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Your First NUFC Experience

My 1st match...went to the town with my mates and ended up at a game in "the Corner"

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Ibrox ironically. Pre season tournament in the 90's. Was only a wee nipper.
Dad was a legend for taking me.
 
I can't see Hugo's posts, but I can see Vin's reply.

As I thought, probably only started going when KK got involved.

That's why he doesn't have the same love of the club that we have, and is happy to see it go to the dogs.

Colin Muarrayalike, that's what he is.

 
Jackie Milburn's Testimonial in 1967. Typically, me Dad got us tickets for my birthday. so not only did I see Milburn play but both Charltons but Puskas, too. I'm wracking me brains to remember the others but they were mainly from the Fifties. Ernie Taylor, I think and the winger who ended up running the Lochside pub in Cochrane Park, High Heaton.
 
My first Boro match was Good Friday (March 31st) 1972 , at home to Luton - a 0-0 draw.

My first match against Newcastle was in January 1976 , we were 3-1 up in the closing stages and you got 2 late goals for a 3-3 draw.
I was in the seats in the East End of the ground , right next to your supporters.
 
I was at that game Diggerman. One of the Boro players (John Craggs?) did himself an injury right in front of us in the old Leazes. He managed to slide his face into the cinders behind the goal, and had to be revived by the physio. He ended up playing the rest of the game with a massive bandage on his head if I recall correctly. It was the first time I'd seen Boro play, and we took my cousin with us who supported Boro. He wouldn't come in the Leazes with us, even though he would have been alright, and went in with the Boro supporters, who were housed in the paddock of the old West Stand. When we got home he told my Aunty C that we had left him ... fuck sake, I was only 11 myself, and he was 13.
 
OldLeazes - 24/1/2015 20:18

I was at that game Diggerman. One of the Boro players (John Craggs?) did himself an injury right in front of us in the old Leazes. He managed to slide his face into the cinders behind the goal, and had to be revived by the physio. He ended up playing the rest of the game with a massive bandage on his head if I recall correctly. It was the first time I'd seen Boro play, and we took my cousin with us who supported Boro. He wouldn't come in the Leazes with us, even though he would have been alright, and went in with the Boro supporters, who were housed in the paddock of the old West Stand. When we got home he told my Aunty C that we had left him ... fuck sake, I was only 11 myself, and he was 13.
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Could be getting our wires crossed OL , the 3 all draw i'm on about was at Ayresome Park , and your fans were in that awful DANGEROUS clive road corner.
Dont remember much about the match , except that there was snow on the pitch and you had Glen Keeley playing for you.
He scored i think - not sure if it was for you or an own goal for us though!!!
 
You're right Diggerman, it was the same fixture 2 year later, in the same month coincidentally, and we lost 2-4. How the mind plays tricks. I knew there were six goals in the game anyhow. If this is the same game it's also the game we bumped into some "punk" lasses from Middlesboro who were in the Leazes. That would make me 13 at the time, which would tie in right. I didn't get to an away game at Boro until relatively late, mid 80s sometime for a league cup game. I don't recall the score, just the fighting before and after the match. Terrifying, how somebody didn't get killed I'll never figure out. Idiots from both sides lobbing bricks and bottles over that gate at the away end, then the gate getting rushed, and then absolute bedlam outside. I didn't want to come out, but it seemed safer to walk with the mob, than to stay where we were.
 
Glen Keeley theres a blast from the past scored some cracking goals when playing for NUFC sadly it was usually in his own goal.
 
Caught a glancing blow to the head from a steak and kidney pie at that 3-3 game! The lad next to me got a taste of it, lol. We were in the Paddock near where Keeley glanced a header into his own net.
 
Had some great laughs at the old Ayresome Park DM, the shops in the side streets were always ransacked, but they never had the nouse to shut the doors.

Like others hit by a part brick, fortunately on the shoulder, and have some happy memories of being in the same motorway service station in the late 70/ early 80's, the lot we went away were almost biblical in wanting a fight, the number of games we came back without windows, late due to police, or even escorted out of the local area by the cops was great.

Bus company stopped taking us in the end....
 
Stan Cummins scored in the 4-2 if i remember rightly.
Not sure but i THINK that was the match that a load of your fans tried to stop our trains leaving your station afterwards.

Loved Ayresome, Daftlad.
The route me n my mates used to walk to the ground from the bus , we nearly always ended up walking amongst the away fans getting marched by the coppers - past the General Hospital.

 
I didn't know that Cummings scored in that game, thought he was long after that. I remember the little **** scoring for Sunderland though, to put them 1-0 up at our place. We ended up beating them 3-1 with Cassidy scoring a brilliant half volley into the Gallowgate.

That hospital was quite handily placed for the football mind. I bet they were kept busy on Saturday afternoons.
 
Cup 6th round v Arsenal 1977 , OL.
Boro and Arsenal fans hoying darts at each other - they had to put the goalmouth protector things up as barricades.
Apparently they were still fighting in the hospital.
 
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