Your first game

[LUX]

Mansfield (or was it Port Vale?) in 1969, aged 8.

2-1 for sure.

First ever present season (home games only) was the 75-76 Div 4 promotion season, which is, by far, my favourite ever team/kit/season.

[Ark Royal]

It was the Sheffield Wednesday game for me (well RFC anyway). John Fantham scored the winner for Wednesday in the last few minutes 2-3. Wednesday were a top side in those days and made it to the Cup Final.
The crowd was over 25000. Was this the last attendance of this size since we finished up at Elm Park?

Think the crowd for the Wednesday game was given as around 22,000 (can confirm later). From memory, the Arsenal attendance was 25,756 (or something really close to that).

[SHORT AND CURLY]

First game was home to Donny in December 1971, aged 5. A convincing 3-1 with Dick Habbin amongst the scorers.

That may have been my first game watching the Biscuitmen, I honestly cannot remember but it was around that time.

My first ever game was Chelsea Everton at Stamford Bridge. I remember Alan Ball playing for Everton.

I was taken there by my grandfather who was an avid Chelsea fan. He was old and I always thought he followed them because at that time Chesea where known as the pensioners

[Mid Sussex Royal]

First Reading game was at the Manor Ground with a 2-1 win against Oxford in May 83. I was in the home end We still went down.
First live game ever was Wolves v Arsenal c. 1972...it snowed and Bob Wilson had a mare.......Wolves won 5-1

I remember that one - we were 1-0 down with a few mins left. we got a late pen and some Oxford idiot kicked the ball off the penalty spot. It was the year Waller & Maxwell tried to kill both clubs.

My first game was Vs Preston Spring 1971 - won 1-0 but also went down - either Habbin or Cumming scored I think. They went up.

[I was there at Elm Park]

Reading 0-0 Rotherham United 16-04-1994 aged 7

I can still remember the crowds approaching Elm Park before the game, my Dad taking us to the wrong turnstile (South Bank instead of the Main Stand (how plastic can you get!)) and being told to sit down my the bloke sat next to me (some things never change).

[SHORT AND CURLY]

First match I attended was Oxford 2 Man Utd 0 in November 1986 - Alex Ferguson's first game in charge.

Bloomin eck I was at that game as well.
Lived in Oxford at the time an popped along. Stood in the Osler Road with some Oxford supporting mates.

I'm so sad though that I watched Reading reserves play Oxford at the Manor around the same time.
(I think we got stuffed as well)

The royals were truly shite around then especially as Oxford where doing so well and even got to Wembley.
I didn't go to Wembley hoping that QPR would stuff them. Kept a low profile in those days until the Simod Cup in 88.

[79Royal]

Simod Cup Final, aged 9. Good day out that.

[Maquisard]

First ever match: Arsenal v Shef Wed – my brother took me but refused to translate/explain the Arsenal supporters’ songs! Nothing happened on the pitch for 89 minutes, by which time I’d lost interest. Then Paul Mariner scored. No replay screens in those days, sadly.
First Reading game, 2 all draw with Birmingham at St Andrews in 1987
Second Reading game, 2-1 loss to Aston Villa at Villa Park same season (same month, even, I think)
Third Reading game, 2-0 loss to an unsupported Wimbledon at Selhurst Park (sigh) in 2003
Fourth Reading game, 5-0 win against Derby, Championship win, pitch invasion, the works!!!!
Phew, first post, not so scary.

[southstand67]

25th November 1979. Reading - Kettering, FA cup. Mike Kearney and Steve Hetzke signed the programme that I have now lost. I was 12.

[facaldaqui]

25th November 1979. Reading - Kettering, FA cup. Mike Kearney and Steve Hetzke signed the programme that I have now lost. I was 12.

Shame, it could have been worth something.

[To the De'ath]

Grimsby home, late 70's. Reading won 4-0.

[Ark Royal]

Grimsby home, late 70's. Reading won 4-0.

28th March 1979. John Alexander scored all four.

[finbarr]

I am not entirely sure it was my first game but the first memory is the 1-0 defeat by Luton in 69-70 on a cold rainy night. My memory tells me that supermac scored ...but statistics may tell me differently. I was 10 and living in Western Elms....

Another early memory of Elm Park is bunking off school to watch a game being played midweek.... but in the afternoon - possibly during the early 70's when Britain was going through the 3 day working week and power cuts etc. Anyone able to help here on who we played?

[Terminal Boardom]

1st January 1966 aged 9 - 3-0 v Walsall

Do not remember much about the game itself. Do remember my parents and uncles queuing up behind the South Bank for tickets to the 3rd round tie against Sheffield Wednesday.

You could say that about EVERY game you have been to since!

We have NOT played Sheffield Wednesday in the 3rd round every year since 1966...

Dumb pcunt. Hope you get Huntington's chorea.

That's as maybe but you shagged Mrs Blobby and you still have her photo. PCUNT!

[Gordons Cumming]

I am not entirely sure it was my first game but the first memory is the 1-0 defeat by Luton in 69-70 on a cold rainy night. My memory tells me that supermac scored ...but statistics may tell me differently. I was 10 and living in Western Elms....

There you are.................http://www.statto.com/football/stats/en ... 1970-03-11


Another early memory of Elm Park is bunking off school to watch a game being played midweek.... but in the afternoon - possibly during the early 70's when Britain was going through the 3 day working week and power cuts etc. Anyone able to help here on who we played?

Blyth Spartans 6-1 FA Cup following on from a 2-2 draw at their place.

[wolsey]

Another early memory of Elm Park is bunking off school to watch a game being played midweek.... but in the afternoon - possibly during the early 70's when Britain was going through the 3 day working week and power cuts etc. Anyone able to help here on who we played?

Blyth Spartans in a cup replay perhaps? I did the same (think we won 6 something)

[dan19]

Cambridge in cup at Elm Park, won 3-1, had to stand in away end as was sold out.

[royalroo]

Reading Reserves in late 50's - can't remember the other team or the score - went to a lot of reserve games with my grandfather, must have been something about pensioners prices and primary school for me free...
I do remember a game when a brick was thrown though the window of the Walsall team bus, this was quite a few years later but sticks in my mind. Also a cup game against Arsenal when Pat Rice hit a deflected screamer into the top corner of the net.
The rest is all a blurr now.........

[southstand67]

25th November 1979. Reading - Kettering, FA cup. Mike Kearney and Steve Hetzke signed the programme that I have now lost. I was 12.

Shame, it could have been worth something.

actually it was Ollie Kearns and Mike Kearney who signed it!

[joe999]

home to barnsley 1995, Id just turned 4. Lost 3-0