My first game was in late Nov '71 against those rats from North London.

I was 7 and my brother was 9 we travelled down from St. Albans as my mum had allowed us to go to the St. Albans City game that day at Clarence park. On the way to the park my brother just casually said "fancy going to see the Chelsea" and that was it, neither of us really had a clue where we were going but Nev (my brother) had a some birthday money left over and a hand written list of how to get there from my Granddad who had been working in West London with a pound note pinned to it, and so off we went. We jumped the fence behind the main stand and walked up the tracks to the platform and got on the first train into London, after getting off at St Pancras we headed into the tube and down to Fulham Broadway, shitting ourselves.
The first thing i remember when climbing the concrete stairs behind the shed was the darkness, the darkness of the sky, the darkness of the police in uniform and mood, the darkness of the sky it was like slate grey, and the coldness, I was freezing but i do remember cresting the top of the stairs and seeing the illuminated emerald green pitch, I was hooked, we somehow ended up by the tea bar probably by the smell of the Bovril. The game was a blur with me standing shivering up against the Tea Bar for warmth and occasionally getting a pat on the head from these huge blokes who were nearly always in the way. We got a better view of the play in the second half and when we scored the noise was unbelievable, (Charlie Cooke), I was hooked again.
We walked out of the ground after and were channeled away from the pockets of trouble here and there by various concerned men and the old bill and ended up at Earls Court tube station which threw us and it was different from our route there but we eventually got to St Pancras and on a train home to an almighty good hiding from our mum.

It was worth it,

And in a wonderful slice of symmetry my sons first game was too against them and it too ended 1-0 to us with a wonderful goal by Ricky Carvalho back in 2007 he was only 3, (my son and not Ricky C.)

Great Thread M.