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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Dec 9, 2015 19:20:23 GMT
Really bored as no new thread to feel I can contribute to!
So, without giving your age or era away, wondered who you went with and age of your first match (that you can remember)? Also...was it win, draw or lose?
If anyone is sad enough to play such an inane thread, go ahead...
...if not, don't blame ya, it's shot!
Mine is: Aged 8; with dad, win 2-1..
Quick, call Childline....I've been hoodwinked into being a GasHead ever since!
Wonder if there is a pattern...!?
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Post by biggsy on Dec 9, 2015 19:31:12 GMT
Your old man sounds like a great bloke, you should buy him a few beers as a thank you! just imagine what sort of life you would have had if he'd have been a Sh*thead!!!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2015 19:51:14 GMT
I was 9, with some strangers that my dad met in the pub, and we drew 1-1.
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Post by Finnish Gas on Dec 9, 2015 20:00:55 GMT
Bristol Rovers v Sheffield Wednesday, 30 April 1959 Score 2-1 to Bristol Rovers Competition League Division Two Attendance 16,653
Aged 9. In the South Stand (on those old wooden seats) with my Dad.
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Archie Stevens
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Post by simonj on Dec 9, 2015 20:03:28 GMT
V Luton, uncle took me, around early 70's, in the South Stand, want to say 2-1 or 2-2 ish. All I remember is not knowing what the hell was going on.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Dec 9, 2015 20:05:44 GMT
Your old man sounds like a great bloke, you should buy him a few beers as a thank you! just imagine what sort of life you would have had if he'd have been a Sh*thead!!! Compared to Astafjevs, I agree!
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Dec 9, 2015 20:07:48 GMT
V Luton, uncle took me, around early 70's, in the South Stand, want to say 2-1 or 2-2 ish. All I remember is not knowing what the hell was going on. So your excuse is keep going back until you do know what's going on?! *knowing wink!*
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Post by gasheadpirate on Dec 9, 2015 20:10:39 GMT
The old Division 2 (now Championship) away at the Dell when Southampton got promoted to Div one (I think that was 78) and we had Bobby Gould playing for us. We lost 3-1 and I was in the Saints end as Dad supported them. Rovers were my second team as a kid but a few years later in my late teens I saw the light. :-)
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Post by lostinspace on Dec 9, 2015 20:18:42 GMT
Easter around 1965 or 66 v Torquay, evening game South stand enclosure , win 3 -1 played with orange ball, which at one ended up on the roof of the North stand .....back home to Shepton Mallet from Gurney Slade on the bus with amy wooden rattle making as much noise as it would, got a rollicking from M & D never realised it was by then gone 11:30 in the evening!! happy days i was around 11 or 12
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2015 20:26:30 GMT
Your old man sounds like a great bloke, you should buy him a few beers as a thank you! just imagine what sort of life you would have had if he'd have been a Sh*thead!!! Compared to Astafjevs, I agree! He knew them, it was me who didn't! He ran the pub, too. Anyway I thought we weren't meant to be saying when it was?!
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Dec 9, 2015 20:51:59 GMT
Compared to Astafjevs, I agree! He knew them, it was me who didn't! He ran the pub, too. Anyway I thought we weren't meant to be saying when it was?! That's a great story as it'll be forever forged in pub legend! I wonder, Ast....do you still see the same faces at Gas games? *seems like no one is playing the game of anonymous era*
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Post by eastville1966 on Dec 9, 2015 20:54:00 GMT
September 1966. Home match against Swindon. I was 6 years of age, and my Grandad bought tickets for me and my cousin for the South Stand. Mum and Dad bought me a rattle, bobble hat, scarf and rosette. Won 3-0 I recall and I was hooked. Remember the wooden seats, the way the stand seemed to rock back and forth whenever we scored, and the roar from the Tote End to my left. Nearly 50 years a Gashead now and still enjoy it with my son.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Dec 9, 2015 21:02:18 GMT
Seems like most of us are victims of some kind of abuse!
Sheff Wed and Southampton are bad enough, but we've got evidence of Luton, Torquay and (mine) Hereford.
Its also common (so it seems) for indoctrinations' to take hold as a teen.
Definite pattern..
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Post by traveling_wilbury on Dec 9, 2015 21:16:51 GMT
I suspect my first game was probably mid to late 80's when Rovers would play Southend at Roots Hall. My dad was born in Bristol (and the only Gashead in his family) but moved to Southend when he married my mum and brought me up a Rovers supporter. He used to be a copper and would be on duty for Southend games and would sneak me in for free so I would guess that would have been my first sight of Rovers playing.
Otherwise I became a more regular watcher around 2000/2001 when I was made redundant from work and went to loads of games that season.
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Post by ashperry83 on Dec 9, 2015 21:24:52 GMT
Wolves home. March 1993. 1-1 with Steve Bull scoring for Wolves and Boris Mehew for the Gas. Hooked ever since.
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Post by DudeLebowski on Dec 9, 2015 21:44:26 GMT
Home to Hull in the early 90's with my football team as part of the 'Saturday team club'. Had a look around Twerton & a training session in the morning etc...I believe we won and im certain Gurney got sent off. Can't be too sure though.
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Post by Alveston Gas on Dec 9, 2015 21:50:26 GMT
October 1961 v Crewe lost 2.1 on the wall in the North Enclosure just on the Muller Road End side of the halfway line.
Got t Keep your feet off the Greyhound Floodlights!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2015 22:14:11 GMT
He knew them, it was me who didn't! He ran the pub, too. Anyway I thought we weren't meant to be saying when it was?! That's a great story as it'll be forever forged in pub legend! I wonder, Ast....do you still see the same faces at Gas games? *seems like no one is playing the game of anonymous era* Sadly we lost contact with the pub crowd a year or so afterwards, I'm not sure I'd recognise them now and I'm sure they wouldn't recognise me 24 years later! I hope they still go though!
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Dec 9, 2015 22:32:00 GMT
I suspect my first game was probably mid to late 80's when Rovers would play Southend at Roots Hall. My dad was born in Bristol (and the only Gashead in his family) but moved to Southend when he married my mum and brought me up a Rovers supporter. He used to be a copper and would be on duty for Southend games and would sneak me in for free so I would guess that would have been my first sight of Rovers playing. Otherwise I became a more regular watcher around 2000/2001 when I was made redundant from work and went to loads of games that season. What a season to see loads of games! Brilliant storyline and how you became Gas..
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Post by mjg on Dec 9, 2015 22:36:16 GMT
27 December 1976 home v Wolves, lost 1 - 5. I was 11. Demanded of my Dad that we left when 0 - 4 down (lightweight). A year later.....
27 December 1977, v Crystal Palace. With my Dad and a load of kids from his class at Embleton Junior School in Southmead. I was 12. Won 3 - 0. We were in the South Enclosure. I remember a Palace sub warming up along the dog track about 10 minutes before the end right in front of us and him getting a load of innocent gip from us 'too late now' etc. I have convinced myself over the years that it might have been Vince Hilaire but I could be completely wrong about that.
I also remember an England v Spain under 21s match in 1975 when I went with my Dad and a bunch of his pupils and we sat in the North Stand and the noise of all the fans banging their seats in unison was nothing I'd ever heard before. I was 9 then. Bryan Robson, Peter Barnes and Ray Wilkins were playing, amongst others of course. I have a feeling it was 1 v 1. It as freezing so I guess it was winter. An evening game, dead exotic.
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