Your first England match

[Billy the Fish]

How can you have? surely the first WCQ game was the end of 96? first game being in 97?

That's a good point actually. I think my long term memory has taken a kicking since then.
I definitely went to the Euro 2000 qualifiers (but not Italy because we couldn't get tickets) because it was my christmas present, I'll have to look at the fixtures to work out which year.

Thinking about it cameroon probably wasn't the first, I think Poland in that qualifying campaign was. Shearer scored from outside the box?? I was at a Moldova game just after princess Di snuffed it, Gazza scored, loads of the crowd stayed for ages afterwards and bizarrely everyone was singing along to Champagne Supernova because it was playing over the speakers, great moment!

 

[Billy the Fish]

Luther Blisset 1st black player to score against Luxembourg 82.

Did half the crowd think it didn't count?

 

[Butch Willykins]

England v Albania, April 1989.

Dad took me. Gazza scored an absolute beauty.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Coach from work in October 1973. The score was 1 - 1. We went home very p*ssed off. Work it out ....................

 

[Peter Grummit]

England 0 Netherlands 2, 1977 I think. Was the great Cruyff/Neeskins Dutch side and they wiped the floor with England.

February 9th 1977 if my memory serves me correctly, my first trip as well, Jan Peters scored twice as Cruyff destroyed England in what remains to this day the best individual performance I've ever seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdKvkWn49lU

 

[Lenny Rider]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdKvkWn49lU

Good times......despite the defeat.

 

[Gordon Bennett]

I'm told that the first time I watched England on TV was the World Cup final but being only 6 months old at the time its hard to remember.

First England game I attended was the World Cup qualifier in Luxembourg in 1977. Can't remember much about the game but always remember the match programme listed Peter Ward as playing for Brighton City!

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

2005 England 3-2 Argentina in Switzerland, cracking game and atmosphere.

 

[gripper stebson]

The 4-1 mauling of the Dutch in Euro 96. What a night that was.

 

[Mowgli37]

First match I remember watching on the television was England vs Croatia, Euro 2004 though I do remember guys at my primary school talking about England vs Brazil two years previously. First match I actually attended was against San Marino in October 2012, we won 5-0, Rooney and Welbeck got two and the Ox scored his first international goal.

 

[Puppet Master]

First match I remember watching on the television was England vs Croatia, Euro 2004 though I do remember guys at my primary school talking about England vs Brazil two years previously. First match I actually attended was against San Marino in October 2012, we won 5-0, Rooney and Welbeck got two and the Ox scored his first international goal.

edit ignore me. was drunk

 

[A fish called Glen Ponder]

England Spain in Euro 96 - bought the tickets a few days before by queuing up at Wembley as was in the area. Spain battered Engalnd all game - Behind the goal that Pearce smashed his penalty in - Fantastic day - Prior to that England 'B' played a game at the Goldstone in 89 or 90 against Italy

 

[Albumen]

Never, they dont do real ale.

 

[Mowgli37]

edit ignore me. was drunk

Fair enough?! Loving the Twitter name by the way

 

[Ernest]

England 2-0 Ireland in 1980 qualifiers for Euro 1980

 

[Seagulls over Lewes]

First Home England 3 - 0 Poland 1989
First Away Holland 2 - 0 England 1993

 

[joeinbrighton]

On television: England 1-2 Argentina in the quarter-finals of the '86 World Cup.

Live: England 0-0 Holland in a friendly at Villa Park in February 2005.

 

[patchamalbion]

England 0-0 Algeria
Green Point Stadium, Cape Town

one of the worst football matches i've seen!

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

East Germany
regards
DR

 

[The Large One]

England 0-0 Algeria
Green Point Stadium, Cape Town

one of the worst football matches i've seen!

One of the worst matches there has ever been. In reviewing the entire World Cup, 'When Saturday Comes' wrote around 150-200 words for each and every match. They gave the England-Algeria match a two-word review.

'Jesus Christ'.