Your first match?

[The Mantis]

August 1966, I got taken to Ibrox to see The Forces of Darkness.

That's right, Partick Thistle. And the other Forces of slightly darker Darkness beat them 6-1.

My first senior ground was April that year. At Tynecastle, Bonnyrigg Rose 1 Penicuik Athletic 0.

First Scotland match, October 73, Scotland 2 Czech 1.

First (I)CT match, East Stirling 0 CT 2 in the League Cup, Aug 94.

[Interthenet Jnr]

First match was about 1991 i think, my dad will know the date. It was West Brom against Stoke at the Hawthorns. from lossing 0-1 West Brom went up 2-1 only to lose 3-2 in the second half.... i think. Think the old man took me up the brummie Road end :clapping04:.

[tm4tj]

First big game was probably 1965 when Hearts went to Pittodrie needing to win to stay top of the league, this they did winning 0-3, but ultimately losing the league to Kilmarnock on the last day of the season, thanks to a 0-2 defeat at Tynecastle and Hearts lost the league title on goal average.  You couldna script it any better, or worse.

One thing I do remember was Aberdeens keeper, the one and only 'Tubby' Ogston.

look at the table from 1965 :010:

Team              Pl W  D  L  For A Dif Pts

1 Kilmarnock    34 22 6 6 62 33 29  50

2 Hearts          34 22 6 6 90 49 41  50

3 Dunfermline  34 22 5 7 83 36 47  49

4 Hibernian      34 21 4 9 75 47 28  46

5 Rangers        34 18 8 8 78 35 43  44

6 Dundee        34 15 10 9 86 63 23 40

7 Clyde            34 17 6 11 64 58 6  40

8 Celtic            34 16 5 13 76 57 19 37

9 Dundee Utd  34 15 6 13 59 51 8  36

10 Morton        34 13 7 14 54 54 0  33

11 Partick Tle    34 11 10 13 57 58 -1 32

12 Aberdeen    34 12 8 14 59 75 -16 32

13 St Johnstone34 9 11 14 57 62  -5  29

14 Motherwell  34 11 8 16 45 54  - 9 28

15 St Mirren      34 9 6 19 38 70  -32  24

16 Falkirk          34 7 7 20 43 85  -42  21

17 Airdrie          34 5 4 25 48 110 -62 14

18 Third Lanark 34 3 1 30 22 99  -77    7

Incidentally, Third Lanark were the first high profile Scottish football club to be declared bankrupt and dissolved. 1967

[DJS]

First Game - Caley 4 Lossiemouth 2 at Telford Street circa 1969

First Scottish League Game - Aberdeen 3 Hearts 2 at Pittodrie in November 73.  Game started at 2pm because of power strikes and it was my first look at Donald Park after he had left Caley

First International - Scotland 3 Israel 1 WC Qualifier 1981

First ICT game - CT 0 Bolton 2 pre-season friendly 1994

[Yngwie]

First game : Caley 0-2 Hibs, pre-season friendly 1980

First senior game : Hearts v Aberdeen, mid 80s

First ICT game : Dundee Utd 1-1 ICT, Scottish Cup 1998. I missed the early seasons due to living in Engerlundshire and then France.

First Scotland game : Scotland 1-0 Holland, 2003 I think

[Caley Mad In Berks]

Clach 0 Caley 2, sometime in 1950/51 season.  Hooked on Caley ever since.

[Yompa]

Jnr, the match was at the old Victoria Ground (now demolished) and we were on our way back from Brummagem to Uncle Mike's after I'd raced cross country in Sutton Park in the morning. You were two and a half so that'd make it the summer of 92, Ossie Ardiles was the manager at the time and the Baggies were in the old Third Division.  :019:

Only when we got to the ground (at ten to three) did I discover that the game was all ticket and we were indebted to a copper who introduced us to a bloke who had two tickets to sell in the away end at face value. Three into two doesn't go so you sat on alternate laps half way back dead centre behind the goal in the middle of the choir. That'll be where you first heard 'The Lord's My Shepherd'!  :004:

Anyway, we went 1-0 up halfway through the first half then they equalised with the last kick of the first half. Thirty seconds after the restart, Stoke went 2-1 up, only for the Baggies to hit back (kicking our way) not once but twice for 3-2. Well that'll be that then, we all thought, but it wasn't to be. Stoke pulled it back to 3-3 with ten minutes left then scored the winner on 85.  :009:

My own first game was Villa v Chelsea in September 64. Villa were 2-0 down with ten minutes to go, then up popped Tony Hateley (Mark's dad) with a double. I got pushed into the railings at the front of the Holte end, slit my eye open and ended up getting carried out and off to hospital in a nee naw. The olds weren't best pleased as we didn't have a phone and they hadn't a clue what had happened until I got home at 2am!  :017:

[Interthenet Jnr]

Jnr, the match was at the old Victoria Ground (now demolished) and we were on our way back from Brummagem to Uncle Mike's after I'd raced cross country in Sutton Park in the morning. You were two and a half so that'd make it the summer of 92, Ossie Ardiles was the manager at the time and the Baggies were in the old Third Division.  :019:

Only when we got to the ground (at ten to three) did I discover that the game was all ticket and we were indebted to a copper who introduced us to a bloke who had two tickets to sell in the away end at face value. Three into two doesn't go so you sat on alternate laps half way back dead centre behind the goal in the middle of the choir. That'll be where you first heard 'The Lord's My Shepherd'!  :004:

Anyway, we went 1-0 up halfway through the first half then they equalised with the last kick of the first half. Thirty seconds after the restart, Stoke went 2-1 up, only for the Baggies to hit back (kicking our way) not once but twice for 3-2. Well that'll be that then, we all thought, but it wasn't to be. Stoke pulled it back to 3-3 with ten minutes left then scored the winner on 85.  :009:

My own first game was Villa v Chelsea in September 64. Villa were 2-0 down with ten minutes to go, then up popped Tony Hateley (Mark's dad) with a double. I got pushed into the railings at the front of the Holte end, slit my eye open and ended up getting carried out and off to hospital in a nee naw. The olds weren't best pleased as we didn't have a phone and they hadn't a clue what had happened until I got home at 2am!  :017:

:015: I can just imagine the trouble you would have got into, i don't envy you :007:.

[Mee]

Don't remember my first match but I was in my pram still, my dad left me outside the pub on the corner of Wells St (The Black Bush? BlacK Bull? now the Waterfront) while he spent the whole night drinking, must have even walked past my pram on the way home, only realised when he got a bollocking from my mum. Early 70's maybe?

Lots of Saturdays spent running about with the wee boys at the Distillery end while football went on somewhere nearby.

The first match I can actually remember any football from was a friendly Caley v Rangers, they won 4-2, Im sure Billy Urquhart was playing, no idea of date.

My first and only Scotland game was the futures match against Turkey a few months ago.

[caley100]

Mantis, when was your first 'proper' match?  ie Caledonian?

My first was an Inverness select (i think) vs Celtic at Telford street, late 60's? early 70's? had a lot of the European cup winning side in it i remember being told. must have been about one at the time :004:

Anyway first league game was Caley vs Lossie i think, with players like Presslie, Chic Allan and Johnston on the go.

[+jagster]

My first match was against Lossie in seson 1970 - 1971 when I was ten years old This is the red and black stripes of the jags I am talking about. Cant remember the score but I was hooked and with the jags winning the highland league in the next two seasons everything football was SUPERB

First Scottish League game was at Pittodrie Aberdeen v Dundee Utd in the days of Theo Snelders Hans Hilhaus

etc.

First Internationals were the qualifiers for euro championships when we had Romania and Switzerland in our qualifying group. Am fairly sure I saw our old manager JR scoring in one of these

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[The Mantis]

Well obviously Richard, I'm far younger than you. I used to pass Caley Park at 6am on my way to Lewis in the good old days before the Kessock bridge, but sadly the good old Caley had only a few years to go when I finally got around to it.

[Guest Lauraness]

my first game my dad took me down the road to watch inverness caledonian play someone, i dont remember much i was a miniature person then.....but he wouldnt let me go to much football because i was a girl, so it was a treat.

[Caley Fish]

My first ever game was a Forres Mechanics pre-season friendly against some SPL reserve side, it might have been Hibs but I'm not certain, some time around 1994. My first ICT game was when played Aberdeen in Scottish cup for the first time and Billy Dodds scored a hat-trick and I mind everyone behind the goals ripping the pish out of Jim Leighton for the whole second half.

[tm4tj]

Hearts were the team that opened the new Forres ground. Forres scored first, Hearts ran out 5-1 winners

[Caley Fish]

I'm not that old Mosset park was around when Forres won the league.

[Ritchie Sacramento]

Think it wa around 1990-92 against Golspie or someone at Telford Street.Caley won with quite a substantial goal margin IIRC. :003:

[The Mantis]

I remember Caley beating Golspie 15-0 in the QC around then.

[f*ballers wife]

oh my!!!

:019: :019: :019: not been to one yet..... ever.....  :019: :019: :019:

well, i NEARLY got to the last sneky/livi game.... but never got in cos i had no cash.... i NEVER have cash.... if only they knew who i WAS!!!  :011:

[Charles Bannerman]

It was in the North Cup in 1994... January I believe. I remember taking my son to the first half and then having to go to Kingsmills for the second half of the last Thistle - Clach derby up there.

On another matter... I'm just wondering if "f*ballers wife" might, in reality, be a BLOKE?! In fact I'm just sensing that this might be another of Johndo's wind ups in the best traditions of Greenbhoy Larsson?

[caley100]

Better ask TMFTJ Charles, he has met her (allegedly)

Saw you in Beauly today, never interviewed me as i crossed the line!!!!!!!

[f*ballers wife]

I'm just wondering if "f*ballers wife" might, in reality, be a BLOKE?!

oh my!!!

sweetness, meet me later and find out!  :005: but i have to say, the manni may get a little jealous!  :004::love07:

[Charles Bannerman]

Still not convinced. I still have an ominous suspicion that this is Johndo in disguise.

By the way, that 15-0 defeat by Caley of Golspie in the North Cup was en route to Caley's last ever trophy, the North Cup in 1994. The final ended in a 1-0 defeat of Forres at Kingsmills and the only goal of the game was scored by the man the Caley Rebels loved to hate.... Alan Smart!

Caley 100... were you doing the Cross? I left just before 3:30 so you must have had a pretty decent time.. unless you were a walker, in which case, still RESPECT!

[f*ballers wife]

Still not convinced. I still have an ominous suspicion that this is Johndo in disguise.

trust me babe..... all woman!!!  :016:

[The Mantis]

Right as always Charles. I'm supposed to have a link to a movie of that Smart goal but I need to update a few links after moving servers.