Your very first match live?

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Quite right to be sentimental and emotional Dirk and Leo. Both very much in your hearts.

Not quite so hard hitting emotionally as yours but my Dad was a massive Burnley fan, even into his fifties and sixties, you'd see him writing down all the permutations, season after season as to results and how they'd affect our position. He did this week in week out. He was 17 when we last won the league title in 1960 and the European football that followed. He saw us in our best days. His one wish was to see us play in the top flight of English football again before he died. We got promoted in May 2009 to the Premier League. He was diagnosed with terminal cancer a few months later and died the day before his birthday in 2010.
It brings a tear and a smile at the same time to know he got his wish, the one wish he really wanted above all. I lived away from home so only got to visit him a few times in those final months. He wanted to share a beer (nurses allowed us a non aloholic one) one day with me in hospital towards the end. I walked in and he smiled and said 'We did it son, we did it'.
 

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My arl fella is 77 this year and still has a season ticket.
 

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Dundee playing Celtic at Dens Park, and Danny McGrain was still playing for the Bhoys back then it was that long ago! Must be around '83 I guess.
 

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First Macc game was sometime in about 1987. Don't remember much about it. The first game I remember distinctly was a 4-2 win against Dartford in the FA Trophy Semi Final in 1989. Memorable, mainly, for being on the same day as Hillsbrough and I remember feeling so guilty, aged 11, as we got in the car after the game because we'd all been so happy when something so tragic was going on.

Lost the final 1-0 to Telford.

With City, the first game - only remembered in any detail thanks to soccerbase and knowing roughly the time of year and opposition - was a 3-1 win over Watford in 1988. I went to a handful at Maine Road after that, but the first game I really remember was a 2-2 away draw with Notts County in 1995. Still remember Peter Beagrie's somersault celebration.


Not got the last goal for some reason.
 

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Just the first match will do, thanks.

The thread title is very clear.
 

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A tad bah humbug Steven...No harm has been done!

Every Silkyman post does a world of harm - you will learn that in time, Leo my friend.
 

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My first live match was sometime in the 80's when i watched Scunny thrash Northampton Town 7-0. It could have been around 1988 and i've been going to several games every year since.
 

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Every Silkyman post does a world of harm - you will learn that in time, Leo my friend.
:lol:.......So much to learn & far too much time on my hands. Best get to it.
 

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My dad used to take me to reserve games when I was little, as I didn't know any different and there wasn't much of a crowd etc. The first time he let me go for real was the 1998 Division Three play-off final against Torquay, it was a Friday night as England had a friendly that weekend and we won 1-0. I don't really remember anything of the game though apart from what I've seen on video since.
 

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Slightly off topic, but when I was at my aunt and uncles place in Swindon. I was asked whether I wanted to go and watch the local side play Villa. on Boxing Day 1968 (when I was 4), and I turned it down. Must have known something even then :whistle:
 

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My dad and I have talked about this several times, and we are not sure. But we think it would have been in 1969 also for my sixth bithday. It was at the Boleyn, so would have been Bobby Moore, Jeff Hurst and co. The kids all went to the front and the dads stayed at the back. It was in the north Bank, when I was older and went on my own I tended to go to the South Bank and the chicken run.

My dad was a Millwall fan but obviously the academy of football was of more interest to me, though I did go to the old Den a few times with him.
 

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Can't remember but it would definitely have been Barrow RLFC at Craven Park not Barrow AFC at Holker Street - who didn't attract my full attention until around 1966, partly thanks to the World Cup.

Just possible that the first live match was actually in the 1950s as I have this (possibly false) memory of seeing Willie Horne play - and he retired in 1959 to run the toy and sports goods shop where I bought my Subbuteo Teams and Hornby Train Set accessories..

Certainly went to quite a few RL matches with dad in the early 60s, including St Helens, Wigan, Workington and Whitehaven - the highlight being seeing Billy Boston tearing down the wing as I sat on the perimiter wall (legs in) in the same Wigan team as my uncle Danny (Gardiner).
 

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Home to Barnet, September 1995, aged 5. It was 1-1, I thought Gary Brazil scored the goal for us but he's not on the below teamsheet and it looks like that was the season after, no idea who got it but I seem to remember it was a bit of a corker. My Dad maintains that I begged to go along with him but like most fathers I suspect he coerced me into it and therefore I blame him solely for the path on which my Saturday afternoons have taken for the past 22 years.

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1969 - Swindon v Bristol Rovers. 2-2. Witnessed a fantastic mass brawl outside the train station. I was hooked.
 

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1969 - Swindon v Bristol Rovers. 2-2. Witnessed a fantastic mass brawl outside the railway station. I was hooked.

Corrected for you. How old were you at the time btw?
 

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Even more long suffering than me then
 
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4 goals in the first 9 minutes and fuck all else. :lol:

 

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Grimsby v Luton - I can't remember what year but we were sat in the upper John Smith's as it was then and my mum kept cheering for the wrong team. That's all I really remember!
 

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Home to Barnet, September 1995, aged 5. It was 1-1, I thought Gary Brazil scored the goal for us but he's not on the below teamsheet and it looks like that was the season after, no idea who got it but I seem to remember it was a bit of a corker. My Dad maintains that I begged to go along with him but like most fathers I suspect he coerced me into it and therefore I blame him solely for the path on which my Saturday afternoons have taken for the past 22 years.

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6 minutes 46 seconds in...

Don't know who scored your goal, but I'm sure someone will recognise him.
 

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