Opponents: Bristol City

 

Score: 2-1 win Merrick (og), Greaves

 

When: 20/01/74

 

Venue: Burnden Park

 

Which part of the Ground did you stand/sit?: Embankment

 

Att: 23, 315

 

Siddall

Ritson

McAllister

Nicholson

P Jones

Allardyce

Byrom

G Jones

Greaves

Whatmore

Thompson

 

Sub: Olinyk

 

Can't remember much about the game but I do remember it was freezing, and it was (I think) Boltons first ever league match on a Sunday. I also couldn't believe the mass of humanity after the match flooding all over manchester Rd. Didn't seem to be many early levers them days.

bolton v york city

 

21/4/73

 

19999

 

manny rd stand

 

3-0

Bolton v Watford FA cup 3rd

 

3/1/70

 

Embankment

 

1-2

Bolton man city fa cup 1969 embankment me dad took me

remember it kicking off under the score board good old days

Div 3

 

11.01.86

 

Bolton zero Gillingham 1

 

Att 5232

Div 2

 

Bolton v Notts County

 

26/12/77

 

Great Lever End stood on a milk crate

 

Won 2-0

F.A Cup replay

 

 

Bolton v Newcastle at Elland Rd

 

Went on a coach from vantona in farnworth with me mam and older brother,just remember barcodes all around us.

Div 2

 

29/8/70

 

Bolton v QPR

 

Drew 2-2 (scorers: G Williams, T Wharton pen)

 

Embankment

Hull Away Feb 1976 is the first I can remember.

10-02-1996

 

Bolton 0-2 Aston Villa

Yorke 40, 53

 

Went as an early present for my seventh birthday the following day. Can't remember much about the game, except waiting for the scoreboard to hit the 90 minute mark. Fair to say I wasn't particularly interested back then.

 

This game would lead to our first relegation from the Prem of course.

Bolton man city fa cup 1969 embankment me dad took me

remember it kicking off under the score board good old days

 

Warbys Mob.

Th'owd chap had been wanting to take me along for years. Opposition from mother and grandparents ranging from 't'Burnden disaster' to 'teddy boys'. He finally got his wish on 24th April 1964. Bolton v Wolves. We lost 4-0. After hearing from dad for years what fun a day at the football was, I wondered what the fook was going on. Grown men sobbing all around me as this result (I didn't know at the time) put the nail in our relegation coffin. Seemed a thoroughly miserable experience to me at the time but I was back on the Embankment for the first game of the following season and became completely addicted.

Earliest memories are of the gaunt fooker I have mentioned before who used to imitate every movement of Eddie Hopky (including diving full length on a concrete step in a downpour); Bill Ridding;Brian Bromley; Wyn Davies; Dennis Stevens; Roy Hartle; Syd Farrimond; Tiger Taylor (some of them might have come along a bit later - memory getting fuzzy and can't be arsed checking back); Warbys Mob.

Northampton Town

26/11/88

2-1

 

cant remember the scorers, i remember Felgate was mint (!?!?!?!?) his shirt was quality, green and silver/black zig zags i think. i wanted to be a keeper from then on, and went to train with him when he was first team keeper at leigh was u18s.

 

i went with my mate and his dad... my dad was too worried about violence etc to take me, and was not impressed that i went. probably devoed that he was robbed of taking his only son to his first football match. its something i will always feel guilty about. but still, he's a dirty red so at least i have purified my soul.

10-02-1996

 

Bolton 0-2 Aston Villa

Yorke 40, 53

 

Went as an early present for my seventh birthday the following day.

 

Frightening.

 

That makes you about 18, and about the time you were born I'd been to half of the grounds in the country and was getting into 'full swing' as a bolton fan. By the time you started watching us, I was getting bored.

 

Time flies sooooooooo quickly.

 

Anyway, 1983, Cardiff City, 1-0, Embankment in the pissing down rain wearing a black parka.

i went with my mate and his dad... my dad was too worried about violence etc to take me, and was not impressed that i went.

 

I wonder how many folk of our generation had the same concerns from our parents?

 

My dad was a rugby man but had been to the odd game at Burnden in the 60's and 70's, and wasnt happy about me having a habit involving bolton wanderers, simply because of the violence. He was genuinely concerned.

 

He wouldnt take me, but it had a negative effect, in that by about 14 I was going to away games with a van full of notrights or getting the train with a small group of mates to godknowswhere, only to find yourself in the company of other notrights who couldnt hire a van.

 

First game was BWFC v Blackpool in 1989, think it was Sherpa Van Trophy semi final at Burnden. One of my earliest memories of a game is an opposition player almost clearing Normid with a truly terrible penalty; was this the same match, I was only 5?

YEs, it was the same game.

 

Lofthouse was on granada reports the night after, stood on the penalty spot and pointing to the sky above the supermarket saying 'see he's nearly hit the N of Normid, the clubfooted c?nt'

 

Or words to that affect

04/04/88, Burnley at home, won 2-1

9,921

Int Manchester Rd seats

 

Remember it kicking off everywhere & not much else.

YEs, it was the same game.

 

Lofthouse was on granada reports the night after, stood on the penalty spot and pointing to the sky above the supermarket saying 'see he's nearly hit the N of Normid, the clubfooted c?nt'

 

Or words to that affect

Russell Coughlin, I think.

 

The man became a legend in my eyes from that moment forth!

Can't quite remember the first game but my first memory was stood on an old wooden beer crate from my uncle's pub with my Dad on the embankment in the 1979-1980 season when I was either 7 or 8.

 

I may have been to the odd game before then with my Dad but as he is no longer with us, I can't ask him for clarification.

25/11/80

 

v Notts County at Burnden. Sat in Lever End

 

A carefully selected match deemed low risk enough to take a 7 year old too.

 

We won 3-0. Att:-7344

May 7th 1966

 

Bolton 1 Norwich City 1

 

Last match of the season Crowd of 7,420

 

It was the biggest crowd I had ever seen in my young life.

Stood on the Embankment end ( a young Warby!)

 

I loved every minute of it and there began the love affair that lasts to this day.

When I got home I was as sick as a dog!

Russell Coughlin, I think.

 

The man became a legend in my eyes from that moment forth!

 

I was at that game too. The guy must have had a sand wedge for a right foot.

1992 FA cup against southampton 9 years old stood wi me dad on the paddock, hardly misssed a home game since!

Weirdly, I'm the third one whose first game was against Notts County, only this one was Feb 12th 1977. Won 4-0. 21171 there and just a few days later 50413 for the LC semi, though I wasn't at that.

That was my first game that started a real run of matches though I did go to two earlier ones as part of a school mate's birthday celebrations. I remember one was Villa and looking it up I reckon it was 13/10/73, when we lost 2-1 in front of 19206. Only time I ever went in the Manny Road seats. Now there was one previous, on a birthday do for the same lad and we were in the Embankment (again the only time I've been there - Paddock for me).

All I remember is being on the Embankment; but as it must have been the same time of year as the Villa game (as it was the same lads birthday) so looking back I suspect it was 14/10/72 againt Scunthorpe - a nil nil in front of 7,175. Probably explains why I've blanked it from my memory