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Best football memories as a child?

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


    Stekelly wrote: »
    I was in a pub outside the ground for that . Was at the USSR game.

    Ahh. you legend!

    You saw "the ronnie"!! The magical ronnie whelan goal that i spent years trying to replicate after!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,235 ✭✭✭iregk


    Best footballing memory ever has nothing to do with any pro game or anything like that. Its actually my own and come to think of it its not a childhood one either. Started playing for Rovers at 19 (not 1st regular or anything like that). Playing in an FAI cup game against Ashtown Villa age 20 slid in for a tackle and snapped the cruciate for a 2nd time.

    Told after 12 physio sessions and a knee op that I'd never play again. Almost 3 years of solid personal rehab and strenght building I pulled on the Rovers jersey for the a glorious return in the last 20mins of a cup game against Tolka Rovers. That turned out to be the last game I ever played for Rovers as I just can't do it to that level anymore. Fully finished but that 20mins I had tears in my eyes all the way through.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,714 ✭✭✭ciaran76


    Everton beating Watford in the FA Cup final in 1984 (8 years old)was my 1st memory.Next memory was losing to Utd in the FA Cup Final a year later when Kevin Moran got sent off.

    Next big memory was Stuttgart 1988 what a day !;):D think it was also the 1st time I had a can of beer too as everyone on our road came out to play ball that evening including the parents.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭evil_seed


    1. Packie Bonner's save in Italia 90, the proceeding to bury my head behind a cushion as O'Leary stepped up to take the decider. I was 7.
    2. Yerr mans knee in euro 92
    3. Meeting my footballing idol John Aldridge, accompanied by Phil Babb.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,643 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    One of my earliest ever memories as a kid is being in Waterford with my family as a four year old and being called in from playing outside by my mother to watch Ireland's penalty shoot-out win over Romania. Even though I didn't fully understand what was going on, what an atmosphere!

    Another favourite memory is Alan McLoughlin's goal against NI that took us to the '94 World Cup and me and my dad jumping up and down on the sofa going crazy. My mother came down as she'd had a migraine and was wondering what all the noise was all about. "WE'RE GOING TO THE WORLD CUP!"

    Another great one I remember is being in Galway watching the '94 World Cup itself where me and my dad were with some woman and her son who was around my age. He left the match to go next door and get something to eat and in the process missed Ray Houghton's goal, one of the most famous goals in Irish history! Poor guy was gutted!

    I wasn't taken to many games as a kid although I recall going to Dalymount to watch Bohs as a youngster and having to sit on those benches. :D I also recall going to see United against Shelbourne in those friendly games they used to do every year and that was a great day for me.

    Some painful memories include Luis Oliveira helping Belgium stop us getting to the 98 WC in the play-off and listening to the radio as Turkey stopped us from going to Euro 2000 in yet another play-off. :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,046 ✭✭✭eZe^


    Rivaldo's hat trick against Valencia, winning the game 3-2, to get Barca the last champions league spot.


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


    A recent one was Figos return the the Nou Camp as a Real player.

    He had some bottle to constantly take the corners when he was being pelted with things, including a pigs head!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen


    Bubs101 wrote: »
    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

    do you even understand what your saying here?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,860 ✭✭✭ditpoker


    1) i'm gonna get lynched for this but Italia 90, wearing an england away kit at the age of 7 (my aunt had bought it for me, my second jersey every after getting a spurs goalkeeper top so i could pretend to be erik the viking thortsvedt) and watching the only 2 players i really knew (Gazza and Lineker) playing for england and getting knocked out of the world cup semi final. i cried all night... before i knew i wasnt meant to like england... most upsetting football match EVER, and best... i can pin point that as the day i fully fully fell in love with football.

    2) the following year, spurs winning the cup!!!

    3) Spurs vs leicester, allan nielsen, last minute!!!! wooooo!

    4) houghton goal versus italy in USA.

    5) spurs arsenal, 5-1, happened recently, some of you may have heard!?!? hhehehe

    6) on a whim, myself and 4 mates travel to madrid for last game of last season, do a tour of the stadium and then hit a sports bar and watch real come from behind to win the league. then join 100,000+ in the town centre to celebrate!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 394 ✭✭colster


    World Cup 1982

    It's probably the first WC i remember and still consider the best one I've seen.
    It had 2 classic games
    Italy v Brazil http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=zTfPOzUc1JI
    W Germany France. http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=gv8EkcezR_s
    and of course
    N. Ireland v Spain


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,372 ✭✭✭✭Mr Alan


    DesF wrote: »
    My dad is a Liverpool fan

    Ahhhh! that explains a lot!

    You must be truely ashamed Des ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,942 ✭✭✭missingtime


    "Timoti against bonner"..."A nation holds it's breath"

    The England v Argentina game when Michael Owen scored.

    Seria A on Network 2...ahhh memories. Sampdoria rule!


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,406 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    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!

    To my circle of friends and possibly others? This is known as babbing oneself. Example. Jesus i nearly babbed myself sliding to get a touch on that cross. Classic moment in footbal.

    My earliest and fondest memory is Mexico 86, El Diego taking england apart. Jimmy Magee comentary, Different Class, this man should be on a pedestal, Different Class, can he finish? Goaalll.

    Wan the jimmy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,804 ✭✭✭secman


    My Da lifting me over the turn stiles at Dalyer to watch his beloved Shels play Bohs and the bovril at half time, to warm me up ! We then moved from town to Inchicore when I was 6ish and then I became a Saints fan, 44 yrs now for my troubles. Still remember that bovril and me poor da who has since passed away ! Certainly miss going to matches , any match, be it Pats , Ireland or the local team, with him.

    Secman


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭Murtinho


    lordgoat wrote: »
    Xavi6 wrote: »
    My earliest and fondest memory is Mexico 86, El Diego taking england apart. Jimmy Magee comentary, Different Class, this man should be on a pedestal, Different Class, can he finish? Goaalll.

    Wan the jimmy.

    Mexico 86 was special, i was 10, into football but not yet hooked, i think it was Denmark that first got me, "Laudrop, still Laudrop,, still Laudrop" and of course Maradona,

    Childhood memories of Man utd in the 80's is mainly misery, sunday afternoons on ITV getting hopped on, thinking Russel Beardsmore was the best thing since sliced bread.


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


    Mr Alan wrote: »
    Ahhhh! that explains a lot!

    You must be truely ashamed Des ;)
    I've mentioned this atrocity on here before.

    I don't speak to my father :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Going to my first Bohs game in 1990. It was a pre-season centenary friendly match against Glasgow Keltic.

    The place was quite literally packed (I had to sit on the steps of the old main stand because they'd no space left on the old wooden benches).

    The ground smelt like cigarettes and I'd say 95% of the 20000+ crowd were behind the glamourous British side, but I knew straight away which team I wanted to win. It all felt exactly like that scene in Fever Pitch where the kid goes to his first Arsenal game.

    That day also began my life-long hatred of Keltic too btw. :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭Jazzy


    man utd losing by 1 goal in the fa cup final and 1 point in the league :)

    i was pretty happy bout that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭homerjay2005


    italia 90 is the obvious one for me.

    also, i was only 7 and i can remember the night that mark robbins got the goal against forest to save fergies job, united went on to win the cup. remember listening to te game on 5live on a s**te radio.....god those were the days. also fondly remember the 2 games v palace that may and where i was for both of them. lee martin legend.

    vaguley remember the malta game and john aldridges 2 goals to put us in the WC.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,677 ✭✭✭genericgoon


    1996 FA cup final Cantona Goal, 1999 treble win, Giggs goal against Arsenal in the FA cup semi


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭shane86


    Mikeyt086 wrote: »
    Also i was only 13 for Robbie Keane's equaliser against Germany in Yokohama in 2002, in my school, everyone going insane.

    June 5th 2002. Wouldnt you have been out of school by then?

    I know I was in school, iirc was only a few mins out of one of the JC exams. TV had been set up in the canteen, arrived in a few mins before it :) Atmosphere was fairly dead until then, place erupted :D

    I vaguely remember the whole buzz of 1990, ole ole and all that :D Boiling hot summer iirc.

    Also remember thinking my dad was nuts when he told me he had put money on a France win in 98, they were fairly unfancied compared to Brazil. I distinctly recall Zidane and Petits goals in the final.

    Hardly a best memory but was watching Reeling in the Years from 97 and remembered having watced your man Olivera end our 98 hopes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭shayser


    The Brazil and French teams of the '82 and '86 world cups.

    Paul McGrath!


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


    Murtinho wrote: »

    Mexico 86 was special, i was 10, into football but not yet hooked, i think it was Denmark that first got me, "Laudrop, still Laudrop,, still Laudrop" and of course Maradona,

    Childhood memories of Man utd in the 80's is mainly misery, sunday afternoons on ITV getting hopped on, thinking Russel Beardsmore was the best thing since sliced bread.

    :eek: I never said that about Jimmy Magee! I can't stand him. Most boring commentator ever, and sure how would I remember Mexico 86 if I was one?!

    Sort out them quotes of yours! :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭Nunu


    I have been to literally 100's of football games but it's still an easy one for me - England 0 -1 Ireland, Stuttgart '88.

    My Dad brought the whole family to that tournament in a 30ft camper van:D. I was 8 years old and after that game I was taken in hook, line and sinker:)

    I really appreciate how lucky I was to be a kid when Ireland went through that golden period. Will our youth of today/tomorrow ever get to experience such highs again...I really hope so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Seeing Gazza score from outside the box with his shoulder in Tolka Park.

    Ireland v Wales at Tolka Park.

    Ireland v England at Lansdowne. All 30 minutes of it.

    Being the only person in a stand of 10,000 standing and celebrating when Southampton scored a consolation to make it 4-1 in Goodison Park.

    Seeing Matt Le Tissier in the flesh for the first time circa 1995 in Inchicore. Also, meeting Peter Beardsley, Juninho and Dario Gradi (one of my football heroes) at various pre-season friendlies over the years.

    Seeing Robbie Keanes debut vs Argentina in Lansdowne.

    Roy Keane refusing to shake my hand in Lansdowne. Nice guy.


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


    MrJoeSoap wrote: »

    Roy Keane refusing to shake my hand in Lansdowne. Nice guy.


    :D What did you say to upset him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    :D What did you say to upset him.

    Nah the team were getting off the bus and walking into the ground and every other player shook my hand but not him.

    Cue a United fan to say he was just 100% focussed on the game at hand.


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


    MrJoeSoap wrote: »
    Nah the team were getting off the bus and walking into the ground and every other player shook my hand but not him.

    Cue a United fan to say he was just 100% focussed on the game at hand.


    Funny you mention that, I went with a mate to a Man Utd match at OT, as players came in they all signed autographs and posed for photos including Cantona, Giggs, Beckham,May Ferguson etc.., Roy Keane and Denis Irwin were the only two who did not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭Nunu


    Some favourite personal football memories:

    *Watching the Portuguese squad train over 4 days in a pre Euro '96 training camp just up the road from my gaff and getting all their autographs, Rui Costas boots and a training top off Jorge Cadete.

    Also, a bit of contoversy too. I had a Barcelona flag and got Figo to sign and there were strong rumours that Vitor Baia was joining Barcelona(he did end up joining) so a cunning photograher got me to get Baia to sign also and he took a snap. Baia was not amused with him:D...So, in all probabilitiy I was on the front of some portuguese rag the next day:D


    *Meeting Dejan Savicevic behind the Lansdowne west stand when we played Yugoslavia in a qualifier. It was surreal. He had been subbed off and obviously had the hump. So there he was in his tracksuit munching on a hot dog with not a care in the world! No one recognised him, but me and my brother did and we over like a flash yapping away to him. Had no camera but got a randomer to take a pic on his. He promised to forward the photo but never did:(


    *I spent 12 weeks working at Euro '04 as an accreditation officer and that was a magical summer.
    So, many memories, impossible to list them all but here's a few

    - going to 16 games including all quarters, semis and final.

    - spending a day at Italys tournament HQ, watching them train, having lunch with Inter/Italy legend Giacinto Facchetti(RIP) and beating Massimo Oddo in a game of Pro-Evo(He was Italy I was Ireland)

    - also met Andy Townsend, Ray Houghton, Tony Cascarino, Peter Schmeichel, Jurgen Klinsmann, Beckenbauer, Eusebio, Gary Linekar, Jamie Redknapp and loads more, including Garth Crooks:o

    - marching with 1000's of portuguese fans behind team bus on way to the final(goosebumps just thinking about it!)

    - seeing my idol Zidane put England to the sword at the death and having to bite my lip being in amongst english fans

    ...but the best was blagging my way into the press area after the Czech v Holland match(best game I've ever been to) and 'interviewing' Van Nistelrooy with my mobile phone outstretched. He knew I was chancing my arm but smiled playing along and chatted for a couple of minutes.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,046 ✭✭✭eZe^


    Liverpool fans will love this...

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=srui70ZzPC8


    Pfft, and people praise the Argentine goal against Serbia at WC06....


    :D


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