Widnes Two Hats Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 My first full season was 77/78 Then I didn't go again until 82 Got into it again because I started supping ale and the Cattle used to run a minbus every week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Zico Posted October 25, 2009 Moderators Share Posted October 25, 2009 Southampton at home in the cup, 92 belting atmosphere in the lever end when we levelled 2-2 hooked after that better atmosphere than there ever was at Grundy Hill watching the RMI cept maybe when we won the GMAC cup against Weymouth and probably the semi too aginast Enfield when Faz Page got the winner was gutted when they moved to Wigan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salford Trotter Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 15/10/77 beat Mansfield 2 nowt with a Franky Worthy brace. I've not missed many since. One thing i've noticed on that site is that crowds that season were comparable to our crowds this season. So unless we suddenly break into the top 4, let's not expect to see the ground full anytime soon, unfortuneately my first game too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter desperado Posted October 26, 2009 Site Supporter Share Posted October 26, 2009 3 - 1 home victory against Newcastle 1982, I was hooked, good job as the rest of the season was shit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warwickshirewanderer Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 v Bristol Rovers in FA Cup I think, 1969 or 70? And we lost of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warwickshirewanderer Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Plymouth 1972 - pretty sure we won 2-1 with two goals in last five mins (Ian Seddon got one). I remember this game as we moved right round the ground from Lever End to the embankment, just in time to be right by the two goals and an unlikely victory. Crowd would have been arouind 5000 in those days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyoneawalker Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 The thread on 1974 got me thinking - my first game was in the mid 80's my old man took me against Burnley won 3-0 I think and I swear Jim McDonagh scored direct from a kick out his hands bounced once over their goalie and in - did that really happen or did i imagine it whilst day dreaming in the Great Lever End - anyone know what year it was I think it was 1986? refresh your memory - http://www.geocities.com/nigelsheppard/bwfc/page2.html Cheers Casino - it was 1983 and McDonagh did score - happy bloody days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Wanderer Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Cannot remember my actaul first game which is very frustrating but it was around 1971 and I remember them playing in all white with Roger Hunt in the side. My first full season was 1972-73 and we played Bournemouth at home winnging 3-0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FY8 White Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Leyton Orient at home in 1977 - won 2-0. Most memorable thing about the game was watching Lawrie Cunningham for Orient - he was some player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter MickyD Posted October 26, 2009 Site Supporter Share Posted October 26, 2009 Mine was a night match. I sat in the Burnden Stand. Can't, for the life of me, recall for sure who we played but remember that Roger Kirkpatrick was the ref. Is there a site that gives as much detail as who the ref was? I think it may have been Rotherham in about 1973 but not too sure. The thing in them days, the refs didn't try to become the centre of attention. Refs were, by and large, fairly straight laced types; bank managers, teachers, civil servants, etc. Kirkpatrick was a proper character though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravellingWanderer Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 My first was when we beat Walsall 8-1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frandsen08 Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 not sure of the year but we beat villa 3-0 and i missed every goal. was only 5 and i was hungry!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magic legs Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 I was a (failed) glory hunter - first game was the 3-0 loss at Wembley to Bristol City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank_spencer Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 1992 against Southampton in the FA cup finished 2-2, Andy Walker and Scott Green for us no idea for them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baba O'Riley Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Cannot remember my actaul first game which is very frustrating but it was around 1971 and I remember them playing in all white with Roger Hunt in the side.My first full season was 1972-73 and we played Bournemouth at home winnging 3-0. That Bournemouth game was my first match, on the Lever End with my elder brothers, wearing a plastic baseball cap from the Happy Shop, white with a red peak and "Bolton Wanderers, The Trotters" in red lettering on the front. I can still recall the heady smell of tobacco and beer on going through the turnstiles to this day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Casino Posted October 26, 2009 Moderators Share Posted October 26, 2009 (edited) ah, that smell entering the manny road seats as a youngster pipe smoke? dunno what it was and even i - as somebody who detests smoking and its smell - would happily die to experience that again Edited October 26, 2009 by Casino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeep Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Boxing Day 1977 Notts County at Burnden, won 2-0 Stood on a milk crate in the Lever end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyldesley White Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Mine was West Brom at Burnden 1993, it was 1-1, all i remember it was fooking freezing stood in the Manny Road South, December i think it was. Started going regulalary the season after 94/95 in the Burden terrace then got my first season ticket in the lever end 96/97 and what a season that was! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THunter Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 ah, that smell entering the manny road seats as a youngster pipe smoke? dunno what it was and even i - as somebody who detests smoking and its smell - would happily die to experience that again Aye. That brings it all back. Happy days. Just looking at the Stats for the 63-64 season that Bolty mentioned. Grim stuff. 0-4 to Wolves, 0-5 to the Dingles, both at home. 0-5 at United. 12,000 on for a game at Christmas against Sheffeld Wednesday. My first was Millwall at home last sixites. Lost 0-4. Fuck knows why I ever went again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grad Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Been told mine was a 2-0 home defeat by Shrewsbury in 90, but the first one I can remember is a 1-0 home win against Chester (Tony Cunningham scored) at the end of the 90/91 season. What a rag tag and bobtail team that was - Mark Came, Michael Brown, Stuart Storer, Paul Comstive and more. Of course a lot on here will have seen much, much worse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Latham8WFC Posted October 26, 2009 Site Supporter Share Posted October 26, 2009 First game - 1989 Sherpa Van Trophy Final vs. Torquay United, a 4-1 win over Torquay enabled Phil Brown to lift the cup at Wembley. Goalscorers that day were Julian Darby, Dean Crombie, Trevor Morgan and Jeff Chandler. I was 8 years old......happy days !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayjayoghani Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Been told mine was a 2-0 home defeat by Shrewsbury in 90, but the first one I can remember is a 1-0 home win against Chester (Tony Cunningham scored) at the end of the 90/91 season. What a rag tag and bobtail team that was - Mark Came, Michael Brown, Stuart Storer, Paul Comstive and more. Of course a lot on here will have seen much, much worse! Wash your mouth out, I rated Mark Came. Think you may have seen the post-broken leg version. Mine was a 3-0 win against Notts County in 1981. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter HomerJay Posted October 26, 2009 Site Supporter Share Posted October 26, 2009 Wash your mouth out, I rated Mark Came. Think you may have seen the post-broken leg version. Mine was a 3-0 win against Notts County in 1981. at first glance, i read that as 'Mark came in your mouth' how odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grad Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Jayjay I may well have done. There were still a few ropey players in that side though! Although I'm pretty sure the next season saw the emergence of Stubbs and McAteer and the signing of Walker (and Lee?!) and the team started to take shape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayjayoghani Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 at first glance, i read that as 'Mark came in your mouth' how odd. At least one of us has made a Freudian slip then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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