[Other Sport] Who introduced you to Football (or any other sport you love)?

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Earliest memory was being packed off to an Albion kids club for the week during half term, hosted by the legendary Ted Streeter.

Following this, the 1990 World Cup did it for me.

Short stint at the last season at the Goldstone and then two full seasons at Gillingham via a coach unsupervised - amazing times

 

[Comrade Sam]

Tallulah! Used to go to Brighton on the train most Saturdays from Shoreham, have an Uncle Sam's and trawl the record shops then pilfer from Woolies and Gamleys. But on the way back he'd get off at Hove for the match. Finally decided to join him for the first game of the season against Barnsley in '85. After the 2 all draw I was addicted to the atmosphere and tried to catch every game I could for at least the next 5 years. Probably took 6 months before I actually enjoyed watching the game, by then the season unraveled. My first away game followed shortly after at Millwall and I'm still not sure how I got the bottle to go again. It made life easier in Shoreham as everyone I knew was a North Stand regular including Zefarelli at the end of my road.

 

[essbee1]

My Mum is at fault for introducing me to the Albion. One lazy Saturday I was wondering what I could
do on a Sat. afternoon. My Mum, 25 years ago, suggested I go along. I loved it from the first minute.

Thanks Mum.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Earliest memory was being packed off to an Albion kids club for the week during half term, hosted by the legendary Ted Streeter.

Following this, the 1990 World Cup did it for me.

Short stint at the last season at the Goldstone and then two full seasons at Gillingham via a coach unsupervised - amazing times

Used to play cricket with Ted and his brother Mick on a Sunday, Horsham Caledonians.

What a lovely man.

Cricket was my brother really who got me into it, football was my late dad.

Golf was again my brother, we used to get the train from Little Haven to Crawley and play as kids on the pitch and putt at Goffs Park.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Beat my dad at golf for the first time at Tilgate with it all being square on 18 and him reminding me what I had to do to beat him on every shot, he hated it!

 

[*Gullsworth*]

Earliest memory was being packed off to an Albion kids club for the week during half term, hosted by the legendary Ted Streeter.

Following this, the 1990 World Cup did it for me.

Short stint at the last season at the Goldstone and then two full seasons at Gillingham via a coach unsupervised - amazing times

I remember Ted Streeter he became manager of our local team when I was a kid. His team was assembled from many players from all over the county, really good players and his team won the league. The club could have been promoted to County league football but could not afford the move to a suitable ground so did not get promoted. Great days though watching the local team of superstars play exciting football and beating everyone in their path. I half expect some of the players even post on here. Glory,hazy days almost fifty years ago!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

My Dad took me to football at the Goldstone, when he was on weekend leave, so we had time together. I always enjoyed sport at school anyway. I went to watch the Tigers on a Sunday night with a workmate.

 

[wehatepalace]

My dad took me to my first Albion game aged 6, the rest is history

My ex welsh rugby international PE teacher, on my 1st day at senior school had us all sat in the changing rooms whilst taking the register, as he got to my (very welsh sounding) name he called it out, told me to stand up and proclaimed “that’s a lovely welsh name boy, you’ll be playing rugby” I went on to captain the very successful school rugby team, whilst playing for my local club, for the county and ultimately to play in the 2nd tier of English rugby, before the long slow descent back down the levels.

35 years later I’m just about still playing, I owe that man a lot of gratitude for introducing me to something that has been such a huge part of my life.

 

[Gwylan]

Various people. Cricket was a big thing in our house - both my parents loved the game and we watched it on TV and both took me to the CG until I was old enough to go by myself. Even then, my routine was to leave my maties and amble over to the deckchairs at the start of the last hour to sit with my dad and his mates.

Rugby was also big. My dad wasn't a fan but my Welsh mum and grandparents were. And when I was in Wales, my uncle Cy used to take me to watch games,

I got into football late. I joined Bevendean School when I was 9 and to my horror, discovered they played football, a sport I was only dimly aware of (that sounds strange now but in the 60s, there was little football on TV). My dad came into my room at bedtime for a couple of days to explain the laws of the game. I had no idea how to play, my first playground game saw me score an own goal and get thumped by Tony Towner for it. Later that year, my dad took me to the Goldstone and I was hooked.

 

[brighton terra]

In the 70s my dad used to take me to watch Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic. It started my love of football, but there was thankfully never any love for that plucky team!

 

[andy1980]

I wasn't interested in football until Italia 90, It wasn't until 92 that I realised Brighton had a team, For 2 years I listened to every game on radio Sussex and in 94 I went to my first game at the Goldstone. It cost me £3 a game to get in. None of my family was interested in football (although we all watched that World cup for some reason). I never used to get pocket money and that £3 was the only time they used to give me money.

 

[Icy Gull]

I wasn't interested in football until Italia 90, It wasn't until 92 that I realised Brighton had a team, For 2 years I listened to every game on radio Sussex and in 94 I went to my first game at the Goldstone. It cost me £3 a game to get in. None of my family was interested in football (although we all watched that World cup for some reason). I never used to get pocket money and that £3 was the only time they used to give me money.

In the same way that I followed Spurs in the sports pages of papers from age 8 until I arrived in Brighton not knowing that they even had a league team. One game against Palace was all it took to hook me, and I’d only actually gone to the game to see what all the fuss was about Malcolm Allison’s Palace and in particular winger Peter Taylor. Albion won 2-0 and Harry Wilson had Taylor in his pocket.

 

[Silverhatch]

Brian Clough - been to the Albion a few times with my dad but Cloughie was such a huge news story that all of a sudden my local club was National News. Then Peter Ward happened and Mike Bamber's firework was well and truly lit. All other sports were fired by mates and (state) school including Cricket, Golf and anything else that involved a laugh and competition. And, apart from girls, there was **** all else to do back in the early 70s.

 

[Cotton Socks]

Mine was a slow burn. Started at the cup run in '83, then influenced by a neighbour in '87, an ex took me to an away match at Millwall in '92, for some random reason a friend and I went to Jimmy Case's testimonial match in '94. I worked at the Goldstone in the '95/96 season & obviously watched a few matches, left due to no job security and didn't properly get back into it until around 2002. My son went to an away match at Fulham with the school and I started to occasionally take him to the Withdean & it restarted properly from there.
Literally no one in my blood family liked football when I was growing up, luckily I now have step family that I can converse with!
Edit to add that I am only interested in Brighton, aside from England matches after qualification.

 

[Weststander]

In the same way that I followed Spurs in the sports pages of papers from age 8 until I arrived in Brighton not knowing that they even had a league team. One game against Palace was all it took to hook me, and I’d only actually gone to the game to see what all the fuss was about Malcolm Allison’s Palace and in particular winger Peter Taylor. Albion won 2-0 and Harry Wilson had Taylor in his pocket.

My second game. Over 33,000 under the huge pylons lights, I remember Taylor facing mass abuse from the Chicken Run, a magical evening.

 

[Happy Exile]

My oldest brother used to take me to local non-league games growing up, Woking, Walton and Hersham mostly, but anything really, probably why I didn't grow up with any huge affinity to any particular team because we'd just go to whatever games we could get to. Then my Mum took me to a Fulham game with her brother in the early 80s and I was hooked for good. My Dad wasn't really into football, preferring rugby, but he'd take us up to London to see Division 1 and 2 football sometimes. Family connections are all Brighton and Newcastle so those were the two league teams I always kept an eye on, and moving here in the early 90s sealed which colour stripes I landed on.

 

[Nitram]

George Best

 

[Hamilton]

George Best

Similarly, Kevin Keegan.

My father wasn’t into football at all but I became aware of Keegan after joining infants school and talking to other kids about football.

Keegan was my first memory, followed by hazy memories of Cruyff and the 1974 World Cup.

I was a Liverpool fan until 1977 when my uncle took me to the Albion. From then on, my allegiance and love for the game was set.


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