How Old Are You & What Was Your First Fulham game?

[manxman]

17 years old, and fulham v west brom in 2006. we won 6-1 :) what a first game !

[Peabody]

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

[Peabody]

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.

[Lighthouse]

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.



We lost 3 - 0 - the Fulham team heard you were coming.. ;) - Ed

[OldBrownShoe]

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.

[Rupert]

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.



Damn Ricky Heppolette, for spoiling our fun, my first time on the pitch that day celebrating promotion...

[FMCexW14]

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



October 1973, we lost 0-2...

[WhiteJC]

Um, 27.. first game was Fulham v the dark side in the 1985 Milk Cup.

well if your 27 I'm 38  ;D

[Tomo]

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!

[clintclintdeuce]

Im 25. First time across the pond for a Fulham match was West Ham home February '08.



Cheated by Nobby Solano I recall...

[bog]

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....  

[bigalffc]

58 and first game was in '58. can't remember which game.

[White Noise]

Bump

[SuffolkWhite]

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.

[EdenRob]

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?

[os5889]

23 years old and I believe it was Fulham Southampton at St Marys 3-3



Diop, Malbranque and Radzinski, 5th January 2005 - Ed

[FC Silver Fox]

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.

[BarneyTravers]

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.

[Tktd]

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!

[JBH]

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.