January 2011
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On top of the alarm clock were two tickets to Old...
Date : 17th March 1984
Opposition : Arsenal
Score : 4-0
Mühren (2), Robson, Stapleton
I was 12 years old. I had woken up on the Friday morning, to the sound of my mam and dad asking me to check the time on my alarm clock, I shouted down to them it was 7.30am, they said are you sure, look again, I did….only I turned on my light and there sitting on top of the alarm clock...
December 2010
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He took a fair amount above face value and I...
Date: April 2, 2005
Opposition: Blackburn Rovers
Score: Manchester United 0 Blackburn Rovers 0
I’d only been a footy fan for two years, and it took leaving the country to see what I was missing.
I worked late on a Wednesday in Feb of 2003 in Toronto. I arrived back at my hotel room around 02:00. Flipping around the channels I stumbled upon a soccer match that was unlike anything I’d...
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We’d won the previous ten league matches and...
Date: November 9th 1985
Opposition: Sheffield Wednesday
Score: Sheffield Wednesday 1 Manchester United 0
The 11th game of the 1985-86 season, versus Sheffield Wednesday, at Hillsborough. We’d won the previous ten league matches and everyone was already calling us the Champions Elect.
We lost 1-0, and apart from the amazement of seeing my heroes in the flesh for the first time, followed by the...
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What an amazing feeling walking up the steps...
Date: Saturday 28th December 2002
Opposition: Birmingham City
Score: Manchester United 2 Birmingham 0 (Forlan 38, Beckham 74)
What an amazing feeling walking up the steps and then stepping out into the stadium, amazing atmosphere. Got to see Solskjaer play due to Van Nistelrooy being out with a poisoned toe!
First goal a header by Forlan but will never forget Becks lob from outside the box....
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I was so exited that I felt sick...
Date: March 5th 1997
Opposition: Porto
Score: Manchester United 4 Porto 0
I was finally going to Old Trafford to see United. Being from Norway I had to wait until I turned 14, and I remember the day as it was yesterday. At the time I was huge fans of Peter Schmeichel, and I had been lucky enough to be at the Cliff for a training session a couple of days before the match. I got his autograph and...
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I'd waited so long to see Manchester United play...
Date: November 8th 1998
Opposition: Newcastle United
Score: 0-0
I’d waited so long to see Manchester United play at Old Trafford, 12 years in fact. I’d previously seen United play at The Molineux in a pre-season friendly where we turned around a great Steve Bull lobbed goal (against Schmeichel) to win 2-1.
However, I’ll never forget the feeling of stepping into the Theatre...
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I couldn't hide my joy at knowing that United was...
Date: January 8th 2000
Opposition: Vasco da Gama
Score: Vasco 3-1 Manchester United
Living so far away from England, I could only see the team playing on TV. So, obviously, I couldn’t hide my joy at knowing that United was coming to Brazil to featuring at the first FIFA Club World Championship. And I was even happier when I figured that the team would play here in my city.
I tried to...
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I'll never forget the excitement of walking up...
Date: September 17th 1971
Opposition: Manchester City
Score: Manchester City 3 Manchester United 3
All my family are blues and we had not long moved to Manchester from Dublin, all big football fans, and it was the first match we all went to over here. I’ll never forget the excitement of walking up towards the ground, the singing, the noise, the match day buzz. I expect I too would have...
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I remember Cole scoring very early...
Date: December 27th 1995 Opposition: Newcastle United Score: Manchester United 2 Newcastle 0 (Cole & Keane) I was six years old and after repeatedly whinging at my Grandad that I wanted to go to Old Trafford with him he took me.
I can’t really remember the game, but I remember Cole scoring very early and the noise being deafening.
The atmosphere was the thing that struck me most, come...
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It was a dream to see Beckham score...
Date: October 12th 1996
Opposition: Liverpool
Score: Manchester United 1 Liverpool 0
It’s fair to say that before the 96/97 my idol was purely Catona. But after that goal at Wimbledon, Beckham was quickly up there with him.
I found out that I was going to be going to United vs. Liverpool but at the time I had no idea about what the game stood for. I was just too excited about the...
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I had to sit with the Coventry fans...
Date: 22nd November 1995
Opponent: Coventry City
Score: Coventry 0 Manchester United 4
I was nine years old when my dad finally took me to my first United match. Being a Baggies fan he never had much interest in taking me before. He got tickets through a friend and I had to sit with the Coventry fans - I remember Brian McClair scored two goals and I think Beckham and Irwin got the others if my...
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I realised United would be playing Arsenal the day...
Date: April 9th 2006
Opposition: Arsenal
Score: 2-0
As a real girly girl from Cape Town my obsession with United was never taken seriously by anyone other than my family and close friends. My Dad had created a monster out of me, his eldest, and my first love affair with football and United started before I could walk. I live, eat, sleep and breathe United and when the fixture list for the 05/06...
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There was some ill feelings between the two sets...
Date: April 10th 2007
Opposition: Roma
Score: Manchester United 7 Roma 1
After the trouble from the first leg there was some ill feelings between the two sets of fans (putting it mildly) and topping the event, we were 2-1 down. What a response. I remember that Carrick scored a 25 yard dipping shot within the first 5 minutes or so, then the flood gates opened. Rooney, Ronaldo, Evra and even Alan...
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Danny Murphy broke my heart in my first United...
Date: 24th April 2004 Opposition: Liverpool Score: 0-1
I was 14 and not many people were able to get what I had as i came all the way from Malaysia. We came to OT the day before the match day for the stadium tour, and the tour guide was in good mood to tell me and my father that if we were lucky, we could get tickets for the match vs liverpool from the ticketing and membership services building...
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Any other day it would have been a dream...
Date: February 6, 2010 Opposition: Portsmouth Score: United 5-0 Portsmouth
My first United game was a tough one. I had been to Old Trafford the previous summer, but of course that was only for a tour as there were no matches on. My friend contacted me and said he was given tickets to the match and asked me to fly over from Los Angeles. I asked my boss for three days off and booked my flight...
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My eyes lit up when my dad told me...
Date: October 25th 2003
Opposition: Fulham
Score: Man United 1 Fulham 3
I was 10 years old and I’d been asking my dad to take me to a United game for quite a while. Every Saturday I said to him “Are we going to watch United this week?” and his answer was always “soon son”. He had took me to the England vs Greece game at Old Trafford the day before my 8th birthday...
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The first thing that struck me was the sheer size...
Date: 3rd December 1993
Opposition: Norwich City
Score: 2-2
I would have been 10 or 11 at the time and the first thing that struck me was the sheer size of Old Trafford and the masses of people (attendance was only about 44,000 back then).
It was the height of Giggsy-mania and United had just won their first title in 26 years and were on their way to the first double. Me and my Dad had seats...
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I had been begging my Dad for a few years to go...
Date: Saturday 28th 1998
Opposition: Wimbledon
Score: Manchester United 2 Wimbledon 0
I had been begging my Dad for a few years to go and see United play so finally he decided to take me.
A week after my 7th birthday he got me out of school early on the Friday before the match and tells me we’re getting on a coach and then a ferry and heading off Old Trafford to finally see...
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I'd been nagging to be taken for a while...
Date: August 16th 1985
Opposition: West Ham
Score: Manchester United 2 West Ham 0
First game I went to was West Ham at home on Bank Holiday Monday at the start of 85/86. I’d been nagging to be taken for a while - I was displeased to discover my parents went to the 83 Cup Final replay without me, and dissatisfied with the rosette that I was given as compensation. When my old fella...
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I watched Manchester United live for the first...
Date: March 26th 1960
Opposition: Fulham
Score: Fulham 0 Manchester United 5
I watched Manchester United live for the first time 50 years ago and it was just as magical as I’d always dreamed it would be, even though no trophies were at stake and United were languishing in mid-table mediocrity at the time. What gave the match wider historical significance however was the fact that when...
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It was always going to be a big ask to come up...
Date: December 13th 2003
Opposition: Manchester City
Score: Manchester United 3 Manchester City 1 Being from America, it was always going to be a big ask to come up with the money for a trip to see Manchester United, but, finally after I landed first full-time job, I was able to realize that dream in December 2003. I always lived under the assumption that it was pretty much inconceivable ...
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I had dreamt of watching my team live for as long...
Date: July 30th 2002
Opposition: Vaalerenga
Score: Vaalerenga 0 Manchester United 5
In fear of using a cliché, I had dreamt of watching my team live for as long as I can remember, more specifically since I was about five. Whilst most of the girls my age played with Barbie dolls, I was busy watching every United match I could and religiously writing down every little statistic in notebooks that I...
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It happened in Kyev when we played the side from...
Date: October 23rd 2007 Opposition: Dynamo Kyev Score: Dynamo Kyev 2 Manchester United 4 My experience of seeing United play live is a tiny one and it is an understatement. It has happened only once so far. It happened in Kyev in the year of 2007 when we played the side from the capital Dinamo in the Champions League.
I live 500km from the city. After I’d found out United would be...
