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Post by philatrickstarbuck on Feb 11, 2023 13:29:53 GMT 1
A thread like this makes me feel ultra positive about this afternoon. Its just what we all needed.
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Post by ralphadonna on Feb 11, 2023 13:39:54 GMT 1
My Great Grandad started it off for us. Grandma was born in the 30s so assume he was born around 1910. Love this club.
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Post by Stewpot on Feb 11, 2023 15:08:59 GMT 1
My dad went to the Arsenal 67k game, he would have been about 12, but I'm not sure when he started going. He started taking me when I was about 8, Wood, McHale and co. In my blood from the first minute of my first game. Passed the drug on to my eldest (Hi Flevans!), and 2 of my brothers (Hi Vivabobbyhoy and Dobsonschoice) are also infected. I'm always amazed how good peoples memories are about particularly games etc. Mines bloody awful, especially on my earlier games. UTT I’d love to talk with someone who was at that game. Being at the Barnsley game with 29k in Leeds road it just seems weird that so many could be in the ground. I have posted similar in the past. I was at Leeds Rd in 1966 for the FA Cup tie vs Sheffield Wednesday with just short of 50,000 in the ground. How on earth they crammed in another 17,000 plus for that Arsenal game is staggering!
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Post by ben1987 on Feb 11, 2023 15:11:39 GMT 1
I was born behind enemy lines, in Bradford. Both parents are from Huddersfield and both supporters of town. My maternal grandfather was someone I was really close to and he was a town fan, born in 1934. My Dad got hooked by his step father, a man called Bob Greaves who in the 1950’s and 1960’s knew a lot of former and current players. My dad remembers being taken to their houses. My dad was hooked at a very young age. When he lived on Waterloo road he lived next door to Les Massie who he used to knock on his door regularly for a kick about and Les always said yes., His first season was about 1963 and my first game that I remember was the last game at Leeds road. I was mad for it, my dad took me everywhere he could. My uncle and his father were town fans too, starting in the 50’s and 70’s. Sometimes I think care far too much but it’s so hard to not, it’s just in my blood. My daughters been to a few games and enjoys it but struggles to stay interested for the full 90. She’s 7 and I keep drip feeding her, she tells everyone she’s a town fan. My son is no longer here but he’d be 9 this year and probably would be at every game with me like Pozzas lads are. We as fans have to get our youth hooked early, we owe it to ourselves and those fans before us. Without fans, a club is nothing.
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Post by 28901 on Feb 11, 2023 15:20:40 GMT 1
From Kerry footballers to Kilkenny hurlers, you have probably the two standout traditionally great sides in Gaelic sports history there. Hard as nails those hurley players. No protection at all in the 70 when we were kids
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Post by overtonterrierspirit on Feb 11, 2023 15:22:24 GMT 1
My Dad took me to watch Town for the first time in the late 1960,s when I was 5 years old. FA Cup v West Ham. Walking up the steps to see a football pitch under floodlights for the first time - I’ve been hooked ever since. I’ll always remember seeing the clash of maroon and sky blue on those famous West Ham shirts that I’d previously only seen pictures of. I dare say like lots of us, I continued to go to games with my Dad until the day as a young teenager, some school mates saw me walking along Leeds Road holding my Dads hand! After that it was definitely with my mates. I just cannot envisage ever not going to watch Town .
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Post by Captainslapper on Feb 11, 2023 15:53:12 GMT 1
My gran, born in 1911 used to say she could remember going to a Town game with her dad when she was about 10,, so sometime at the start of the 1920s. She was in town for the bus parade with the cup in 1922. Her husband, my grandad could well have seen Town play before that even, but never knew him to ask. He used to march round the pitch before games in the brass band in the late 40s and 50s and was a big Town fan all his life.
My dad was also in the same band but had such little interest in football, after they'd done their half time turn, rather than stick around to watch Ray Wilson and Denis Law etc, he'd bugger off into the car park to look at all the cars! Takes all sorts, as they say.
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Post by benroberts on Feb 11, 2023 16:12:57 GMT 1
My Dad grew up in Meltham and has been watching town with his schoolmates since he was 12. He's 74 now and still sits with 3 of them. I don't think my Granddad (who unfortunately I never met) was all that into the football, but my Great Uncle Jack was a huge fan. Quite literally as he was about 6ft 7. He passed away a few years ago but his legacy lives on through the Jack Waterworth Trophy which is awarded to the best goal scored by an Academy player each year. I grew up in Birmingham but attended my first town match at Leeds Road in 1984, and had a steady diet of home and away games throughout my childhood, including one mascot appearance way at fucking St Andrews where I can remember being in awe of Joey Jones. I moved to Madrid 10 yrs ago but try to get two a couple of games every season. My 6-Yr-old is already indoctrinated and has been to 2 Town games this season, he doesn't even have a Spanish club yet although he has been banned from supporting either Real, Barcelona or Atlético.
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Post by Tinpot on Feb 11, 2023 16:25:39 GMT 1
February 1987 for me.
My Dad was never into football and nor was I up until that point. Then some people from HTAFC came down to our Junior School to do a presentation one Friday after school. Showed some videos of goals being scored, that sort of thing. A few of my mates were going so I thought I'd pop down.
Can't remember much about the event but I do remember that there was a buzz about the place.
I asked my mum if I could go to a game, she phoned a friend of hers who went regularly and he agreed to take me along with his kids who were about my age.
Within 24 hours I'd gone from (very) mild curiosity to being absolutely hooked.
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Post by artysid on Feb 11, 2023 16:36:43 GMT 1
My dad went to the Arsenal 67k game, he would have been about 12, but I'm not sure when he started going. He started taking me when I was about 8, Wood, McHale and co. In my blood from the first minute of my first game. Passed the drug on to my eldest (Hi Flevans!), and 2 of my brothers (Hi Vivabobbyhoy and Dobsonschoice) are also infected. I'm always amazed how good peoples memories are about particularly games etc. Mines bloody awful, especially on my earlier games. UTT Me too, I haven't a clue what my first game was. I remember seeing Ray Wilson play a few times, so it must have been 1963 /64 season or earlier. I know my first away game was Rotherham 16th Oct 1965 0-0 draw
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Post by ACW on Feb 11, 2023 17:03:26 GMT 1
Not very far just my dad and his brothers. Grandads from Doncaster. Mum/Grans never into football. I'm the first Town fan in my family. My dad's from Donny too, but I've converted him and he's been a Town season ticket holder for over 25 years. Swapped the pain of watching Rovers for the pain of watching Town! Mum's from Hull and she's not a footie fan at all, so I'm a trail-blazer in my family. My brother wasn't into football either. My son had a season ticket for a while but he's lost interest since we got relegated from the PL. He may come back at some stage, but he's more interested in playing than watching.
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Post by DeepSpace on Feb 11, 2023 17:16:00 GMT 1
I'd say I'm the first diehard Town fan in the family. My Dad had a passing interest I think & was at Leeds Road for the England - Netherlands 8-2 game. My mum by all accounts went regularly for a few seasons in the mid-50s but neither of them were massively interested by the time I came along. They were both Town fans though as such & so I never remember a time in my life when I was anything but. I don't think any of my grandparents were all that bothered, although 3 of them were dead before I turned 8, one of whom I never knew at all, so I'd say that I can't claim anything much past the late 1940s & even then it was hardly what you'd call diehard. I do have a son though who is Town mad & working hard on his son, plus another grandson who has just got his first Town season ticket & a granddaughter who seems to be developing an interest in football. She will sing 'Blue & White army' with me for ages So maybe this thread in 100 years time might look better.
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Post by drewden on Feb 11, 2023 18:11:05 GMT 1
My early days in the 60s, was my dad taking me to watch fartown every Saturday, when I was 12 I made the decision to start watching Town with my mates, promotion to div1 was icing on the cake, some of the best years of my life 60s/70s watching Town home and away.
My lad is a Bolton fan, I did try to convert him.
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Post by vivabobbyhoy on Feb 11, 2023 20:13:01 GMT 1
In 1956 my Mum and Dad provided lodgings for a couple of Town juniors.... Bobby Ledger was one and the other something like Robbie Shiner(?). They hosted regular card schools and one of the attendees was a certain Denis Law, (who my Grandad couldn't believe was a footballer, due to Denis being small, 7 stone-wet-through skinny and at the time possessing a wonky eye). I was born in the autumn of the same year. I played 11-a-side football til I was 57 and so had a very long career, played at the very lowest levels, and in that time scored many goals. I'm skinny, wear glasses and I used to grip my right shirt-sleeve cuff while waiting for corners on a cold day. Sometimes it makes me wonder.
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Post by araucaria on Feb 11, 2023 21:42:20 GMT 1
I’d love to talk with someone who was at that game. Being at the Barnsley game with 29k in Leeds road it just seems weird that so many could be in the ground. I have posted similar in the past. I was at Leeds Rd in 1966 for the FA Cup tie vs Sheffield Wednesday with just short of 50,000 in the ground. How on earth they crammed in another 17,000 plus for that Arsenal game is staggering! And thousands got in without paying, so there could well have been 70,000 plus there.
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Post by rugbyterrier on Feb 11, 2023 21:50:59 GMT 1
In 1956 my Mum and Dad provided lodgings for a couple of Town juniors.... Bobby Ledger was one and the other something like Robbie Shiner(?). They hosted regular card schools and one of the attendees was a certain Denis Law, (who my Grandad couldn't believe was a footballer, due to Denis being small, 7 stone-wet-through skinny and at the time possessing a wonky eye). I was born in the autumn of the same year. I played 11-a-side football til I was 57 and so had a very long career, played at the very lowest levels, and in that time scored many goals. I'm skinny, wear glasses and I used to grip my right shirt-sleeve cuff while waiting for corners on a cold day. Sometimes it makes me wonder. Wonderful. Cheered me up from my Town malaise. đź‘Ť
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Post by golcarexile on Feb 12, 2023 3:18:30 GMT 1
At least back to the 30s. Grandad was an avid fan who started watching in his teens pre-war. I've got a 1938 FA cup final ticket stub in a drawer somewhere along with other bits and bobs of old Town memorabilia of a similar vintage. My lad is six and has only been to Huddersfield once but is fully indoctrinated. It's in the blood.
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Post by Theboywhocriedmichaelvanwijk on Feb 12, 2023 6:30:44 GMT 1
My first memory was Wigan (oddly) at home in 1988/89. It was last game of the season and my friend was mascot. Also my first replica shirt the thin lined/greenalls beer kit.
I have to assume that can’t be my first game as it was November 1989 I was Mascot against Northampton and I feel that I would have had to of been part of the young terriers for longer than 6 months to become a mascot.
My first away game memory was Stoke City but I don’t know the year possibly as late as 1992.
I have no connection to Town before this, I was born in Bradford (always lived in Huddersfield) and had they not sacked Terry Dolan it’s possible that ii would of probably done 1 week watching Town and 1 week Bradford as my entire family were Bradford born.
I think because of this and also the era of starting watching Town… Bradford derby was always bigger to me than the Leeds one…. I watched the 4-3 away win (September 1994 I would of just turned 13) in the N & P home stand and celebrated every goal too, can’t imagine that happening now but back then Puma King was the choice of the 13 year old not Stone Island.
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Post by 3Pipe on Feb 12, 2023 7:15:52 GMT 1
One things for sure. We've got some absolute legends lurking on this forum.
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Post by drewden on Feb 12, 2023 12:14:34 GMT 1
In 1956 my Mum and Dad provided lodgings for a couple of Town juniors.... Bobby Ledger was one and the other something like Robbie Shiner(?). They hosted regular card schools and one of the attendees was a certain Denis Law, (who my Grandad couldn't believe was a footballer, due to Denis being small, 7 stone-wet-through skinny and at the time possessing a wonky eye). I was born in the autumn of the same year. I played 11-a-side football til I was 57 and so had a very long career, played at the very lowest levels, and in that time scored many goals. I'm skinny, wear glasses and I used to grip my right shirt-sleeve cuff while waiting for corners on a cold day. Sometimes it makes me wonder. Dennis Law, lived accross the road from me, in my friend's house.
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Post by mosher on Feb 12, 2023 16:18:03 GMT 1
Compared to a few I've read, my family is fairly new to Town. Maternal Granddad was first as far as I know, was born late 30s and had trials with Town, Liverpool and BPA (goalkeeper) post-war, never got signed but ended up living and breathing Town after his trial. Ended up boxing at an amateur level alongside the various hard (steelworker, miner, etc) jobs he had. Before him I'm not sure if there was a football interest, dirt poor (not today's "poor") family up until his generation. Maternal Gran part Welsh so her side of the family was rugby not football. Paternal family is Wakey based so even if they'd been interested in footy it'd probably been L***s like my dad. Sooooooo happy it was mam's side that got me into football rather than being turned into a chestwanker
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Post by Theboywhocriedmichaelvanwijk on Feb 12, 2023 20:18:04 GMT 1
In 1956 my Mum and Dad provided lodgings for a couple of Town juniors.... Bobby Ledger was one and the other something like Robbie Shiner(?). They hosted regular card schools and one of the attendees was a certain Denis Law, (who my Grandad couldn't believe was a footballer, due to Denis being small, 7 stone-wet-through skinny and at the time possessing a wonky eye). I was born in the autumn of the same year. I played 11-a-side football til I was 57 and so had a very long career, played at the very lowest levels, and in that time scored many goals. I'm skinny, wear glasses and I used to grip my right shirt-sleeve cuff while waiting for corners on a cold day. Sometimes it makes me wonder. Dennis Law, lived accross the road from me, in my friend's house. I meant to add to my post.. that I used to deliver a Daily Star every morning to Marcus Stewart’s house on cowcliffe hill road… it was a very modest detached red brick bungalow…. We used to play football directly opposite and one day we dared ask him to join us… he said he couldn’t but he showed us the Page 3 and said have a look at these lads! Obviously with what’s going on recently with Marcus those memories came flooding back.
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Post by wildbillthetownfan on Feb 12, 2023 22:42:50 GMT 1
I’d love to talk with someone who was at that game. Being at the Barnsley game with 29k in Leeds road it just seems weird that so many could be in the ground. I have posted similar in the past. I was at Leeds Rd in 1966 for the FA Cup tie vs Sheffield Wednesday with just short of 50,000 in the ground. How on earth they crammed in another 17,000 plus for that Arsenal game is staggering! My Grand father was at the Arsenal game and told me that thousands got in that day free, they broke the gates open at the open end and loads climbed over too. He said it was scary only being a little fella the crowd were swaying and his feet weren't touching the floor. He always said the crowd that day was probably around 72,000.
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Post by Macduff on Feb 13, 2023 10:25:26 GMT 1
What a great thread. Just goes to show it's in the blood, irrespective of the players, management or even the ground. Last time I was with my dad before he died was the Bristol Rovers play off final. Nothing could have been more appropriate. Cheers dad and UTT.
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Post by canuckterrier99 on Feb 13, 2023 15:25:34 GMT 1
I'm 4th generation and my "lineage" actually predates Town. Maternal great-grandfather played for Huddersfield Representative sides around the turn of the century then was initially part of the group of founders of Town as we know it. However he dropped out in 1908 just before it was formed as he couldn't commit the time from his job as a Headmaster, and my Grandma was born at that time. As far as I know, he watched Town from the start and my Grandma later followed Town, seeing the Team of the 20s. My Mum started following in the 60s and me in the 80s. Dad is from Canada so no interest in football on that side of the family, though he has been to matches occasionally.
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Post by araucaria on Feb 13, 2023 15:45:43 GMT 1
I have posted similar in the past. I was at Leeds Rd in 1966 for the FA Cup tie vs Sheffield Wednesday with just short of 50,000 in the ground. How on earth they crammed in another 17,000 plus for that Arsenal game is staggering! My Grand father was at the Arsenal game and told me that thousands got in that day free, they broke the gates open at the open end and loads climbed over too. He said it was scary only being a little fella the crowd were swaying and his feet weren't touching the floor. He always said the crowd that day was probably around 72,000. My father was there but said nothing about broken gates, rather people climbing over the walls. I think I prefer your grandfather's account, not least because wasn't there barbed wire (or embedded broken glass) on the top of the walls? 70,000 plus were inside in all likelihood, plus many more on Kilner Bank.
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Post by Boaty McBoatface on Feb 13, 2023 19:37:55 GMT 1
My gran, born in 1911 used to say she could remember going to a Town game with her dad when she was about 10,, so sometime at the start of the 1920s. She was in town for the bus parade with the cup in 1922. Her husband, my grandad could well have seen Town play before that even, but never knew him to ask. He used to march round the pitch before games in the brass band in the late 40s and 50s and was a big Town fan all his life. My dad was also in the same band but had such little interest in football, after they'd done their half time turn, rather than stick around to watch Ray Wilson and Denis Law etc, he'd bugger off into the car park to look at all the cars! Takes all sorts, as they say. To be fair, I'd probably be in the car park too. Love classic car shows.
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Post by Boaty McBoatface on Feb 13, 2023 19:53:36 GMT 1
My maternal grandad supported Town pre and post war. I believe my paternal grandad went to games pre war too but he lost his life at the hands of a Japanese torpedo in 1945. My dad was then orphaned but would sneak in to watch Town with his mates in the 50s and then regularly ever since - he first took me in 1990. My daughter has all the kit and tells all her friends she supports Huddersfield Town but she's yet to attend a game. I may bring her along before the end of the season to officially start the 4th generation. My daughter's 6 and has obediently learnt to answer "Huddersfield Town" when asked who her favourite team is. She's been to a number of games, though mainly ends up looking around the stadium rather than the match, but she must be a Town fan because she's now onto her 3rd Town strip. Anyway, I'm a first generation Town fan. My family hail from the south, my Dad now in his mid-80s is an Arsenal fan, his Dad was an Orient fan, while my maternal Grandpa was a Spurs fan. My Mum originates from Norwich and is a Norwich fan, also incidentally she has 6 fingers on each hand. I have two brothers, one supports Leeds and the other QPR. They are both Communists which I think explains a lot.
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Post by Terrier Ramone on Feb 13, 2023 20:33:41 GMT 1
My early days in the 60s, was my dad taking me to watch fartown every Saturday, when I was 12 I made the decision to start watching Town with my mates, promotion to div1 was icing on the cake, some of the best years of my life 60s/70s watching Town home and away. My lad is a Bolton fan, I did try to convert him. You must be old school but I think the authorities tend to frown on parents trying to kick their kids over the posts at Fartown these days.
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Post by Terrier Ramone on Feb 13, 2023 20:36:04 GMT 1
In 1956 my Mum and Dad provided lodgings for a couple of Town juniors.... Bobby Ledger was one and the other something like Robbie Shiner(?). They hosted regular card schools and one of the attendees was a certain Denis Law, (who my Grandad couldn't believe was a footballer, due to Denis being small, 7 stone-wet-through skinny and at the time possessing a wonky eye). I was born in the autumn of the same year. I played 11-a-side football til I was 57 and so had a very long career, played at the very lowest levels, and in that time scored many goals. I'm skinny, wear glasses and I used to grip my right shirt-sleeve cuff while waiting for corners on a cold day. Sometimes it makes me wonder. Dennis Law, lived accross the road from me, in my friend's house. Was he squatting?
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