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Post by joebarlow on Oct 8, 2008 21:43:48 GMT
ah young mr barlow how are you ,have not seen you crossing the road just recently good job for you ;D just wondering how many points i would have got if i had not missed  any way back to the thread ,cant remember the date moved to newton abbot a week before the end of the season and went the last match at home to lincoln 1980 was the year and i was 11 years old cute huh , and torquay lost 2.5 did not put me off  I`m very well thanks. Thanks for trying to run me over. I`ll be crossing the road with more care tomorrow night seeing as you are my new hitman. I may do a matrix next time you try run me over. See you tomorrow. |
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Post by Jon on Oct 8, 2008 21:54:42 GMT
My first match was home to Argyle on Boxing Day 1970. I was seven. A friend’s Dad was taking him up and they asked if I wanted to go.
I remember thinking that the blokes behind me must have lived on Mike Bickle’s round and had experienced terrible problems with the delivery of dairy products. They were certainly stressing the point that he was more of a milkman than a footballer and were not too complimentary about him. It was years later that I found out that their displeasure was probably the result of the ex-milkman having scored four past us in a 6-0 drubbing the previous Boxing Day, rather than due to the late delivery of their morning pint of gold top.
The other strong memory of that day is that it was absolutely bloody freezing cold. The radio said a man died at the game and I was convinced he must have frozen to death, although it later turned out he’d had a heart attack.
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Post by stuartB on Oct 8, 2008 22:05:55 GMT
My first match was home to Argyle on Boxing Day [glow=red,2,300]1970. I was seven[/glow]. A friend’s Dad was taking him up and they asked if I wanted to go. I remember thinking that the blokes behind me must have lived on Mike Bickle’s round and had experienced terrible problems with the delivery of dairy products. They were certainly stressing the point that he was more of a milkman than a footballer and were not too complimentary about him. It was years later that I found out that their displeasure was probably the result of the ex-milkman having scored four past us in a 6-0 drubbing the previous Boxing Day, rather than due to the late delivery of their morning pint of gold top. The other strong memory of that day is that it was absolutely bloody freezing cold. The radio said a man died at the game and I was convinced he must have frozen to death, although it later turned out he’d had a heart attack. pull the other one ;D ;D |
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Post by merse on Oct 9, 2008 2:44:45 GMT
 My late father always told me the first game I ever went to was in the late fifties versus Exeter City and the score was 4-3 - so when would that have been Jon?My vague memories are of the shiny reflectiveness of the United player's blue shorts, sitting on the "Boys' Benches" on the touchline in front of the Grandstand (no pitch side advertising to obscure then!) and those little cars for the disabled too. In fact, many years later; I recall getting a lift in one from a big ole fat guy who stopped when I was waiting for one of those football specials in the pouring rain at Milber Shelter - must have had my hat and scarf on a la Paul Bastard!  As for getting home all dirty from a day spent "playing" instead of watching football..................I too remember doing the very same having bunked free train rides to Newport and back in the mid sixties! 
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Post by merse on Oct 9, 2008 2:52:36 GMT
The other strong memory of that day is that it was absolutely bloody freezing cold. The radio said a man died at the game and I was convinced he must have frozen to death, although it later turned out he’d had a heart attack. That was the first time I ever took a girlfriend (my first serious one) to a football match and she collapsed from the cold and had to be taken by the St John's people to the away team dressing room for revival whilst the game was going on. A bit rich really as she was from Canada and well used to such arctic conditions!  |
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Post by graygull on Oct 9, 2008 4:23:51 GMT
Thats a bit rich "merse" girlfriend from Canada used to arctic conditions, I live here and yesterday was a balmy 21c in the afternoon, just a shade better then the frozen reaches of London town.
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Post by Jon on Oct 9, 2008 16:24:00 GMT
My late father always told me the first game I ever went to was in the late fifties versus Exeter City and the score was 4-3 - so when would that have been Jon? February 7th 1959 Attendance 11,574 Goalscorers : Bond 2, Cox. |
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Post by merse on Oct 9, 2008 16:29:21 GMT
Thats a bit rich "merse" girlfriend from Canada used to arctic conditions, I live here and yesterday was a balmy 21c in the afternoon, just a shade better then the frozen reaches of London town. Well she was from Toronto..................hot in the summer - cold in the winter I guess. That's the weather not her  London's been glorious the past two days...................not a cloud in the sky and warm sunshine and breezes. It's what the old town "does best" in my opinion, and the autumn colours of the trees look magnificent. I've been out at an equestrian centre near Sandown Park where a racehorse that had lost it's confidence after a crashing fall was patiently being re-schooled in jumping, cruised back into town over lovely Hammersmith Bridge (it's low slung suspension so gracefull in Harrods Green) and gazed down on the city below from the heights of Hampstead Heath before heading home through quaint and pictuesque Highgate Village (just a mile from my home) such a beautiful and unique city! I must pop into Highgate Cemetry and see if Karl Marx has pushed two fingers out of his grave in the face of collapsed world capitalism!  |
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Post by merse on Oct 9, 2008 16:32:22 GMT
My late father always told me the first game I ever went to was in the late fifties versus Exeter City and the score was 4-3 - so when would that have been Jon? February 7th 1959 Attendance 11,574 Goalscorers : Bond 2, Cox. I would have been six and a half then...................the "half"was very important in those days! I take it we lost 3-4 then Jon? |
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Post by Jon on Oct 9, 2008 16:36:16 GMT
I take it we lost 3-4 then Jon? That's right. Don't you remember?  |
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Post by merse on Oct 9, 2008 19:51:39 GMT
My late father always told me the first game I ever went to was in the late fifties versus Exeter City and the score was 4-3 - so when would that have been Jon? Attendance 11,574 Goalscorers : Bond 2, Cox. That'll make my "Golden Anniversary" away to Barrow on Feb 7th 2009....................I always intended to get to this one anyway, now it's a "must" - one way or another, I'll get there!  |
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Post by atheringtongull on Oct 10, 2008 17:53:56 GMT
Can't remember my first match, but recently while clearing out my dear late mother's house i found a reserve "team sheet" from 1948. Torquay reserves v. Cheltemham town in the southern league I think it was. Most of the players must have been related as they were mainly call "anon". The sheet cost 1d. The first game I really remember was that famous F A Cup draw at Elland Road against Leeds in the mid 1950s (was it 1955?) I think we were just about the only Torquay supporters there. We lived near Nottingham at the time, so wasn't far to go. Not sure how we got them , but had complimentary tickets.
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Post by Dave on Oct 10, 2008 19:16:36 GMT
atheringtongull any chance you can scan It and put It up on the forum, I would love to see it, Or just scan it and email me the file and I will do the rest.
Dave
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Post by atheringtongull on Oct 10, 2008 22:28:55 GMT
sorry Dave, it got mixed up with all her other papers and I've mislaid it
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Post by Dave on Oct 10, 2008 22:36:07 GMT
Not to worry, If you do ever come across it again then let me know, hope you are OK and life is good In North Devon, mind you took me ages today to get my work done up there due to a smash between Okehampton and Torrington, had a long trip back and around to get to Bideford spelt correctly to keep Merse happy. ;D
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any way back to the thread ,cant remember the date moved to newton abbot a week before the end of the season and went the last match at home to lincoln 1980 was the year and i was 11 years old cute huh , and torquay lost 2.5 
