Opening day of the season memories (2 Viewers)

Sky_Blue_Daz · Aug 1, 2017

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

jas365 · Aug 1, 2017

Always Arsenal 3-0 Quinn hattrick

christonabike · Aug 1, 2017

Same as Daz!
Any ponies for us this week Daz?

Sky_Blue_Daz · Aug 1, 2017

christonabike said:
Same as Daz!
Any ponies for us this week Daz?

Pick any horse that I don't mate layful:

I_Saw_Shaw_Score · Aug 1, 2017

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!

matesx · Aug 1, 2017

went up with HR in Aug 96' on that sunny day expecting a great start...

Coventry City 0 Nottingham Forest 3

gutted me, Kevin fucking Campbell hatrick

Liquid Gold · Aug 1, 2017

Beating Sunderland at HR when they were just relegated and making fun of Mart Poom all day.

Cranfield Sky Blue · Aug 1, 2017

matesx said:
went up with HR in Aug 96' on that sunny day expecting a great start...

Coventry City 0 Nottingham Forest 3

gutted me, Kevin fucking Campbell hatrick

That was the first game I ever took my two sons to..... A glimpse of things to come for them!

fernandopartridge · Aug 1, 2017

matesx said:
went up with HR in Aug 96' on that sunny day expecting a great start...

Coventry City 0 Nottingham Forest 3

gutted me, Kevin fucking Campbell hatrick

Yeah, went that game and the week before when we got trounced 7-2 by Benfica. The writing was on the wall and we basically were relegated that season, lucky the FA were so punitive on Middlesbrough.

Liquid Gold · Aug 1, 2017

Cranfield Sky Blue said:
That was the first game I ever took my two sons to..... A glimpse of things to come for them!

My first game was Boxing day when we beat Villa 3-0 92 or 93. I thought it was all gonna be great.

shy_tall_knight · Aug 1, 2017

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 · Aug 1, 2017

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!

Gosford Green · Aug 1, 2017

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 · Aug 1, 2017

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

Voice_of_Reason · Aug 1, 2017

jas365 said:
Always Arsenal 3-0 Quinn hattrick

My favourite memory to

AlansEyes · Aug 1, 2017

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.

oscillatewildly · Aug 1, 2017

matesx said:
went up with HR in Aug 96' on that sunny day expecting a great start...

Coventry City 0 Nottingham Forest 3

gutted me, Kevin fucking Campbell hatrick

Daish looked appalling in that game and largely followed it up.

LastGarrison · Aug 1, 2017

Barnsley away in 2007 when we smashed them 4-1 in glorious sunshine!!

Still one of the drunkenest days of my life. And I've had one or two.

oscillatewildly · Aug 1, 2017

Edgeley Park 2001. We just knew we were gonna bounce back at the first attempt.

no_loyalty · Aug 1, 2017

oscillatewildly said:
Edgeley Park 2001. We just knew we were gonna bounce back at the first attempt.

At least the song we sang "we'll never play here again" looks like coming true :facepalm:

MusicDating · Aug 1, 2017

Couple of posters mentioned this one...

Irish Sky Blue · Aug 1, 2017

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.

rupert_bear · Aug 1, 2017

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.

Think that was a 4-1 victory I'm not sure if Everton were reigning champions, was certainly shock of the day.

Irish Sky Blue · Aug 1, 2017

rupert_bear said:
Think that was a 4-1 victory I'm not sure if Everton were reigning champions, was certainly shock of the day.

Yes think you are right. Memory not what it was!

Speedies_Chips · Aug 1, 2017

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.

Make that 30 years.

Brylowes · Aug 1, 2017

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

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 shutlayful:
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 · Aug 2, 2017

jas365 said:
Always Arsenal 3-0 Quinn hattrick

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.

clint van damme · Aug 2, 2017

matesx said:
went up with HR in Aug 96' on that sunny day expecting a great start...

Coventry City 0 Nottingham Forest 3

gutted me, Kevin fucking Campbell hatrick

came home in a foul mood after that and had a massive argument with the missus which resulted in us not going out for the meal we had booked - great times!

Skybluefaz · Aug 2, 2017

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 · Aug 2, 2017

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 · Aug 2, 2017

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

phildownunder · Aug 2, 2017

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 · Aug 2, 2017

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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Sky Blue Pete · Aug 3, 2017

In France for the Dion hatrick and finding out later that night was a great feeling. In the days pre internet etc etc

Ashdown · Aug 3, 2017

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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