A couple of people mentioned (in a different thread, that their first game was due to a school ticket offer, well, I can say my first experience was at Highfield Road as a youngster with my dad, watching Cov beat WBA 3-0 in September 1985.
Can't say I remember much of the game - I think we sat in the Sky Blue Stand and bought sweets in a little shop just near the King Richard Street entrance. I remember being excited to go to the Sky Blue Shop -which was just a counter, with a very limited range of goods, I guess it would look pretty shabby now!
We used to park near Elliots (car accessories, Elliots, car accessories.. etc, as heard on Mercia!) and occasionally, we stopped for chips on one of the side streets near Elliots.
I still have the programme from the game - though I have clearly scribbled on it!
Anyone else remember their first game / season - though clearly, it gives an idea of age for some of us!
May 26th 1985
Coventry 4 Everton 1
I had to look mine up too...taken by my dad and his mate (I think a member of the VP club or equivalent at the time) as we sat in the main stand and met players after the game.
It was 1984 I was 13 and Cov beat Ipswich 1-0 with Oggy, Peake, Gynn in the team plus Micky Adams and Maartin Jol.
http://www.11v11.com/matches/coventry-city-v-ipswich-town-10-november-1984-87317/
I had been on a school trip to Wembley before though to tour the stadium and saw Spurs v Wolves in the afternoon at The Lane (in 1982)...
Our Last ever Premier league game v Burnley i think it was. i didnt know much about football back then
A couple of people mentioned (in a different thread, that their first game was due to a school ticket offer, well, I can say my first experience was at Highfield Road as a youngster with my dad, watching Cov beat WBA 3-0 in September 1985.
Can't say I remember much of the game - I think we sat in the Sky Blue Stand and bought sweets in a little shop just near the King Richard Street entrance. I remember being excited to go to the Sky Blue Shop -which was just a counter, with a very limited range of goods, I guess it would look pretty shabby now!
We used to park near Elliots (car accessories, Elliots, car accessories.. etc, as heard on Mercia!) and occasionally, we stopped for chips on one of the side streets near Elliots.
I still have the programme from the game - though I have clearly scribbled on it!
Anyone else remember their first game / season - though clearly, it gives an idea of age for some of us!
HR
1976
V Bristol City
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