David L
11:37 Thu Feb 21
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I remember that one!
First game I went to on my own. Stood in the Run.
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Dagenhammer
10:50 Thu Feb 21
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My first game was in February 1968, a week or so before my 10th birthday. We won 7-2 against Fulham.
Let's hope for the same result tomorrow.
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Eastside surge
4:42 Thu Feb 21
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I’m on the pitch during the Liam Brady video it’s my only claim to fame!
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Nutsin
3:29 Thu Feb 21
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My first away game was in the 3rd round of the FA Cup at Southampton in 1975.
I remember Mike Channon scored a penalty for them, I remember Graham Paddon, Clyde Best and Pop Robson for some reason, I was 9 years old....
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easthammer
2:39 Thu Feb 21
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My first game Tuesday 4th November 1956
My first full season 1958 (9d for Kids entrance in either North or South Bank 1/3d Pie & Mash at either Cookes or Muddies)
So by the time the 70s rolled around I had well over a decade of supporting the hammers.
Despite people thinking that 70s and 80 were the mutts. I would beg to differ The 50s and the 60s were much more joyous. True humour on the terraces great atmosphere when the North and South banks swayed in unison (prior to fan segregation) as bubbles broke out only when the team was doing really well and not played in a ritualistic over quick fashion it is today. The team ran out to the "post horn gallop". The hairs on the back of your neck went up. In the early sixities pitch invasion were to celebrate, By the time the 70s rolled around they were of a different kind, I took part in the former but not in the latter by then I was already too old for the mindless charging and the hooliganism the marred the proceedings. I probably watched with considerable disdain many now on WHO who now remember fondly their teenage years gloriously assaulting the opposition fans. The good news for me being that getting tickets became easier as attendances at matches dropped in 70s and you could just pitch up on the day at short notice and be sure of getting in.
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gph
12:37 Thu Feb 21
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I can't remember my first game - would have been very late sixties or 1970.
My old man refused to take me before then - claimed he was worried about my glasses getting smashed, but I suspect he wanted to have a drink or two with his mates without a kid in tow.
Can't forget the first I went to without him though - League Cup semi-final against Stoke...
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13 Brentford Rd
12:28 Thu Feb 21
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Last Brady goal was the Wolves game I was talking about.
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aldgate
12:13 Thu Feb 21
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last brady goal was a great day - also remember the millwall helicopter and the abuse for leighton james when i was a kid - first proper swearing i'd heard
my dad brought me home after first game v burnley and said "what was your favourite song son" to all my relatives sitting there expecting bubbles - i was 5 and hit a full rendition of "we all agree - leighton james is a wan***"
happy days
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Wils
12:03 Thu Feb 21
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Was just watching this, Liam Brady scoring last goal of the season triggering a pitch invasion which was not treated like a big deal. Even the commentator calls it a "party atmosphere"
https://youtu.be/BPOsnU1IyPk?t=7528
It's 1990 so just after the 1980's, obviously. But you can see from the video that everyone was much younger than the average fan now. You just wouldn't seen a scene like that anymore.
But also some of the other matches in that whole video from that season you can see are very subdued. Some of the goals are cheered less enthusiastically han they are now. But mid table old division 2 perhaps that was to be expected.
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Fifth Column
11:41 Wed Feb 20
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My first match was 1983. We scored a free kick winner in the dying minutes. That gave me a false sense of supporting West Ham.
It was louder, funnier and more aggressive.
Having said this, there were periods where we were doing badly where it was still very quiet sometimes. It wasn't the season long 90 minutes singing that it's made out sometimes.
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13 Brentford Rd
11:06 Wed Feb 20
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Imho the intensity & Atmosphere changed mid 90s.
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13 Brentford Rd
10:48 Wed Feb 20
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Villa QF in 1980 was mental, nearly got crushed at the end in the South Bank as everyone tried to get on the pitch, got twisted around with back arched over the front wall legs trapped, thought it was going to collapse.
Coventry SF in the LC 81 in the West Side, was absolutely packed, must have been at 40k there. When Jimmy Neighbour scored at the end it was mental.
Used to live standing in the North Bank at the back looking down on all the heads.
Bond scheme protests were a laugh, on the pitch and staying behind in the West Side.
Remember a Wimbledon LC game midweek which was strangely mental and intense for a mid round LC tie esp when Mad Dig scored the winner with a volley from just inside the box.
Wolves last game of the season, hundreds / thousands on the pitch after with a ball going goal to goal and everyone chasing it and trying to grab it, was like the early games of football.
Tiblisi and Newcastle 8-1 stick in the mind.
Went throughout the 70s too but was young so memory sketchy, always seemed such a special occasion going though.
Hard to convey what it was like, I suppose the passion and intensity being much more heightened and the lack of daytrippers is the best way to convey it. Hardcore!
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Troy McClure
9:09 Wed Feb 20
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Look what the Troyster found....
https://youtu.be/S9DNKU8QFIk
(Boro game)
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Side of Ham
8:48 Wed Feb 20
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We are the famous, the famous West Ham.
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aldgate
8:38 Wed Feb 20
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I was born under the north bank bar...
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Sven Roeder
8:36 Wed Feb 20
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In my memory it was at the other end.
Must be going (gone) senile
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One McAvennieeeeee
8:28 Wed Feb 20
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"Bernie Slaven scored at the South Bank end didn’t he?"
No.
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Side of Ham
8:11 Wed Feb 20
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Whatever end it was it was fucking grim, it also confirmed for me i definitely like to take my bitter football pills standing up and not sitting down hence when all the seats went in UP was lost for me.
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Sven Roeder
8:05 Wed Feb 20
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Bernie Slaven scored at the South Bank end didn’t he?
And then again promptly
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Troy McClure
7:57 Wed Feb 20
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Northern Sold 5:52 Wed Feb 20
Oh God yes. 2 late strikes wasn’t it. North bank end. Nail in the ol relegation coffin that was.
Can I raise you a Notts County?
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lab
7:40 Wed Feb 20
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Big bongie, apology , got yer name wrong.
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