First match attended

[wilsdenrover]

I was wondering what the first Rover’s match everyone attended was.

Mine was at home vs Liverpool 15th October 1994.

[simongarnerisgod]

coventry at home in the fa cup 4th rnd,1980,sat on my dads shoulders right at the back of the blackburn end🙂

[funny-old-game]

4 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

coventry at home in the fa cup 4th rnd,1980,sat on my dads shoulders right at the back of the blackburn end🙂

1-0 rovers, Andy Crawford scored. Coventry in a disgusting chocolate coloured away strip if I remember right 

[TheFinalCountdown]

Chelsea in 1983. Nuttall Street. 

Don't remember the score.

[TheFinalCountdown]

I remember the mid to late 80s games far clearer than the recent ones.

[simongarnerisgod]

13 minutes ago, funny-old-game said:

1-0 rovers, Andy Crawford scored. Coventry in a disgusting chocolate coloured away strip if I remember right 

got me well and truly hooked that game,6 yr old me thought every game was going to be like that!!!!!

[funny-old-game]

7 minutes ago, TheFinalCountdown said:

I remember the mid to late 80s games far clearer than the recent ones.

There's a name for that but I can't remember what it is 🤔

[Hasta]

It won’t have been my first game as Dad will have taken us to many games before this one and I would have just played down the front, but my first game I can recall being at is the Man U cup tie in 85.

Edited 11 hours ago by Hasta

[Ossydave]

Reading at home in 1988, sat in the Nuttall Street with my old man. Finished 1-1 and was a bit shit tbh, persevered though. Always considered myself lucky, caught the tail end of harder times but obviously got to enjoy the good times. I've seen my team with the premier league, the league Cup and followed away in Europe including the champions league. Young lads now have it tough, hopefully the good times return!

[simongarnerisgod]

Just now, Ossydave said:

Reading at home in 1988, sat in the Nuttall Street with my old man. Finished 1-1 and was a bit shit tbh, persevered though. Always considered myself lucky, caught the tail end of harder times but obviously got to enjoy the good times. I've seen my team with the premier league, the league Cup and followed away in Europe including the champions league. Young lads now have it tough, hopefully the good times return!

i remember that game,it p****d down for 90 minutes,was a shocking game and billy whitehurst got sent off for one to many tussles with david mail🙂

[Cherry Blue]

My Dad took me to home game v Man Utd, last game in 1965-66 season. We lost 4 1 and had already been relegated from Division 1.

Too young to remember the game but remember running along those steps at the back of the Blackburn End.

[rigger]

Man city 1969 lost 1-4, but what an atmosphere, my mum took me.

[Andy]

West Ham at home, Jan 1995 (4-2, Shearer hattrick / Le Saux).

I grew up just over the hill, so spent years watching from the hill and through the gates, but this was my first game proper.

Sat in the Walkersteel with a couple of my mates, would have been 10 or 11.

Edited 11 hours ago by Andy

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Sheffield United at Ewood in September 1961. Lost 2-1 but I was hooked.

[chaddyrovers]

Bournemouth at home in the league cup 1993

[GHR]

The first I have any recollection of is the home tie v. Preston in Division 1 as was in 2000-01.

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1989 V Stoke City at home, a rainy gloomy day sat with my dad on Nuttall Street stand. Remember walking back up livesey branch on my dads shoulders. Was the only game he took me to as he wasnt into football really. Come the 90s I was back down there as we all know what came next

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1 hour ago, funny-old-game said:

1-0 rovers, Andy Crawford scored. Coventry in a disgusting chocolate coloured away strip if I remember right 

And short shorts no doubt 🫤🤢

[oneandycrawford]

Charlton Athletic at home Oct(?) 74. Riverside Stand with my dad. First game of league football for me. The blue and white halves (and the win!) did it for me and never interested in supporting any other football league club from that day on. We still went all over the north-west picking the best games when Rovers were too far away. Always had a soft spot for Bury due to close family friends.

Prior to that I'd been taken all over the north-west following the great Rossendale United side of the early 70's.

One of my earliest memories of supporting Rossy is of going to Ewood and standing in the Nuttall Street paddock (I think) for a Lancashire Floodlight Cup final against Great Harwood (possibly?). Would love to hear from anyone who knows about that match as tried to look it up online but not found anything.

[oneandycrawford]

3 hours ago, simongarnerisgod said:

coventry at home in the fa cup 4th rnd,1980,sat on my dads shoulders right at the back of the blackburn end🙂

That's the game that gave me my user name on here!

Shame he turned out to be a knob 🙄

Edited 9 hours ago by oneandycrawford
Typo

[Upside Down]

Wimbledon at home in 94.

Don't remember much about other than Shearer scored and we won.

[Upside Down]

2 hours ago, ... said:

And short shorts no doubt 🫤🤢

Nothing wrong with a pair of stubbies.

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2 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

Nothing wrong with a pair of stubbies.

Bizarre to think not long before it was all about baggie shorts

[47er]

I could claim the record here. 1949 Rovers v Man City, aged 2, sitting on my Dad's shoulders in the Darwen End Enclosure.

A very eventful match but I remember nothing of it!

EDIT---we were awarded 3 penalties and missed the first two!.Eckersley took the third and scored.

We won but can't remember the score.

Edited 59 minutes ago by 47er

[NJRover]

1997 lost 4-2 at home to Leicester. Heskey scored twice and I thought he was prime Zidane. Was quickly proved otherwise