Favourite first game of the season

[bernard o'silver]

Leicester 1976, took thousands, it was a sweltering hot August day and we drew 2-2 . Joe Royle and Brian Kidd the scorers , never forgotten it as a 15 year old !!!

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

Was Stoke and Trevor Francis not the 1st GOTS? If so that!

 

[AliBobbyJ]

Blackpool at home in 1998. Loyalty and defiance writ large, from where we are now reaping the rewards; and some.

Yes.
Accompanied by the song about what they could do with their Tower, sung again after the last match of that season with "treble" replacing "tower."

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Was Stoke and Trevor Francis not the 1st GOTS? If so that!

No mate. Third game of the season.

 

[Jogon 127]

I loved Blackburn away 09.

Great ground, first game for big money signings Adebayor, Tevez, Barry, Kolo. Felt like we had a proper team with a genuine chance of being good.

The black kit we played in sticks out as well.

It was just an exciting time, the signings, the Umbro kits, even the shitty doves concert a few weeks earlier in the pissing rain, everything just built up to that first game and we didn’t do a typical city, we felt the real deal.

Mad as fuck seeing Adebayor and Tevez, kept thinking someone me was about to wake up from a beautiful dream!

 

[East Level 2]

I'm also going for West Ham, but the 2019-2020 season. Won 5-0 just three months after being at Brighton to see us win the league and even the home fans were commenting about how good we were.

 

[Ray bloody Purchase]

I remember Coventry away when Sammy Mac scored his 1 & only goal for us being a belting day, baking hot on the terrace behind the goal, ….just remember having a bloody good drink and a laugh

 

[Buckshaw Blue]

100% Blackpool home 1998. As someone mentioned earlier, felt like a show of defiance.

 

[Buckshaw Blue]

I loved Blackburn away 09.

Great ground, first game for big money signings Adebayor, Tevez, Barry, Kolo. Felt like we had a proper team with a genuine chance of being good.

The black kit we played in sticks out as well.

It was just an exciting time, the signings, the Umbro kits, even the shitty doves concert a few weeks earlier in the pissing rain, everything just built up to that first game and we didn’t do a typical city, we felt the real deal.

Remember being down the front of the Darwen end getting pissed wet through!

 

[maccieblue]

Was Stoke and Trevor Francis not the 1st GOTS? If so that!

Must admit I thought it was the first game
Cracking day anyway