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Do you remember your first football match you attended? Was it a Town match? Can you remember who played? What was score? Anything stand out memorable from the game? What thing sticks in your memory about the experience?
Genuinely cannot remember my first game, but it was town for sure. However, the first memory i have is watching Dalian Atkinson score against someone whilst sitting in the lower cobbold.
First game i recall, Ipswich v Cambridge, and i recall steve claridge scoring. Google says this was 1990/1 sometime, making me 8. Playing left back for Cambridge was Andy Jeffrey, who i now work with!
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Remember your first time...... on 15:49 - Aug 4 with 294 views
Town 2 Derby 2, February 8th 1958. Two days after the Munich air crash. For some time afterwards, I thought all games had 2 minutes silence before kick off.
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Remember your first time...... on 16:11 - Aug 4 with 262 views
I was a teenager, it took me ages to find the right way in, it was terrible, and didn’t last as long I thought - I left immediately after it finished, wondering if I’d ever do that again.
Town 1 Arsenal 0, August 1977. David Geddis scored and the things I most remember were the game being stopped because of torrential rain and the shininess of Malcolm Macdonald’s legs.
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1983. Ipswich 3 Everton 0. Sat in the directors box courtesy of Howard Kendall giving my mum tickets as his team were staying at the moat house hotel. Remember being told not to cheer if my favourite Mariner scored. I didn’t do very well from what I recall.
Town v Wolves, early 70's. Strangely I remember more wolves players than ours - Dave Wagstaffe and Derek Dougan (who I think scored for them). David Best was in goal for us. Can't even remember the final score - suspect it was 0:1 - unless someone else knows better!
Abt 1958 Redditch v ? Dad took me and sat me on the post and rail just behind the goal. A bloke shot, missed, but took me out, full on the face, knocking me off my perch. Came to in the clubhouse and being given a pat on the head and a wagon wheel. As has been mentioned on here before, wagon wheels were bigger and tastier then.
First Town game at Filbert St early '60's. Went in at half time 1-0 up but I can remember being really angry when the Foxes equalised to make it 1-1.
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Remember your first time...... on 16:25 - Aug 4 by exeterblue10
Town 1 Arsenal 0, August 1977. David Geddis scored and the things I most remember were the game being stopped because of torrential rain and the shininess of Malcolm Macdonald’s legs.
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I was at that game and yes, it absolutely chucked it down. I was standing at the front of what is now the Cobbold Stand and got drenched. Can't say I noticed MM's legs.
Remember your first time...... on 15:24 - Aug 4 by TheBlueGnu
Ah yes, the first match I attended was not at Portman Road but in a chalk pit just outside of Laxfield, hosted by the East Suffolk League of Amphibious Forward-Thinkers. The teams? A ragtag eleven of semi-retired postmasters vs. a touring squad of Estonian turnip farmers—known for their vigorous zonal tilling formations.
The score was officially “ambiguous,” though one of the postmasters claimed victory after intercepting a rogue pigeon mid-flight, which had apparently swallowed the ball. The moment that stuck with me most was when a cat called Marvin disrupted play to conduct an impromptu jazz funeral for a deceased goalpost named Barry.
What I remember most was the half-time entertainment: Wilf the goat reading poetry from a biscuit tin while Jim, the ostrich, accidentally booted a linesman into a patch of nettles. The local brass band attempted “Sweet Caroline” but only knew the middle eight, and the ref was a scarecrow named Cyril.
Suffolk acid trips were always weird.
Don't believe a word I say. I'm only kidding. Or am I?
My 7th birthday present. My Dad had planned it as it should have been a home win. Obviously we lost !!
I can remember that Steve McCall got MOM. I also remembered the name Raddy Avramovic throughout my childhood. I spilt my orange squash in Debenhams cafe before the game. Dad got me matching headband and wristbands from the club shop and a pendant and a flag. It was brilliant.............
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Remember your first time...... on 14:22 - Aug 4 by djgooder
Can’t remember then year but in the south stand with my dad. Coventry city, we won 1-0 with Romeo Zondervan scoring!
Reading someone else repsonse i used AI to track down the date.
17th october 1987.
AI described it as a classic?????
Also referred to a win for the tractor boys, but i don't think we were called that then. Didn't that name arise from a game away to Brum in the 90's? When the local radio complained the M6 was chocker with tractors before the game and when we went 1-0 up we sang "1 nill to the tractor boys" for the frst time in response??
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Remember your first time...... on 16:54 - Aug 4 by noggin
I was at that game and yes, it absolutely chucked it down. I was standing at the front of what is now the Cobbold Stand and got drenched. Can't say I noticed MM's legs.
That’s where I was stood too. On my Tolly Cobbold crate which I’ve still got.
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Remember your first time...... on 13:42 - Aug 4 by muhrensleftfoot
Ipswich v Bristol City 1967 in Div 2 5-0 to Ipswich and a Frank Brogan hat-trick.
That was mine too!! And my first away game was Norwich in the same season when we won 4-3 with a Colin Viljoen hat trick, Town were Champions of the old Division 2 that season, happy days!
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Aug 1980, first home game of the season, a routine 2-0 win over Brighton. It was a Tuesday night under the lights and I was in awe at everything. Stood in front of barrier 171 in Churchmans to avoid getting jostled too much, that became my spot for several years before I earned promotion, first to the West Stand Terrace before reaching the Holy Grail of the North Stand. TWTD.
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Remember your first time...... on 19:18 - Aug 4 with 8 views
Stood on the old Portman Terrace close to North Stand, not far from where, later, we had season tickets. Wark & Whymark scored
But what I remember most was the sound of the crowd, that is what drew me in.
I was 8 and couldn't differentiate the footballing quality of SIL and League Division One, but I sure as hell noticed the difference between a couple of dozen attendees and over 25,000
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