How does your 'football memory' work?

[Robertomac]

At one time I could remember the score in virtually every game, but a combination of getting older and the number of games attended makes it more difficult. That said, there are often things that are not related to the football that stand out to make it memorable. For example, away at Brentford in the early 2000s, team warming up in front of us about 30 mind before kick off. An older bloke with a big beard arrived and stood next to us about two thirds towards the back of the stand and carefully poured a coffee from his flask. Sean Farrell smashed a shot that sailed towards us, hit the bloke full on, exploding coffee everywhere. The poor bloke was covered but furious. If Farrell had been in reach, I swear the bloke would have throttled him. In fairness, he came over and apologised by which time the bloke had calmed down and seen the funny side. No idea what the score was, but presume we lost!

[nw6pie]

Waterford.

Club Deluge?

[lunaspie]

Club Deluge?

That's right.They had prolific ex-Gooner and gambling addict Paul Immersion.

[Elite_Pie]

EDIT: I reckon it was this one... http://footballdays92.blogspot.com/2012/08/meadow-lane-notts-county-fc-notts.html

That's the one. Like CamPie I thought it was much more recent.

[Elite_Pie]

Talk of downpours has triggered a few more random memories! In the days when all football supporters were treated like animals, I remember an away game at Sunderland when we were vying with them at the top of the table and lost 4-0. The police kept us outside the railway station for about 30 minutes in torrential rain. We were still wet when we got back to Nottingham. I also remember a game at White Hart Lane in the rain when Tristan Benjamin played centre back, and every time he headed the ball there was a visible shower from his afro! I think there used to be a poster on here called 'Benji's afro' in years gone by. Then there was a cup game at Highbury on a freezing cold day which I think we lost 2-0. On the train journey back the heating had broken down and it was like travelling in a bloody fridge!

In the 70s we went to most away games on Supporters Club trains organised by (I think) Claude Bishop and Neal Hook. The trip to Carlisle was the most enjoyable, it was like a free sightseeing trip through the heart of the Lake District.

[Woodsetts_Pie]

There are entire seasons which I cant remember anything about...
I can close my eyes though and see Scanlon's 3 goals in his hat-trick against Sheffield Wednesday as if they were yesterday, from my position in B block.
Strangely, most of the away games in the Jones/Farrell promotion year as well. S****horpe, Peterborough, Mansfield away, then the finale at Doncaster at the old Belle Vue.
Also an away game at Rotherham in the Don Valley stadium... very surreal, but nice to be at an away ground within 25 minutes of setting off.

[tommopie8]

I don't remember games at all generally. Just the events around them especially from my younger days.

Dropping my steak pudding in the snow when we lost at Macclesfield in the Allardyce season when I was 6. Sitting on a brick wide wall at Rochdale same season because I couldn't see. Arriving to S****horpe away on Boxing Day 3 hours early because my uncle had said it was a midday kick-off. Sat in the Pavis for the first time against Orient when we won the league.

Remember they had kids from home and away fans do a relay race around the side of pitch and they parachuted the ball in for the game against Rotherham.

One I remember vividly and wasn't even a goal was Alan White smashing the bar away at Boston when we were winning 3-1 and it finished 3-3.

[TedBovisPie]

Some random memories, Agana’s blinding goal against Tottenham, Chris Short’s crunching tackle on Giggs. Don’s majestic clearance at Boro away in the playoffs which resulted in some poor individual in the crowd have to be attended to by the St Johns. Dean Thomas free kick goal against Portsmouth? late on.

There is a good chance that I misremembered any or all of these!

[upthemaggies]

Dean Thomas free kick goal against Portsmouth? late on.

Yes 90th minute, an absolute missile at the Meadow Lane end in only the 2nd home league game following promotion, so it felt like a big moment and a big three points. No bigger ambition than just to consolidate at that stage, you'd never have dared to imagine that Notts could win a successive play off final and reach the QF's of the FA Cup in those early months. That season was, as Colin Slater would put it, a romance.

First thing I usually envisage when anybody mentions anything to do with Notts pre 2001 is the style of the programme for that season - the cover. the manager's notes page and the back page with the line-ups - and also the kit, that gives it the context I need to recall anything else that goes with it. After that the programmes became more generic and the kit changed every season, so it's much harder to place things - plus there's not much worth remembering other than the Munto campaign and the first two seasons after it.

[AllNottsAreWe]

Like a lot on here I tend to remember games for an outstanding result, serious crowd trouble or a milestone.
I was at all of these games:
Notts cup win at Elland Road in the 70s.
Notts heavy cup defeat at Highbury when Liam Brady destroyed us.
Notts heavy defeat at Maine Road in the 70s when they had Corrigan, Power, etc.
Last game survival at Oldham.
Last game relegation at Swindon.
Being chased along the beach at Brighton after the game had been postponed.
Playoff games at Wembley.
Scanlon's hatrick against SWFC.
Any home game in the 70s in the Kop against clubs with big travelling support, Sunderland, Bolton, Leeds, could be scary for a young lad.
Any home game in the 70s in the Sirrel stand when away fans came in a started fight, Burnley, Oldham, Blackburn.
Exeter away a few seasons ago under Kewell. Watching local residents trying to get a sofa in a car. We lost 5-1 I think.

Some great memories.
I am now much older and a few stone heavier.