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Post by fb on Apr 8, 2024 14:51:00 GMT
The game that made you smitten with County, forever?
Bored a lot on here with tales of County/Liverpool 84/85 (Home) West Ham/County 96/97 (away) as mine.
What is the game you attended and thought "no way back from here", this is my team/club/friends and I'm a Hatter for life?
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Post by Chris B - Prog collector on Apr 8, 2024 15:11:13 GMT
I dont think there was one game for me.
My first game was 89 v Hartlepool when we wont 6 nil. As a 14 year old at the time, this obviously had an impression...
After that we had success for years which helped... Promotions, Wembley, Cup runs...
Once game that does resonate though is Everton at home when we lost 3-2 in 1996.. I came out of the ground with a weird feeling.. Disappointment mixed with utter joy at what id just watched. We were superb that day.
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Post by philtheglass on Apr 8, 2024 15:16:09 GMT
I dont think there was one game for me. My first game was 89 v Hartlepool when we wont 6 nil. As a 14 year old at the time, this obviously had an impression... After that we had success for years which helped... Promotions, Wembley, Cup runs... Once game that does resonate though is Everton at home when we lost 3-2 in 1996.. I came out of the ground with a weird feeling.. Disappointment mixed with utter joy at what id just watched. We were superb that day. If you thought the home game was special, you should have been at Goodison...... |
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Post by fb on Apr 8, 2024 15:29:15 GMT
I dont think there was one game for me. My first game was 89 v Hartlepool when we wont 6 nil. As a 14 year old at the time, this obviously had an impression... After that we had success for years which helped... Promotions, Wembley, Cup runs... Once game that does resonate though is Everton at home when we lost 3-2 in 1996.. I came out of the ground with a weird feeling.. Disappointment mixed with utter joy at what id just watched. We were superb that day. I get it, as so many other games at home after my baptism of fire, before I started to go everywhere away, but the West Ham away switched me from all the Northern ones to going everywhere. Glad I did as I would not have experienced so many pubs and away ends in towns, cities, villages, hamlets in places I may never visit again and the special vibe that comes with following County away, a couple of hundred miles away with friends. |
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Post by Count de Stockport on Apr 8, 2024 15:31:22 GMT
Losing to Middlesbrough. Cried my heart out in the Cheadle End - I was 10, and I thought we were invincible. Even as we tumbled down the leagues, I couldn't turn away. Weird how this club can capture your heart by breaking it
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Post by houldsworthhatter on Apr 8, 2024 16:30:19 GMT
The game that made you smitten with County, forever? Bored a lot on here with tales of County/Liverpool 84/85 (Home) West Ham/County 96/97 (away) as mine. What is the game you attended and thought "no way back from here", this is my team/club/friends and I'm a Hatter for life? 24th September 1982 - County 0 Northampton 1 with Steve Massey grabbing a late winner ironically for them. Night time game and the floodlights coupled with just live football did it for me. Never looked back!! I was aged 7 but I’ve been fiercely loud and proud from that evening since. |
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Post by FridoBiggins on Apr 8, 2024 16:35:15 GMT
I dont think there was one game for me. My first game was 89 v Hartlepool when we wont 6 nil. As a 14 year old at the time, this obviously had an impression... After that we had success for years which helped... Promotions, Wembley, Cup runs... Once game that does resonate though is Everton at home when we lost 3-2 in 1996.. I came out of the ground with a weird feeling.. Disappointment mixed with utter joy at what id just watched. We were superb that day. If you thought the home game was special, you should have been at Goodison...... It was an amazing game and an amazing atmosphere. The only occasion I ever bought the video of the game. |
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Post by adammoss on Apr 8, 2024 16:40:52 GMT
My first game at Edgeley Park, since I used to come and watch regularly in the 1987/88 season, was versus Cambridge in the 2011/12 season. My lad had free tickets through the schools scheme. Bitten by the bug big time on that day, despite a dour affair that saw us lose 0-1. The County team that day was Ormson, Halls, Connor, Rose, Piergianni, Turnbull, Mainwaring, Rowe, Cole, Elliott and D.Rowe. I'm not sure I've ever seen a more average game of football but there was something in the air that made me keep coming back. Reminds me how lucky we are to have the team (and owners/structure) we do today.
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Post by kingkev on Apr 8, 2024 17:58:02 GMT
Thought I first attended in 1960 but was told it was 1958 !! First outstanding memory was stood near the corner flag Railway end/Pop side 62/63, when George Whitelaw angrily gave the liner a mouthful of F's and Jeffs !! Scared me to death !!
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That game.
Apr 8, 2024 18:17:00 GMT
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Post by Doofenschmirtz on Apr 8, 2024 18:17:00 GMT
York City home playoff game (93?).
Stood in the Railway end, the moment Beaumont smashed the ball into the back of the net with a few minutes left the whole end went wild. Everyone around me was hugging and cheering... that's when I realised... the result mattered. Before it had been a case of "we won, that's nice" or "ah well, we lost, never mind there's always next week", not after that game, from then on my mood for the weekend was decided by what happened at EP.
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Post by bigmartin on Apr 8, 2024 18:36:40 GMT
First football game I ever attended. I think we beat Wolves 3 2. Winner possibly Ian Moore. Wolves defender trod on the ball and Moore slotted it home. My memory is very hazy though.
The City game at Maine Road probably ignited my love for County though. I think I'd just been 'taking the kids' up to that point. But at that point I think I was hooked, lined, and sinkered.
Not so long ago as some. Most of my youth (and young manhood) was taken up by playing in bands.
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Post by Bredburyhatter on Apr 8, 2024 18:45:00 GMT
Not my first game, but Halifax away last game of the season is one when i realised that this is the journey I am destined to go on.
The rumours of results going our way, and the disappointment all week when I found out is was some smart-ass scummy bleeder 'having a joke' have hurt me for the last 25 years.
If you're the person who started that rumour and you're reading this, then i hope you're partner left you for a Burnley fan, and is related to Ted McMinn.
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Post by Lincoln Hatter on Apr 8, 2024 18:51:37 GMT
The Hardiker 2-1 game for me. I was probably about 12 and was properly bitten by the County bug that season. Had been going a couple of years by then but that seemed to be the year I really started to understand football and tactics (insert joke about how awful we were that season) and appreciated being at the game. Still get goosebumps watching that game on YouTube and the little dropped shoulder from Palmer.
Runaway leaders vs dreadful team adrift at the bottom. Proper county that night to get something out of the game.
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Post by HTC on Apr 8, 2024 19:37:01 GMT
Not one particular game for me, but I went along on a whim first game of the 2005/06 season, and then saw maybe one or two more games under Turner while still nominally a TV fan.
Was there for JGs first game with Dicko scoring his first, and by the time of the Carlisle 0-0, those 4 months meant I was definitely a County fan.
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Post by Waldorf on Apr 8, 2024 20:04:45 GMT
QPR 94.
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