When did you get into football?

[Relahni]

Cerbus, you have properly taken me back to 1982. We are Ron's 22. Hear the roar of the red white and blue.

Sunny day, settle down to watch the match. Bryan Robson gets a goal within a minute.



But also, late at night, - Keegan and Brooking come on late in the match and England bow out.

 

[Cerberus]

Yeah.....the Robson goal after 26 seconds (i think) v France (i think)

The Kuwait team walking off - v France again I think

N Ireland beating Spain

Was allowed to stay up late and way into extra time and pens..

W Germany V France - classic...for positive and negative reasons

 

[Biffo]

1977 FA Cup Final - although I watched the 76 final with a passing interest. 1978 World Cup was brilliant.

First game I went to was in 1979 - Southampton v Liverpool. I was 10 then.

 

[Relahni]

1977 FA Cup Final - although I watched the 76 final with a passing interest. 1978 World Cup was brilliant.

First game I went to was in 1979 - Southampton v Liverpool. I was 10 then.

'77 FA cup final.

Are we allowed to talk about that match on here?

Prefered the final that happened a week later in Rome!

Listened to that on the Radio.

 

[Clint Iguana]

Used to be a Leeds United 'fan' in Junior school. Then the old man took me to watch Cardiff City in 1973 and things changed a bit .. to say the least.

 

[London_Calling]

Used to be a Leeds United 'fan' in Junior school. Then the old man took me to watch Cardiff City in 1973 and things changed a bit .. to say the least.

Yep, but when did you get into football ?

 

[STFC]

The first game I remember being interested in, and talking about at school the next day, was the 1985 FA Cup Final between Man Utd and Everton - Moran being the first man to get sent off in the final and Whiteside scoring the only goal. I was nine. That game was closely followed by the Heysel disaster, which I remember.

I didn't start going to matches until 1992, when I was 16.

 

[Biffo]

'77 FA cup final.

Are we allowed to talk about that match on here?

Prefered the final that happened a week later in Rome!

Listened to that on the Radio.

Likewise. Football on Radio 2 was an integral part of my formative years. I had a tape recording of the 77 European Cup Final commentary. I actually still own a vinyl recording of the 78 Final. Goals commentary from earlier rounds and interviews on side one and commentary highlights of the final on side two. Brian Moore's commentating I think. The record ends with an echo-y effect of "AND DALGLISH HAS SCORED FOR LIVERPOOL!" Used to send a shiver down the spine.

Fucking football commentary on a record That makes feel 70 not 40

God bless DVDs...... or whatever they're called now.

 

[bluestreak]

You had to be into football a bit at school, collecting football stickers and having a team and opinions on who the best players were, even at junior school. i can remember some kid taking the piss out of me because i thought Ruud Gulit was the best player in the world (which apparantly wasn't the rigt answer). I picked West Ham as my team st some point in my youth when they did a roadshow visit to a local fair and some of their youth and reserves signed autographs and they handed out copies of trevor brooking's autobiography. after reading that they were my team! i really started to pay attention when i was about 13 because i was no good at talking to males, and didn't know anything about football which always seemed to be the questions... "at team do you support?" "west ham" "oh, wat do you think of bonds' new signing / how they did on saturday" ".." plus the local skins were all west ham and knowing the name of their 3rd goalie was considered the acceptable mark of west ham supporting evidence to prevent a severe wedgie. (or the feared chelsea smile, which never happened). so i started reading the football pages as avdly as the rest of the paper and soon enough football became my version of soap opera.

 

[ChrisFilter]

I played football from a very young age, but got into watching it due to the 1990 World Cup. Running round the rec screaming 'Scilacci!'

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I didn't get into it til relatively late. Parents were yoghurt-knitting hippy bread-making trendy leftie guardian reading non driving non television owning marxists who said football was the opium of the masses, so i had no way of getting into it. Primary school was in islington so did sort of suspect that Arsenal might be my team if I was entitled to watch it. then in secondary school got into Being A Grunger and decided that Grungers Weren't Into Football cos it was too reactionary, or something. Finally got into it when I wasin Paris (97-98) and got swept up in the hype about them hosting the World Cup. Came back and opted for West Ham cos I read about them and their history of nearly getting there and fucking up and thinking it was something I could relate to, and now feel like i've supported them my whole life

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

This is an element of my upbringing that I definitely begrudge my parents for.

I remember when this topic was broached before, and I recounted this, someone said "You can't just start supporting West Ham when you're 20!"

 

[heinous seamus]

I was about 8 or 9, there was a game of football going on in the concrete playground with a juice bottle half-full with water. I'm standing minding my own business when said juice bottle skuttles towards me. I hit the bastard instinctively and it flies into the bottom corner. I was then mobbed by my classmates to celebrate the last-ditch defeat(probably) of the dirty class 4b

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I did play it at primary school. I always got stuck in goal, which proved rather insightful, considering my clear resemblance to Peter Schmeichel.

 

[Dandred]

I can always remember playing football and really enjoying it, in the summers every night seemed to end in going home after playing a game of football on a small field with clothes of goal posts. I remember always suporting Liverpool beacuse that was my mum's team, she even went to the Kop when I was inside her!!

The first time I remember really understanding and enjoying a game was Everton Liverpool 4-3 cup final.

 

[porno thieving gypsy]

Mexico 86

 

[Rollem]

i so loved pique

 

[Placid Casual27]

Wales v Yugoslavia, Ninian Park, European Championships Quarter Finals, 1976

Misery failure and unbridled joy ever since