Yani P Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 My old man worked with Colin Boulton's dad so I used to get taken to every game free from the age of 4. Attended every game home away and in Europe during those heady days - used to have some fantastic excuses for why I had to miss the odd school day..got some fantastic memorabilia from those times - stacks of signed match shirts, boots shin pads etc etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestKentRam Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Ashamed to say I am a glory hunter. Can remember the moment clearly in mid 70s aged around 6 years on my south east London primary school playing field and was in a group each having to say who we supported. I panicked, and went for the team at the top of the league, and blurted out 'Derby'. Strange how moments such as these can change your life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Ram Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Aged 8, and with no allegiance at the time, my dad brought 3 promotional framed photos home from the filling station he managed. Not sure if it was immovable stock, but they were pictures of the Rams, WBA and Fulham. I liked the Derby picture; it was a first team shot of the players posing in front of what looked like a green corrugated shed! That was 1969 and my dad took me to see the Rams for the first time in 1970, away to WBA. Never wavered from following them, in truth it was easy in the 70s, but did not really get to go to many games till I passed my test at 20 so I went through the 80s watching, at times, some right ****e. Still never lived any closer than 110 miles from Derby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramit Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Watched them play a few times on the b&w and liked the style,but the first time i saw Brian Clough do an interview, that´s all it took.Never been to Derby to watch them play, but if i make it one dayit will be like going on a holy pilgrimage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Born in Burton but lived in Utch. Dad had relatives in Allestree and Chad and worked at British Rail so i was always in Derby as a kid even though never lived there. When i was 10, i was taken to Derby v Everton. It would have been 1970. We was squeezed down the front in the Ossie End, the noise and excitement was unbelievable and i never wanted to be anywhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimmu Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Ashamed to say I am a glory hunter. Can remember the moment clearly in mid 70s aged around 6 years on my south east London primary school playing field and was in a group each having to say who we supported. I panicked, and went for the team at the top of the league, and blurted out 'Derby'. Strange how moments such as these can change your life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Canitbé Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Born in Burton but lived in Utch. Dad had relatives in Allestree and Chad and worked at British Rail so i was always in Derby as a kid even though never lived there. When i was 10, i was taken to Derby v Everton. It would have been 1970. We was squeezed down the front in the Ossie End, the noise and excitement was unbelievable and i never wanted to be anywhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott129 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Similar, although my mam was Derby tup, i was born in Dundee but we moved down when I was still young. Was too much a bookworm at school to be into the football <never could play, always last pick in PE>, but after moving away realised that it is an important part of identity. Went to some matches when I was back in the shire and that was it, hooked.That and my Grandad saw the Rams win the FA cup as well as the league twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 My first game was also at home to Everton.Although it was in 2002 and in the West Stand at Pride Park, so not quite the BBG Ossie end... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaffsRam Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Off the top of my head i could probably name 7 or 8 of the Everton team of 1970......without googleing...Gordon WestLyons (centre half)Keith NewtonHoward KendallBrian LaboneColin HarveyAlan Ball (or had he gone to Arsenal?)Joe Royle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Amazing how many of those went on to Manage Everton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Born in Derbyshire. My dad started taking me to games when I was six. If Derby weren't at home we'd go to see Chesterfield instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Ram Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 It was a forced marriage. Btw I remember a bunch of London rams on a train to Doncaster urging me that I should not support the rams, that it would bring misery - aged 12. Well, I'm happy - I'm a Ram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 It was either forest or derby back in the 70's in old ilkeston but my uncle was a derby fan and took me to matches so that swung it....I was pretty quick as a lad so started playing for the junior rams and played at the bbg a few times as a centre forward and that cemented my derby fanship through good,bad and latterly,good again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Off the top of my head i could probably name 7 or 8 of the Everton team of 1970......without googleing...Gordon WestLyons (centre half)Keith NewtonHoward KendallBrian LaboneColin HarveyAlan Ball (or had he gone to Arsenal?)Joe Royle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostyn6 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 My first game was also at home to Everton.Although it was in 2002 and in the West Stand at Pride Park, so not quite the BBG Ossie end... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I am Ram Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I was taken to some matches during the 86/87 Div 2 promotion season (champions), being young i loved the atmosphere , it was like being scared but excited at the same time . I then went regular the season after and have done ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I support them because they are the greatest football club the world has ever seen...... isn't that obvious?I was born in Derby and 29 years later when my son was due to pop out i made sure he was born in Derby too even though our nesrest hospital was Mansfield, no way was i letting him being born in Nottinghamshire.Lived for 32 years in Nether Heage and Swanwick, since then I have lived in Staffs, Switzerland, France, Germany, USA but there is only one place i have ever, or will ever call home....the beautiful, elegant, vibrant city of Derby.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I was actually born in Yeovil but moved to Derby with parents when I was 2 and lived first Chellaston then Belper until adulthood.Mother was born/bred Derby so she was coming home - her father worked for the footwear company that supplied a lot of the players boots and so he would often take me to the BBG and into the bootroom and once into the dressing room on the day of a game. I was only about 8 or 9 at the time in the early 70's - was the era of Toddy, MacFarland et al .Used to go with mum to watch the reserves when they played at the BBG in the week and only the B stand was open (and it was free for season ticket holders and kids).That's a long winded way of saying it's in my upbringing and partly DNA.I go when I can. Attendance used to be regular until I went to University (Colchester) then better when I lived in Peterborough and as much as I can do now I live in Hants (Southampton). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TroyDyer Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Because I want them to win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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