When did you first become a Stokie?

[Miniman]

I got thinking and thinking today and thought about how some stokies are very new and only just realised they 'Love stoke' and some are loyal and have stood by the club for Donkey's years, so I pose the question....

[glow=red,2,300]When did you first become a Stokie?[/glow]

-I was 5 years old and got given two football shirts:
-Manure
-Stoke
I had to choose one and went for Stoke...simple!!!

My first game was against Preston in '97/98 and we lost 1-0 after a Michael Jackson goal....

[Tubes]

Boothen End, The Victoria Ground, 10th October 1992, Stoke City vs Leyton Orient, aged 6.

We won 2-1 (although I can't remember that fact)

the old man just used to lift me over the turnstiles, as I'm sure many did.

First had a season ticket for the last year at the Vic.

[DansViews]

I was 5 and for some reason i remember it clearly

2-2 with Swindon, my old man sat me on the red barriers in the stand.. when we scored, he lost me.

[knowles]

Sunday at about 15.51

My first match was January 1993 at home to Mansfield. We won 4-0. Never looked back since

[panini2001]

West Ham around 72/73 ish

[Huddysleftfoot]

May 8, 2008 20:25:04 GMT Miniman said:

I got thinking and thinking today and thought about how some stokies are very new and only just realised they 'Love stoke' and some are loyal and have stood by the club for Donkey's years, so I pose the question....

[glow=red,2,300]When did you first become a Stokie?[/glow]

-I was 5 years old and got given two football shirts:
-Manure
-Stoke
I had to choose one and went for Stoke...simple!!!

My first game was against Preston in '97/98 and we lost 1-0 after a Michael Jackson goal....

Hope the goal was a Thriller, or was it Off the Wall? ;D

Mine was v Arse, early 70's Alan Ball's debut (think he was the first £200,000 player) It was foggy and the only things that stood out were Bally's red hair and white "gay boy" boots ;D

And I think it was a 0-0 draw.

[Hammo]

10 years ago this season, at the ripe old age of 6:D
I think it was Portsmouth at the brit. 2-1 maybe?

[madeleyite]

1981 Stoke 1 Arse 1. Got in free when me dad lifted me over the turnstiles.

[stokiematt]

mine was oldham 1996ish and was 6 dunno the score

[Cliffer]

20 years ago...

[crashbandicoot]

When my Dad first took me to the last game at the vic when we beat the baggies, hooked ever since

Can only really remember going on the pitch after the match tho!!

[together we are stoke]

i cant believe it but i cant remember my first game, ive been going since i was a toddler, i would say 1993/94 season was when i was first introduced at the tender age of 4 but memory is vague, john gayle used to be my favourite player when i was a little, can anyone help in telling me what years he played for stoke

[imallstokedup]

I wish I knew !!

I'm pretty sure my first game was in Division 1, v Brighton and Chamberlain scored. Think it was 3-0.

I do know I was in the paddock next to the tunnel.

CAN ANYBODY HELP ON THE YEAR ?

[Boyceys been up the attic]

About 74,cant remember which match,but went every home and most aways for 15 years.Got totally pissed off and vowed i wouldn't watch them until there was more commitment,cracked 3 years ago cus the missus said i should take the kids to a match,they were hooked straight away,so was i,and have had season tickets for the last 2 seasons
Only goode thing the missus has ever done

[Boyceys been up the attic]

100th post
Get in
Karma 2 me sen
;D

[Premier League Bluto]

sadly 1965(approx)
First game was a friendly against Celtic i think we won,later watched us play & beat all the current day top clubs

[Huddysleftfoot]

May 8, 2008 20:33:20 GMT panini2001 said:

West Ham around 72/73 ish

They were always cracking games v West Ham, remember them well.

[Deleted]

Stoke v Sunderland in 1968 was my first match standing in the boys paddock between the Stoke End and the Butler Street Paddock. Stoke won 4 -2.

[apb1979]

i first became a Stokie on Feb 16th 1989 when we played Wolves at the Vic. We won 2-0 with Ian Scott and Gary HAckett scoring.

[Squeekster]

Birmingham City 79 must have bin first season back in div 1 won 1-0 a few scattered games after but 86 started work then never stopped since!

86 (16 year old lad)

[stokey-pokey pudding and pie]

first game was may 85 - 5 months old(the match that put us down vs cov)

first knew i was a proper fan when i was 5 or 6 and nearly got killed in the old boothen, seriously, but still went back the next week

[Mozzaa]

i was about 3 months old i dont member what happened but i know who we played because my dad told me ;D it was Exeter Away 92'.. dont member anything off it but watched the Video ;D... 1-0 Mark Stein in that Purple Shirt lol

[NE8Stokie]

28th May 1975 when i popped out into the world.

[myleftboot]

Boothen End v Millwall in 1995 was when I finally caught the home and away bug. I had been a Stokie for years but my mate went down and I said I would go with him. It was amazing. A wall of intimidation. Millwall were top of the league at the time and when we beat them they dropped down the league like a parachute with an anvil tied to it.

Always remember the entire Boothen all shouting "FUCK OFF MILLWALL" in unison everytime Millwall came near the Stoke goal over and over again. The hairs on the back of my neck stood on end and from there I have only missed games in my university years.

£5 to get in the Boothen back in them days. It was money well spent and totally affordable.

It's a sunject I love talking about in the boozer all the time ;D

[rafstacker]

1975 against Wolves

Used to sit in the Butler Street stand with me ol' man

I was the ripe old age of 6

[plumuk]

First time i went see stoke was with the school and we went see them training and i was 12 then im now 38.I didnt go see them play for a long time but in my house i had a brother who was stoke mad.The first match i went to after that was 11 years ago it was at tranmere and i have never regretted.

[tampon]

I was a Stoke fan before i was even born, couldn't not be in my family. First game as a toddler at the Vic just to the left of the Boothen, all I remember from the game is the noise, i wore cotton wool in my ears for every game after that until i was about 9. First game I really remembered was plymouth at home with a mammoth double save from Peter Fox... and a pitch invasion at the end that I didn't really understand at the time, it made my old man happy though.
Been a season ticket holder for 13 of my 21 years on the planet.

[crimesy]

my 1st game was when i was a toddler, just old enough to see the last game at the old vic acordin to me old man.. last game i rememba was when we lost 4-2 to bristol rovers in division 2 , got a half season ticket the same year and a season ticket afta that for another 6 years until me dad got a job in london and i cudn make the night games , when i hit 18/or me dad gets a job close to home il be back on track for a season ticket ;D ( i know you didnt ask 4 my life story but ... ) ;D

[isawthelight]

Stokie from birth. Dad was fanatical.
I cannot remember my first home game but my first away game was Sheffield Utd away March 1979 - aged 6!!!. Remember a transit van full of Stokies in my uncles transit van going over buxton.
I was unaware of it then but we pushing for a promotion place into old div 1.
Finished 3rd I think.

[Yorkshirepotter]

Like most it was decided for me, but it was confirmed in 1992(ish)on the old away terrace at Leeds Road, Huddersfield. My second game was the Autoglass Final at Wembley, also in '92.

I love the fact that after nearly 17 years as a Stokie, im now being called a glory hunter by the locals ;D

My daughter officially became a Stokie at 9 months old, against Burnley this year, and she was there to celebrate with us on Tuesday night too. So proud