Kids at games

Nine while nine

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• #61

'O Zio said:

Which game was it out of interest? I'm assuming not the Wigan one given that you have a son old enough to go to games, unless of course you got some lucky girl knocked up when you were 12 or something

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Dougal said:

Bristol?

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Yup.

Tottenham 9 Bristol Rovers 0. October 1977.

 

Mr.D

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Wait till they're 18. At least then they can get pissed with you while the crowds fuck off.

 

BuryMeInEngland

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I was 8 when I first went with my Dad and Grandad. Rather than put me thorough the kids turnstiles, Dad would squeeze me through with him in the adult turnstile (he knew a few of the blokes that worked the turnstiles). Oh, and yeah, he was a bit of a tight old git as well, he never bought a cup of tea in the ground he always had his own flask of it with him.

 

TheChosenOne

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Nine while nine said:

Yup.

Tottenham 9 Bristol Rovers 0. October 1977.

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I was working on the No.47 bus that day and bloody well missed it.

 

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branchie

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My son's 7 and talks about being taken to a game. I'm just not sure he'll enjoy it tbh. He knows about Kane, Alli and Eriksen (damn you FIFA) but I can't see him being interested for 90 minutes. Plus the 5hr journey (one way) is a little off putting.

Perhaps I should just take him to watch Bangor City first?!?

 

scat1620

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Nine while nine said:

My first game. I was nine. We scored nine. Hence 'nine while nine'.

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Fuck Bruce Wayne and his mother's pearl necklace (leave it out, @Houdini), that is a proper origin story: NWN Begins.

 

scat1620

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Since we're all doing our first match, mine was Luton 0-0 Spurs at Kenilworth Road in 1989, with young scat a mere 7 years old. It was a pissing cold December day, I couldn't see anything standing on the terraces (now a short-arse adult, then a short-er-arse kid), there weren't any goals to see in any case, and I was itching to read a Man From Uncle novel that my dad had bought from the Arndale for me earlier in the day. Put me off football entirely for years and didn't go to another game between any teams at all until after I got back on the Tottenham train in 1995/96, with my first match at the Lane being a 1-0 win over Derby in 1997.

 

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Got my 4 now 5 year old son a season ticket for this year with his first ever game being Chelsea. He started off wearing ear defenders and being scared of how high we were. I thought I had made a big mistake. By about his 3rd game he was jumping around singing the songs and loving it. After the NLD he was singing stand up if you hate Arsen#l all week. Now my biggest problem is him crying when he can't come to mid week games on school nights.

 

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smallsnc

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• #69

branchie said:

My son's 7 and talks about being taken to a game. I'm just not sure he'll enjoy it tbh. He knows about Kane, Alli and Eriksen (damn you FIFA) but I can't see him being interested for 90 minutes. Plus the 5hr journey (one way) is a little off putting.

Perhaps I should just take him to watch Bangor City first?!?

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In the states, starting taking boys to see the local college games when they were 6 or 7 and could have a couple of their teammates go with them. Crowds were only around 2500 and they would get to have the players sign autographs for them after the games. They wanted to go every week until they got interested in what the girls were doing on Friday nights. By the time 2006 world cup rolled around, they were 14 and 10 and loved going to a couple of group stage matches.

 

kr1978

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I started taking my daughter when she was 5 but was lucky enough to be able to take her to a few youth games at WHL to get her used to it first, then a few early stage cup games and then onto the big games.

She is 12 now and absolutely obsessed with Spurs so my work is done (apart from she gets upset when I go to the odd game without her to the extent I don’t really bother now).

I found bribing her with a hot dog worked in the early days.

 

nailsy

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My kid was about seven when I took him to his first game. He loved the pre match stuff like going in the shop, having a burger, and seeing the players warm up, but he didn't like the noise of the crowd once the game started, especially one bloke right behind us who kept shouting and making him jump out of his seat. We ended up leaving before half time which was a shame, but better that than traumatizing the poor kid. Luckily it was a pre season game and tickets were only £25 for a family of four so it wasn't loads of money down the drain.

 

Mr.D

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• #72

TheChosenOne said:

I was working on the No.47 bus that day and bloody well missed it.

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I was there (in the ground, not on the No. 47).
Colin Lee 4 goal debut.

 

Lighty64

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Nine while nine said:

Yup.

Tottenham 9 Bristol Rovers 0. October 1977.

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and the best of all the Rovers keeper was MotM made 4 or 5 great saves. remember watching it from the shelf.

 

WexfordTownSpur

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My boy is 10 and most people would say he is football mad! But not quite true, he loves FIFA on his Xbox. Loves match attax cards. Likes to play on his local team ( hard to get him out of bed on a Saturday morning and off his Xbox for training) Always wants new boots and shirts. Knows pretty much all the players in the EPL and Big European teems. But ask him to sit and watch a game with you, even Spurs Arsenal or Barcelona v RM. and he couldn’t give a toss, has 0 interest in “ watching football” now maybe a live game would be different but as I live in Ireland and it’s pretty much a weekend trip and expensive I am not ready to say it’s money and fine we’ll spent. I don’t think he has the attention span yet, and I would say a couple of years before he does? But yes I guess it depends on the kid.
As a kid I was lucky enough to live in London and went to Tottenham games with my best friend at the time and he’s parents, and I loved it. But I guess I also didn’t have an Xbox and the internet

 

FreddieYid

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I was 6 for my first game, a 1-1 draw at home to QPR in 1986, Paul Allen scored.

My boy is about to turn 7 and I’ve been regularly taking him since he was 4, his first game was the 3-1 away win at Palace when Dele scored ‘that goal’, his attention span wasn’t great that day, but within 2 or 3 games he was hooked. I only allow him to go to midweek games when it’s a special one, like Dortmund, Real Madrid and Juventus.

I think the earlier you get them used to it the better.

 

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I wasn’t really interested in football before my first game, but after walking out into the stands at the Lane for first time aged 9 (2-1 v Blackburn 1998), I was smitten.