25 years ago today

[sams dad]

I'm in category 1-saw my first game in August 1962.We got relegated to Div 4 at the end of the season but it didn't put me off-42 years on and I still get a thrill every time the team runs on to the pitch

 

[On the Left Wing]

My first game was a 1-0 victory against Torquay in 1967 followed by a match against Bury (the score was also 1-0 but I can't remember to whom!) .....
what I now find amazing is when I am on the terraces today (sorry, the seating) I feel the same as I did 37 years ago ... must be a bit like being Peter Pan

 

[Yorkie]

what I now find amazing is when I am on the terraces today (sorry, the seating) I feel the same as I did 37 years ago ... must be a bit like being Peter Pan

So do I

 

[somerset]

STH - I was at the Newcastle Game, was 16, and the only ticket i could get was in the seats with the oldies as most seat dwellers were called at the time.... but the view across the massed Albion ranks in the terrace just in front of me was great......... an example of making a big noise without having a roof.... 3 - 1 the crowd went wild.

Best part was on the train ( S Special) on the way back, the players were in an old style 1st class carriage and i remember walking along the corridor and coming face to face with wardy and the only thing that entered my head was what a short ass he was,..... and i aint no giant i can tell you.

Ho Hum .. happy days

 

[Scoticus]

No 3, but I've always had a soft spot fot the Albion; originally, and still am Ayr United.

First game live in Feb 1991, season ticket holder from 1993/94 (West Stand , Gillingham (spit!, spit!) and now North Stand)

 

[Dandyman]

Not quite sure which group I fall into. Started towards the end of the 1975/76 season in what I guess was the start of our best ever era.

 

[jeremy beadles hand]

Been a supporter since 1983 when I was 3 years old. Got pics to prove it as well!

 

[Jambo Seagull]

Halfway between 1 & 2, my Lord.

My first Albion memories were from the season BEFORE us being promoted from the old Division 3 behind Mansfield Town. I never thought it was 'incredible' us playing in the top flight. My first few years of the Albion were of me not being used to seeing the Albion lose. Top flight football seemed if not a formality, then certainly achievable.

I first started watching the Albion regularly in that season. Peter Taylor was the manager and we went from being a very poor team flirting with relegation to Div 4 the year before under Cloughie (I can remember watching the Bristol Rovers 2-8 thrashing on TV and remember BHA losing to Walton & Hersham 4-0 in the cup) to being a team that wasn't quite good enough to go up. Our best player that season was Graham Cross at centre-half. I couldn't believe it when Mullery decided to replace him with some young nobody called Lawrenson. Other stars of that side were Fred Binney and Peter O'Sullevan.

The next few years were fantastic but as TLO said it did not really seem amazing at the time, it just seemed very natural.