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Post by ray from kelsall on May 14, 2020 13:42:18 GMT
Well seeing has the name game didn't seem to be taken seriously how about first ever Chester game.
Mine was at Sealand Road Chester 0 Man Utd 5 , the first game under the new floodlights. From memory around 1963.
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Post by Rio Doherty on May 14, 2020 13:46:10 GMT
Mine was a 4-0 home win against Skelmersdale United in November 2010. Caught the bug and have been going ever since.
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Post by Bristol Blue on May 14, 2020 13:48:48 GMT
Chester 3 Burnley 0, first league game at the Deva. 5th Sept 1992. One of the little highs in a pretty dismal season. Still got me hooked as a 6/7 year old though. Even relegation couldnt put me off!
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Post by delamereal on May 14, 2020 13:58:45 GMT
Chester 0 Accrington Stanley 0, December 23rd 1961.
We finished bottom of the league and successfully applied for re-election.
Accrington Stanley folded and resigned from the league.
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Post by Wortleyblue on May 14, 2020 14:23:05 GMT
Chester 4 Hartlepool 4 January 1962 never looked back
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Post by Wortleyblue on May 14, 2020 14:30:44 GMT
Well seeing has the name game didn't seem to be taken seriously how about first ever Chester game. Mine was at Sealand Road Chester 0 Man Utd 5 , the first game under the new floodlights. From memory around 1963. March 1st, 1961 according to the oracle Ray you are older than you thought Unfortunately the score was 0-6 10 months before my vigil started so I didn't see it
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Post by ray from kelsall on May 14, 2020 14:32:30 GMT
Just thinking since that first game l’ve never met a player ,manager or director, never had a season ticket just pay on the day and walk away happy or frustrated afterwards.
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Post by Wortleyblue on May 14, 2020 14:33:48 GMT
Just thinking since that first game l’ve never met a player ,manager or director, never had a season ticket just pay on the day and walk away happy or frustrated afterwards. Did you not go into Jacks bar after the games I met a lot of players in there after the games
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Post by billyw on May 14, 2020 15:10:32 GMT
Wish I could remember but it was too long ago and I was about 6. Then again I can’t remember the last game and that was only a few weeks ago.
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Post by billyw on May 14, 2020 15:12:26 GMT
Well seeing has the name game didn't seem to be taken seriously how about first ever Chester game. Mine was at Sealand Road Chester 0 Man Utd 5 , the first game under the new floodlights. From memory around 1963. March 1st, 1961 according to the oracle Ray you are older than you thought Unfortunately the score was 0-6 10 months before my vigil started so I didn't see it If I remember correctly Ian Moir played for United that night.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2020 15:17:21 GMT
I can't remember the first game I went to I do remember the first game under the new floodlights it was billed as all star 11. Boby Charlton I recall was recently married he played Tommy docherty. Johnny haines some of the names I remember. First league game under new floodlights I think was Leyton orient. could be wrong but remember observer headlines. Chester light up the orient
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Post by spartacus on May 14, 2020 15:28:36 GMT
Mine was at Aldershot in the early 1960's ( I was living in Basingstoke at the tiem ) We drew 2-2- with goals from a header by Les Jones ( and he was short ) and a volley from Dave Durie which gave the goalkeeper no chance. The team was Reeves, Jones R, Jones B, Hauser, Butler, Durie, Humes. Metcalf, Talbot, Jones L, Morris. Hugh Ryden was injured which is why Jones played. One other notable fact was that as Hugh Lloyd of Hugh and I fame could not get to the game ( he was Chester born and supported the club ) he asked Terry Scott his TV partner to take his place , which he did. Ask me who played in the last game and I couldn't tell you.!! Another bit of trivia what was remarkable about a return fixture at Sealabnd Road ?
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Post by Deva Stated on May 14, 2020 15:31:00 GMT
I thought Third Lanark christened the floodlights in a friendly.
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Post by bing on May 14, 2020 15:35:40 GMT
Mine was a 4-0 home win against Skelmersdale United in November 2010. Caught the bug and have been going ever since. ... and who would have thought at the time that when Jimmy McCarthy rounded the keeper to score the fourth it would be such a crucial goal come the final reckoning! Mine was mid 80s, sat half way up the old main stand at Sealand Road. We drew 1-1 against a team beginning with B. Can't remember who!
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Post by Wortleyblue on May 14, 2020 15:46:18 GMT
Mine was at Aldershot in the early 1960's ( I was living in Basingstoke at the tiem ) We drew 2-2- with goals from a header by Les Jones ( and he was short ) and a volley from Dave Durie which gave the goalkeeper no chance. The team was Reeves, Jones R, Jones B, Hauser, Butler, Durie, Humes. Metcalf, Talbot, Jones L, Morris. Hugh Ryden was injured which is why Jones played. One other notable fact was that as Hugh Lloyd of Hugh and I fame could not get to the game ( he was Chester born and supported the club ) he asked Terry Scott his TV partner to take his place , which he did. Ask me who played in the last game and I couldn't tell you.!! Another bit of trivia <>what was</> remarkable about a return fixture at Sealabnd Road ? If its the game Im thinking about then the 2 full backs Bryn Jones and Ray Jones sustained broken legs dirty side Aldershot then. Ive never liked them since that game
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Post by geoff on May 14, 2020 15:52:52 GMT
Yes, I was at that game standing on the kop and you could hear the crack as the bone was broken, I was quite near. Can’t remember my first game...I guess around 58/59 season in the days when Billy Large provided the entertainment at half-time!
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Post by jimmy on May 14, 2020 16:07:17 GMT
Walsall home at the beginning of the 1959-60 season. One up at half-time, eventually lost 3-1. Jimmy Cooper was my first football hero,
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Post by Ian H Block on May 14, 2020 16:10:33 GMT
Chester 1-1 Bury, February 1974. Love at first sight.
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Post by g1 on May 14, 2020 16:19:59 GMT
Chester 1 Wigan 0 Stuart Rimmer penalty the first one I really remember is chester 3 Preston 2 its still the best game I've ever seen at the deva
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Post by Moltisanti on May 14, 2020 16:27:36 GMT
First I remember is Chester v Preston 93-94, could’ve went to one before in that season, but can’t remember.
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Post by South Wirral Blue on May 14, 2020 16:51:07 GMT
Mine was a 4-0 home win against Skelmersdale United in November 2010. Caught the bug and have been going ever since. Took them apart didn't we, made them look very poor. Wouldn't have believed you if you'd told me at FT that they'd go on to run us as extremely close as they did.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2020 17:21:32 GMT
Mine was a 4-0 home win against Skelmersdale United in November 2010. Caught the bug and have been going ever since. Their chairman Frank Hughes was a tit before that game with his spout in the Chronicle with the Budget and costs to Police a game when we played them at their ground Credit to them though at the end they gave us a run for the title and if Lancaster had not beaten them they would of been champions
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Post by Rio Doherty on May 14, 2020 17:27:37 GMT
Mine was a 4-0 home win against Skelmersdale United in November 2010. Caught the bug and have been going ever since. Took them apart didn't we, made them look very poor. Wouldn't have believed you if you'd told me at FT that they'd go on to run us as extremely close as they did. Given I knew very little about football/the league we were in back then I thought Skelmersdale were near the bottom based on that showing. It may have just been an off-day for them though, and to be fair they certainly gave us a run for our money in that title race.
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Post by Blockhead on May 14, 2020 17:45:03 GMT
No idea what my first game was. Early 2000s sometime. First game I remember vividly was the title winning game vs Scarborough.
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Post by martinblue47 on May 14, 2020 17:54:23 GMT
1978/79 season v walsall as an 8 year old 2-1 win
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Post by btb on May 14, 2020 19:07:27 GMT
Mid 80’s, Doncaster away. I’m fairly sure it was an uneventful 1-1 draw. It’s always been more of a social thing for me. The free flowing football and endless supply of well meaning business men at the helm was just a bonus.
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Post by dmcnally on May 14, 2020 19:15:28 GMT
No idea either. Possibly Forest 3-0 in the cup... not a bad start if so.
It was 3 in a row that had me hooked though.
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Post by spartacus on May 14, 2020 20:22:04 GMT
Correct Wortleyblue ,it was in the days of no substitutes and we still won 3-2. Do you recall who was the first Chester player to be named as a substitute ?
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Post by g1 on May 14, 2020 20:35:30 GMT
First I remember is Chester v Preston 93-94, could’ve went to one before in that season, but can’t remember. a classic game Graham Lancashire diving header to win it
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Post by g1 on May 14, 2020 20:36:54 GMT
No idea either. Possibly Forest 3-0 in the cup... not a bad start if so. It was 3 in a row that had me hooked though. yes that forest game was special Marcus Richardson unplayable that day lowes free kick
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