What do you remember of your first Boro Match?

I don't remember much at all. I have composite memories from a couple of games between 1964 and 1966, I can remember Arthur Kaye and Dickie Rooks and a boy getting knocked of the wall in the Holgate by a ball, but I have nothing I can pin down to my first game. I only know what my first game was because I have the programme.
 
I think it was the South Stand seats with our Mam and Dad. I was about 4. It was a night match in 1979.
I am the same as everybody else - the pitch lit up with the floodlights is what I remember. And our Mam giving me a drink from my Goofy cup.
 
2-0 home win v Bury November 1963,all I can remember is the floodlights being on and the stamping of feet in the wooden South Stand when we built up momentum,don't recall any singing/chanting from the crowd.
 
Isn't it amazing how people remember through sight, noise and smell, more so than result, who was playing, what exact season it was etc. I'm glad others have mentioned the grass... thought it was just me and that I was odd for being so fixated on how green it was!!
 
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51 seasons ago, wasn't my first Boro game going to AP, I went with my dad and brother who was 5 years older and already ST holder, but my first big football game was the English Football league v The Scottish League.

Was packed out and was a big night for me and exciting under the lights.

The World cup winning players were playing.
Alan Ball.
Bobby Moore
Geoff Hurst
Nobby Stiles
Martin Peters
Bobby Charlton
Roger Hunt

European cup winners The Lisbon Lions
Scottish League
Bobby Murdoch
Jinky Jimmy Johnstone
Bobby Lennox
Tommy Gemmell

As well as Glasgow Rangers legends
Colin Stein
John Greig

English Football League won 2 nowt, I barely remember the goals Hunt scored and Keith Newton who I remember him in the squad and playing in the 1970 WCF in Mexico and having the Esso coin of him.


My first Boro game was V Preston North End 1968/69 Big John Hickton scored both I remember Dicky Rooks and Arthur Horsefield as the unusal names slightly fascinated me.

One thing that stood out was the East stand looked nowhere near as full as the EFL v SL , I had a chance to see the ground in the daylight and it didn't seem the same place:)

When I look back I was absolutely absorbed from the off, and a football fanatic from that day, If I wasn't playing I was thinking about playing. Not sure its a good thing although I've enjoyed football both playing and watching.
 
It was the 4-1 Newcastle game for me in 1990 I was 6. I left thinking we were one of the best teams in the country 🤣
 
Sunny day. Actually same goes for 1st 2 tho not my 1st game it was my 1st i actually properly watched instead of playing tigs etc in the boys end. Bout 7 year old. Played wolves n norwich we had ditched the hoop i still dont agree with but we had the shiny red adidas number all red but wolves n norwich so bright. Sun was out and cochrane got mentiind stacks. The whole thing was a absolute picture and i just loved it
 
Mine was Birmingham in late 74 when I was ten. Ingle's dad had a pair of 100 club tickets and took me off my parents hands for the afternoon. I remember climbing the steps to the centre of the main stand and, as with everyone else, marvelling at the greenness of the pitch.

We won three nil but I can't remember any of the goals, just Dave Latchford tipping a shot from distance over the bar.

At half time I had tea served in a cup and saucer and a couple of quarters of pork pie. Hospitality was in its infancy in those days.
 
Michael_Vronsky said:
Isn't it amazing how people remember through sight, noise and smell, more so than result, who was playing, what exact season it was etc. I'm glad others have mentioned the grass... thought it was just me and that I was odd for being so fixated on how green it was!!
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It never looked as green without the floodlights!
 
Another one for the greenness of the grass. My first match was a night match and, wow, under floodlights
 
My first (and only) experience of AP was the final match there, Pears' testimonial. Only time we had three generations at the same game (my Grandad followed Burnley).

I remember thinking it felt smaller than on TV, even towards the back of the East Stand it felt like you were amongst the action. Remember a couple of mazy dribbles from Beardsley and Pears scoring the obligatory penalty.
 
Boro away to Sunderland at Roker Park 1962 or 63. First game of the season a 3-1 defeat. Massive crowd and only seeing the ball when the keeper kicked it out of his hands. I was smitten with whole thing. Next game was the return fixture 3-3 and Billy Horner scoring a screamer at the Holgate end. Nearly trampled to death in the crowd surge. Brilliant.
 
At home to Grimsby in Sept.1963. We won 6-0 and I thought it was bl--dy marvellous! So that was me hooked for the rest of time through thick and thin! I suppose I was conned really but what else was there to do?
 
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