Opening day of the season memories (6 Viewers)

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Sky_Blue_Daz

Sky_Blue_Daz

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97/98 beating Chelsea at home 3-2 Dion scored a hatrick, high field road bathed in sunshine had my first ever season ticket with my best mate, block q row t seat 25 in the McDonald's family stand.
Off to the courtyard after the game, hangovers and mortgages were never heard of
 
I_Saw_Shaw_Score

I_Saw_Shaw_Score

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The swatting away of Chelsea (2 years in a row I think?) 3-2 & 2-1 as we eased to wins over them! And Eddie Newton pulling his shorts down in celebration in the 2-1 game I think!
 
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shy_tall_knight

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1987 opening game against Spurs at Highfield Road, having beaten them a few months earlier at Wembley did it again with new signing Speedie scoring a cracker.
1990 away at Old Trafford - boiling hot day packed into the away terrace at old Trafford, fan next to me had the worst BO (body odour) people were fainting most thought it was the heat we knew it was that fan's armpits
2001 Stockport -2-0 romp "going to pi$$ this league !!!"
 
NortonSkyBlue

NortonSkyBlue

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Beating Manchester United 2-1 in the first game at the all seater HR in 81. Sexton was sacked after winning the last seven games of the previous season with united and then joining us and beating them.
We then lost to Stoke and Notts County!
 
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Gosford Green

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87/88.
We'd just won the cup and signed one of the best strikers in the country(David Speedie from Chelsea). We beat Spurs 2-1 and the sun was out, there was talk of challenging for the title.

20 years later we can`t sign freebies form non league and are facing life in the old 4th division. A cloud of uncertainty sits over the club.
One positive though, we haven't signed Kevin Drinkall.
 
no_loyalty

no_loyalty

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As suggested, the 3-2 Chelsea match was a classic.

The worst was the 3-1 home defeat to Middlesbrough in our relegation season, it just didn't get any better
 
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AlansEyes

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Shamefully, my two fondest opening day memories are from games I wasn't at. I remember staring at the league table for ages after the 3-0 Arsenal win and watching it on MOTD. The other one that sticks out is the Dion hat trick as we beat Chelsea 3-2. It was my 12th birthday and I remember playing Resident Evil 2 (on the big telly downstairs as a birthday treat) with the sound off and the match on the radio. I was a mixture of terrified and elated.

My biggest memory of an opening day game I was at is, depressingly, the 3-0 loss to Forest. I see to remember the game being summed up by a Dion diving header that went out for a throw in.
 
Irish Sky Blue

Irish Sky Blue

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One of the most memorable first days for me was the 3-0 win at Goodison Park in the seventies. David Cross scored a hat trick. On the last day of the season at Burnley we won again with another David Cross hat trick.
The thing that stands out for me from the 2-1 win against Spurs was the way Lloyd McGrath played. Lloyd was known for his ability as a man marker, for his tough tackling, his "engine" and his bravery. That day he passed the ball like Hoddle. He was the complete midfield player.
 
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rupert_bear

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Irish Sky Blue said:
One of the most memorable first days for me was the 3-0 win at Goodison Park in the seventies. David Cross scored a hat trick. On the last day of the season at Burnley we won again with another David Cross hat trick.
The thing that stands out for me from the 2-1 win against Spurs was the way Lloyd McGrath played. Lloyd was known for his ability as a man marker, for his tough tackling, his "engine" and his bravery. That day he passed the ball like Hoddle. He was the complete midfield player.
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Think that was a 4-1 victory I'm not sure if Everton were reigning champions, was certainly shock of the day.
 
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Speedies_Chips

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Gosford Green said:
87/88.
We'd just won the cup and signed one of the best strikers in the country(David Speedie from Chelsea). We beat Spurs 2-1 and the sun was out, there was talk of challenging for the title.

20 years later we can`t sign freebies form non league and are facing life in the old 4th division. A cloud of uncertainty sits over the club.
One positive though, we haven't signed Kevin Drinkall.
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Make that 30 years.
 
Brylowes

Brylowes

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no_loyalty said:
As suggested, the 3-2 Chelsea match was a classic.

The worst was the 3-1 home defeat to Middlesbrough in our relegation season, it just didn't get any better
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The Chelsea game was Brilliant, traveled up with a Chelsea supporting mate, we got digs at A real rough
house pub on the foleshill rd £5 each, it was boiling hot & all the windows were nailed shut:playful:
We sat in the Sky Blue Stand surrounded by Chelsea Fans with whom I took part in some "friendly" banter,
I was quite impressed with them 'especially when despite their obvious disappointment they took the time
To "pat me on the back" and congratulate me on the result, at least I was until we got outside and my mate
Pointed out my back was covered in chewing gum:yawn:

The Middlesbrough game was terrible, or would have been if I wasn't on my stag do '14 of us from the east
Coast stayed at the Britannia in the city centre, fantastic weekend on the pisss, still often talked about by
Those that were there. Sadly the Marriage went the same way as that season.
 
Astute

Astute

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jas365 said:
Always Arsenal 3-0 Quinn hattrick
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Best game I ever saw with us at Arsenal as well.

But my best memories of him was the first time I saw him. Was wondering why we had signed a fat bloke. By the end of the game I knew why. Then he kept scoring. Couldn't believe it. Hardly ran anywhere. But if the ball came to him it just seemed to go in the net. Opposing players just bounced off him. Something like 10 goals in first 6 games for us.
 
Skybluefaz

Skybluefaz

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Middlesbrough fans singing "where's your Keano gone?" Boksic ripping us apart then David Thompson gets sent off on his debut and you just had a feeling that it was going to be a bad season.
 
CovisGod

CovisGod

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Mine was also 97/98, I was 11 years old, the two previous seasons me and my Dad had been to a few games but then on the first day of the 97/98 season my Dad presented me with an earlier Christmas present, my very first Season Ticket.

Good times
 
baldy

baldy

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The first day of the 1st Prem season & beating Boro 2-1...I was on the way back home from a family hol on the coach & just remember feeling elated that we'd scored the 2nd fastest goal of the day & from one of Bobby Goulds signings that I was weirdly excited about,John Williams
 
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phildownunder

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Mine is an ancient one from August 1963. Like a lot of old fellers I can`t remember where I`ve left my keys (and much else) half the time but I can recall that day well.
The Jimmy Hill revolution was in full swing and most of us couldn`t wait for the season to start even though City had had a poor pre-season.
There were 26,000 odd at HR and the opponents were Crystal Palace who were fancied for promotion themselves, and they`d come with a game plan which was to kick City off the park. They were all at it, even the forwards, but it didn`t do them any good. City beat them 5-1 with Ronnie Farmer getting a hat trick including two penalties.
I still remember by heart the line up which became the first choice during the great run that City went on in the first half of that season.

Wesson,Sillett,Kearns,Hill,Curtis,Farmer,Humphries,Hale,Hudson,Machin,Rees
 
itsabuzzard

itsabuzzard

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3-0 humbling of Arsenal, 1993, Quinn hat-trick. Stumbled out of a Glasgow hospital late afternoon following the birth of our first daughter, just in time to catch the results on the car radio. Joy unconfined.

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Ashdown

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Loved the opening days ! New City shirt { Tacchini or Ellesse back in the 80's }, check out who sits/stands around you, expectation, lovely sunny day, catch up with mates you mainly saw at the football, trying to calculate attendance, pub garden before and after the match, MOTD in the old days before bed.
 
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