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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: Paul Cain's Chip Pan on December 13, 2011, 03:23:06 PM
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I first watched Alty when I was about 6 but have been a regular and "proper" Alty fan ever since the age of 9. Prior to that I "supported" City (ie. had the kit and wanted them to win but never went to any games).
Who was your pre-Alty team?
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Back in the early 60's... I remember the likes of Tommy Banks, Freddie Taberner, Bobby Allen George Greenhall Derek Halliwell Frankie Peters, Felix Riley, Les Campbell, John Higgins, Bobby English, Paddy Mulvey, Clive Colbridge and Ray Perry to name but a few. Freddie Pye was the manager. Happy Days.
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HAMILTON ACCIES, BRENTFORD, QPR and then ALTY since 1984.
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I used to "support" United and then Liverpool for some reason.
Then I had my first taste of non league when I followed Barnet when they played away games in the north during their conference years. A mate's dad who supported them used to take us. Could have been about 2004/2005? Remember going on brilliant trips to places like Carlisle and Burton. I suppose that's how I got in to Alty a few years later when I think about it.
Currently I also have soft spots for Stoke City, GAP Connah's Quay, Slovenia and Trafford.
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I was a City fan for 13 years, came to Alty for the game against Tamworth last season and I've been to every game i can since! :) they say it's unfaithful to ditch a team but I honestly can't stand foreign owners and the Premier League. This is real football and I'm here for life, 100% Alty.
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Supported Liverpool because they won everything until 1986 and then supported Alty from 1987 since when the have won nothing* ;D
* Apart from the monor cups which i fully enjoyed and the playoffs etc but you know what I mean and this bit ruins the gag.
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Supported Liverpool because they won everything until 1986 and then supported Alty from 1987 since when the have won nothing* ;D
* Apart from the monor cups which i fully enjoyed and the playoffs etc but you know what I mean and this bit ruins the gag.
It was only the Birch brothers who won the Moaner Cups, not Alty as a club.
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My Dad was born in Moss Side and raised on the Wilbraham Estate, just off Platt Lane. That might explain a boyhood attraction to City on my part. I was introduced to Moss Lane in about 1967 - a schoolboy representative match of some kind, I think - and started attending Alty in the first season of the Northern Premier League (1968). 43 years on I'm still insane ...
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My pre alty team were united. My dad took me to Northwich away about 4 years ago when Little missed a penalty! Ever since that game United have been a distant memory.
I do dream of the day we get United at Old Trafford in the FA cup!
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Used to be a Liverpool fan untill I came along to watch alty train on a school night when I was 13, when they let me and my mate play in the goal at one end, we got to know the players and they were great,
I still enjoy the look on peoples faces when I say alty is my team, it like "oh right then"
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Apologies for going off topic a wee bit but there are two people in the village who think i support accrington bloody stanley. I get emails with articles, photos etc and asked how 'accrington got on'. aggghgghhhh.
one of them is a sheff utd fan so he should bloomin' well know better.
no matter how many times I explain...
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I did it "the other way round". After watching Alty from 1953-6 (and they weren't very good I'm afraid) I fell for the charms of the Busby Babes, and watched them for a couple of years. I had a brief flirtation with County, and then watched both United and Alty until I moved to the West Midlands in 1970.
There was a most enjoyable exile with Aston Villa until I came home in 1973 - I had some good times at Villa Park where they had a very entertaining side based around Bruce Rioch and Chico Hamilton. Went to Wembley with them for the (unlucky) League Cup Final defeat by Spurs in 1971.
But once I was home, it was Moss Lane to the exclusion of all others.
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United....
Properly started going to Alty with my dad/brother 2006-7 season occasionally
wasnt untill 08-09 i went every week
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As a kid it was United first then Alty until I first moved away from the area at 19. It was then that I missed the town and the club and only towards my late 2s, when I first got a car, that I was able to act on my feelings and get to Moss Lane.
I now feel the biggest angst of being an exile in rarely being able to see our beloved team.
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Back in the early 60's... I remember the likes of Tommy Banks, Freddie Taberner, Bobby Allen George Greenhall Derek Halliwell Frankie Peters, Felix Riley, Les Campbell, John Higgins, Bobby English, Paddy Mulvey, Clive Colbridge and Ray Perry to name but a few. Freddie Pye was the manager. Happy Days.
I'm reading into this, Ray, that your pre-Alty team was......err.........Alty ;D ;D ;D
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HAMILTON ACCIES, BRENTFORD, QPR and then ALTY since 1984.
This explains a lot, Jock!!
You've had it tough ;D ;D ;D
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Properly started going to Alty with my dad/brother 2006-7 season occasionally
Your brother is your dad? ;) :D
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Properly started going to Alty with my dad/brother 2006-7 season occasionally
Your brother is your dad? ;) :D
That kind of thing is quite normal in Northwich.
Back to the subject in hand...I was taken to Moss Lane by my grandad aged 3 and haven't looked back since.
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Man Utd 1974-1985
Chester City 1985-2003
Alty 2003-
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From being a kid I was always a United fan, I saw Charlton/Law/Best play from about 1969 when I was old enough to go to games, saw Willie Morgan's debut, and watched them fairly regularly up to the Martin Buchan era.
My mates and I also went to watch City when United were away, so I've also seen the lee/Bell/Summerbee sides, up until Kasi Deyna arrived from Poland. I didn't go to many games after that until a mate took me to Alty in December 1979 for a league cup game against Wealdstone. The next game was the Orient FA cup game. The were asking for extra stewards for that game, so I volunteered and have been a steward ever since.
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My first team was the Liverpool side of the seventies - Keegan, Heighway and Toshack.
However, I went to my first ever footy match to see Alty with my mate and his dad in the late spring of 81. I thought it was terrific.
I asked my dad if we could see all the other matches that season, and we did, both of them.
The third match was against Yeovil and Alty won the Alliance Premier League, and I was hooked.
I'm just a glory hunting trophy chasing Alty fan really.
My mates were all City and United fans but we used to see Alty whenever possible.
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Most of you know my previous allegiance.
Ex Man Utd until 1974, virtually from 3-4 years old to 17, where I switched to Alty and a less intimidating atmosphere. Still retain a soft spot for United, see them as and when I get tickets - and Alty not at home/playing or if I am away with Alty on odd occasions this season. Much more suited to non-league football because of friendly banter, love of the game, and most importantly the closeness between club/fan - players even. How can you see MUFC players in the bar after the game unless you are more than just a small cog in a big wheel. Going to Alty, is the most major part of my social life other than my family/friends/work.
Interesting point to note - what if Sale formed a new football club - Sale is actually my home town from birth, apart from 4 years in Warrington Birchwood after I married. Sale is a rugby town but even if this happened, sorry but you cannot replace my 37th season at Alty with any new kids on the block. Funny though, but before I quit MUFC I never thought of going to Alty until a new mate from college asked if I wanted to go with him. Just a - what if - thought guys, and possible point for discussion from my thought process whilst typing message.
As everyone else says, it just gets in your blood.
OK OK! I'll go to bed now - cant sleep - again!!!