Butch Willykins
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“It’s a knockout”. Sometime around 1981.
[Other Sport] What was the first Sporting event you remember?
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Miami Seagull
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Sporting v Inter Milan Aug 14 2002 is my first “sporting” memory. Champions League quali and the game marked the debut of a certain CR7. When he name was announced as he came on as a sub most in the crowd thought they had signed the chubbier version and were mildly disappointed when Cristiano entered the fray.
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I bet the Germans were cheating
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78 World Cup.
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The Camel
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1973 FA Cup Final. Sunderland 1 v 0 Leeds.
My Mum told me that she and Dad were getting a divorce about an hour before kick off. All I could say was "Why are you telling me on FA Cup Final Day? It's going to ruin the game!"
I reminded Mum of this sequence of events about 30 years later and she had no recollection of it! They remained married until Dad died in 2007, and Mum is still going strong at 96.
My Mum told me that she and Dad were getting a divorce about an hour before kick off. All I could say was "Why are you telling me on FA Cup Final Day? It's going to ruin the game!"
I reminded Mum of this sequence of events about 30 years later and she had no recollection of it! They remained married until Dad died in 2007, and Mum is still going strong at 96.
DavePage
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The 1910 Charity Shield match, marvellous scenes. Managed to snaffle Bullet Jones’s shirt as he chucked it into the crowd.
No I clearly remembering him hold a piece of wood (because he didn’t have cardboard) with the wording, “Jonesy, it’s my birthday can I have your shirt”
Seems to have started a trend, Orient fans at the time were taking wooden toilet seats to the ground, thrusting the into the air every time they scored a goal, on bad days they would thrush them in a show of how shit the team was.
History eh?
DavePage
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local: British bulldog in the school yard, best said as a long time ago
English: has to be 1966 and World Cup willie
international: Tokyo Olympics 1964 with the names of Ann Packer, Mary Rand and Lynn Davies springing to mind
English: has to be 1966 and World Cup willie
international: Tokyo Olympics 1964 with the names of Ann Packer, Mary Rand and Lynn Davies springing to mind
brighton terra
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Before I really got interested in football, I remember having a pee in the public toilets on Sandbanks Beach and listening to a couple of people talking about the latest score in the 1974 World Cup Final.
My dad and the next door neighbour shooting pigeons from the eaves of our roof when I was about 3. I think it was sporting.
sams dad
I hate Palarse
I was there on the Saturday for the Sussex v Windies game. If my memory is correct, Windies, including the great Gary Sobers, were bowled out for about 125 with Sussex making about 180. Windies then made about 60 odd in second innings, and Sussex won by 9 wickets.
Only half remembered as someone who's age was in single figures in the late 1940s. I was taken to a football match in Rottingdean in which my father was playing for a team from Shoreham. The big memory problem was the venue as I am sure it was between the village and the windmill which was behind us as we watched the match. However a look at the current Google map makes it seem doubtful that it could have been where I thought it was.
wunt be druv
Drat! and double drat!
Although I had been vaguely aware of various matches/events going on, the first one I took proper interest in was the 1970 World Cup in Mexico and some bloke called Pele who played for Brazil, my older brother who was much more informed than me said he was shitehouse.
Not sure exactly but I remember watching the Argentinian World Cup and thinking it looked so far away and exotic. In those days tv from 7000 miles away looked exactly like it was 7000 miles away.
An American College Gridiron football game but I couldn't tell you who the two sides were but the team wearing white won the match and my father was happy about the result. After the game he went to a building and talked to some of the players on the team that wore white and one of the players let me toss around a gridiron football. It was about 1967 or 68.