Naughty 40 and Fulham V Bradford City 1-1 - 4th September 1993
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58, sadly cannot remember but it's been a rollercoaster ever since with sad and great memories.
41, and V Brighton 0-0, in i think the 78/79 season.
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PS: You must have been Brahms & Liszt mate, we lost 0 - 1, Ed
59.
First game 5th round cup tie against Port Vale in 1962.
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We won 1 - 0 thanks to a Jimmy Langley penalty - Ed
51, v Arsenal (Boxing Day or New Year 66) we won 2 - 1 (I think)
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PS: Jan 1st 1966, Graham Leggat scored our winner (1 - 0) - Ed
48,It was a Watney cup match V Derby either '71 or'72..
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1st August 1970, we lost 3 - 5 after extra-time (Halom 2, Earle 1) - Ed
Um, 27.. first game was Fulham v the dark side in the 1985 Milk Cup.
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they won - Ed
46...0-0 v Oldham 74/75 season...our pursuits have been dictating my mood swings since that day.
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Thirty eighteen and I don't know :-\ . I know it was shortly after I moved into our place on the corner of Fulham and Munster Roads so toward the end of January 97 ? I was in the Stevenage/JH stand and the result was cause for huge celebration. Any clues ? My last of that era was Fulham v Sunderland on or about 11 Jan 2002 when I returned to Oz, before visiting in 2008 and getting along to Fulham v Liverpool and (0 - 2) and then the win against the Brums (2 -0) McGod and Erik the Viking. Next one ???? ...Just checked for any ticket stubs but only found the Brum ticket (signed by Nevland) and the Cottage ticket for the screening of the Pompey game. Got that one signed by Danny when Fulham were in Oz :D
Colin, 11th January we stuffed Darlington 6-0, next home game was against Cardiff and they beat us 1-4, so little to celebrate there - perhaps it was our win against Swansea City that was the cause of celebration owing to the fact 3 years before The Swans had doomed us to relegation on the final day of the '93/'94 season and this was sweet revenge on us getting the double over them? I cannot remember though, my records show that all the teams vying for promotion with us won that weekend, so it can't be that. Let me know if the memory kicks in - Ed
Like I have said before, 71 and it was Fulham v Luton Town in Sept 1946. Just thought though, as I did'nt pay to get into that game, does it count?
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We won 2 - 1 thanks to Ernie Shepherd and the goal machine, Ronnie Rooke - Ed
41 years young first game verses Burnley 76/77 0 - 0
First win verse Stoke 2-0 Brian Greenaway scored my first live Fulham goal 1978
First draw Sunderland 2-2 Chris Guthrie got 1 goal i remember 1978
NEVER SEEN US LOSE!!!! ( yeah right)
Dean, are you sure about the season or team? We had 3 nil-nil home games that season:-
Wolves
Hull
Blackpool
The Burnley game was 2-2 that season - however, we had a 0-0 against them in August 1978, let me know - Ed
61, Blackburn, 1960.
Reference Tony Gilroy. I was at the Port vale game also. Reason I remember it (I think) was due to a burly 3rd division centre half booting the ball into the river. Biggest cheer of the day.
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Lost 0-1
A young 43 :D aged 5 1972 on me dads shoulders cant remember much, must be the age thing !
Quote from: Peabody on February 10, 2010, 01:12:20 PM
Like I have said before, 71 and it was Fulham v Luton Town in Sept 1946. Just thought though, as I did'nt pay to get into that game, does it count?
Did you bunk in? You're lucky the stewards didn't catch you ;)
Sixty two and three quarters! My first game (and all I really remember was the noise and bad language towards the referee) was the famous Fulham-Newcastle cup tie (4-5) 28th Jan 1956. 39,200 there that day.
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29 and first game was Home vs Hull City 2009-10-19
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Quote from: TonyGilroy on February 10, 2010, 12:41:12 PM
59.
First game 5th round cup tie against Port Vale in 1962.
Funny you should say that Tony. I'm four years younger than you, but that was my first game as well. A 1-0 thanks to a dodgy penalty I seem to remember.
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We won 1 - 0 thanks to a Jimmy Langley penalty - Ed
OldBrownShoes did you bunk off school to see that Newcastle match cos it was midweek wasn't it?
61, 22nd February 1958, v Grimsby, won 6-0, Haynes,Hill, Chamberlain, Dwight2,Cook. Happy Days!
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Quote from: Tonywa on February 10, 2010, 03:39:42 PM
Quote from: TonyGilroy on February 10, 2010, 12:41:12 PM
59.
First game 5th round cup tie against Port Vale in 1962.
Funny you should say that Tony. I'm four years younger than you, but that was my first game as well. A 1-0 thanks to a dodgy penalty I seem to remember.
And Johnny Haynes wasn't playing. One programme correction. In place of Haynes - Derek Lampe.
There's film of the match on the British Pathe News site
T
17 years old, and fulham v west brom in 2006. we won 6-1 :) what a first game !
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Quote from: FatFreddysCat on February 10, 2010, 03:08:44 PM
Quote from: Peabody on February 10, 2010, 01:12:20 PM
Like I have said before, 71 and it was Fulham v Luton Town in Sept 1946. Just thought though, as I did'nt pay to get into that game, does it count?
Did you bunk in? You're lucky the stewards didn't catch you ;)
I was an innocent 7 year old then. My Uncle took mee
Quote from: SheffieldWhite on February 10, 2010, 03:45:29 PM
OldBrownShoes did you bunk off school to see that Newcastle match cos it was midweek wasn't it?
It was definately a Saturday afternoon, I think it may have been a 2-15 ko. no floodlights then. But definately Saturday.
My first Fulham game was 67-68 season at Old Trafford. Just before my 10th birthday. Not long after that I had to go into Hospital for a mysterious infection. Bloody Old Trafford.
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We lost 3 - 0 - the Fulham team heard you were coming.. ;) - Ed
Sheffield White and Peabody, it was definitely a Saturday, k.o. was 2.45pm. I have the programme in front of me (thanks to LBno11!!).
My bunking off came a bit later when England played televised home internationals. For example England 5 USSR 0 when the Maestro put three goals past Lev Yashin. There were other games too. Enough that my teacher complained that surely I must have run out of grandmothers' funerals by now.
45 and aging rapidly, reserve game in 1968 against one of the Bristol teams (my dear old Dad never could recall which of them and I was too young to remember) and we won 6-0, we stuck a young defender called Malcolm MacDonald in as an emergency striker and he scored for fun. Dad always said he was talking to an old supporter, complaining that as the first team couldn't score we should give MacDonald a chance, you wait, said the old geezer, we'll sell him soon. Sure enough, Alec Stock and Luton swooped and "discovered" the lad could play up front.
First game I definately recall being at was the 1-0 loss to Preston at the end of 1970-71, but I have vague memories of the riverside terrace being reduced to rubble prior to the Riverside Stand being built (and the debt from that crippling us for decades).
I also remember us beating Pele and Santos, 1972 I think.
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Damn Ricky Heppolette, for spoiling our fun, my first time on the pitch that day celebrating promotion...
47. My first game at Craven Cottage wasn't a Fulham game. It was a world cup qualifier in 1973: Northern Ireland versus Cyprus, which NI won 3-0. Played at FFC due to the troubles. First FFC game I think was home to Sunderland in September 73 but bit vague......!
:D
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October 1973, we lost 0-2...
Quote from: The Equalizer on February 10, 2010, 12:53:11 PM
Um, 27.. first game was Fulham v the dark side in the 1985 Milk Cup.
well if your 27 I'm 38 ;D
17 and I think it was Grimsby at Home in either the 98/99 or 99/00 at a tender age of 7 or 8. I still have the programme somewhere!
Im 25. First time across the pond for a Fulham match was West Ham home February '08.
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Cheated by Nobby Solano I recall...
64 and sometime back in 1953, sadly I do not recall the game. Oh how I wish I had the programme. I still recall my late father saying that he wanted to take me to see a young player who was playing for Fulham called Johnny Haynes....
58 and first game was in '58. can't remember which game.
Bump
43, First game and a night game against Oxford Utd in which we lost 0-4 and that effectively was the end of Bobby Campbell as manager.
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Years Years Years
Sixty. First match was an Easter Bank holiday close to one of my birthdays against Arsenal and we won 3-0. Not sure of the year, somewhere between 59-62, but I bet someone can work it out.
Wow where did those years go?
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23 years old and I believe it was Fulham Southampton at St Marys 3-3
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Diop, Malbranque and Radzinski, 5th January 2005 - Ed
My first game was in 1963 when I was 10 years old. Our school did a football exchange with a school from Liverpool. They came down to London, stayed with us and we played a couple of games against them. Fulham v Liverpool was on that Saturday so we all went to it. The score was 0-0, so honour was safe all round. However, I was hooked on the Fulham magic from that day forward.
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Remember the Oxford game vividly Suffolk...though the crowd was sparse the 'Campbell out' was so loud practically everybody in attendance bar the Oxford contingent must have subscribed.
didn't realise how much of an age gap there is between me and other posters - i'm 22! Can't remember first match - was quite young and have loads of memories of same style matches which all blur into one. Think i was there from the begining of the MAF era though and remember Sean Davis' draw or winning goal and the match Michael Jackson rocked up at the cottage!
Fulham v Macclesfield 1968 in FA Cup 3rd round, Fulham won 4 - 2, is the first game I really remember but I know that I went a couple of times before that.
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60, 1st game summer 1967 at the dark side in home end. Dragged along by the dark side supporting mates. Score 1-1
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47.. First Fulham v Spuds in about 1978.. Came to London in 1976 and was an Arse fan but converted soon after..
41. 1979 v Burnley. We won 3-1 and Peter Marinello was sent off. Referee was Challis who the crowd informed me was a w*nk*r. Gordon Davies scored twice.
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24, and my first (and only) game was Melbourne Victory v Fulham, July 2009.
I've never been to England, let alone the Cottage, but I'm in the early stages of planning a trip with the missus for March next year....
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21, my first game was West Ham home in February of 2008 sadly we lost on a late goal, put what an experience. Subsequently I attended the Blackburn game at home and our first away win last year vs Bolton. I am now itching to make it back across the pond to catch the mighty whites, but my current university schedule makes it difficult.
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48, can't remember my first game but it was early 70'ies. My dad didn't take me to the Cottage often so I guess I was a bit of a late starter compared to most. He did however take me to Wembley in 1975 and that is my most vivid and early memory of Fulham and also a very fond memory of my father as he passed away that same year. My uncle took over the duties of bringing the young 'un to the Cottage after that
I'm 31 - haven't made it across the pond yet.
The first game that I remember watching was the 08 visit of Arsenal. It was on FSC and I told the Missus that if we could get away with a draw, we'd be doing well. Hangeland got his foot on the end of a corner and we held on for victory...
Just a taste of what was to come that season!
Boxing day 1958 we beat Brighton & Hove 3-1, i was 10.
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...one of the class of '54. I was a fan of Fulham for two years prior to my first attendance; Easter Monday, March 1967 in glorious sunshine amongst a massive crowd of 47,290 to watch two teams that included some of the England world cup winning squad: George Cohen, Nobby Stiles and Bobby Charlton, and of course the man who could have been the England Captain in '66, Johnny Haynes.
Fulham went into the lead when Allan 'Sniffer' Clarke scored, Man Ure equalised through George Best and we went into half time at one a'piece. Fulham second was a real 'smashed into the roof of the net' job from the player who would become my favourite ever player, Les Barrett (No11 ;)). Man Ure put so much pressure on us and eventually the least likely man to equalize for them was the gap toothed Nobby Stiles. Final Score: 2 - 2
The sights, sounds and even the smell (must have been the man ure) had me hooked for life...
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PS: I have added some programme covers to others posts, I hope you don't mind, I will add some more later...
38 and 1st game was against Walsall in 1994. The guy that took me to that game has a lot to answer for!
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1st game of the season and Kevin Moore scored on his debut - Ed
Now at the ripe old age of 76 I cant remember my first game it must have ben in the late forties and like a few of us time has passed to quickly and have lived thro lots of ups and downs i fondly remember standing at the same spot behind the hammersmith end goal with the same mix of people. lots of memories that will remain. Will be at the Cottage on April 17th v Wolves but having a touch of the Brian McBride hospitality. Shall pay My respects to the Great Onewould be pleased to have chat to anyone around that day.
Cheers Lakey
Hi Ron, we'll take a stab at West Ham Utd in May 1949, the programmes didn't change much in those days - Ed!
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47, I have yet to take in a game at the Cottage but remember the first match where I claimed the Whites as my own was November 10, 2007 against Liverpool, we lost 2-0 and I have been hooked ever since.
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Ask McBrideFan1 to have a look at the copy he has of that programme - Ed
Quote from: Crita on February 12, 2010, 02:37:03 AM
24, and my first (and only) game was Melbourne Victory v Fulham, July 2009.
I've never been to England, let alone the Cottage, but I'm in the early stages of planning a trip with the missus for March next year....
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Goodonya Crita and best of luck with your trip plans. I went down to Melbourne for the game against Victory (didn't Eddie Johnson score ??? ) Had a great weekend and met the one and only Mr Corked Hat. He was instrumental in getting the Rupanyup AFL lads down to the game and he and I were both on the pitch for the presentation to Danny Murphy pre-game.
Nice work with the covers LBNo11.
I'm 27, and my first game was on 24th October 1992 against Chester City. We won 1-0 thanks to an own goal! I remember thinking that it was all going to be in black and white (cos all i had ever seen was black and white footage!)
Obviously it was sort of black and white. with regard to our kit anyway, but I think you get my meaning!
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I'm 29 and lost my Fulham virginity in February 2004, it was an FA Cup replay against Everton.
I started following in Fulham since 1995 when I found out that I had a family connection. Despite taking a keen interest in the club I did not know anyone that actively supported club until my brother suggested that I went to along to this match with a guy from his Sunday league team.
We were playing at Loftus road that season and despite the decrepid stadium and skanky surrounds I was quite taken by the atmosphere and the feeling that you get when surrounded by thousands of Fulham fans. I no longer felt alone in the world!
I don't remember the game that clearly other than that each time we scored my brother (who was sat between myself and his mate) got caught up in inpromptu hugging.
Looking back on the match report (http://www.evertonfc.com/match/report/0304/fulham-04-02-2004-19-45.html (http://www.evertonfc.com/match/report/0304/fulham-04-02-2004-19-45.html)) I am surprised to see that a young Rooney missed a sitter and how the line up's have gradually changed. Volzy was the last man to leave us from that side.
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A year later I had my first true Fulham experience, a match at the cottage, again v Everton.
It was a stunning spring day in April, bright skies and t-shirt weather. A few pre-match pints and a bbq in the Golden Lion beer garden set the tone for the day.
Walking to the ground we cut through the tennis courts near Bishops Park road. I remember being half cut and thinking how different it was to Loftus Road, trees blossoming and big beautiful houses. I can't forget the feeling of walking down the Stevenage Road for the first time, merging with the crowds and marvelling at our famous listed stand.
We won that game 2-0 but did not stop Everton from finishing 4th .
Since that first match at the cottage I have not looked back and even managed to convert a few more friends and family to the bright side.
COYW
jimpav..remember your 1st ffc game...great to beat them after all that jeffers heartache!
coyw
Apparently taken to games before my first memory --- but nobody still alive to confirm or deny!!!!
All these years I have said the game I first remembered was a 0-0 draw verses Ipswich in 1958, consequently celebrated long and hard in 2008 when I reached 50 years.... bloody hell... refering to Dennis Turners most excellent book "The Complete Record" this very evening I find the first game ingrained in my memory was played on the 18th September 1957
Can't bloody believe it .... wrong year all this time.......
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Thank you for the cover LB..... I'm sure the bloke on right in the away strip is Stanley Matthews. I was at his last ever game (?) at the Cottage when gentleman Jim Langley refused to tackle the old guy..... he was held in such high esteem ( and i think he was fifty!!)
Can someone tell me if this is shite or has my selective memory kicked in.
BTW I was also at your first game LB v Man u in 67 --- a few of us came up from Guildford on our scooters!! --- those were the days.
Thank you LB, I do have that program I'm glad to say ;D. I don't buy them anymore but I was given a free one at Basel which does have a little pride of place with my collection I have to say. It's great to see all the others programs.
62 years old and the first match was against one of the Sheffield teams in 1962.
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1961/62 season we beat the blades 5-2, a Maurice Cook hat trick, and a goal apiece for Leggat & Lowe
OR
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1962/63 season a 4-1 win against their neighbours with a goal from Brown, and that man Cook again with another hat trick...
46 , my first game was 1967 , I was only 4 so I dont remember the opposition.
...how about some of the FOF members who have yet to post on here saying when their first game was, and break their message board 'virginity'..?
I`m 25 and first game was away to West Ham in January 2007. We got a point with a late goal from Christanval.
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Quote from: cebu on February 13, 2010, 12:35:09 PM
1961/62 season we beat the blades 5-2, a Maurice Cook hat trick, and a goal apiece for Leggat & Lowe
OR
1962/63 season a 4-1 win against their neighbours with a goal from Brown, and that man Cook again with another hat trick...
Thanks mate - it was obviously Sheffield Utd!
Was the other game the first under floodlights? I'm sure I saw that too.
...yes cebu, the Sheffield Wednesday game, played appropriately on a wednesday, was the first game at Craven Cottage under floodlights.. :)
i'm 16 and my first fulham game was home to crystal palace back in 2004.
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You just missed out on 2004 bazzamcb by one day, our 3-1 win - two from Andy Cole and one from Radzinski sealed our win on January 1st 2005...
...bump...
69 and first Fulham game was in 1951 against Preston North End
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...Ruddy part timers, I've a mind to put you on jankers for going AWOL!
PS: Good to have you back 'on board' ole fella...
Quote from: Fernhurst on February 12, 2010, 11:39:55 PM
Thank you for the cover LB..... I'm sure the bloke on right in the away strip is Stanley Matthews. I was at his last ever game (?) at the Cottage when gentleman Jim Langley refused to tackle the old guy..... he was held in such high esteem ( and i think he was fifty!!)
Can someone tell me if this is s***e or has my selective memory kicked in.
I'm afraid your selective memory has kicked in here. Stanley Matthews certainly played his last league game against Fulham at the incredible age of fifty and was indeed up against Jimmy Langley , but the game took place at Stoke's old ground The Victoria Grounds. I remember that the weather in the few days before the match had been very cold and frosty and to ensure that the pitch was not frozen in those days before general undersoil the Stoke ground staff had covered it with straw. Langley certainly let Matthews do pretty well as he wanted, but I seem to remember that the man of the match was one Rodney Marsh. It was a long time ago and I was very young, but it's nice to be able to say that I was there. Now how many of you were at Coventry on that freezing day many years ago to see Fulham win that much-coveted piece of silverware the Winston Churchill Memorial Cup?
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I don't question any of that but I do remember regretting not going to see Matthews play for Stoke in a match at Craven Cottage that was heavily publicised as likely to be his last and selected because Jim Langley would be a "fair" opponent.
I can't now remember why I missed the match but I never got to see Matthews play and I certainly should have gone.
You really are getting a bit confused. In your first post you claim to have been at the game, yet in your reply to me you say that you regret not having gone to it.
Re-reading the thread it's obvious that I'm getting confused as well. I seem to have conflated two posts and mixed up your with that of Fernhurst. Apologies. I'll keep taking the tablets ;-)
TW
Thank you TonyW, I obviously attended the game at the Cottage along with Tony Gilroy and there was much talk of Stan last game. I was very young but can still remember that shufflle and darting run Stan employed to get past our Jim.
Can't remember the score however but just the lovely feeling of being there at The Cottage with my older brother.
Quote from: Fernhurst on February 17, 2010, 08:51:11 AM
Thank you TonyW, I obviously attended the game at the Cottage along with Tony Gilroy and there was much talk of Stan last game. I was very young but can still remember that shufflle and darting run Stan employed to get past our Jim.
Can't remember the score however but just the lovely feeling of being there at The Cottage with my older brother.
I wasn't there Gov.
Christ!!! --- pass the tablets TonyWa ;D
...it has been interesting to note that there is a good mix of, ahem, veteran fans pre late 70's mixed with those who started watching from 1997 onwards.
I suppose it is not surprising that from 1980 to 1997 we did not attract many fans and all we had left were the old stalwarts and those who had been brought up in Fulham families.
Anyone of you attracted to Fulham in those dark days..?
I would have gone to my first game around about February 1987. But I have no memory of the game itself. I've probably got the programme somewhere.
When I was a little'un I think Dad's one escape from us kids was the football. When I found out where he went every Saturday I pestered him mercilessly until, after a couple of years, he caved in. He eased me in gently by taking me along and sitting in some of the (few, at the time) seats in the Riverside. To this day, I suspect he didn't want me to hear some of the Hammersmith End language. By the late '80s I was deemed old enough to learn some curse words and we moved to the Hammersmith Terrace. By this time I was old enough to realise that a lot of the football was tripe, so I spent long periods playing with other kids on the earthen banks under the Hammersmith End. At this time, my little brother started to come to games as well. It didn't take long before he decided to follow Spurs!
Quote from: os5889 on February 11, 2010, 11:11:51 AM
23 years old and I believe it was Fulham Southampton at St Marys 3-3
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Diop, Malbranque and Radzinski, 5th January 2005 - Ed
Wow, I just saw this whilst FoF browsing, thanks Ed!
...and it got me reminiscing again too. Strange how certain games stand out in the memory when jogged by the programme covers (again well done LB.) the 2-2 draw with Man U when Nobby Stiles equalised is a case in point. I remember that it became all-ticket even for the terraces, and we had to go and queue for them at the previous home game.....for the inflated price of five shillings(25p) instead of the usual 4 (20p) payable at the turnstile. Outrageous prices! What would we have said if we'd have known then that cheapest admission 40 years on would have been(allowing for inflation) about 4 times more expensive? True, we now get a seat that we don't always want to sit in, but that's another issue entirely...
36 - and Fulham v England on May 21st 1982. It was Les Strong's testimonial
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43 years old.
Fulham v. Blackburn in 1974 was my first ever.
Lord alone knows how many miles I have travelled and shillings I have forked out since that fateful day to watch the mighty whites.
One of these days I may do an estimate, cry in to my pint of Pride and console myself with the fact that it has ALL been for a GREAT cause :)
COYW
Quote from: Burt on March 26, 2010, 12:18:31 PM
43 years old.
Fulham v. Blackburn in 1974 was my first ever.
Lord alone knows how many miles I have travelled and shillings I have forked out since that fateful day to watch the mighty whites.
One of these days I may do an estimate, cry in to my pint of Pride and console myself with the fact that it has ALL been for a GREAT cause :)
COYW
...Burt, i know it was a long time ago, but we didn't play Blackburn in 1974, do you mean Blackpool? If so it would be the one where Mullery scored against the Tangerines..?
44 and first game was at home to Charlton Athletic on 18th April 1981. Little did I know that it was my wifes` 6th birthday on that day!! More importantly I believe we won 1-0
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Also 44.
First match was Fulham 0 Millwall 0, in Oct/Nov time 1981. I was a 14 year old wannabe hooligan. Absolutely smitten by the Club from the very first game - I just somehow felt I belonged, even though none of my family were Fulham fans at the time.
It's funny, but it has been the one constant in my life ever since. Jobs have come and gone. Friends have come and gone. Money has come and gone. Ladies have come and gone (with the money!).
If you want to track me down in 20 years time, assuming I am still fit and well, then you'll find me in the away end at Rochdale (or whoever we're playing on any given Saturday). FTID.
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28th November 1981, Att: 8,343
Quote from: Scrumpy on March 26, 2010, 11:53:52 PM
Also 44.
First match was Fulham 0 Millwall 0, in Oct/Nov time 1981. I was a 14 year old wannabe hooligan. Absolutely smitten by the Club from the very first game - I just somehow felt I belonged, even though none of my family were Fulham fans at the time.
It's funny, but it has been the one constant in my life ever since. Jobs have come and gone. Friends have come and gone. Money has come and gone. Ladies have come and gone (with the money!).
If you want to track me down in 20 years time, assuming I am still fit and well, then you'll find me in the away end at Rochdale (or whoever we're playing on any given Saturday). FTID.
The strange thing is Mr Scrumpy, I too always thought I would like to be a hooligan - being a Battersea boy it was almost mandatory
When I was fourteen you could stand in the midst of the away supporters which invariably I did. I recall with some unfettered glee that I had a dust up with a person with a strange accent who was wearing a Nottingham Forest scarf. Then there was an unsavoury incident with a Leicester City supporter which had me scurrying for an early exit, but in all truth I had neither the physique nor bottle to become anything other than a passive watcher.
I became so pusillanimous that I started paying protection money to the Salvation Army and the chances of me getting into a rumble were about the same as me swimming in a croc infested waterhole.
Besides Fulham wasn't the team to engage in war with opposing supporters – you could never count on anyone being with you when the fists began to fly. If you were Millwall or someone, at least you knew that you would have a few hundred like minded hooligans at your side.
At Fulham you would be lucky to find an old man with a rolled up newspaper – more likely an old lady with an umbrella would be more the go.
No, my dreams of being a hooligan were fleeting and I can thank the serenity of Craven Cottage for that.
69.........March 1949, a 2-1 win at West Bromwich played in a snowstorm, the season we pipped WBA for the 2nd division title.
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5th March 1949, Att: 27,595, Len Quested in the first half and Arthur Rowley in the second
The 80-81 season started in the dark days with Campbell getting the sack not long after my first game 0-4 defeat to Oxford UTD, but in came McDonald and we went on a whirlwind campaign.
I have been hooked ever since, I used to go to many away games and all home and the crowds started to grow again.
I can remember IVOR scoring a goal from near the corner flag against Chesterfield and we had 9000 in the ground which was a big crowd that season.
I Love this Club :004:
Just about to retire (64 and 11months), first game I cannot recall but it was in 1953 just after Johnny Haynes made his debut. Thank God my father did not take me down Chelsea!
Just read my post, that should read 'took me down to Chelsea' what happened there that came out as 'the dark side' I do not know!
Im more concerned at what age will I be at my last Fulham game .Once you get to 30 it's all down hill , so Im told.
Just turned 19. First game 30th October 2004 vs. Spurs at the Cottage. I was 12 and my dad wanted me to support Spurs, just like he did and still does.
The first game my dad took me to was in 1969 when i was 3, and i went on and off to a couple of games every season but to be honest did not enjoy it.
I saw the light in September 1978-Stoke at home, we won 2-0 and for the first time wanted to go the next week....Preston at home 5-3...I was hooked.
££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££ later i'm still here.
