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Best football memories as a child?

  • 25-01-2008 12:03AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭


    Posted on a Spurs site re. Tuesday night's thumping of Arsenal:
    Dad, that was the best night of my life...my 13 year old said to me as he went to bed on Tuesday night.

    Kid's been a season ticket holder with his dad since he was seven. I know how happy I felt, but I am so envious of a kid that young getting to experience joy like that for the first time. But like his first ride will be...:D

    As a latecomer to live in the flesh football (was in my mid to late teens by the time I stumbled upon Tolka Park) I had to make do with special moments supporting the Dubs (boo hiss!) and the telly. In fairness, I did get to see some of the best Gaelic Football of the 80s as my old man always took me to Croker regardless of whether the Dubs were there or not, but its just not the same.

    Best "early" memory as a Shels fan was the 96 Cup Final when Gough was sent off and Brian Flood went in goal, of course I decided not to go because I had exams coming up a week later and I needed to study...:mad: Decided to fcuk off the exams for the replay, and saw us win 2-1 against KdjaCL *cough* I mean Pats *cough*

    Of course, as an Ireland fan Houghton's goal in Euro 88 and the shootout in Genoa in 90 stand out, but I was miles away for both...:(

    What's your best childhood moment, preferably something you saw in person.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    Havent been to many matches as a child, however, I would say getting Eric Cantona to sign one of my jerseys as a young lad is up there!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    wasnt there.. but i was 11..

    Stuttgart, 1988.. need i say more?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭therecklessone


    Archimedes wrote: »
    Havent been to many matches as a child, however, I would say getting Eric Cantona to sign one of my jerseys as a young lad is up there!

    Things like that count just as much, I refused to wash my hand for a week after Barney Rock shook it at a Dublin training session, and that was only last year...:D

    was actually in 1984 the year after the Dubs won the All-Ireland


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    My first ever match, my dad brought me, was September 1989 Arsenal Versus Charlton, the match itself was not great, Arsenal won 1-0 Brain Marwood pen but on entering the West Lower stand I was hooked,I can even to this day remember that Richard Marx Right Here waiting was playing as I entered the stand. It was just like that scene from Fever Pitch when Nick Hornby enters Highbury for the first time. A great stadium.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,478 ✭✭✭Bubs101


    Mine was definitely Roma 5-1 Lazio. 6 goals, 3 riots and a Roman Ultras procession in the Colleseum the next day which for some reason my mum let me go to. I was a Juve fan when I went but I've leant towards Roma ever since


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,825 ✭✭✭Mikeyt086


    I started watching football when i was 6 because my Dad did, but watching Ronaldo in the 1998 World Cup when i was 9 made me know i was about to dedicate my life to football, he was amazing and i had never seen something as close to a Superhero before in my life.

    I was 10 when United did the Treble, that counts. I remember i was crying when 0-1 in the last min and i was about to run off to bed in a huff... So glad i didnt. Thats THE ONE for me anyway.

    Also i was only 13 for Robbie Keane's equaliser against Germany in Yokohama in 2002, in my school, everyone going insane.

    Sure feck it, im only 18, if anything amazing happens this season i can edit it into this post!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭HashSlinging


    Bray wanderers wining the 1985/6 First Division Championship, and running up bray main st after the open top bus.. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    The song ''loosing my favourite game' played after the 1998 world cup final. I don't know why, just going through all the moments of the world cup with this amazing song..

    Robbie Keane's goal against Germany.

    Can I mention Esteban Cambiasso's goal against Serbia?

    I have so much.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭DeadSkin


    On TV, Bruce Grobelaar's spaghetti legs in the 1984 European Cup Final, I was 10.
    Being at a game, I remember a crowd of us kids at the time climbing the wall at the Sportsground to watch Galway play Lyngby.
    Cool thread my friend ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    That I've been at -

    1. City v Lincoln, Div 2, 1999. 34,000 to see a Division 2 game. Being in the same place as so many City fans was a wonderful experience! Dickov getting a hattrick was sweet too

    2. Seeing Real Madrid train in Chicago in 2005. I spent the whole session with my jaw dropped watching basically every player I grew up admiring. Zidane, Figo, Raul, Ronaldo, Carlos, Casillas, Beckham. Owen was there too. Oh and shouting over to Tommy Gravesen asking him where Lee Carsley was was great, especially when he came over to chat to us. Got my Madrid shirt signed by Raul too.

    3. Meeting the entire City squad after training on my first trip to Maine Road in 1995. Still have the pics on my wall at home.

    4. Shels winning the title in Tolka in '06. What a night.

    That I've seen -

    1. Houghton in '94

    2. Zidane in '98

    3. Bergkamp v Argentina in '98

    4. Saeed Al Owairan (Saudi Arabia) v Belgium in '94. As an impressionable 9 year old this guy became a cult hero for me. Amazing goal.

    5. Kinkladze v Southampton in '96. What a player.

    6. The Goat in the last derby at Maine Road

    7. Zidane's peno v Buffon in the final

    8. 1999 Division 2 Play Off Final comeback


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,591 ✭✭✭✭cson


    4 Memories for me;
    1. Marc Overmars scoring to put Arsenal 2-1 up against Utd at Old Trafford. Amazing.
    2. Robbie Fowler trying to wave away a penalty given for him and then showing David Seaman the way he was going to shoot. (Course Jason McAteer had to fooking ruin it!)
    3. Meeting Liam Brady and the Iceman whilst on a tour of Highbury
    4. Robbie Keane equalising against Germany in the 2002 World Cup in the last minute.

    All of these moments (bar meeting the lads) had me jumping around like a madman. :)


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Mark Hughes volley for Manchester Utd. to draw level with Oldham in the FA Cup semi final in '94.
    I believe it was the last minute of extra time, when he somehow volleyed that ball past the keeper.
    Neil Pointon was the name of the bloke who scored for Oldham I think. He had terrible hair as I recall. I think we routed the latics in the replay, and hammered Chelsea in the final and won the double that season. But THAT was the goal that made it all happen. Sparky. What a legend.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    Me "da who is that black man............"

    Da "hes a pearl"

    Hes actually the 1st black/negro/coloured/dunno whats pc person i ever seen.

    mad that :confused:



    kdjac


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    snyper wrote: »
    wasnt there.. but i was 11..

    Stuttgart, 1988.. need i say more?

    I was in a pub outside the ground for that . Was at the USSR game.


  • Posts: 14,379 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    - The great Dane saving van Bastens penalty in Euro 92

    - Watching Ryan Giggs in his debut season when Leeds won the old Championship and the fact that hes still playin for United now.

    - United winning the first premiership after it changed.

    - Ray Houghton, say no more.

    - Ajax winning the Champions League

    - United winning the treble

    - Zidane in 98 and 06 and seeing him play in the flesh in his prime in 200 for juventus against Vicenza (even tho i was 21 in 06!!). Best player that ever lived.

    - Cantonas lob...majestic

    - The first time i went to Old Trafford

    - Goin to the Amsterdam Tournament (again i was 21 and it was a pre season thing but I saw all the United lads, Ajax, Inter, Porto and got my pic taken with the Champions league trophy that I cheered Ajax onto winning in 96!)

    - Robbie Keane 2002

    - And believe it or not, beckhanms free against Greece. Was workin in a pub at the time and these scumbags were sittin near me and they were so bad that all of us barstaff actually wanted England to win just to piss those lads off, and what a way to do. Shoot me for that one!




    EDIT: Have to include di Canio catching the ball when the keeper was injured. What a sportsman. The way the game should be. Pity he never signed for United.


  • Posts: 14,379 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Mark Hughes volley for Manchester Utd. to draw level with Oldham in the FA Cup semi final in '94.
    I believe it was the last minute of extra time, when he somehow volleyed that ball past the keeper.
    Neil Pointon was the name of the bloke who scored for Oldham I think. He had terrible hair as I recall. I think we routed the latics in the replay, and hammered Chelsea in the final and won the double that season. But THAT was the goal that made it all happen. Sparky. What a legend.

    I remember that well. What a legend.


    4 - 0 in the final. We reaped the best of kanchelskis and Ince that season.


    i also remember around the same period Sparky gettin sent off for an unbelievably painful lookin kick to the balls of a Sheffield United player at Bramble Lane. Obviously not a favourite memory but it popped into my head readin that. Funny the way memories come back like that.


    Also watchin Fergie celebratin on the Wembley pitch!!! Timeless! And bruceys comeback goals against Sheffield wednesday. that game won us the league that year imo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,121 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    I was a little too young to really understand what was happening during Euro 88 and Italia 90, but I'll always have very fond memories of USA 94.

    There were tri-colours everywhere and absolutely everybody watched the matches.

    Houghtons goal and Aldridge going mental, brilliant stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    -
    - And believe it or not, beckhanms free against Greece. Was workin in a pub at the time and these scumbags were sittin near me and they were so bad that all of us barstaff actually wanted England to win just to piss those lads off, and what a way to do. Shoot me for that one!


    The exact same thing happened to me, I was so happy when that goal went in.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    The only thing I rememeber about USA 94, I was four going on five was walking around town on the the day of the Italy game with a huge balloon Irish hammer and Inflatable American football hat, with an Ireland jersey too big for me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,121 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    - And believe it or not, Beckhams free against Greece. Was workin in a pub at the time and these scumbags were sittin near me and they were so bad that all of us barstaff actually wanted England to win just to piss those lads off, and what a way to do. Shoot me for that one!

    No matter what anyones views on the England team, you could not be a fan of football watching that match and not want Beckham to score that.

    He and he alone was brilliant that day. I think they said after the game that he ran almost ten miles or something during that match


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Yeah it was a good moment, but I can't say I wanted him to score.


    How could I forget Ukraine vs Switzerland in world cup. Terrible game but Ukraine went through.. to the quarter finals.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭The Sparrow


    Mark Hughes volley for Manchester Utd. to draw level with Oldham in the FA Cup semi final in '94.
    I believe it was the last minute of extra time, when he somehow volleyed that ball past the keeper.
    Neil Pointon was the name of the bloke who scored for Oldham I think. He had terrible hair as I recall. I think we routed the latics in the replay, and hammered Chelsea in the final and won the double that season. But THAT was the goal that made it all happen. Sparky. What a legend.

    Damn you dr. bollocko that was going to be my cherished childhood memory!

    It was great though... I fell off my the top bunkbed I was that excited!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭DeadSkin


    Have to add Italia '90 also, was all about Packie Bonner at the time, try and skip the first 55 seconds if at all possible :o
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pazh__1Kuus


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    I remember that well. What a legend.


    4 - 0 in the final. We reaped the best of kanchelskis and Ince that season.


    i also remember around the same period Sparky gettin sent off for an unbelievably painful lookin kick to the balls of a Sheffield United player at Bramble Lane. Obviously not a favourite memory but it popped into my head readin that. Funny the way memories come back like that.


    Also watchin Fergie celebratin on the Wembley pitch!!! Timeless! And bruceys comeback goals against Sheffield wednesday. that game won us the league that year imo.


    Oh my god How could I forget Brucey's brace against Sheff Wed. It makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck just thinking about it!
    Why do I always emote more for football results I remember from back then than I do from watching it now?


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    woooo232 wrote: »
    Damn you dr. bollocko that was going to be my cherished childhood memory!

    It was great though... I fell off my the top bunkbed I was that excited!

    Everyone remembers Sparky's goal so much more than the final, even though we beat the blues 4-0. It was just the tension in the stadium was palpible, the comentators sounded stricken, the crowd shell shocked after Pointon scored against the run of play right at the start of extra time and we were just out of ideas. We kept booting the ball back in again and again and it was completely fruitless, and time was slowly running out and there was just this sense of encroaching doom, of a bubble bursting as the last few seconds play out. I was thinking, that's it, wer'e ****ed. No league, no cup. It's all over. Nobody can recover from losing a semi like this and maintain form in a title race. And then I remember actually watching it live, when the ball is lobbed into the box, it seemed to go in slow motion and hang in the air forever, and I watched it with my heart in my mouth unable to breath, and then WHAM! And you had to look twice to even be sure it had snuck in before all hell broke loose. What a ****ing moment.

    Also, does anyone remember this little bad boy? The famous Roberto Carlos impossible curl?
    Poetry in motion.
    Or the infamous Higuita scorpion kick? The stuff of They think its all over opening credits. I mean that's like better than winning an oscar.

    Also, the one last thing I will always remember is that song.
    "NAYIM! FROM THE HALF WAY LINE!"
    And everyone thinking, why didnt you just use two hands you pompous moustachioed wanker.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 662 ✭✭✭JæKæ


    Phil Babb's debut against Hungary in 93, Daithi O'Leary's testimonial. The beginning of a beautiful international career


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    JæKæ wrote: »
    Phil Babb's debut against Hungary in 93, Daithi O'Leary's testimonial. The beginning of a beautiful international career

    Speaking of Babb, his legs spread either side of a goal post against Chelsea has to be one of the best moments ever. Especially when the camera cut to Casiraghi pissing himself.

    EDIT: And here it is!



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    My Earliest memory of football is Mexico '86. I was six.

    I remember asking my dad why there was a spider on the pitch in the England Argentina match.

    It's in the centre circle here :D



    I remember my dad going apeshít when Maradona scored the "hand of god" goal, we had visitors from England staying with us that week.

    Not much in between until Euro '88, and being mesmerised by Van Basten, the guy has been my hero since then.

    Oh, one other memory, that makes me smile, in a sick twisted way.

    My dad is a Liverpool fan (:mad:), and the year they lost the championship to Arsenal, when Michael Thomas scored. What was it 89? 90? That was the first time I saw my dad crying. He was on the sitting room floor that Friday night bawling his eyes out :D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,122 ✭✭✭✭Nalz


    Memories as a kid, top 6 gotta be:

    1) Ronnie Whelan -what a goal!!! 1988

    2) Dave O Leary pen Italia 90

    3) Hughes goal vs Barcelona Euro WC final 1991

    4) Listening to United beat Norwich on the radio, 1993... I knew then the league was ours!

    5) Went to see Villa vs United in 1993 1-1, Staunton scored a cracker,
    then a few weeks later scored from a corner kick against Northern Ireland.

    6) McClair goal (those blue jerseys!) against Forest 1992 League Cup


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,814 ✭✭✭dobsdave


    DesF wrote: »
    My Earliest memory of football is Mexico '86. I was six.

    I remember asking my dad why there was a spider on the pitch in the England Argentina match.

    It's in the centre circle here :D



    I remember my dad going apeshít when Maradona scored the "hand of god" goal, we had visitors from England staying with us that week.

    Not much in between until Euro '88, and being mesmerised by Van Basten, the guy has been my hero since then.

    Oh, one other memory, that makes me smile, in a sick twisted way.

    My dad is a Liverpool fan (:mad:), and the year they lost the championship to Arsenal, when Michael Thomas scored. What was it 89? 90? That was the first time I saw my dad crying. He was on the sitting room floor that Friday night bawling his eyes out :D:D

    It was 89, and you are indeed sick and twisted if your Dad crying on the floor is one of your best football memories:D

    My two are: Meeting Ronnie Whelan,Bruce Grobelaar,Craig Johnston and Greame Souness after a match at Anfield.(I still have the photo 25 years later!).
    And the European cup final in 1981 against Real, thought we were going to be stuffed that night.


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