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My first football memory was watching my Uncle Peter's Going Up video from ITV. I must've watched it 50 times. My first actual game memory was Juventus v Liverpool in May 1985, great start to football in my mind. The first time I'd ever been to a match was Liverpool's first away game after Heysel at SJP. Some woman knitted me a dippers scarf along the street from me mams, I didn't have it on as it was so warm. Anyway it was 0-0 at half time, and the noise was frightening, proper frightening, 7 year old sat in the West Stand old wooden seats with my sister who was 15, and me fatha. We were brown as berries having just jumped off a plane from Cyprus the day before. 0-0 at HT. Every time we had a corner, the 6,000 in the wooden West Stand would stamp their feet, the noise was terrifying. The all of a sudden at the Gallowgate, the shite George Reilly swooped in to make it 1-0. WAAAAAAAAAAAAH, I'd never experienced anything like it, cuddling me dad with nerves as the noise was insane. It finished 1-0, I'll never forget it irrespective of having half a heed these days. I got abused off all the kids in the street that night, so I decided there and then that night I wasn't supporting Liverpool anymore. I decided to support Man City, which was my second ever game, the toon won 3-1, we were in the West Stand again, and after that I thought fuck it....I'm supporting the toon!

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Shut up, he finally became interesting.

God, here we go...

It was so long ago I can't remember who, when, or what, but I do remember being picked-up aheight and passed over peoples heads until I was down at the front sitting on the side-line with other kids who had been passed down because they were being squashed. I remember shouts of "kid coming doon"

Nothing is beneath me.

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When they play Norwich it's not just points at stake they are playing for the Friendly Cup.

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Here's another one that i swear happened but i cant find anything in the archives it would be about Eldon Square had just opened it was either a league or fa cup home tie us v Ipswich Town. We woke up to a freezing day thick frost & fog there were matches being called off up & down the country due to the weather me & my mate sat listening to the radio as there was to be a pitch inspection anyway the inspection was passed we got to the ground late & took our place in the Gallowgate it was freezing the pitch looked solid in fact you could just see the white lines were they'd cleared the frost the fog was hanging over SJP anyway the match kicked off & we went 1-0 up after about 20 minutes the place went wild towards halftime the fog seemed to drop on SJP & it was getting hard to see the player & the ball. Halftime came the players went off then about 2 minutes later the announcement came over the tannoy the match was abandoned there was hell on we started to make our way out the ground down Westgate Rd towards the Central Station Skinheads were kindly booting peoples car doors in you could hear the sound of shop windows being broken. We made it to the station needing to get home to Felling the police wouldnt let us in the station. So we had to walk over to Worswick St bus station over the other side of town only to find the buses had been stopped we we proceede to walk over the Tyne Bridge home. When i got in mam & dad had been worried because the bother had made the news with shoppers being locked inside Eldon Square for their own safet On reflection the match should never have been started as the pitch looked shocking and even the steps on the Gallowgate were like death traps there's another memory that did happen although i may have the just done some digging it was a league game not a cup game http://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/LeagueTables/Season1976-77/ClubResults/1976-77NewcastleUnited.html

There is no way the makems only took 3 to Grimsby.Everyone knows they take at least 20,000 to every away game .They reckon they're going to take 30,000 to Burton.

With my old man watching 76 cup final manu v Southampton, the following year he's fuckin mortal watching Scotland v England after the lunchtime sesh, throwing his shoes about the living room & roaring like a caged bear, never mind his English born wife and 3 kids, when that goal post broke in two he fuckin loved it I didnt suppprt anyone so one day i asked him who he supported..."Leicester City"..." why them??!" I asked...." the manager is an old mate of mine" It was true too, hed done his national service in Malaya with Jock Wallace in the KOSBs. Then he took me and my brother to our first game, a friendly Poole Town v Southampton, I jumped 10 feet out of the stand to get Lawrie Mac's autograph, got a clip round the lug for that. After that we'd moved to Scotland and it was David Narey v Brazil in the 82 world cup, when that ball hit the back of the net he jumped out his seat and ran around the living room until his specs fell off and smashed on the hearth At that point I was 12, and I wanted to go and watch proper football he said " I don't want you going to Glasgow and getting involved in that bloody nonsense, if you want to you can go to Newcastle with Bobby Pringle and watch them, they're not very good but they've just signed Keegan" ....the rest as they say is history..hes just turned 82 now and is depressed as fuck anout the state of the Scotland team (has been for 20 years now tbf ) but still loves to watch a good game. Lucky still to have him around

... mate, I think you've confused KD with wykiki. Also stop drinking and posting ffs

I don't love them, I love you. You're my sun and stars.

He trudged, I squelched.

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but at least rafa trusts him and will play him, if only as an impact sub. mitro can't even make the bench when everyone's fit. he's done here