What's your very first memory of a Saints game?

[OldNick]

Joe Kirkup scoring in the first minute watching my first League match 1968/69. leeds home we lost 3-1

[Charlie2008]

1978 vs. Bristol City @ The Dell. We won 5-2.

[oldsarum]

Bristol City away 1965/66 Saints won with an Own Goal in the first of the three promotion seasons I've witnessed when I was

 

I has been to some home games that season including our 9-3 win against Wolves, but it's only the Bristol City game including the trip up there by car I remember

[Saint_clark]

I can't even seem to remember what happened last weekend in all honesty.

[View From The Top]

My earliest memory is Chelsea away, November 1973, I was 7 and we lost 4-0.

[philelec]

Early 1950's Eric Day on the right wing received a ball over his left shoulder from behind and brought it down on his right instep, fantastic skill. Christie, Wilkins,Traynor, McLaughlin, Parker, Elliott, Flood, Reeves, Day, Mulgrew, Hoskins. Kiernan, Page, McGowan, Walker played in that era. Tony Godrey was the youth team goalkeeper v Man Utd I'm not certain but I think Brian Flood also played in that team in goal. Bob Charles first played for Saintsfirst team as an 18 year old in 1959/60 the promotion year.

Boy, those were the days! I can go back to World War 2 when there were guest players playing at the Dell, I saw Stanley Matthews (my hero at the time) playing there, memory doesn't permit me to remember much else, but I do rememeber being very upset when a bomb left a huge crater in the pitch. It didn't take too long for it to be filled in to allow football to be played again though.

[THINWHITEDUKE]

V Aston Villa first season in Div 1, Sept 1966/67 season, stood at the front wall of the Archers rd terrace, we won 6-2, I seem to remember big Ron scoring 4 and Chivers 2? Absolutely hooked from there on in.

[scotty]

my earliest memory of watching the Saints was aged about 8. No idea who we were playing (obviously) but me and my dad were on the terraces in the wilton end, which became our usual spot. My dad wasnt a well man, and I remember some bloke next to me hoisting me up onto his shoulders so I could see the game, sat there through the entire game. Saints fans = legends, he even went with me and my dad to get a half time cup of bovril....

[rpb]

I can't even seem to remember what happened last weekend in all honesty.

 

We won!

[Shroppie]

Losing 5-1 at home to Leicester in 1967 when Peter Shilton scored his only goal - direct from a clearance helped by a strong wing and an unexpected bounce on a soggy pitch!

Edited 4 May, 2011 by Shroppie