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your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 7:58 am
by leic white 63
mine was at filbert street 74 , 2-2 seems like yesterday ! a cheeky billy free kick kept our unbeaten run intack
went to the reverse fixture at 1-1 as a birthday treat.
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:02 am
by Clacton White
Not exactly sure but would be around 1977/78 - WBA ( maybe even '76) at the Hawthorns . First Elland Rd - 1678 v WBA , lost 1-3 on my bloody birthday . I believe Stephenson got the Leeds goal putting Leeds ahead . Went downhill after that , also that day I vividly remember Spurs losing at Anfield 7-0 .
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:07 am
by Dalton
Not 100% sure but Sep91 away to Chelsea on our Championship Year!!!! Mugged them 1-0 with Carl Shutt header!
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:20 am
by Ellandback1
Fratton Park. Think it was 1986.
Pompey were top of the table. We were bottom half.
We won 3-2. A brace from Ritchie, one from Baird I recall.
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 10:59 am
by Gandalf
10th March 1962 - Leeds United 2 Swansea Town 0 - Bobby Collins (on his debut) and Billy McAdams. I did go to another game 3 or 4 years earlier, when I was 6, but I have no clue who we were playing or the score. I can only remember a giant John Charles tousling my hair before the match.
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 11:23 am
by 1964white
30th March 1964 - Leeds 3-1 Grimsby Town
The season we were promoted to Division 1. Billy Bremner scored & became an instant boyhood hero.
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 11:40 am
by Muppet the Cat
30 September 1972 (had to google the exact date), I knew it must have been 72/73.
At home to Liverpool and we lost 1 -2
I do remember that I didn't even see our goal - but have seen it a good few times on youtube since, a Mick Jones overhead effort (albeit not quite with the finesse of a Bale or Ronaldo overhead).
I do remember that having gone to the game the first thing on my Xmas list for that year was a pair of '7' (Lorimer was always my favourite player) sock ties.................and to be fair Santa came up trumps !!
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:06 pm
by leic white 63
blimey some right old farts on here
gandalf and 64 white, it must have been a real privilege to see players like collins, charles etc play. real hall of fame those fellas .
keep em coming .
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:10 pm
by Dalton
leic white 63 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:06 pm
blimey some right old farts on here
gandalf and 64 white, it must have been a real privilege to see players like collins, charles etc play. real hall of fame those fellas .
keep em coming .
As long as they arent name dropping ala Tony Blair and Jackie Milburn!
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:15 pm
by leic white 63
Dalton wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:10 pm
As long as they arent name dropping ala Tony Blair and Jackie Milburn!
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:22 pm
by 1964white
leic white 63 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:06 pm
blimey some right old farts on here
gandalf and 64 white, it must have been a real privilege to see players like collins, charles etc play. real hall of fame those fellas .
keep em coming .
We were the lucky ones '63
Leeds United played a massive part in my very happy childhood, they still do !
I missed seeing John Charles play unfortunately. Did say hello to the big fella at one of our Champions League matches, still a hero with the old farts at Juventus
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:29 pm
by hector
Was somewhere around 1975, no idea who, 4 of us hitchiked from school in Skipton, and were just so taken in by the atmoshpere, went to the kop in the middle and stood behind a concrete wall above some stairs.... I know we scored because we got crush against the wall several times... the next time we went, we decided the back of the kop was the place to be, and starting the surges rather than be crushed by them....
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:36 pm
by 1964white
Muppet the Cat wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 11:40 am
30 September 1972 (had to google the exact date), I knew it must have been 72/73.
At home to Liverpool and we lost 1 -2
I do remember that I didn't even see our goal - but have seen it a good few times on youtube since, a Mick Jones overhead effort (albeit not quite with the finesse of a Bale or Ronaldo overhead).
I do remember that having gone to the game the first thing on my Xmas list for that year was a pair of '7' (Lorimer was always my favourite player) sock ties.................and to be fair Santa came up trumps !!
Remember it well Cat, cracking goal from my favourite No.9. Lloyd & Boersma scored for the scousers.
Rarely missed a home game once I was hooked in the 1963/64 season
Hot Shot Lorimer eh ! I use to love his celebratory clap in the air where he seem to miss his hands
Loved the stocking tabs too mate
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:40 pm
by 1964white
hector wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:29 pm
Was somewhere around 1975, no idea who, 4 of us hitchiked from school in Skipton, and were just so taken in by the atmoshpere, went to the kop in the middle and stood behind a concrete wall above some stairs.... I know we scored because we got crush against the wall several times... the next time we went, we decided the back of the kop was the place to be, and starting the surges rather than be crushed by them....
Those surges Hector, never worried me as a kid/teenager, it would frighten the living daylights out of me now
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:59 pm
by gessa
I think it was.
Away Aston Villa August 1975.
1-2 win for us.
Remember Ray Graydon hitting one straight in the centre of the goal, how he caught it I dont know, as the ball ended up as a throw in for us by the corner flag.
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 1:00 pm
by gessa
1964white wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:40 pm
Those surges Hector, never worried me as a kid/teenager, it would frighten the living daylights out of me now
1978 cup game v Man City was the best/worst depending how you look at it, I remember
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 1:04 pm
by hector
I was there too.... lots of voices around me in the kop shouting to get on the pitch and get the game abandoned, the surge took most of us who didn't want to as well....
I was 16 and very bwelidered by it all at that match.... later that year I was in the army apprentice college at Harrogate training to be a soldier (of sorts)
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 1:14 pm
by 1964white
gessa wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 12:59 pm
I think it was.
Away Aston Villa August 1975.
1-2 win for us.
Remember Ray Graydon hitting one straight in the centre of the goal, how he caught it I dont know, as the ball ended up as a throw in for us by the corner flag.
Hot shot Lorimer scored
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 1:37 pm
by gessa
1964white wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 1:14 pm
Hot shot Lorimer scored
Can't remember either scorer tbh.
Re: your first leeds utd game live
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 1:43 pm
by gessa
hector wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 1:04 pm
I was there too.... lots of voices around me in the kop shouting to get on the pitch and get the game abandoned, the surge took most of us who didn't want to as well....
I was 16 and very bwelidered by it all at that match.... later that year I was in the army apprentice college at Harrogate training to be a soldier (of sorts)
A rough day that was. One of the worst at ER, I remember