Apologies if this has been done before.

 

Surely everyone can remember their first Bolton match?

 

Mine (and my bro's too I would imagine) was when Newcastle, but more importantly Kevin Keegan, came to town in 1982. We won 3-1 but bizarrely, with me only being a nipper, I can only really remember being in the beer garden yard at the Hen & Chickens before the game and an old guy sat in front of me on the terrace (or was it the embankment?) eating a packet of biscuits and me wanting one.

 

My next game was possibly the most depressing I've still been to, but also the one that made me realise I was a Wanderer for life... in 1987 when we drew 2-2 with Aldershot to get relegated to the 4th division. I still remember the paddock singing, "We love you Bolton, we do" even though there was no hope.

Apologies if this has been done before.

 

Surely everyone can remember their first Bolton match?

 

Mine (and my bro's too I would imagine) was when Newcastle, but more importantly Kevin Keegan, came to town in 1982. We won 3-1 but bizarrely, with me only being a nipper, I can only really remember being in the beer garden yard at the Hen & Chickens before the game and an old guy sat in front of me on the terrace (or was it the embankment?) eating a packet of biscuits and me wanting one.

 

My next game was possibly the most depressing I've still been to, but also the one that made me realise I was a Wanderer for life... in 1987 when we drew 2-2 with Aldershot to get relegated to the 4th division. I still remember the paddock singing, "We love you Bolton, we do" even though there was no hope.

 

Mine was Feb 1973 third division game against Charlton a night match,we won 3-0 and I think Gary Jones scored a hat trick.I think there was 18000 on that night.

won 3-0

 

18k on

 

no goals gor g jones

 

http://bwfcstats.com/1970/page4.html

won 3-0

 

18k on

 

no goals gor g jones

 

http://bwfcstats.com/1970/page4.html

That was the season I started going regularly

 

I'll never forget some of those games

i did the last 2 games

 

my first 2

 

glory hunters r us

i did the last 2 games

 

my first 2

 

glory hunters r us

 

JCLs before they were invented

Can't remember exactly, but about 58 a mates dad used take us both, used to stand on The Embankment.

 

A lasting memory i have is watching the 58 cup final at my aunties house up Halliwell.

 

Saw some fantastic games and large crowds at Burnden in the 60s/70s, both FA cup semis.

 

Now wer'e up at the Reebok and still doing well, long may it last.

St Mirren 78

 

 

Cardiff 1971.

 

Lost 2 nowt

 

Toshak got them both

 

Edit - It's bloody 1970, I'm older than I feel

Edited May 13, 201115 yr by Barnstoneworth White

1985/86 or about that time... Crewe Alex in the group stages of the Freight Rover cup and an end to end 1-0 win for the whites!

 

Its been down hill ever since!!!

Draw against Sheffield Utd, 87 I think.

It was some time in the 76/7 season. However the first one I actually remember for certain was late that season ... Bolton 2 Chelsea 2. A day when the atmosphere crackled with menace and there was old style footy hooliganism from first to last.

You don't really want me to go THAT far back, surely ......

Hull City, February 1976. A bag of crisps & a coke whilst my dad & his mates had a few pints in the Finishers & then down to Burnden.

whoever we played first at home 74/75 season according to me old fella ,

That chelsea game was one of the games where they went in the Lever End and I reckon I stood on all four sides of the ground in a single match.

Happy days.

against rotherham opening day of the 84/85 season stood on manny rd south in a crowd of about 5600 score was 1-1 i think graham bell scored for us,cant say i was inspired! burnley at home on easter monday in 88 is when i really cught the bug as a young'un

Late 60s I think. One apiece (or nowt apiece) against Crystal Palace.

Lever Enders singing "who's that goalie with the big fat arse, Jackson,Jackson etc. . . . . to what I now know to be the tune of Camptown Races.

 

If only everything now was so inoffensive.

It was some time in the 76/7 season. However the first one I actually remember for certain was late that season ... Bolton 2 Chelsea 2. A day when the atmosphere crackled with menace and there was old style footy hooliganism from first to last.

 

I witnessed the Chelsea fans take the Lever End from the relative comfort of my Manny Road seat - bedlam

 

I think a young Ray Wilkins was also on show.

Don't like to talk about it. Me dad said it was a great day out 'watching t'Stiffs'.

 

I stood on the Embankment and grown men were openly weeping around me. My old man was visibly upset. Bolton were relegated from the old First Division.

 

Scarred for life but anything which could move people so much deserved further investigation and I kept on going the following season.

April 94, 4-1 win over Boro, Super John hattrick

1965 Coventry at home won 4-2

 

Followed by beating top of the table massives 1-0

 

Hooked from the first game

Mansfield Town at home in the 77 promotion season. Worthington brace in a 2 1 win, sat in Manny Rd stand.

Boton v Spurs 1962 won 1-0 , Deakin scored , Jimmy Greaves played for Spurs & when hw came over to

take a corner for Spurs all the kids in the corner were gozzing at him , I was shocked stood there

in my gaberdine mack thinking 'thats not very sporting '

21/4/71.....Bolton v Rest of the World.

 

I was also ball boy for the Hull game when it rained, Embankment lads kicking off in Lever End.

 

And the Chelsea game when they were all over the ground.

whoever we played first at home 74/75 season according to me old fella ,

 

 

Portsmouth won 3-0.

 

2 for P Jones 1 for Byrom

 

 

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