My First Game

[Dominic]

I remember going when I was about 6 with my Uncle, that would be 1992. Cant remember who it was against but i remember standing near the away turnstiles and missed all the goals! But the first game I have actual memories of was in 97/98 when we played stalybridge celtic, i think we won 3-0.

[Rebel Kay]

I wonder what Tom and Scarlett's memories of their first games will be. Tom's was Harrow Borough in about 2000 But says the first he remembers is Harrogate Railway. Bet he won't forget Walsall. Scarletts was home to Leyton Pennant at 7 days old. Bet she won't remember one for another few years yet. Although no doubt she'll see the clips of Walsall enough times to think she remembers it.

[Rebel Brewer]

FA Amateur Cup Semi v Dagenham in 1970. 3-3 draw at Craven Cottage. Lost replay 2-1 at Charlton. Both great games and PACKED OUT. Highlights on ITV's Big Match the next day. Irony was we nearly won the first game when they clearly bested us and lost the second when (in the eyes of this 8 year old) we were the better team. Winning goal came from a poorly punched clearance from our amateur international goalie Ian Wolstenholme, which explains why I wince to this day when a goalie chooses to punch rather than catch.

[Radders]

Like you Dom, I can't remember exactly when my first game was. I believe I started going around 1990/91/92 with my uncle and grandad but exact dates escape me. The first two matches I remember are the FA Cup match at Birmingham in 1994 and a league match against Dagenham on New Years Day (1995 I think) when we won 3-0 and Darren Hancock scored a screamer. I only remember that cos my parents came (VERY RARE).

[Guest]

My first game slough v hounslow 1968 at the dolphin i think slough won 1-0 and Bob Gibbs may have been manager; this was an Athenian league Div 1 game

[charlie]

My god, so many great stories... how on earth can i compete with that?

sheesh. Thanks for the thought though marcus... you're a diamond... (no slushy stuff i promise)

[Guest]

First time ever was our second round match with Bishops Stortford in 1982 after we'd beaten Millwall in the first round. Remember Dylan Evan's equaliser seemed to take a week to creep over the line, but then everyones favourite rubbish keeper gifted them some goals and we lost 4-1. Pre-terrace days at Wexham Park, so loads of muddy kids from falling down the grass banks behind the goals. Started watching regularly a couple of seasons later when legends like Rowan Dodds, Chalky White & Joe Maloney were playing in the Amber & Blue.

 

Sadly for the last 6 years I've been working for YHA so Saturdays have been work days rather than football days.

[Guest]

N.b when i watched that Slough v Houslow game i had to walk from the Farnham rd to the Dolphin and

back again as i only enough pocket money left to see the game.By the way i forgot to post my name

(Pete Bridle)

[Ian]

Despite having followed the Rebels' results for years since moving to Slough, the first game I ever saw I was supporting the opposition! Slough played Watford reserves about 7 or 8 years ago in a pre-season friendly which ended 2-2 with Slough coming back from 2-0 down at halftime.

 

As Kay pointed out, Scarlett's first game was when she was 7 days old ( I can't believe she missed the Wealdstone game when she was 3 days!) which means by around March she'll have clocked up 100 games. On that basis I reckon she'll pass the quarter of a century before she comes close to remembering any of them!

[Guest]

1964 v Hemel Hempstead ....

 

40 years this year !! yes I am Old ...and Blad...

 

LOL......Chris Sliski

[GarySTFC]

So as the above post indicates, Chris Sliski was a late starter to watching Slough, beginning to watch in his late teens onwards!!!!

[Nathan]

Only been following the Rebels for a few years. first game was pre-season 99/00 sometime in July against Bristol Rovers. Think it ended 1-1.

[Guest]

1967 F.A Amateur Cup versus Skemersdale United.

All ticket 9000,but extra people still got in-they had to sit behind the goal on the grass.Score was 2-2 and Mullen missed a penalty when 2-1.

Team if memory serves me was:-

Reynolds-Wilkes-Bell-Delaney-Scott-Hatt-Hartridge-Stevens-Kelman-Mullen-Wright.( all of these would walk into todays team).

Replay at Skem 7000 all ticket 20 coaches plus cars and trains-we lost 1-0 had the coaches stoned.Skem were coached by Liverpool centre forward Ian St.John and 9 of that side turned professional-all bar the centre half and goalkeeper, both of whom played against us in 1969.

[Martin]

I know my first game was in 1988. But I can't remember much more than that. My first ever "live" football match was New Years Day 1988 and I know I followed it up with a Slough game later that year. Amazing how little of football matches you remember from when you were 7.

 

Intrigued by the question, I started digging out my old programmes, the first one I appear to have bought was home to Barrow AFC in October 1990. The programme is about twelve pages long and cost 60p.

 

Names to remember from the team: Trevor Bunting, Vernon Pratt, Neal Stanley, Tommy Langley and Steve Thompson.

 

I think it was our sixth home game of the season and we were about 16th. Barrow were proclaimed as FA Trophy winners on the front of the programme.

 

I noticed that our reserves were top of the Capital League as well....

[Guest]

Not my first game but I'll never forget watching STFC vs Merthyr Tydfil in the Conference on Boxing Day in about 1990. A horrible cold, bleak, wind-whipped day when spicules of ice went straight through your scarf and most supporters had stayed at home. Tommy Hutchinson was coach for Merthyr and was taking corners in the warm-up. A few of us talked to him from the fence and this mustachio'd man who'd famously scored at both ends in a Cup Final never got a cross more than a foot from the target despite our hoots of derision. Shame he wasn't paying for the Rebels. I forget the score.

 

(Rod)

[Tuffley Rebel]

My first game was the late eighties but can't remember who against. It was when the two ends were still grass banks, before we got promoted to the conference.Back then most of the kids used to spend the whole game playing football on the training pitch where the driving range now is. Bunting, Thommo and Stanley were the best players back then.

I vaguely remember playing Barnet in a friendly and getting hammered about 6-0.

When we got in the conference and put concrete and fencing round the ground I was still small enough to be able to slide in under the fencing at the hospital end, but the club soon got wise to this and blocked the gap.