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" Your first ever CITY game?? "

Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:37 pm

Mine was FA Cup 1986 v QPR (i was aged 7). David Seamon was in goal for QPR and we lost 2-0 or 2-1, i think it was 2-0 thou!!

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:41 pm

V Spurs in a pre-season match back in either 91 or 92 can't remeber, think it was 91.

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:45 pm

Late 70's (poss 1980). My dad took me to watch us at home against Drby and then Charlton. We won one and lost the other both by 1 -0. Bennet brothers were playing.

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:48 pm

Mine was 1975 at home sat on the old wooden benches in the Canton stand v Peterborough on December 27th. Goals from Dwyer 2, Evans 2 and Anderson made it a 5-2 win.
In the 75/76 season Tony Evans got 21, Adrian Alston 14 and Phil Dwyer got 8 as a defender!! That year we went up in second place back to Division 2 (current Championship) and won the Welsh cup. Loved those years! :ayatollah:

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:58 pm

Cardiff City v Real Madrid

March 1971

Been waiting 40 years to reach those dizzy heights again

This year? Maybe, just maybe.

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:58 pm

Mine was Fulham in the old 1st Division think it was 1961 we won 2-0 Johnny Haynes was playing for Fulham :old: :old:

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:00 pm

I have no idea, just know my brother installed the "You're not following teams 200 off miles away" mentality quite early

I have really odd memories of Ninian Park that conflict with ones from when I was older. I know I went too

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 753098.stm

After a long break (the game after Leeds FA Cup) and that the place seemed really different to what it was before that.

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:08 pm

To long ago for me to remember but it was about :old: 1964 /65.Once a BLUEBIRD its for life.I believe this is the year i have been waiting for.Never thought i wud ever go to wemberly (with city) but now i have just the premier left now on my wish list. :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:12 pm

1986!! God I was born that year, getting on mate.

Anyway....my first game was block A of the bob bank, front row, nutters in the canton stand, we got battered by Cambridge by some 5 goals, lads kept singing "we only need 5 more" I then fell in love with the club. My dad became a groundsman, got me a ball boy job and I spent the wonder years of my youth watching the city for free on a weekly basis. That also included being on the middle gate of the bob bank for THE Leeds game, best seat in the house.


The End

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:18 pm

bluebirdrob wrote:To long ago for me to remember but it was about :old: 1964 /65.Once a BLUEBIRD its for life.I believe this is the year i have been waiting for.Never thought i wud ever go to wemberly (with city) but now i have just the premier left now on my wish list. :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah:


About the same time for me (64.65) . Not sure of the score, but it was Bristol City I think. I was on my dads shoulder for most of the game. :old:

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:23 pm

Manchester City. FA Cup 4th round 18 Feb 1967. A one all draw

Must have been a Birthday pressie. Spent the whole game on my dad's shoulders cos the crowd was so damn massive. We were under the Flood lights between the Bob Bank and the Canton

Programme is in framed and on my wall in front of me now

Gawd, I've never felt so old :old: :lol:

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:27 pm

v Arsenal 1974 Fred Keenor Cup. Night Game :ayatollah:

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:37 pm

1968 city vrs norwich won 2-0

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:55 pm

Arsenal 1953. Sat in the Canton Stand with my Dad. No goals unfortunately but still got hooked.

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:05 pm

1976 Hereford home and i was hooked instantly in canton stand that night nearly 40,ooo gate.We won 2-o goals from Doug livermore and Alan campell great night that :ayatollah:

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:05 pm

26th September 1969 Cardiff City 4-2 QPR.Wooden benches in the Canton Stand with my late dad - aged 7.

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:22 pm

Ebbw Vale away Welsh Cup 1992
:ayatollah:

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:35 pm

My first game was against Mansfield back in the 60s I can remember a guy shouting come on peter , go on peter.
At the time I thought OOOOWWWWW This man must know him as a friend. Iknow a player for Cardiff scored with a over head kick but dont know the final score.

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:47 pm

Old Canton Casual wrote:1976 Hereford home and i was hooked instantly in canton stand that night nearly 40,ooo gate.We won 2-o goals from Doug livermore and Alan campell great night that :ayatollah:


Same season for me Old Canton, but against the Posh and City ran out 5-2 winners. Didn't go again until the following season after our promotion and Peter Sayer knocked Spurs out of the cup.

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:50 pm

Chesterfield 2001 won 3-1 ;)
aint that old :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:51 pm

I think it was Burry (home) in 1992/93 at the age of 5.

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:59 pm

Norwich Home 80-81 aged 6......

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:07 pm

Pompey 1973, drew 1-1, Andy McCulloch scored for us, my first City hero !

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:17 pm

March 1978 vs Brighton at Ninian Park,

John Buchanan winner 1-0 then hooked, aged 5!!!

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:18 pm

belive it or not fa cup 3rd round ipswich lost 3 0 about 83 or 84 last game at ninnian park lost 3 0 to ipswich

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:20 pm

Swindon Town home in April 1976 0-0, age 9, all I really remember is Gill Reece slicing a cross into the Canton Stand where I was sat with my brothers and the smell of the pies/cigarettes :ayatollah:

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:24 pm

1972/73 Season Cardiff City 1 Bolton 0 Crowd approx 9,500, Old Division 2, local lad Gill Reece scored. :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Cardiff City players Visited Marshfield Juniors and gave Free Tickets Out, I went with My Grandfather,I was Hooked. Following Season, I Bought a Season Ticket and Since then Renewed it Every Season up to and incl This Season. :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

In the early 80's I was the only kid in My class to Follow Cardiff in a Cardiff School :evil: , That would really wind me up, All Liverpool/Man Utd/Leeds PLASTIC FANS. :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:29 pm

peterbrough at home in 78 i think, we won, 6-2,,,, , about age 12, but after that, i always thought city always scored 6 goals, i was right fed up when we one 4-0 :ayatollah: :lol:

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:30 pm

Norwich City h 1968 season...jesus im getting old now!!!Seen games in every season since then.

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Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:33 pm

huddersfield at home october 2001 (aged 8), we lost 2-1 thorne scored for us, fell in love and been a season ticket holder since :ayatollah: