| Remember your first time...... 13:04 - Aug 4 with 2832 views | BlacknGoldnBlue |
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? |  |
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| Remember your first time...... on 13:21 - Aug 4 with 1701 views | BlacknGoldnBlue |
Laurie Sivell
George Burley
Steve McCall
Mick Mills
Russell Osman
Terry Butcher
John Wark
Arnold Muhren
Paul Mariner
Alan Brazil
Kevin OCallaghan
Was the team for my first every game? Can you name year and opponent? | |
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| Remember your first time...... on 13:21 - Aug 4 with 1698 views | earlsgreenblue |
Yeah, back of my mini……….. oh sorry, that 1st, Highbury v ManU circa. 1965 give or take. |  | | |
| Remember your first time...... on 13:25 - Aug 4 with 1658 views | saffers12 |
| Remember your first time...... on 13:21 - Aug 4 by earlsgreenblue |
Yeah, back of my mini……….. oh sorry, that 1st, Highbury v ManU circa. 1965 give or take. |
Villa v QPR
Still think Villa Park is an amazing gorund |  | | |
| Remember your first time...... on 13:29 - Aug 4 with 1640 views | _clive_baker_ |
November 1994, for my 7th birthday. Lost 3-1 at home to a Blackburn side that went on to win the Premier League that season, while we finished bottom.
Claus Thomsen scored for us.
Sutton, Sherwood & Shearer for them.
Can't say I remember loads other than sitting in the Churchmans. Paul Mason was my first footballing hero really, he played that day and I was a huge fan of his in those first few 'Burley 2nd tier' years and playoff heartbreaks that followed our 1994 relegation. |  | | |
| Remember your first time...... on 13:32 - Aug 4 with 1617 views | noggin |
First game I remember was v Derby at PR, around 1975. I think it was an evening game and Town won 3-0 |  |
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| Remember your first time...... on 13:35 - Aug 4 with 1600 views | Adam |
Apart from the odd reserve game when I fell asleep during half time. My first game watching the first team was Ipswich but not at Portman Road, it was against Barnsley in May 2000 so it was a decent start! I was 5 at the time so it set me up nicely for the success during the Marcus Evans era... ah..
The thing that sticks in my memory most? My mum took me to the toilet during the game and I was down on the concourse as Stewart leaped to head home the third. The stand erupted and at the age of 5 I hadn't felt anything like that before. |  | | |
| Remember your first time...... on 13:41 - Aug 4 with 1559 views | RobTheMonk |
My cousin took me to Plymouth Argyle. I think Paul Wootton banged in a free kick which I thought was unusual as he was a centre back. Turned out his goalscoring record for a defender was excellent.
We were singing 'Larrieu, give us a wave' during the game. He eventually did which got a huge roar from the crowd.
The atmosphere was amazing that day. |  | | |
| Remember your first time...... on 13:42 - Aug 4 with 1546 views | muhrensleftfoot |
Ipswich v Bristol City 1967 in Div 2
5-0 to Ipswich and a Frank Brogan hat-trick. |  | | |
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| Remember your first time...... on 13:43 - Aug 4 with 1541 views | TrumptonBlue |
| Remember your first time...... on 13:21 - Aug 4 by BlacknGoldnBlue |
Laurie Sivell
George Burley
Steve McCall
Mick Mills
Russell Osman
Terry Butcher
John Wark
Arnold Muhren
Paul Mariner
Alan Brazil
Kevin OCallaghan
Was the team for my first every game? Can you name year and opponent? |
Either of Nottingham Forest or Tottenham, May 1982. |  | | |
| Remember your first time...... on 13:45 - Aug 4 with 1512 views | blueislander |
| Remember your first time...... on 13:35 - Aug 4 by Adam |
Apart from the odd reserve game when I fell asleep during half time. My first game watching the first team was Ipswich but not at Portman Road, it was against Barnsley in May 2000 so it was a decent start! I was 5 at the time so it set me up nicely for the success during the Marcus Evans era... ah..
The thing that sticks in my memory most? My mum took me to the toilet during the game and I was down on the concourse as Stewart leaped to head home the third. The stand erupted and at the age of 5 I hadn't felt anything like that before. |
V Gillinghdam at Portman Road 1953.
Team was probably
Parry
Acres
Malcolm
Myles
Dai Rees
Elsworthy
Reed
Willie Rees
Garneys
Parker
McLuckie
It ended 1-1.
That is what I remember. I could look it up I suppose, but can’t be arsed. | | | |
| Remember your first time...... on 13:48 - Aug 4 with 1486 views | blue_curacao |
My first game was Col U. vs Lincoln City at Layer Road, c.1976/1977. I was about 7 or 8. My 2 memories were:
- everytime Col U got a corner, everyone in the main (wooden) stand would stamp their feet making a tremendous racket
- Col U had a black centre forward. Everytime he did anything good the crowd would all chant "snowball"
My first town game was around the same time, it was vs. West Ham. It was a reserve game but played at Portman Road, I think I went with the cub scouts and we sat in the West stand. No other real memories of the game :/ | | | |
| Remember your first time...... on 13:48 - Aug 4 with 1486 views | cbower |
I was six. September 17th 1974. Liverpool v Stromgodset. The scoreline was an incredible 11 (ELEVEN) - 0 (NIL). The score meant that until I understood a bit more about the game, most games were a bit of a disappointment at 2-1, 3-0, 1-1. Despite being from Liverpool and living there until my 20s, started supporting Ipswich shortly thereafter due to my obsession with horses and 51 years later I'm still a Town fan. |  |
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| Remember your first time...... on 13:50 - Aug 4 with 1461 views | HighgateBlue |
Topically enough, Birmingham away! We lost! (Gulp)
26 November 1988, 1-0. Old second division. Stood on the terraces. Remember it seeming pretty empty, and the internet says the attendance was only 5,932 (!)
I've always liked autumn/winter matches ever since this game. Just something about it getting darker and more ominous towards the end of the match! |  | | |
| Remember your first time...... on 13:50 - Aug 4 with 1456 views | Radlett_blue |
Chelmsford City v Colchester United, FA Cup 2nd round, January 1968. My dad took me; aged 10, I was considered young enough to sit on a bench in front of the perimeter wall as there was an all-ticket crowd of 16,400 (more than when City played Town in the FA Cup in 1972). I remember Chelmsford centre forward Bill Cassidy seemingly miss a great chance then Colchester scored 2 first half goals & that was about it - result never seemed in doubt after then. I was able to see highlights on Anglia on the sunday & saw myself scrambling for a loose ball with a ball boy. |  |
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| Remember your first time...... on 13:54 - Aug 4 with 1444 views | TexacoCup |
Ipswich 1 Blackburn 1 May 1968
A draw that made us Division 2 champions - got to run on the pitch
They played GB's Eurovision entry 'Congratulations' by Cliff Richard in celebration! |  | | |
| Remember your first time...... on 14:00 - Aug 4 with 1408 views | weepingx2018 |
Pretty sure it was leeds at home in 1968..we might have lost 3-2 - without checking google | | | |
| Remember your first time...... on 14:00 - Aug 4 with 1409 views | Zonderman |
Town v Arsenal 15/9/84. They were the early season league leaders and in glorious sunshine we came from a Charlie Nicholas goal down to win two one. Goals for Town from Russell Osman and Romeo Zondervan. I remember Brian Talbot suffering a head injury during the game (playing for Arsenal) and some running battles my dad had to shield me from between fans on Portman Road post match. I was a 10 year old utterly hooked from that day onwards. | | | |
| Remember your first time...... on 14:03 - Aug 4 with 1383 views | IpswichOnThames |
Ipswich v Walsall in 2002, we won 3-2.
I can’t remember if it was that game but one of my early ones Matt Holland was playing right back and I was really confused because I didn’t realise players were allowed to play in different positions! | | | |
| Remember your first time...... on 14:08 - Aug 4 with 1355 views | oldburian |
The first match I actually remember, having been to Portman Road and Bury Town with little remembrance, was at Kenilworth Road in March 1953 for Luton versus Bolton in the fifth round of the Cup. Syd Owen had Nat Lofhouse totally under control apart from one cross by Bobby Langton. One nil and the match was over. The next match was John Elsworth’s only hat trick the following October against Coventry. | | | |
| Remember your first time...... on 14:20 - Aug 4 with 1326 views | TheMover |
At home to Tottenham, 1974 ish, we won 4-0 | | | |
| Remember your first time...... on 14:22 - Aug 4 with 1316 views | djgooder |
Can’t remember then year but in the south stand with my dad. Coventry city, we won 1-0 with Romeo Zondervan scoring! |  | | |
| Remember your first time...... on 14:24 - Aug 4 with 1311 views | burnbudgiesburn |
Oct 2nd 1982 v Liverpool with D'Avray scoring the winner in pouring rain.
Was against the form book at the time as we had started the season terribly and Liverpool were on a 3421 game unbeaten streak. | | | |
| Remember your first time...... on 14:31 - Aug 4 with 1279 views | positivity |
cooper/burley/mccall/thijssen/osman/butcher/wark/muhren/mariner/brazil/gates. beattie was the sub
opposition included clemence/phil neal/2kennedys/hansen/lee/david johnson(the 1st!)/mcdermott/souness with one ian rush making his debut.
needless to say we rarely recreated those heights in the 45 years that followed! | |
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| Remember your first time...... on 15:24 - Aug 4 with 1190 views | 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. | |
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