Your First Bees Game

Your First Bees Game

oddbod said:
Barnet v Lincoln I think 4-7 ?
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It was 4-7 but I think Barnet were at home to Crewe. And don't forget that our game immediately prior to the 5-5 was the 4-3 win over Orient on the day Ricky Otto tore us apart. I remember coming out of GP, hearing the Barnet score and telling everybody that the League Cup match was sure to be 0-0.....
 

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Garybaldbee said:
It was 4-7 but I think Barnet were at home to Crewe. And don't forget that our game immediately prior to the 5-5 was the 4-3 win over Orient on the day Ricky Otto tore us apart. I remember coming out of GP, hearing the Barnet score and telling everybody that the League Cup match was sure to be 0-0.....
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Results 1 - 10 of about 1,790,000 for barnet 4 lincoln 7. (0.23 seconds)

Results 1 - 10 of about 421,000 for barnet 4 crewe 7. (0.26 seconds)

it was definitely Barnet.
 

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My first game was in the early part of Season 1957/58, it was either Bournemouth or Colchester..one was a 4 -2 win , the other a 3 - 3 draw. I also remember the Bees beat Norwich 7 – 1 at about that time. The big stars were George Francis and Jim Towers – the ‘ terrible twins’, Ken Coote was captain, and the late Gerry Cakebread kept goal.
We had a little right winger, Eric Parsons, who was nicknamed ‘Rabbit’ , and when he ran down the wing the crowd would sing the old Bud Flanagan favourite ‘ Run rabbit, run rabbit ‘

My dad used to take me on the old Brook Road ( Royal Oak ) stand , a lot of us kids used to sit on the row of barriers about half way back.

It was the last season of Divison 3 ( South). Only one team got promoted, and Bees came second to Brighton. Towards the end of the season there were several 20,000 plus crowds for game against Brighton, and Reading. Brighton needed to win their last game , against Watford, to pip Brentford, and did so 5 -1 .

The following season Divisions 3 and 4 were introduced, with two up, and…Bees came third, behind Plymouth and Hull if memory serves.. The home game against Plymouth had a gate not far off 30,000.
 

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Good memories.Colchester was 3-3 and Bournemouth 4-2 No lack of goals then.
As mentioned on other threads, the Brighton v Watford game in 1958 that cost Bees promotion was later the subject of corruption allegations.
 

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Garybaldbee said:
And don't forget that our game immediately prior to the 5-5 was the 4-3 win over Orient on the day Ricky Otto tore us apart.
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Ashley Bayes was in goal, and didn't Deano score a hat-trick?
 

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great stuff JP5216
 

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JP5216 said:
My first game was in the early part of Season 1957/58, it was either Bournemouth or Colchester..one was a 4 -2 win , the other a 3 - 3 draw. I also remember the Bees beat Norwich 7 – 1 at about that time. The big stars were George Francis and Jim Towers – the ‘ terrible twins’, Ken Coote was captain, and the late Gerry Cakebread kept goal.
We had a little right winger, Eric Parsons, who was nicknamed ‘Rabbit’ , and when he ran down the wing the crowd would sing the old Bud Flanagan favourite ‘ Run rabbit, run rabbit ‘

My dad used to take me on the old Brook Road ( Royal Oak ) stand , a lot of us kids used to sit on the row of barriers about half way back.

It was the last season of Divison 3 ( South). Only one team got promoted, and Bees came second to Brighton. Towards the end of the season there were several 20,000 plus crowds for game against Brighton, and Reading. Brighton needed to win their last game , against Watford, to pip Brentford, and did so 5 -1 .

The following season Divisions 3 and 4 were introduced, with two up, and…Bees came third, behind Plymouth and Hull if memory serves.. The home game against Plymouth had a gate not far off 30,000.
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Blimey, you must be almost as old as me!
I started the habit around then as well.
Thanks for the great memories...:)
 

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keith c said:
For 3 or 4 years during the late '70's My father and I went reguarly to Colchester.One game that sticks in the mind was probably my first Brentford match.

Colchester 6-Brentford 0

Colchester were brilliant that year and had it not been for a really dodgy ref (his name was/is Robins - i've never forgotten it)one friday night against Grimsby (Even Jimmy hill turned up to watch that one!)Colchester would have been promoted to what was then the 2nd division.
However, i digress.
Colchester 6 brentford 0 was also the first time i'd seen tv cameras at a match i'd attended.I don't think people today realise how exciting that used to be -
And i'll never forget the excitement at home after sunday dinner when we watched it on Match of the week, Anglia TV, Gerry Harrison...oooh! enduring image eh! what ? Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) ! Black beauty !the golden shot! chart rundown's sing something simple! ..I'll get me coat....

oh and i remember it was sunny.
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6-1 tony funnell scored for the bees , i was there unfortunately:(
 

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first game was the FA cup game against plymouth in the 99/00 season... from memory i think it ended 2-2 but i could be wrong...
 

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Brentford 0 Bury 1 1973

Believe we lost the home match immediately previously 0-1 too which would have been my first match but the old man got home late.
 

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Sigh. I haven't a clue. Early sixties. Gave away the programmes years ago, they would have told me. Nobody in my close family was interested in football at all, but my uncle (I have mentioned him elsewhere on another thread) was club milkman for 50 years and somehow I got hooked through him, though I went to the early games on my own, despite being just a nipper. Mum knitted me a good scarf (now treasured possession) and I got one of those rattles - lethal thing! I meticulously painted it up with 'BEES' ('Brentford' would not fit) and the names of the 5 current favourite players. When I reached the point where I considered myself too grown-up to have such a thing, I think the names on there included Gelson, Hawley, Phillips and Docherty, but I could be wrong.
 

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vcmazz said:
I thought Tony Funnell was early eighties. Didn't Fred Callaghan sign him about 1982? :confused:
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He was a Callaghan signing but earlier than that - early 1980 at a guess. I think he was gone by '82. It was definately him that scored our goal in the 6-1 at Colchester (am I imagining it or did we play in all orange that day?)
 

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Garybaldbee said:
He was a Callaghan signing but earlier than that - early 1980 at a guess. I think he was gone by '82. It was definately him that scored our goal in the 6-1 at Colchester (am I imagining it or did we play in all orange that day?)
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He scored the goal against Millwall which guaranteed safety for us in a midweek match which must have been in 1980 although Callaghan was only in charge for the last part of that season so perhaps he was a Dodgin signing. I think Millwall "threw" that game as they played like they couldn't be arsed and the goal came after their defender Mel Blyth put in a suicidal back pass which Funnell seized on and ran in to score in front of the Royal Oak.
 

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Wise old Bee said:
He scored the goal against Millwall which guaranteed safety for us in a midweek match which must have been in 1980 although Callaghan was only in charge for the last part of that season so perhaps he was a Dodgin signing. I think Millwall "threw" that game as they played like they couldn't be arsed and the goal came after their defender Mel Blyth put in a suicidal back pass which Funnell seized on and ran in to score in front of the Royal Oak.
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It was a saturday game, IIRC, last game of the season. Funnell came in March 1980, he was Bill Dodgin's last signing.
 

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Garybaldbee said:
He was a Callaghan signing but earlier than that - early 1980 at a guess. I think he was gone by '82. It was definately him that scored our goal in the 6-1 at Colchester (am I imagining it or did we play in all orange that day?)
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See post above. :wave: :sorted:

Dodgin left in April 1980, Callaghan came in the same month.
 

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Staines Bee said:
:yes: Miss Allardyce. For the full lowdown on this lady please ask Hertford Bee.
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Does anyone remember a young lady called Sandra who used to stand with Mrs Brown towards the front of the Royal Oak in the late seventies



I worked with Sandra behind at the old White Horse during the mid eighties for a couple of years......what a laugh see was!.......:D

Mrs B was at Yeovil on Saturday.....
 

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RitchBee said:
I worked with Sandra behind at the old White Horse during the mid eighties for a couple of years......what a laugh she was!.......:D.....
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How the hell did you ever see over the bar? :scratch:
 

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The first one I can remember was 27 Nov 65 - lost 2 - 0 at Reading - and then 5 -0 later that season in the cup. Results against them have not improved over time.....
 

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my first game was bees 0, carlisle 0. it was freezing cold (late December 78?). loved it.
 

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absenteebee said:
my first game was bees 0, carlisle 0. it was freezing cold (late December 78?). loved it.
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I remember that!! 79 i think ? It was freezing, easily the coldest i ever remember being at a game. I was only 10 though
 

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Hungerford Bee said:
30 Dec 1978?

(Courtesy Soccerbase.com)
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3 days after I was born.

My first game was I believe the opening day of the 1988-89 season 1-0 win at home to Huddersfield, I want to say Allan Cockram scored but I actually think it might have been Keith Millen.
 

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Hungerford Bee said:
The first one I can remember was 27 Nov 65 - lost 2 - 0 at Reading - and then 5 -0 later that season in the cup. Results against them have not improved over time.....
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Soccerbase.com does not give the date of the FA Cup game, but I went to both, and I am fairly sure that it was the following week on 4th December 1965.
After watching the 2-0 league defeat, I thought Bees can't get worse than this,so I will go again for the FA cup game as we can't be that bad on 2 Saturdays running.
I was right....we weren't that bad, we were a f*****g sight worse ! !

OH the joys of being a Bees Fan :)
 

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bigmac said:
3 days after I was born.

My first game was I believe the opening day of the 1988-89 season 1-0 win at home to Huddersfield, I want to say Allan Cockram scored but I actually think it might have been Keith Millen.
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Definitely Cockram. I was 10 and standing right at the front of Brook Road behind the goal and he lobbed the keeper from the edge of the area.It may or may not of gone in off the bar. I can still remember the ball nestled in the back of the net and AC wheeling away with his arms aloft. Wasn't my first Bees game but the first of those I can remember clearly.
 

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Ghost said:
Definitely Cockram. I was 10 and standing right at the front of Brook Road behind the goal and he lobbed the keeper from the edge of the area.It may or may not of gone in off the bar. I can still remember the ball nestled in the back of the net and AC wheeling away with his arms aloft. Wasn't my first Bees game but the first of those I can remember clearly.
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What a goal that was. I loved the way Cockram played and how he could turn the game with one piece of brilliance.

Yes I know the shortcomings in his game but prefer to remember the positives which were many.
 

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i remember that goal i was with billy hunt and probably some other schoolboys :yuck: i think we were in transit from brook road to braemar and just stopped in casualty corner (of the braemar/brook road) to see that attack when that went in.

agree with NLB about allan cockram though, class player. a bit in the grant chalmers mold. was cockram "special friends" with Aubrey?? lol
 

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Inappropriate Smilies Bee said:
i remember that goal i was with billy hunt and probably some other schoolboys :yuck:
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Not me mate. It was my birthday (or nearest game). I returned home from Dorset that afternoon, grabbed my season-ticket (birthday present) and ran to the 267 stop. Finally arrived at GP just as everyone was leaving. Still got autographs with you. :sorted:
 

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bigmac said:
3 days after I was born.

My first game was I believe the opening day of the 1988-89 season 1-0 win at home to Huddersfield, I want to say Allan Cockram scored but I actually think it might have been Keith Millen.
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Ghost said:
Definitely Cockram. I was 10 and standing right at the front of Brook Road behind the goal and he lobbed the keeper from the edge of the area.It may or may not of gone in off the bar. I can still remember the ball nestled in the back of the net and AC wheeling away with his arms aloft. Wasn't my first Bees game but the first of those I can remember clearly.
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I'm sure that AC scored this goal at the Ealing Road end.
 

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Deffo Ealing Road!!
 

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Ghost said:
Seriously now stop messing around...was this really Ealing Road?!?! :eek:
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yes mate, 100%. i have probably got the video of it somewhere and NLB is probably the commentator on it too! around the 52nd-55th minute i would estimate.
i think the goals were at different ends that season though.

:zzzzz:
 

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Inappropriate Smilies Bee said:
yes mate, 100%. i have probably got the video of it somewhere and NLB is probably the commentator on it too! around the 52nd-55th minute i would estimate.
i think the goals were at different ends that season though.

:zzzzz:
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Deffo Ealing Road although I think Ian Westbrook was commentating not me as I didn't start til 1990!
 

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Nonsense.
 
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