[Football] Have you ever been to an England football game?

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Have you ever been to an England game?


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Flounce

Well-known member
Nov 15, 2006
3,312
Never been to one and other than the 1966 tournament I have never been that bothered.

Actually I tell a lie, I went to the England game at the Goldstone when Wardy got a game!

Interested to know if I am right in thinking that most of you have been.
 




BevBHA

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Jan 23, 2017
2,253
Last England game I went to was at Wembley 2-3 against Croatia being managed by the Wally with a brolley
 




Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo

Waxing chumps like candles since ‘75
Oct 4, 2003
11,779
Never been to a full men’s international but went to the B team vs Italy at the Goldstone in 1989.

Went to the two England games at the Amex during the women’s Euros.

The older I get the less and less I get excited by international tournaments beyond wanting Brighton players to do well.
 






Bob!

Coffee Buyer
Jul 5, 2003
11,460
Went to a few as a teenager in the seventies, and one with my kids at Old Trafford before the 98 World Cup
 




jonny.rainbow

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Oct 29, 2005
6,774
El Tel’s first game in charge versus Denmark. Platt scored early in the first half and it finished 1-0.

Not really an England fan, so that might well be my one and only time attending a game.
 




Eeyore

Colonel Hee-Haw of Queen's Park
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Apr 5, 2014
25,294
Yes, Dublin 1995

First and last. Saw half an hour of football and half an hour of rioting.

Breakfast at the B & B was a bit tetchy the next day with an Irish bloke and his son having a go at ME about it.
 


Seaview Seagull

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Mar 1, 2021
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I went at the last minute to the game against France after the terrorist attack in Paris. A very moving occasion.
 








mikeyjh

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Dec 17, 2008
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Llanymawddwy
Loads, went to every tournament from 96 onwards until England didn't and loads of away qualifiers. The experience is so totally different from that seen externally, I've never seen any trouble and always felt wanted and welcome wherever we were....
 


Mr Bridger

Sound of the suburbs
Feb 25, 2013
4,670
Earth
Started going late 80’s to Wembley games, soon found out a way to get in for nothing. Went to the last game at the old Wembley v Germany and the first full England game at the new Wembley against Brazil.
After Euro 96 joined the England members club and went to Germany v England 1-5 game, Tunisia game in Marseille France 98, V Argentina in Sapporo 2002 , Paraguay and Portugal in Germany 2006, away in Azerbaijan, away friendly in South Africa , Amsterdam a few times and the last game was the Euro final 2021.
Might take a look if we get through on Wednesday.
 




Publius Ovidius

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Jul 5, 2003
46,646
at home
When I was at school we used to travel up from melksham every home game to Wembley ( our PE Staff were mad keen) and then we did the same from Falmer school. Went with the junior seagulls a few times too.

biggest win…Malcolm macdonalds 6 vs Cyprus
worst. 0-0 vs Saudi Arabia
 


Bring back Bryan wade!!

I wanna caravan for me ma
Jun 28, 2010
4,377
Hassocks
Done quite a few home matches as well as Slovakia away and went over for the whole of Euro 2004 in Portugal, watching all the England games. Also went to England v Scotland in Euro 96 at the old Wembley Gazza’s wonder goal. Good times.
 


Falmer Flutter ©

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Feb 18, 2004
950
Petts Wood
Loads, went to every tournament from 96 onwards until England didn't and loads of away qualifiers. The experience is so totally different from that seen externally, I've never seen any trouble and always felt wanted and welcome wherever we were....
Yep, similar experiences. There's something amazing being at a tournament knowing there are millions of people watching at home. The Brighton Euro tour last season brought back some of those memories. The main difference I found to watching England away in a tournament to back home is that you just don't get all that media insanity and it's much more chilled. It's like being the eye of the storm rather than being battered by endless headlines and hyperbole.
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
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Oct 8, 2003
54,431
Faversham
Used to go to the Scotland-England Home International games. It would be at Wembley one year, Hampden the next year. This was the old Hampden. One year I went, 1970, the attendance at Hampden was 137,000
That what I call proper England supporting. All that way! :bowdown:
 






GT49er

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Feb 1, 2009
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Gloucester
Voted 'other'. Watched 'England' twice, but just not the grown-up team.
Went with the school to a Schoolboy International at Wembley in 1960(?) (maybe '61). England vs. Wales - we won 8-0 or 8-1; John Sissons of West Ham scored five of them.
A few years earlier, whilst living in Polegate, my dad took me to Eastbourne (Devonshire Park??) to watch England youth XI vs. France youth XI. Pitch roped off, bloke came round to collect the ticket money as the match was being played. England lost 1-0. Stand out performer was a left half (younger readers please just ask your grandad what that was) from West Ham (again) listed in the programme (which I've still got ................... somewhere!) as R. Moore.
Wonder whatever happened to him?
 
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