Your 1st ever Professional league game you saw

[Frank Inkerman]

Portsmouth vs Aston Villa circa 1966 (before the World Cup)

 

[Da Man Clay]

Brighton 1 (0) - 0(0) Wigan

on 10-10-1992


Can someone find out the teams/Scorer?

 

[RexCathedra]

Boston Beacons, at Fenway Park, in '68.

 

[Norman Potting]

Albion v Watford New Years Day 1983 at the Goldstone. 1 - 1 draw I think and a dreadful game.

Got the programme off eBay a year or so ago - spookily Melia's notes mentioned the FA cup and said words to the effect that he thought it was going to be a good year in the cup for Albion. But then again managers don't usually write "I expect we will embarass ourselves and get knocked out in our first tie" do they?

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

Bournemouth vs Luton in 96.

Bontcho Guentchev played

 

[pasty]

I don't actually know for certain. It was either Albion vs Grimsby, Feb 9th 1974 or Leicester vs Carlisle at Filbert Street. Unbelievable now, but they were 1st and 2nd in division 1 at the time

 

[Publius Ovidius]

huddersfield Town v Newcastle

1969

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Brighton 1 (0) - 0(0) Wigan

on 10-10-1992


Can someone find out the teams/Scorer?

Scorer was Steve Cotterill.

 

[Da Man Clay]

Scorer was Steve Cotterill.

Cheers mate

After that I didn't see the Albion lose for 41 games. It was only when I got my first season ticket I saw us lose.

 

[Zesh Rehman]

England 2-0 Scotland - 15th June 1996 - Wembley Stadium

 

[Frank Inkerman]

Brighton 1 (0) - 0(0) Wigan

on 10-10-1992


Can someone find out the teams/Scorer?

The team was:
Beeney
Chivers
Chapman
Wilkins
McCarthy
Foster
Crumplin
Moulden
Cotterill
Codner
Walker
Subs: Edwards & Farrington (both unused).
as already mentioned Steve Cotterill scored.
Attendance 5,784

 

[Da Man Clay]

The team was:
Beeney
Chivers
Chapman
Wilkins
McCarthy
Foster
Crumplin
Moulden
Cotterill
Codner
Walker
Subs: Edwards & Farrington (both unused).
as already mentioned Steve Cotterill scored.
Attendance 5,784

Again cheers

 

[Frank Inkerman]

Again cheers

There's more - the game involved "trouble in the West Stand" which the club apologised for saying that "tickets got into the hands of people who should not have been able to buy them"

 

[Da Man Clay]

There's more - the game involved "trouble in the West Stand" which the club apologised for saying that "tickets got into the hands of people who should not have been able to buy them"

I was 5 at the time and think I was in the North stand, ill have to have words with my grandad when I see him on Friday and make sure he was got them legitimatly!

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

According to my mother, it was her father who took me to my first game (at Selhurst though) sometime in the late 1950's when I would have been 5 or 6. Fortunately, the memory banks have been successfully corrupted/wiped and I have no memory whatsoever of what must have been a traumatic event.

Formal education resumed when my father took me to my first Goldstone game against Bristol Rovers on 27th August 1960 which we won 6-0 (Thorne x4, Curry and Jones).

A someone posted on here a few weeks back, the opening of the Falmer stadium may well coincide with my 50th anniversary of watching the Albion. Guess I better start saving now as I can see having to buy a few pints of Harveys that day (NB moaners are not invited).

 

[1066gull]

i'll bump this in 8 years when i have a decade of seasons under my belt...

 

[Vlad the Impala]

Chelsea v Newcastle 1-1, circa 1970 at a guess.

 

[medicine man]

16/9/87 wednesday night
BHA v Rovrum 1-1

Blimey, 20years ago!

 

[Monkster]

Marseille 3 Nice 2
(Jean Pierre Papin Hattrick)
August 1986 In the old stade Velodrome

 

[seagull_in_malaysia]

BHA 0 - 2 Norwich city 2002-03 season , at Withdean, Zamora injured right in front of me, also 1st game of 12 in a row, all of which were losses, culminating in a 5-0 drubbing at the dump...
Not a bad way to start eh?.... :-(

i dont go to many games as i live over 6000miles in the tropics!