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wantageskyblue

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usskyblue said:
1976/77 - The infamous 2-2 draw vs Bristol City at HR.

Sat in the front row of the pitch level seats, behind the little white wall that was in front of the Main Stand.
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usskyblue said:
1976/77 - The infamous 2-2 draw vs Bristol City at HR.

Sat in the front row of the pitch level seats, behind the little white wall that was in front of the Main Stand.

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That is where I saw my 1st game from too v Liverpool in August 1973. It was a night match and as an 8 year old I was instantly hooked.
 
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Ashdown

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Brighton Sky Blue said:
Would be interested to hear from older posters on their dad/grandad’s first games. Any second hand accounts of people who watched Clarrie Bourton in the 30s or the infamously shite team from 1919-20?
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My Grandad used to go with his Dad in the 1930’s and watched Clarrie Bourton. He used to tell a story often about when they played Luton and 10 goal Payne, the Luton striker I think. He said his Dad got into a row with with an away fan and pushed him down the bank. Must have been the beginnings of The Legion 😄
 
Brighton Sky Blue

Brighton Sky Blue

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Ashdown said:
My Grandad used to go with his Dad in the 1930’s and watched Clarrie Bourton. He used to tell a story often about when they played Luton and 10 goal Payne, the Luton striker I think. He said his Dad got into a row with with an away fan and pushed him down the bank. Must have been the beginnings of The Legion 😄
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My grandad went in the 30s too, don’t know who he went with though. Would love to know what songs there were in those days 😂
 
Milne Out

Milne Out

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1972 - Coventry vs Manchester City , Dennis Mortimer scored , it was 1-1 .
I remember my brother going to see us against United a couple of weeks earlier, when Best and Charlton scored when we lost 2-3 at home.
My one chance to see those 2 play together and it went to my brother who had pretty much zero interest in the game.

Mortimer was probably the first player i really admired as a kid, and his departure up the road is probably the reason ive always disliked villa
 
Brighton Sky Blue

Brighton Sky Blue

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oscillatewildly said:
Whatever the songs I'll bet there was no need for a bloody drum.
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‘It’s an exceedingly large distance to Wolverhampton when your footballing abilities are maleficient’

‘It has all become devoid of sound in your general vicinity’

‘You only incantate when you’re victorious’
 
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Jarvo87

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Brighton Sky Blue said:
Would be interested to hear from older posters on their dad/grandad’s first games. Any second hand accounts of people who watched Clarrie Bourton in the 30s or the infamously shite team from 1919-20?
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My Grandad played in goal for city during the 1919-20 season, albeit for only 3 games....

Not sure I should be admitting this, given they were infamously shite.....
 
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Moff

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Danceswithhorses said:
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Now in my mid 50s, i vividly remember as a kid, walking up those long steps to the Spion Kop end, and thinking how green the grass was, and how bright the floodlights were....innocent times.
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I’ve got that programme at home but have no recollection of the game. Was probably being an annoying 7 year old arsehole to my dad
 
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oscillatewildly

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Shannerz said:
Or perhaps:

"Your flat caps are fucking shit!"
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'I think I speak not only for myself but the greater gathered here today when I (we) celebrate the undoubted and endowed magnificent tactical knowledge of Mr Harry Storer,
for he's a jolly decent chap who knows just what we need,
Mr Mason at the back, Mr Clarrie in attack,
for we are surely soon to be rewarded with elevation to a superior league.
 
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Sky Blue Wozza

Sky Blue Wozza

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First game I was taken to: Nuneaton Borough v Cov 1983 - Testimonial match for someone, George Best played for Nuneaton!

First game at Highfield Road - Pretty sure it was a reserve team game v Burnley. The company my Dad worked for at the time had one of those pitch-level boxes where all you could see where the player's ankles. Dad used to take me to HR 4/5 times a season after that (he stopped working for that company) and we used to sit in the West Stand.

First game on my own - Chelsea 1991. Stood on the Kop. Micky Gynn scored the only goal of the game.

 
Milne Out

Milne Out

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Langers70 said:
City 5 Norwich 4,1977.I always thought it was Boxing Day,but apparently it wasn’t.If only all games were that exciting! Cheers Dad I’ve had the Sky Blues bug ever since ❤️
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one game i'd have loved to have seen TV highlight of. Must have tried 1000 times to re-create Wallace's overhead kick
 
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Macca

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Evo1883 said:
I always thought mine was 1989 , i would have been 4 still but my dad told me it was september 1990 against forest 2-2


This just popped up on social media and this was the exact game , i was 6 years old

im sure my dad took me into the hertford arms on gosford street View attachment 48919

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Also Forest but 1979 0-3. I was 6 and remember thinking we were shit
 
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KAB

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1961 ,v Burnley. Part of New Cathedral celebration I think. City lost ,can’t remember score or a great deal else. I was 10 .
 
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