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Post by oldsealandroadender on May 15, 2020 22:19:59 GMT
I went to Sealand Road with a friend from school when we were in the first year at the Grammar where we started in 1967. I seem to remember a draw against Port Vale but it got me hooked.
I vaguely remember my brother in law and his mate taking me with them to a game at Tranmere, lifting me over the turnstile to get me in for nothing. I could only have been about 7 then. I presume we were there to see Chester as he used to sell programmes at Sealand Road and was a fan. I seem to think one team was playing in orange which makes me wonder who was playing or if I'm just remembering it wrong. It was nearly 60 years ago!
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Post by oldboneze on May 16, 2020 7:49:51 GMT
27 November 1999 v Swansea, lost 1-0. I fell out of love with football in the mid-eighties after growing up with Ellesmere Port Town in the 50s and 60s until they went bust and then watching Liverpool for 13 years. My younger son and a few mates started to go to Chester games in the late 90s. By 1999 he had a Saturday job but wanted desperately to get a ticket for the FA Cup against Manchester City at the Deva. To guarantee a ticket you were to be given a voucher at the game against Swansea and, reluctantly, I agreed to go for him. It was one of the worst games I've ever scene but it brought back all the excitement of the 50s and 60s and I was hooked.
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Post by sealandender on May 16, 2020 8:53:34 GMT
Very. Early 60s first remembered game goats 6 - 1?. Dad played for the B side. So Was in my pram at the annexe a lot.
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Post by arthurmorris on May 16, 2020 9:04:44 GMT
I went to Sealand Road with a friend from school when we were in the first year at the Grammar where we started in 1967. I seem to remember a draw against Port Vale but it got me hooked. I vaguely remember my brother in law and his mate taking me with them to a game at Tranmere, lifting me over the turnstile to get me in for nothing. I could only have been about 7 then. I presume we were there to see Chester as he used to sell programmes at Sealand Road and was a fan. I seem to think one team was playing in orange which makes me wonder who was playing or if I'm just remembering it wrong. It was nearly 60 years ago! Your memory serves you well, at that time Chester's change strip was Orange shirts, which they wore at Tranmere.
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Post by Lobster on May 16, 2020 10:23:10 GMT
As most of these are home games. What about people first away game? Mine was the FA Cup loss at Alty in November 92. Mansfield in 1999, lost 3-0. It's a wonder I bothered again! I remember being ridiculously excited about it though. Always loved an away day.
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Post by nlb17 on May 16, 2020 11:29:50 GMT
Went Sealand road but too young to remember game/s. Remember a 2 all draw with Bolton and a 3-2 win at home to Swansea in first season or so at deva. That 4-1 win v wigan in cup ( did martinez play against us as one of the 3 amigos? ) as previously mentioned , that rings a bell. Anyone remember Billy Stewart saving a last minute pen possibly on a Tuesday night , early seasons at deva. Can’t remember who against . Blurred memories from my youth when seasons merged into one. Back in them days I’d get up and go out to play footy with mate next door at 9am and come home at 10pm. Was only about 11 but we went on hipkiss to Cardiff (Sinclair in goal) and Gillingham (we played Brighton). Went home at 10pm and mum and dad thought I’d been at my mates house all day. Also remember listening to marcher fm or whatever it was called. They’d follow us, Wrexham and Tranmere, I think. If one of the teams scored , mid song it would interrupt with “goal !!” Or “ oh no” if the oppo scored. Then you would have to wait until the song finished to find out what had happened. Ha ha, I had forgotten all about Marcher Sound and them doing that with the goals, thanks for the Proustian rush! My first was as a glory hunter at the Leeds game in 74, my Dad took me and I watched most of the game on his shoulders squashed into the Sealand Road end, telling people what was going on because there were so many of us in there that no one could see! Can't remember the first away game, but I will never forget Penrith! That has to go down as the worst football away day ever.
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Post by swede on May 16, 2020 18:52:34 GMT
Never seen one, but hope to see my first Chester game next season when this shit is over
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Post by sealandender1 on May 16, 2020 19:02:41 GMT
Never seen one, but hope to see my first Chester game next season when this shit is over Just out of interest, how old are you?
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Post by swede on May 16, 2020 19:09:32 GMT
Never seen one, but hope to see my first Chester game next season when this shit is over Just out of interest, how old are you? 30+ but I am from Sweden and not over seas every year
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Post by midfieldgeneral on May 17, 2020 11:40:01 GMT
First one I properly remember was Cheater v Oldham Atheletic 1669/70. We won 2-1 Draper and a Billy Dearden screamer from the half way line.
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Post by agl on May 17, 2020 12:32:32 GMT
Chester 3 Hartlepool 0 1974. We won our first 8 or 9 games at home in a row without conceding a goal, before a 1-1 draw with Cambridge. Got to the League Cup semi final and then got promoted by the smallest margin when Lincoln got beaten away by Southport, who'd already been relegated I think. I thought all seasons were going to be like that, how wrong I was Mine would have been about that time. Might even still have the progrssme. First one I remember was the Leeds game (although I was still nominally a Leeds fan then). Late 70s I really got into Chester. My Mum would drop me at Agri Electrics with a mate, as lived in Little Sutton, and she didn't want to get snarled up in the traffic on Sealand Road
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Post by rcb on May 17, 2020 17:44:21 GMT
Mine was a 4-0 home win against Skelmersdale United in November 2010. Caught the bug and have been going ever since. Did you get the full intro package for your first match? Programme, scarf, shirt, cap etc? I certainly think the club needs to consider a starter pack for new kids, perhaps enhanced by a half-time chairman’s welcome on the pitch. (ps. I refer to you as a kid back then, not now young man.)
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Post by exiled on May 17, 2020 18:45:22 GMT
People have got good memories on here! Think my first game was Workington about 1970ish.
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Post by Suomen Sininen on May 17, 2020 18:55:01 GMT
19986/7 season, think I went to the Carlisle home game, 2-2. Defo remember xmas/January time, lost at home to Blackpool and pretty sure their fans invaded the pitch. Then had Sheff wed at home and beat the goats at their place in the fa cup- tremendous (not sure which way round). Great Season to start supporting the blues as they had just been promoted with Swindon season before, downhill after that.
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Post by yossergolf on May 17, 2020 19:03:35 GMT
Chester v Tranmere 1964, won 3-2 I think. Remember being sat on the kop end wall watching game, hooked ever since
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Post by Rio Doherty on May 17, 2020 20:36:27 GMT
Mine was a 4-0 home win against Skelmersdale United in November 2010. Caught the bug and have been going ever since. Did you get the full intro package for your first match? Programme, scarf, shirt, cap etc? I certainly think the club needs to consider a starter pack for new kids, perhaps enhanced by a half-time chairman’s welcome on the pitch. (ps. I refer to you as a kid back then, not now young man.) Unfortunately I didn’t, although I had the shirt and programme bought for me on the day. I do agree though that we should produce welcome packs for first-timers with merchandise and sign-up forms for the CFU, Seals Lottery, Junior Blues, etc. Junior Blues receive welcome packs anyway so it would be good if we could expand that out a bit wider.
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Post by The Swansway on May 17, 2020 20:41:39 GMT
First one I properly remember was Cheater v Oldham Atheletic 1669/70. We won 2-1 Draper and a Billy Dearden screamer from the half way line. 1669?! Just how old are you? 🙄
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Post by hughie on May 17, 2020 21:09:15 GMT
Can’t remember first home game but can remember the first away game.Wrexham away in the early 60 s.Ron Davies scored twice to beat the goats 2.1. Fantastic atmosphere and great victory.
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Post by midfieldgeneral on May 17, 2020 21:47:11 GMT
First one I properly remember was Cheater v Oldham Atheletic 1669/70. We won 2-1 Draper and a Billy Dearden screamer from the half way line. 1669?! Just how old are you? 🙄 Obviously, not over 400 years old. Its a typo, I meant 1969
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on May 18, 2020 10:13:23 GMT
Norman Conquest (A)
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Post by sealandender1 on May 18, 2020 11:42:31 GMT
You’re way out there Mancot, by only 600 or so years. In 1669 Phosphorus was invented, so perhaps Phosphorus Thistle (H) would be nearer the mark!
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Post by whitey on May 19, 2020 22:32:08 GMT
A Chester home game was a family affair when I first went, mum - dad - nan - grandad and uncles all made their way from Catherine street whatever the weather to go to sealand road. Dad would carry a plastic crate (for Milk?) for me to see over the wall at the kop end. They always stood there no matter who we played, think I was about seven at the time so about 1970. Only good thing came out of standing at that end was getting my picture in from memory the Sunday people when the wall collapsed against Luton in a cup match us scoring a late winner and their fans trying to invade the pitch
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on May 20, 2020 8:04:40 GMT
A Chester home game was a family affair when I first went, mum - dad - nan - grandad and uncles all made their way from Catherine street whatever the weather to go to sealand road. Dad would carry a plastic crate (for Milk?) for me to see over the wall at the kop end. They always stood there no matter who we played, think I was about seven at the time so about 1970. Only good thing came out of standing at that end was getting my picture in from memory the Sunday people when the wall collapsed against Luton in a cup match us scoring a late winner and their fans trying to invade the pitch That picture was featured on Chas Sumner’s Chester Football History Facebook page yesterday, have a look.
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Post by gezzer on May 20, 2020 11:28:15 GMT
A Chester home game was a family affair when I first went, mum - dad - nan - grandad and uncles all made their way from Catherine street whatever the weather to go to sealand road. Dad would carry a plastic crate (for Milk?) for me to see over the wall at the kop end. They always stood there no matter who we played, think I was about seven at the time so about 1970. Only good thing came out of standing at that end was getting my picture in from memory the Sunday people when the wall collapsed against Luton in a cup match us scoring a late winner and their fans trying to invade the pitch That picture was featured on Chas Sumner’s Chester Football History Facebook page yesterday, have a look. I don't have FB and can't find it on the history website. Any chance of showing it on here, I was right behind the goal when the wall went down and further along I remember young kids used to sit with their legs through a bar on top of the wall, luckily I don't remember anyone being injured for this reason.
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Post by sqzl on May 20, 2020 17:16:51 GMT
Fulham at home in the 95/96 season. I was dragged along at 4 years old and don’t remember much at all other than it ended a draw and it was around Christmas time!
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Post by stonemaster on May 24, 2020 7:58:26 GMT
Wrexham away 77 saw us lose 4-2 sat in their Yale stand
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Post by Gandalf on May 24, 2020 15:16:31 GMT
All I remember from my first game is Luke Beckett getting a goal, i think Mark Beesley was possibly in the team too
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on May 24, 2020 16:00:19 GMT
All I remember from my first game is Luke Beckett getting a goal, i think Mark Beesley was possibly in the team too Don’t think that would’ve been right mate - Beckett left end of the relegation season, Beesley was essentially his replacement.
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Post by waggoner on May 24, 2020 17:13:41 GMT
First one I properly remember was Cheater v Oldham Atheletic 1669/70. We won 2-1 Draper and a Billy Dearden screamer from the half way line. 1669?! Just how old are you? 🙄 I'm surprised we were able to put a side out with the plague raging about that time
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Post by The Swansway on May 27, 2020 5:22:44 GMT
1669?! Just how old are you? 🙄 I'm surprised we were able to put a side out with the plague raging about that time The last recorded plague deaths in Chester were in 1648, and although losing 35% of the population, plus the fact that authorities frowned upon the playing of football (along with excess drinking, bull and bear baiting, and Welsh weddings) this was no excuse for not getting a team out 21 years later
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