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The first game I ever went to was United v Coventry at Old Trafford on my 9th birthday. 3-2 win to United. I remember very little of the game. I know Andy Cole scored twice and Paul Scholes got the other but I don't really remember how they went in. Coventry gave us a bit of a game, I seem to remember Mustapha Hadji bagging one for the Sky Blues. The clearest memory I have of the game, or rather the experience, was during the warm up. I was sat in the Stretford End (a must for every United nut like me) and as United are putting their shooting to the test, Scholesy absolutely smashed the ball, sending it flying over the cross bar and hitting a supporter, who had his back turned to the warm up action, square in the back of the head. Great memory. Great day.
The best game I've been to is oddly enough a friendly between Stockport County and Latvia. Strange I know. I couldn't get my head around the idea of a club playing a country. Anyway it was at Edgeley Park and the tickets were cheap in the local paper, so my Dad, my brother and I went to watch it from the Cheadle End on a wet Friday evening. I can't even remember which side won it. I don't think the result particularly mattered. The game was full of goals. Defending that would give Alan Hansen a heart attack. Two things fondly stick out though. One: The enormous and underrated quality of Marian Pahars, and how unfortunate he was to be born Latvian. Had he been French, Italian, Spanish, Portugese etc I'm sure the English press would have been 'raving' about him a lot more. Two: The first and so far only time I have seen a professional footballer play in trainers. Bright, white trainers.
This is a tricky one. I don't think I've been to a really bad game. Certainly never been to one where I've thought "I want my money back after that performance".
Other than Old Trafford, which I absolutely love to pieces, it would have to be Celtic Park. It was a 6.p.m kick-off and the ground was only half full, but there was a fantastic atmosphere that night. The only negatives were that it rained for the entire duration of the match, the wind blowing it in our direction, resulting in me getting drenched and a cold for a few days after and Celtic lost 1-0 to a goal that could have been easily stopped with better defending.
Perhaps the Exacta Stadium (Chester FC's ground). Not because it is the worst stadium I've been too, but because it's the smallest and probably least impressive out of the grounds I've been to. Hopefully I'll come across a far worse ground, because the fans are great and they have worked so hard for the new club.
