Pre Season Friendlies Which Do You Remember?

[freefred]

ok my memory is shocking but I have been reading Jeff Trices fantastic site all morning and it got me thinking. The one that stands out in my mind was seeing a West Ham 11 come down to Hartsdown Park, I was over the moon, my 2 favourite teams playing on the same pitch and the only time I ever saw West Ham live. I rember Julian Dicks taking a penalty saved by our keeper, posiibly a young Lee Turner? is that the right guy? How he was ever brave enough to save it I will never know, Julian Dicks eyes scared me rigid and I was standing in the stands behind the goal.

[Brickie]

Remember it well FF, i was right behind the goal for that pen doing my very best to put him off.

 

Waited outside after the game with my son to try and grab a couple of autographs for him and Tony Cottee invited him onto the coach and got the whole squad to sign his programme, top bloke.

[SteveB]

Was the keeper not Kevin Hudson or even Charlie Mitten. My memory is rubbish, to be fair, but I thought it was a bit too early for Lee. Whoever it was I remember thinking that they would have to pop to Garlinge to get their hand back!!

[Porka]

Was the keeper not Kevin Hudson or even Charlie Mitten. My memory is rubbish, to be fair, but I thought it was a bit too early for Lee. Whoever it was I remember thinking that they would have to pop to Garlinge to get their hand back!!

 

Definitely Kevin Hudson. Was my first game.

[freefred]

I cant remember for sure the keeper, may well have been Kevin Hudson, just know it wasnt Joe Radford I expected to see.

[Drummer]

I cant remember for sure the keeper, may well have been Kevin Hudson, just know it wasnt Joe Radford I expected to see.

 

I know it may sound daft but I don't have any really favourite pre season friendlies of recent years. I find them all enjoyable, perhaps its just the fact that at that point in time we have arrived at what amounts to the start of the season in a way and there is the feeling of anticipation as to how the season is going to go.

 

However, I do have fond memories of what used to be the main preseason game going back to the fifties when it always used to be the anticipated first team against the reserves. I think we all used to hope that the reserves would win!

[JeremyJacobs]

Remember us beating Crewe and Barnsley in friendlies in the late 60's

[freefred]

they sound like fun, a bit before my time to see the games from the fifties and sixties but its the sort of thing I want to know. Everyone has a special league or cup game, from when I started going it was any game we won I seem to remember more draws than anything else. But the pre season that stick out were the West Ham game and a few years later the Charlton game. I remember that one for a new keeper as well.