Author Topic: Your First Liverpool Game (Read 36350 times)

Theoldkopite · « **Reply #520 on:** May 17, 2018, 10:30:40 pm »

Was at the Blackburn game. Think it was Peter Thompsons first game for us. Liverpool supporters were always in the majority at all of the Lancashire away games

Card Cheat · « **Reply #521 on:** May 17, 2018, 10:40:03 pm »

March 1993 away to Middlesbrough at Ayresome Park. We won 2-1.

Out of the cups, nowhere in the league, Barnes still not converted to centre mid, and pre Fowler. I think March 93 was the absolute nadir.

I just wanted a SNES.

So… Howard Philips · « **Reply #522 on:** May 17, 2018, 10:43:53 pm »

Fulham at home in September 1965. I'd been interested since the away game against Rekjavik in the European Cup. I couldn't get my head around how we could play on a glacier, not understanding that they actually had football pitches. A European campaign and the FA cup followed that so by September I was keen to go to Anfield.

I had my paper round money, asked me dad how to get there, jumped the two buses and went up to a turnstile at the Kop, paid my five bob and walked up to the back of the Kop.

I didn't know a football pitch could be so green - the one's I played on we're just a shitty shade of brown.

We won 2-1, St John and Hunt. I was just 13 and it shows how times have changed when you could once decide to get on a bus and get into the ground using paper round money, with enough left for a programme.

Son of Spion · « **Reply #523 on:** May 17, 2018, 11:06:39 pm »

Quote from: So... Howard Phillips on May 17, 2018, 10:43:53 pm

Fulham at home in September 1965. I'd been interested since the away game against Rekjavik in the European Cup. I couldn't get my head around how we could play on a glacier, not understanding that they actually had football pitches.

I was in Reykjavik in November 2016 and remember taking in the fact that it was there that it all started for us in Europe.

kesey · « **Reply #524 on:** May 17, 2018, 11:23:52 pm »

Quote from: BIG DICK NICK on May 27, 2010, 03:25:09 pm

Think I was at that one - did Dale Gordon score?!

My first a was a defeat as well - a lot of lucky omens on here!

29/09/1984 Sheffield Wednesday (H) L2-0

Didn't Imre Varadi score for them ? Brucey came out his box and he rounded him.

My first game.

Tommy Smith's testamonial in 1977.

Crosby Nick · « **Reply #525 on:** May 17, 2018, 11:30:06 pm »

Quote from: kesey on May 17, 2018, 11:23:52 pm

Didn't Imre Varadi score for them ? Brucey came out his box and he rounded him.

My first game.

Tommy Smith's testamonial in 1977.

A Wednesday fan I know said it might have been Simon Stainrod who scored both. Have absolutely no recollection to be honest.

Garycarney44 · « **Reply #526 on:** May 17, 2018, 11:48:19 pm »

8th Sept 1979
Coventry City from the Anfield Road End
Won 4-0 Johnson x 2, Case and King Kenny
first game on the Kop a couple of weeks later v Norwich City 0-0, quite ironic my first and last games on the Kop both against Norwich City and we did not win either of them,remember my uncle Paul taking my cousin and myself both aged 9 to the Coventry game we then tossed a coin I think for who got to go to the Tbilisi
game I lost and got the Norwich game, I still think my cousin Barry cheated me ,we both have season tickets next to each other on the new Kop and are travelling to Kiev together next week, 39 years ago wow

Red_Rich · « **Reply #527 on:** May 17, 2018, 11:49:42 pm »

And my first away was at Bradford in the league Cup in 1981. Lost 1-0. First game Kenny ever missed for us!
We won the second leg 5-0 I think and of course went on to win the trophy.

kopconnor · « **Reply #528 on:** May 18, 2018, 12:00:36 am »

Away V Oldham athletic I think we lost 😱

1st game at Anfiield v Everton I think it was the last derby with standing in the KOP... WOW

aggerdid · « **Reply #529 on:** May 18, 2018, 12:14:22 am »

Friendly in 2000. 5-0 vs parma

mersey_paradiso · « **Reply #530 on:** May 18, 2018, 12:31:27 am »

Quote from: BIG DICK NICK on May 17, 2018, 11:30:06 pm

A Wednesday fan I know said it might have been Simon Stainrod who scored both. Have absolutely no recollection to be honest.

Simon Stainrod - there's a blast from the past. Sounds like a 70's porn star name.

Scottish-Don · « **Reply #531 on:** May 18, 2018, 08:25:54 am »

My first game, my Granda lifted my over the turnstile

Crosby Nick · « **Reply #532 on:** May 18, 2018, 08:39:10 am »

Quote from: Scottish-Don on May 18, 2018, 08:25:54 am

My first game, my Granda lifted my over the turnstile

Was that the start of Ferguson’s hatred for us? Gave them a good beating didn’t we?

MerseysideBrum · « **Reply #533 on:** May 18, 2018, 09:33:33 am »

Liverpool vs Fiorentina

Was a dead rubber game we were already out of the group stages. Lost 2-1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/8401999.stm

J_Kopite · « **Reply #534 on:** May 18, 2018, 10:08:30 am »

Liverpool 0-0 Galatasaray in 2002

I was 10 when I first attended Anfield to see this bore draw where their keeper Mondragon played really well and Hyypia hit the post with a header. By the looks of the report Gerrard got injured as well although I don’t remember it happening – dunno why I ever went back

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/champions_league/1829401.stm

BobPaisley3 · « **Reply #535 on:** May 18, 2018, 01:09:18 pm »

Quote from: BIG DICK NICK on May 17, 2018, 10:12:12 pm

Think I was at that 0-0. Might have been David Burrows debut (what a highlight!).

You sir, are correct. I didn't realise it at the time but my youth spent watching the 1988-89 and 89-90 season reviews confirmed the fact. He had a rasping drive tipped over on debut I seem to recall from the VHS.

Redaway · « **Reply #536 on:** May 18, 2018, 02:50:39 pm »

I'm almost embarrassed to say I don't remember it. My dad worked for Littlewoods (Spot-the-ball - there's a blast from the past for some of you) and had two season tickets through work in the mid-eighties. Me and my two older brothers were going often then, I would've been about 6-7 at the time (born '78).

I actually have a feeling my first time at Anfield was probably for an England schoolboys' game or something like that. My old man used to take us to watch loads of them (Merseyside schools cups etc.) Remember being at Goodison to watch a few of them as well. The sense of discomfort due to being forced to sit in those wooden stands was quite strong even back then, I seem to remember....

howes hound · « **Reply #537 on:** May 18, 2018, 08:38:44 pm »

Dec 10th, 1955. Two weeks before the old fella had come back from the match stone cold sober but happy as a lark, a rare occurence for him. We'd beaten Fulham 7-0. I remember him showing me photos of A'Court saying this new kid was going to be a star and this was his beloved Reds turning the corner after relegation to Div 2. So he took me to the next home game. Freezing cold day watching from the Pen with the ball most of the time floating about 30 feet up in a bitter wind off the Mersey. 1-1 draw and I can't say I was hooked straight away but kept at it through those frustrating years of 3rd and 4th place finishes before we brought in someone named Bill Shankly. With that kind of start, being at Anfield in 1964 when we beat Arsenal 5-1 to win the League was all the sweeter, a feeling most of today's supporters moaning at a 4th place Prem finish will never understand.

Yorkykopite · « **Reply #538 on:** May 19, 2018, 12:39:46 am »

Quote from: howes hound on May 18, 2018, 08:38:44 pm

Dec 10th, 1955. Two weeks before the old fella had come back from the match stone cold sober but happy as a lark, a rare occurence for him. We'd beaten Fulham 7-0. I remember him showing me photos of A'Court saying this new kid was going to be a star and this was his beloved Reds turning the corner after relegation to Div 2. So he took me to the next home game. Freezing cold day watching from the Pen with the ball most of the time floating about 30 feet up in a bitter wind off the Mersey. 1-1 draw and I can't say I was hooked straight away but kept at it through those frustrating years of 3rd and 4th place finishes before we brought in someone named Bill Shankly. With that kind of start, being at Anfield in 1964 when we beat Arsenal 5-1 to win the League was all the sweeter, a feeling most of today's supporters moaning at a 4th place Prem finish will never understand.

Lovely stuff howes. I’d love a dedicated thread on Liverpool winning the title in 64 from those who actually saw it happen. Just saying....

digger barnes 87 · « **Reply #539 on:** May 19, 2018, 01:14:11 am »

Liverpool 3 man utd 3 April 1988 . I was nine , an amazing first game, but Gordon Strachan made me cry by making it 3 all about 10 mins from the end. Beardsley, Barnes and Stevie Mac became instant heroes of mine from day one.

howes hound · « **Reply #540 on:** May 19, 2018, 08:53:04 pm »

Quote from: Yorkykopite on May 19, 2018, 12:39:46 am

Lovely stuff howes. I’d love a dedicated thread on Liverpool winning the title in 64 from those who actually saw it happen. Just saying....

To be honest, what I remember most is the pre-game. Knew I had to get there even earlier than usual, arrived at the ground at 12.30 ( for a 3p.m. kick-off) and the Kop gates were already shut. Had to make do with the Paddock, and that was shut shortly after I got in. The whole place was bedlam.
Strange that the official attendance was a few thousand short of the maximum for that season but there was nothing scientific about shutting down the ground back then. For all I know they went by the noise inside and 48,000 sounded like 100,000 on that day.
I was a fairly tense start as you might expect but after Tommy Lawrence saved a pen and we scored a couple, things relaxed. Then three goals in 8 minutes early in the second half, and the rest was just one big festival. I was hoarse for days after.
Wish I could remember more details but what has stuck in my memory of matches over the years is a series of snapshots with nothing in between - Liddell's disallowed goal against Man City in the '56 FA Cup 5th round replay, Sandy Brown's magnificent own goal for us at Goodison in '69, Ian St. John and Billy Bremner going to ground throwing short rights at eachother in one of the classic Leeds games in the 60s, Hunt's volley into the roof of the net against Spurs in the '68 FA Cup 5th round replay, that sort of thing.
Wish I'd kept a diary back then. Those Shankly years were special. Mind you, this year hasn't been so shabby either, and more to come.

reddebs · « **Reply #541 on:** May 22, 2018, 10:16:57 am »

Growing up 20 miles away from Anfield and working every Saturday my first game watching the Reds was a few months after moving to Sheffield.

March 1992 against the Blades at Bramall Lane. In with the travelling Kop, paying on the gate, seeing the lads live for the first time and the disappointment of losing .

Don't remember much of the detail though.

timmit · « **Reply #542 on:** May 22, 2018, 10:51:24 am »

11th September 1982
A 3-3 home draw with Luton Town at the age of 9. Mad fact was that each of our goals was scored past a different goalkeeper

ArthurDooley82 · « **Reply #543 on:** May 22, 2018, 01:14:31 pm »

Digged out a picture of me and my bro’s on the barriers on the kop sporting bowl heads in the early 90’s those where the days