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What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 13 Aug 2024, 17:16
by jooliandix
"Mine was Dec 4th 1978-Bonzos first testimonial vs the Yids,a 4-2 win"
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 17:59
by Rossal
"https://www.premierleague.com/match/3933 Prem match 3933, sat in the bobby moore upper. Whole stand singing cheeriooo cheeeeriioooo to Ehiogu (RIP) when he got sent off....old man said i thought it was hilarious Even now I remember the stick Paul Ince got that day, and from then I was hooked"
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 17:55
by Far Cough
"Yeah, Joe Kirkup, John Lyall and a certain Bobby Moore"
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 17:47
by easthammer
"My first game: West Ham United Colts v Briggs Minors Boleyn Ground FA Youth Cup - Second Round Tuesday 6th November 1956 - Kick Off 7pm (Floodlit) ............................,,,B Goymer.................. J KKirkup.......................................................A.Howe ..............C.Lewis.......R.Moore..........J.Lyall C.Rowlands...Smith.J..Fenn....J Cartwright...McDonald A couple of names you might recognise. Not that they meant anything to me at the time. Why this match? My dad who was West Ham born and bred, but who was more into boxing than football. Always had a boy's night out on Tuesday. This particular Tuesaday the boxing was cancelled and one his mates played Briggs Motors. They decide to go and took me along as I had been nagging about wanting to go to West Ham. I was just nine years old it was under lights and magical and I was hooked. Oh yes the result ........we won 13-1 A year later I was going to games with my mates in time to see us promoted to Division 1. And I saw the same R.Moore listed above make his debut against Man Utd. This time I knew he was."
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 13:41
by WELL HAMMERED AGAIN
West Ham 1 Norwich 3 20th aug 1978 Oh the joy since :-)
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 13:34
by Gary Strodders shank
Lowlife Re that Brighton game at the Goldstone If it's the one I'm thinking about they still had the fences up Pissed down with rain all day with no cover and we were kept in for what seemed like an age at the end with the old bill proper taking the piss. You couldn't get a drink in town and our motor got broken into in the multi storey car park. Brady had just signed if I remember rightly.
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 13:28
by ,
"As a schoolboy, with my mates, we would exit immediately the final whistle went and rush to hop on a trolley bus to Barking town centre. There we would encounter people queuing for the 87or 62 busses having just come out of the Vicaridge Field where Barking played. Back home my grandfather would be mulling over his Littlewoods coupon to see where he’d gone wrong."
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 13:24
by ludo21
"v Birmingham City, April 1977. Came from behind to draw 2-2. Pop Robson scored."
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 13:15
by J.Riddle
April 73 H v Southampton 4-3 Pop with a hatrick. Away Southampton Jan 75 FA Cup 1-2
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 13:05
by torino hammer
First game was Coventry City v WHU 1971 1-0 away win! Jimmy Greaves with the goal
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 12:21
by violator
"Would have been 1975, the first game I actually remember being at was Ararat Yerevan in the CWC"
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 12:18
by lowlife
"March 1989 away to Brighton. Lost 3 nil. Memories of that game are Phil Parkes being done at his near post, and seeing knuckle dusters on the floor of the away end on the way out."
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 03:12
by percyd
"March 1958 - Div 2 - Rotherham at home, 8-0"
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 02:32
by chevy chase
Beat Oxford Utd 3-1. 86. Ray Stewart missed a penalty
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 02:32
by chevy chase
Beat Oxford Utd 3-1. 86. Ray Stewart missed a penalty
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 02:30
by zebthecat
"Grew up in South East London but my best friend's Dad was a Palace supporter so we had a birthday treat to see Palace/West Ham at Selhurst Park. Early 70s and I was ninie or ten. All I remember is that it was a draw, Mervyn Day was our keeper and he was our busiest player too."
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 02:23
by With Kind Regards
"Sheffield Wednesday, 16.10.1965. Won 4-2. 2-1 down at half time if I recall correctly… Memory tells me I (and 2 cousins) got the bus there from Barking and was outside the North Bank gates at about 9.30 and there was still a handful of kids already there. Managed to get a place against the wall at the front (but unfortunately not right behind the goal). Don’t remember anything else and much of the above is a murky recollection up for challenge…"
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 02:14
by drakl
February 1968 West Ham 7 Fulham 2 Brooking a 19 year old scored twice
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 01:49
by side effect
22 December 1973 v Stoke 0-2 First win Jan1st Norwich 4-2 First away game Luton 1981 lost 3-2.
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 01:38
by Briano
14 Feb 1972 Hereford in the FA Cup on a Tuesday afternoon because of the Power Strikes. Bobby Moore playing and a Geoff Hurst Hat trick
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 01:22
by northbankboy68
Spurs at home 68 or 69. Brooking was a newbie playing with the WC trio. Lost 0-1.
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 00:38
by Alfs
Liverpool. Lost 2-0. Toshack twice. A dog ran onto the pitch and had a piss in the box which drew cheers every time Ray Clemence dived to make a save.
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 00:36
by arsene york-hunt
"Against sp*rs The place was rammed. about !959. No roof on the Northbank Loads watching from the balconies and rooves of the flats. Never been crushed so much when coming out of the northbank. Can't even remember the score but I think the scumbags won it. Had been to Chelsea Fulham, Charlton and Arsenal before that but rhe atmosphere at West Ham hooked me , and I've suffered ever since"
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 00:24
by 62Hammer
"1962 v Fulham, 2-2. Same season, v Blackburn, lost 1-0. My dad took me and, aged 9, I at last took an interest in football and in fact it pretty much took over my life."
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 14 Aug 2024, 00:19
by dm
February 9th 1980 2-1 win against QPR. The winner was a headed own goal by Bob Hazell
Re: What was the first Hammers game you attended?
Posted: 13 Aug 2024, 23:46
by only1billybonds
"Ray. Pretty sure Bill got an award beforecthar game, Evening Standard player of thecmonth or something similar. Was a good day to be a Bonzo fan. :-)"