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Title: Your First Game
Post by: FTID on August 13, 2013, 11:59:25 AM
Just out of interest, what was your first football match that you watched? Mine was in the intertoto when i was 4, Fulham vs Egaleo Fc, a Greek side
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: The Old Count on August 13, 2013, 12:13:43 PM
Whites v Bolton at The Cottage '62 - '63 season. Boys enclosure 1/6 if I remember right.

See, I am a right old count....
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Markffc123 on August 13, 2013, 12:36:29 PM
fulham vs brentford-chris colemans debut -i think 1997-cant quite remember the score maybe have been 2-1 ffc
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Airfix on August 13, 2013, 12:52:22 PM
Quote from: Markffc123 on August 13, 2013, 12:36:29 PM
fulham vs brentford-chris colemans debut -i think 1997-cant quite remember the score maybe have been 2-1 ffc

1-1.  Pesch equalised mid-way through the second half after Nigel Gleghorn had put the visitors 1 up at the break.

It was, indeed, Cookie's debut for Fulham.
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: whiteinedinburgh on August 13, 2013, 01:05:36 PM
Hearts vs Falkirk in 1992
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Joe McDonald on August 13, 2013, 01:11:57 PM
Hampton and Richmond vs Croydon, in I think 1987, was a 4-2 win for Hampton and Richmond
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: General on August 13, 2013, 01:38:58 PM
Honestly can't remember, it was with my dad and I was young..
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: tommy on August 13, 2013, 01:42:03 PM
Quote from: Markffc123 on August 13, 2013, 12:36:29 PM
fulham vs brentford-chris colemans debut -i think 1997-cant quite remember the score maybe have been 2-1 ffc
That was my first Fulham game too. Never looked back after that.

My first actual football match was England 4-0 Moldova in the same year. It was the game after Princess Diana had died and they played candle in the wind at wembley. All the lighters and candles in the stadium was amazing in that game.
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Stefano Okaka Chuka on August 13, 2013, 01:42:16 PM
Roma v Sampdoria 3-1...I was a Samp fan when I was a kid.
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: ffctom_b on August 13, 2013, 01:43:35 PM
Fulham v Wimbledon 85 I think, Cliff Carr scored a 90th minute winner!
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: erk on August 13, 2013, 01:44:41 PM
Tottenham Hotspur v Man Utd 1967-68
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Vinnieffc on August 13, 2013, 01:46:02 PM
Waterford 2 St Patricks Athletic 1 around 1978 at Lansdowne Road in the FAI cup final.  First Fulham game was a 1-1 draw against Spuds in the old 2nd division around the same time..
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: HatterDon on August 13, 2013, 01:50:40 PM
Luton Town v. Peterborough United, 1967
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: BRNicholson on August 13, 2013, 02:06:02 PM
April 1989. Chester City 7-0 Fulham. Was only three so my dad decided to leave early; we missed the last two goals.  049:gif
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Junichi on August 13, 2013, 02:08:08 PM
Celtic vs Dunfermline, 1996.

I was pretty young, but I remember it well. 5-1 to Celtic including a Pierre Van Hooijdonk 35 yard screamer of a free kick.
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: gerrys on August 13, 2013, 02:10:17 PM
September 1966, for the life of me cannot remember who it was against.................maybe I have the programme somewhere.................first football game would have been Woking, 5 to 10 years earlier.............
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: jmh on August 13, 2013, 02:10:34 PM
My first Fulham game was the 1-1 draw against Bolton in the first home match of 2006-07, after we'd been hammered 5-1 at Old Trafford to start the new season.  Jimmy Bullard equalized with a 90th minute penalty after El-Hadji Diouf had given Bolton the lead, also on a penalty, in the 73rd minute.  It was the first home Fulham match both for Bullard and Franck Queudrue.  

My first game was a MLS game at Giants Stadium a few years earlier but I don't remember any specifics.
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: jimmyc19 on August 13, 2013, 02:11:47 PM
Fulham 3-2 Liverpool 2002 Not a bad first game
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: WhiteJC on August 13, 2013, 03:52:59 PM
Fulham 1 Arsenal 0 66/67, going to the game was my christmas present.
I can't remember if the game was boxing day or new years day, I only know I had to wait a short while for the next time we beat Arsenal at the Cottage  fp.gif
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Fernhurst on August 13, 2013, 03:58:03 PM
Fulham 0-0 Ipswich ....... 1957

So forgive our irritability all you followers post MAF
There was a whole world of disappointment prior to 1997.

We still love em though, whoever wears the white.....

Terry Hurlock and Robin Lawler were a stretch though!!

FTID  
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Alan on August 13, 2013, 03:58:40 PM
I've been told that mine was in September 1992, at home to Plymouth. I don't remember it though...
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Southcoastffc on August 13, 2013, 04:06:14 PM
First ever game I can remember (I'm sure there were some before this) was Spurs v Leicester Cup Final 1961.  092.gif  First ever Fulham was in 1970 v Plymouth.  Stopped watching football for a long time then until the Tigana era and Blackburn at home in 2000 when I saw the light and have missed barely a home game since then.
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Peabody on August 13, 2013, 04:15:27 PM
Fulham v Luton town 2-1 to Fulham, Sept 1946
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: s4ffc on August 13, 2013, 04:17:30 PM
Mine was 1977 Fulham v Swansea. Remember Gerry Peyton in goal.
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: TWFL on August 13, 2013, 04:41:47 PM
Away at Huddersfield in the promotion season when I was 4 was my first ever football game. Caught us at a good time.
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Fernhurst on August 13, 2013, 04:54:51 PM
Quote from: Peabody on August 13, 2013, 04:15:27 PM
Fulham v Luton town 2-1 to Fulham, Sept 1946



Nobody can trump that Mr P !!
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Jamie88 on August 13, 2013, 05:42:33 PM
Bournemouth 2-1 Fulham in '92
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: fulham traveller on August 13, 2013, 06:09:43 PM
Quote from: Peabody on August 13, 2013, 04:15:27 PM
Fulham v Luton town 2-1 to Fulham, Sept 1946
[/bloody hell u must be nearly 100
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: fulham traveller on August 13, 2013, 06:10:53 PM
first game I remember ffc 0 hull city 0 1976 best and marsh, I went before but cant remember
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: fulhamben on August 13, 2013, 06:28:32 PM
Fulham vs brentford. Was a boring 0 0. Not sure on exact date but must have been around 27 to 29 years ago
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Baider on August 13, 2013, 06:33:44 PM
As much as I hate to admit it..it was a QPR game, can't remember against who. Our football team (must have been u9's) went together, I remember Crouch was playing for QPR back then and I was amazed at how lanky this guy was, so must have been 2000
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: thebumponleroyshead on August 13, 2013, 08:24:48 PM
Home to Bristol Rovers 17th April 1982 we won 4-2. 10 days before I was born but my mum, Sharon Duce, sat very pregnant in the Sevenage Road Stand, if that counts. On another note I think Bent is coming mate is a journo for Telegraph and thats the scoop this evening..........oh yeah!
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Peabody on August 13, 2013, 09:05:08 PM
Quote from: fulham traveller on August 13, 2013, 06:09:43 PM
Quote from: Peabody on August 13, 2013, 04:15:27 PM
Fulham v Luton town 2-1 to Fulham, Sept 1946
[/bloody hell u must be nearly 100


Not quite, I was 7 at the time, so work it out for yourself
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Artful Dodger on August 13, 2013, 09:47:13 PM
England 2 Spain 1, Euro 1980 in Naples as a 9 year old! We lived in Naples as my Dad had been posted out there a year or so earlier. Went a few times to watch Napoli a few times in the next couple of years (Rudi Krol was the overseas star) until we came back to England. A year or two after that, he took us to watch Fulham (we lost in the FA Cup!) and that was that...hooked ever since!!

Incidentally, that was the last game England won in a Euro finals until 1996 when Gazza beat Scotland!
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Daffy on August 13, 2013, 09:58:51 PM
Mine was home to Bristol Rovers too. But in 1976 and George Best's debut for Fulham, where he scored the winner early in the match.
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: spikey norman on August 13, 2013, 10:10:35 PM
Quote from: thebumponleroyshead on August 13, 2013, 08:24:48 PM
Home to Bristol Rovers 17th April 1982 we won 4-2. 10 days before I was born but my mum, Sharon Duce, sat very pregnant in the Sevenage Road Stand, if that counts. On another note I think Bent is coming mate is a journo for Telegraph and thats the scoop this evening..........oh yeah!
Is your dad Dominic and your uncle Chris?
If so I lived next door to them in Chiswick and went to my first Fulham match with them in 1966 v Man City a 4-1 win
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: cusackdribble on August 13, 2013, 10:40:41 PM
1976 Fulham v Portsmouth. Lost 1-0. Set me up for life.
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: tommy on August 13, 2013, 10:42:36 PM
First Fulham game was 1886 against Dial Square FC. Ahhh the memories
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Scrumpy on August 13, 2013, 11:27:17 PM
Fulham 0 Millwall 0 1981. Cocky 15 year old at the time. Hooked for life after about 10 minutes!

I just worked out that I must have watched us about 1000 times since then. Jeez  fp.gif

Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: The Bronsons on August 14, 2013, 12:28:02 AM
About 1971, can't remember the name of the opposition. My dad took me. It was cold, miserable, boring, 0-0, and I hated it.
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: RidgeRider on August 14, 2013, 01:22:16 AM
July 1975, Portland Timbers vs. Vancouver Whitecaps, Portland won 2-1
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Grimfang on August 14, 2013, 04:46:58 AM
Fulham vs Wolverhampton, March 2012.  5 - 0 win.  Probably the only game I'll get to see in person, given I live in Australia :down_under:, so it was a good one! 049:gif
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Holders on August 14, 2013, 07:05:35 AM
Quote from: Airfix on August 13, 2013, 12:52:22 PM
Quote from: Markffc123 on August 13, 2013, 12:36:29 PM
fulham vs brentford-chris colemans debut -i think 1997-cant quite remember the score maybe have been 2-1 ffc

1-1.  Pesch equalised mid-way through the second half after Nigel Gleghorn had put the visitors 1 up at the break.

It was, indeed, Cookie's debut for Fulham.

What a dreadful game that was - they seemed to pack the box with all 11 players for the whole 90 minutes. Coleman was a class player though.
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Holders on August 14, 2013, 07:08:52 AM
Got to my first game in about 1971 (QPR at home, league cup - won 2-0, I think) but have followed the team since 1962.
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: keith on August 14, 2013, 08:36:18 AM
August 1967 Chelsea reserves V Northampton reserves I was 10 years old and my Dad took me. We only went because my Dad was a fan of a guy called Tommy Harmer, who was playing for Chelsea. 2 weeks later, same ground Chelsea 1 Fulham 1.
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: David Allen Crankshaw on August 14, 2013, 08:57:56 AM
Manchester City 3 Fulham 1 at Maine Road on October 5, 1959.

I remember that Alf Stokes scored the Fulham goal.
Title: Re: Your First Game
Post by: Bry on August 14, 2013, 05:08:52 PM
Haven't yet posted on this forum, however as this was one of my favourite Fulham memories thought I would make it my first.

My first live match was Fulham v Aston Villa in 2003 where we ended up winning 2-1 thanks to a Jon Harley screamer from what must have been about 40 yards out, everyone went mental and although I was very small at the time I remember seeing the ball just float over the goalkeepers wailing arms. Such a good memory, a shame my first game wasn't at the cottage, but I very much enjoyed it and have been a happy follower of Fulham ever since.