Who took you to your first Notts match?

[forwardmagpie]

Ha ****in ha, hope you’re all good mate I’m almost looking forward to a Saturday this week!!

Yes all good mate, shopping sounds good, I’ m in Bridgford now so have to go out otherwise I can hear drongos singing Mull of Kintyre 😏.

Keep well 👍

[PedroTheFisherman66]

mine was with my mate next door but one and his dad.It was early seventies but not sure against who and when. Memories of this era were , seeing Notts play Arsenal in the FA cup at the lane , losing with a one nil defeat and Eric McManus saving a Malcom McDonald penalty. I'm sure playing Leeds down at the Lane if the FA cup , the queues to get in were out of this world !!. Seeing Notts play Chelsea when Peter Bonetti was in goal and there was talk of him being an England international and weather he would be picked for the England world cup squad ....
we used to sit in the Meadow Lane stand , then later stood in the Sirrel stand.
I'm sure it cost 10p to get in ....
Also saw Johnny Giles down here with west brom as player manager , blew me away thought he was one of the best players I ever saw play at the Lane (play full stop!)
latterly of this era , seeing stoke promoted at the Lane beating us to go up.
Winning two nil at Stamford bridge to get promotion and then celebrating back up the M1 with Villa fans who had just won the league somewhere in London.
Both sets of fans coming back up the M1 at the same time .....who knew we would be playing them 1st game next season !!
All these are long distant memories it's possible that they might be some confusion involved but some of you even older old timers might be able to put some clarity and dates to these happenings !???

[Bohinen]

Yes all good mate, shopping sounds good, I’ m in Bridgford now so have to go out otherwise I can hear drongos singing Mull of Kintyre 😏.

Keep well 👍

It was alright on Saturdays because I watched Notts play away but I had to listen to them winning European Cups from my house in Lady Bay during the week.

[ncfcog]

It was alright on Saturdays because I watched Notts play away but I had to listen to them winning European Cups from my house in Lady Bay during the week.

Character building of the highest degree!

[Biker9999]

Don't know the year but I seem to remember it was against York and Notts scored twice in the last few minutes to draw 2-2 after we left the ground early, would be late 50's I guess. Can anyone identify the game or is my memory playing tricks?. Just out of interest I took my 9 year old granddaughter to her first football match for the Cambridge game - so one lost supporter for the future!!

[60YearsAPie]

Don't know the year but I seem to remember it was against York and Notts scored twice in the last few minutes to draw 2-2 after we left the ground early, would be late 50's I guess. Can anyone identify the game or is my memory playing tricks?. Just out of interest I took my 9 year old granddaughter to her first football match for the Cambridge game - so one lost supporter for the future!!

As far as I can see, the only time we played York City in the 50s was in the famous FA Cup Quarter-Final 1-0 defeat in front of the largest crowd ever seen at Meadow Lane.

I’ve come across this game against Sheff Untd on 23rd February 1957 and wonder if this could be the game you were referring to? I remember the game, as we were 2-0 down at half-time and United missed two penalties in the second-half. Russell our centre-half scored both our goals, the second in the 89th minute.

There was a covering of snow on the ground and it was still snowing when the game kicked off. The Notts fans didn’t take kindly to the referee giving the two penalties and amid boos he had to be escorted off at full-time, with some fans throwing snowballs at him!

[60YearsAPie]

That 1956/57 was pretty dire, with us conceding 74 goals in the first 30 games. We’d been bottom almost all of the season but this game was the first of a run of twelve games that saw us lose only once. We’d won 4 of the first 30 matches but managed 5 wins and 6 draws in the final 12 games, finishing 20th out of 22 and avoiding relegation.

P 30 W 4 D 6 L 20 F 35 A 74 Pts 14 Posn 22nd
P 12 W 5 D 6 L 1 F 23 A 12 Pts 16 Posn 20th

We were relegated the following season, with the same number of points, 30.

[Biker9999]

As far as I can see, the only time we played York City in the 50s was in the famous FA Cup Quarter-Final 1-0 defeat in front of the largest crowd ever seen at Meadow Lane.

I’ve come across this game against Sheff Untd on 23rd February 1957 and wonder if this could be the game you were referring to? I remember the game, as we were 2-0 down at half-time and United missed two penalties in the second-half. Russell our centre-half scored both our goals, the second in the 89th minute.

There was a covering of snow on the ground and it was still snowing when the game kicked off. The Notts fans didn’t take kindly to the referee giving the two penalties and amid boos he had to be escorted off at full-time, with some fans throwing snowballs at him!

Thank you for your research I really appreciate it. I am sure that would be the game as what happened is exactly what I recalled. Myself and my father were walking away from the ground when we heard the cheering. I remember the disappointment and to this day I have never left a match before the final whistle!!. Its interesting that at the time I would have been 9 so 61 years later we are still the bottom club. What comes around goes around. Once again thanks