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My first game
My first match – Jack Aguilar
Jun. 6 | Monday 12th April, 2004 Fulham v Blackburn Rovers Barclays Premier League Loftus Road My Father was never into his football. He still isn’t. He is a recovering addict who has now worked as an addiction counselor and in volunteer support. As you can...
My first game – Frans van den Berg
Apr. 27 | HVC 1 Fortuna Sittard 1 29th April 1973 Eerste Divisie This was my first match in professional football that I saw. I was a little kid and we had to cycle for almost an hour to get to the stadium. We had to climb De Berg, our local mountain. People who...
My first game – Adam Dennehey
Apr. 27 | Arsenal 2 Middlesbrough 1 The Premier League 29th December 2001 Highbury Attendance 37,948 For a young lad, there are lots of things that we dream about when growing up. Things like your first day at school, your first holiday, your first car and your...
My first game – Charlie Johnson
Apr. 27 | Exeter City v Stoke City Football League Division 3 19th November 1991 If one word was to sum up my first ever football match it would be confused. I can’t have been more than five years old when my dad took me to St James Park, Exeter to see the Grecians...
My first game – Ryan Keaney
Apr. 27 | Blackburn Rovers 1 Arsenal 1 Premier League Ewood Park Saturday 27th April 1996 By the time I and the rest of my scout group arrived at Ewood Park on Saturday 27th April 1996 I assumed the highlight of my day had already passed. I wasn’t interested...
My first game – Ryan Hubbard
Apr. 15 | Leicester City 0 – 4 Manchester United The Premier League Filbert Street, Leicester April 15th 1995 Attendance: 21,281 My father was a devout egg-chaser. Competing in the local Rugby Union leagues on a Saturday afternoon meant that my football fix as...
My first game – David Bauckham
Apr. 12 | September 1972 FA Cup 1st Qualifying Round Dulwich Hamlet 1 Hampton 2 Champion Hill I ought to come clean immediately. This wasn’t my first match, or even the second … or third. However, more than any other it, with hindsight, clearly had a profound...
My first game – Matthew McLean
Mar. 17 | East Fife v Dumbarton Scottish League Division Bayview Park 8th October 1994 Saturday the 8th October 1994. That was a day that changed my life. I was 10 years old and had never really had more than a passing interest in football. I had loosely followed...
My first game – Ross Neumann
Mar. 14 | Liverpool 2 v 1 Aston Villa League Division One Anfield 1 September 1990 3:00pm Attendance: 38,061 As a youth I was thoroughly indoctrinated in the ways of football at an early age. From Subbuteo (age four) to my first appearance for Linthurst First School...
