Russia etc.
That was Riddys army and navy surplus shop. The pub was probably the White Lion ? Nearly next door to Riddys. That was a great shop, when I was a skinhead I bought grandad vests there !
Used Riddys on the Foleshill Road great place to buy gas masks etc you know all the essentials
I guess you are from the Antarctic?My first game was on November 27, 1999, at home to Leicester. I'd landed in England twelve hours earlier, stayed at another Cov fan's place in London, then got the train up, met my English-based family who I'd never met before, then walked up to Highfield Road.
We lost 1-0 but it didn't matter, being in a ground my dad had spoken of so glowingly for many years was bloody brilliant.
I guess you are from the Antarctic?
One of my other early memories is I am sure it was also on sky when it first started. I think they had fireworks, fire, half time music and everything.
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