Your First Stoke Game.......

[Deleted]

.....Can you remember it?

My dad was always too busy playing football himself - i never saw stoke play until my mates dad took us to see an evening game in the late 60's against leeds - at the back of the stoke end - great memories - i remember thinking how good harry burrows was

[scfc2010]

i cant remember , but my dad tells me its wigan at home at 2 ... i fell asleep

[Deleted]

I remember my first game. It was a league cup game v Oldham. I think it was in 2000, It was 0-0 and went onto lose in the penelty shootout.

[stokie25]

i went with my dad, can't remember what game and we haven't spoken for donkeys years, so i can't ask I know i was 6, very cold, very bored and we must've lost as he was in a foul mood

[Staffsoatcake]

V Huddersfield 61/62 season.

[PerCyfilth ....Captains Log]

Burnley at the Vic 1952 ... we got relegated that year.....

[ashbankultra]

Mine was in 1985. We beat Barnsley 3-1 at home. Cant remember a thing about it. i was only 5.

[KDT_SCFC]

Lewes 01/02 fa cup

[jonnynico]

The first game sir stan came back. Stood at the back of the old stoke end, no roof just a cinder bank.

[lawrieleslie]

Sept 28, 2010 19:13:26 GMT PerCyfilth ....Captains Log said:

Burnley at the Vic 1952 ... we got relegated that year.....

Mine was Burnley as well but 11 years later and our first season back in top flight. 4-4 draw after we were 3-0 up at half time. Eddie Clamp got straight red for head butt on Burnley player. I remember he never even waited for the ref to send him off he just walked down the tunnel. Does anybody remember which player he decked. Funny enough my next game was couple of weeks later when we drew with Sheff Wed 4-4 again and were 3-1 up at half time.

[muckakev]

Mine was about 1979/80 we played Liverpool at home and i think it was on a Sunday afternoon. All i can remember about it is, we lost.

[GeneralFaye]

I know we won 2-1 and it was either against WBA or Grimsby, early 90's

[alster]

Stoke end early 70's vs god knows who, result who knows. Didn't really become a regular until the Durban era.

[mattscfc]

The top of the table clash with WBA in 1992 was my first game, 1-0 win. Capacity crowd in fact it was so packed one stokie had to climb the floodlight pylon between the boothen and butler st stand to see the game - legendary behaviour

[buddha]

stoke city 0 ipswich 1 jan 12th 1980 . mariner for ipswich crooks hit the bar twice . ipswich were a top side in them days always top 3 in div 1 and in europe .

[joinerssquire]

Mine was the late 1960's cant remember the exact season but we lost at home to Fulham. Dad plonked me on the white wall at the Stoke End and went a few rows back with the other Dads. Great days!!

[robwahlmann]

Live in England at the Brit against Derby in January 2003, we lost 1-2 Greenacre scored for us. First time live was a pre season match against Rosenborg in the mid-eighties when we won 2-0, Fox saved a penalty as well!

[mattscfc]

And there's the owd pylon above - nice one budda!

[scotpotter]

3-1 Everton I think in '81. Inchy got one and Chapman got two or the other way around.

[gibby1409]

0-0 against Manure in 1969!

[stokecity1863]

at the vic must have been about 1989-1990 we lost to tranmere rovers cant remember the score i was only 2 or somthing like that lol

[E1 Potter]

Stoke 2 Arsenal 1 in 1982 - George Berry scored!

[scfc2010]

Sept 28, 2010 20:07:32 GMT E1 Potter said:

Stoke 2 Arsenal 1 in 1982 - George Berry scored!

O GEORGIE BERRY O GEORGIE BERRY

[steino72]

from what I was told it was a last minute match choice,
Grandad was a baggy, dad a stokie...........................

dad took me into the enemys end in the 81/82 season approx,

ll I seem to remember was that they celevrated 3 times, I was 7 pretty fucking good memory for that, I might be a year or 2 out if anybdy could help! after that it was the BUTLER STREET EVERY WEEK, stop off at the newsagents/cigar smoke, them were the days, and I'm 35

I fucking love stoke

[StatesideStokie]

Brighton at home in the early eighties. It was 0-0 , fucking dogshite and the only real memory I have of the whole thing is some parachute display at half time. What the fuck possesed me to go back I'll never know, but I was hooked.

[hippompo]

the memory might be playing tricks but i think it was norwich at home in 1973, i think we won 2-0 and i think Jeff Hurst scored the first goal but my memory might be playing tricks, well i am getting old.
Have to make an admission that Stoke was not the first ground i went to. Living in sunny Lichfield i had friends who were big Villa fans and big wolves fans so had been taken to Vile park and the custard bowl with them but there was only one ground i ever wanted/ needed to go to. When i finally got take to the Vic, i presume as a birthday treat i was absolutely mesmerised by the Boothen End, the noise and the movement, i think i spent as much time watching the Boothen end as the game.... the butler street was boring.... this was the place that was going to become home.
It took a while as mother would not take me to Stoke much, cost and travel and also crowd trouble but knowing my love from football she took me regularly to walsall, it was better than nothing but my heart was elsewhere, a love affair was born, pain, suffering, disillusionment etc but still keep going and in my 26th? year as a season ticket holder.
Have also spread the religion and saved my best friends lad from a lifetime of sin and bestiality as now live in the heart of the black country and took the young impressionable 7? year old to the brit and he is now a season ticket holder of 6 years standing, yes thats you Stokie22 if you are reading this.

[lordherefordsknob]

Stoke v Norwich new years day 1983 sammy mac scored the only goal of the game.

[trebor63]

1970
Stoke 5 Arsenal 0

[PickSCFC]

mine was stoke v gillingham about 12 years ago, it was a shit game that finished 0-0

i didnt even like football then and i only realy got into it about 5 years after

[Deleted]

Losing to Blyth Spartans in FA Cup 4th round replay, 78/79......and I still went back for more!!