First And Favourite Games At Pittodrie?

[Clydeside_Sheep]

Mine:

 

First: Aberdeen 3 - Dunfermline 0 (17 Aug 1991). First time at Pittodire, though I had been going to away games for years, in the central belt. I am sure our scorers were Bett, Jess and Booth (please confirm or correct, someone). Watching from Section Y. As we drove into Aberdeen I saw graffiti saying "A'deen Thugs Kill Visiting Fans" and I remember thinking I hoped they didnt mean visiting Aberdeen fans.

 

Favourites:

 

Aberdeen 2 - Celtic 0 (22 Dec 2001) - the snowball game. I was in the upper RDS. Great view, including of the snowballs. Best thing was we were staying at a friends in Aberdeen afterward, (literally right next to the ground - amazing!), and there was also a bunch of sellick fans (frien....er, vague acquaintances) going to stay as well. They were also at the game - the night out afterward was brilliant, as they were all in a huff and moody as f*ck. I really enjoyed it, listening to the usual litany of injustices and excuses they had quickly accumulated.

 

Aberdeen 3 - Rangers 2 (14 Aug 2005) - a glorious day putting the boche to the sword. RDS again for me and I had a brilliant view of Jamie Smiths winner, (at 2-2), I was right on the line he struck the ball down and I did a sex wee when it when in! Peter Lovenkrands scored a cracking goal for the Hun in that game, much as it pains me to say it.

 

(I realise none of these were major results (though sellick was the 9th home win in a row) but I only get to Pittodrie a few times a year.)

 

I cant believe how long ago these games are already, particularly the snowball game

[Ke1t]

A, I think, 3-0 defeat of Motherwell. Aberdeen had a goal chalked off, and in fact the scorer was booked for unfairly challenging the keeper iirc.

 

Favourite game, Aberdeen vs Ujpest Dosza. We were all but out... then Mark McGhee.

[Guest]

Ok then. I'll say it first. Everyone who was there agrees it was the best ever at Pittodrie. So, that's over 20,000 of us.

 

3-2 v Bayern.

[ChutneyLove]

First game I can remember is the 0-0 versus Hibs on the 7th April, 1979. Sitting in the Main Stand and being bemused when Drew Jarvie stepped over the ball and allowed it to roll to a team mate. I thought he'd done it by accident.

 

Favourite games at Pittodrie:

 

3-2 versus the extinct huns, 12th January, 1980 - the first time I had seen the Dons win. Brian Hamilton came on as a sub and slid in when through on goal to score the winner. It was the first real "bounce" I'd known at football.

 

Home tie versus Bayern, 16th March, 1983 - as Rocket says, Pittodrie's collective best night ever. Sat right beneath the TV gantry in the Soother. Anyone who has been at a better game at Pittodrie must have been off their tree at the time to think it was better.

 

Scotland v England under 21s, 4th March 1980. I don't know what the official attendance for that night was, but there were at least 35,000 folk in Pittodrie. There were people on the rooves, up the floodlights - every row of seats was overflowing onto the steps - I was in the Beach End that night and it was crammed. Great atmosphere - but a 0-0 draw! Only a few real memories: Bailey playing in goal for the guffs and the Caley golf club having its busiest ever night among them.

[Hewitt1983]

The 4-4 against Sellick a few years still feels like a win.

 

And I usually hate it when people say draws feel like a win but oddly that day it did.

 

I was sitting right next to the disgusting weegie cunts and it was absolutely horrible when we went 3-2 and 4-2 down. I can never recall an away section at Pittodrie going so mental and being so goading and arrogant at an impending win.

 

I was livid.

 

So when the ball hit the net at 4-4 I fucking exploded out my seat and was just about over that bastarding fence.

 

The pained, dumbstruck and embarrassed expressions of the visiting Tims left me in an unprecedented state of glee.

 

I fucking hate Celtic.

[Stoney]

That was a shit game, we should have murdered them, we were properly ripped off with a draw.

[Hewitt1983]

I agree, we should've won the game, but I wouldn't say it was a shit match.

 

It was 4-4 ffs.

 

It was the last gasp goal and subsequent goading of the filth that left a lasting impression on me. No matter how poor quality a game has been, a last minute goal followed by a good bounce always sticks in the mind.

 

Also see St Mirren away in the cup a couple of years ago.

 

Awful game but fucking frantic scenes at the end.

[GK55]

I dont remember my first game at Pittodrie unfortunately.

 

My favourite game was probably when we qualified for Europe by beating Rangers 2-0, Severin & Lovell. Maybe on a par with the Bayern/Copenhagen games.

[Dynamo]

My favourite game at Pittodrie is probably Aberdeen 4 Copenhagen 0.

[Ingolfsson]

First game at Pittodrie - Aberdeen 3-0 Dunfermline. August 1991. Same as Clydeside Sheep! I was 7 and we'd travelled in from my Gran's house near Loch Skene. Jim Bett scored a peach of a free-kick, then Jess and Grant scored in second half.

 

Favourites: Beating huns on final day of season in 2007 and 2008, and Copenhagen were up there. But beating Dundee United in 1995 was mental. It was around that period that I think I properly got right into the Dons. I was 10, getting grief all season from jambos, huns, hibees etc at school about our imminent relegation and suddenly we turned the screw. Scenes post-match outside the RDS were unforgettable.

[don corleone]

first game was a pre season friendly against man utd in 1991. Finished 1-1, utd won 4-3 on pens

 

favourite is either 4-0 against Copenhagen or 2-2 against Bayern. Both cracking nights.

[Huntlysheep]

My first game I don't remember it was 94' I was just a wee loon, but loved gan to Pittodrie.

 

Favourite game: I have a few, New year at Tannadice a few years ago 1-2 Arnason's great goal. Bounce wis unreal.

 

Also beating Celtic 1-0 at peado's paradise in cup in 2008 bounce wis mental.

 

The last time we played Huns at ibrox 1-1 Arnason's goal I almost fell onto trackside celebrating at goal.

[daytripping]

First game was a 0 - 0 draw against Utd, circa 1973, I was in the main stand.

 

Best ever is the Bayern game in 1983, the sheer noise and atmosphere was off the scale, when we scored the 3rd the place just went mental, you had no idea where your seat was as you were rows away and you didn't care, complete strangers hugging and jumping about with you.

[daytripping]

Any time beating the hun was also great, you can't beat that feeling.

[dave_min]

A) A mid-90s win against Hearts.

 

B) When King Jimmy humped the Danish 4-0.

[Red Ram]

First game - Bobby Clark testimonial 1978

 

 

Best - Bayern in '83

[Kilkito]

First was in 1988, a 1-0 defeat by United, Eamon Bannon scoring the goal, Bobby Connor was on the front of the proggy, I was in that funny wee stand between the Main Stand and the Beach end, don't know what it was called.

Best is a hard one, any wins over the huns, the 2-0 snowball game against Celtic had me buzzing over Christmas time, the 6-2 against Hearts, the 4-0 against Copenhagen. I would have loved to have been at the win against the huns when Charlie Nicholas scored the 2nd and ran down the Merkland high fiving the fans.

[The Oxford Don]

First: a 1-0 win against Dundee UTD in March 1989, Charlie Nicholas scoring the winner with a cheeky near-post header from a long throw-in.

 

Favourite: probably the 2-0 win against Rangers in May 2007, Severin's thunderbolt still makes me feel all giddy and excited whenever I think about it. I ended up with some very interesting bruises all down my leg after that goal when I got catapulted over the seats in front of me. At the time I was too delirious (and probably too drunk) to even notice, let alone care.

 

Honorary mentions also go to the 2-2 with Bayern, the 4-0 against Copenhagen, and that demented match against Celtic in 1998 which finished 3-2 to us, but could easily have been about 8-7 for either side.

[fine-n-dandy]

That time Clangers was fantastic & kept a clean sheet

[Robbie Winters]

1st - I seem to remember it as a defeat to Celtic round about 73-74 (jesus 40 years)

 

Favs - Watching Davie Robb help us hump M'Well I think 8-0 and him scoring from corner flag

Beating Oldco as Chuts says but it was Derek Hamilton who scored, Fergie had arrived..

The Ipswich game was immense but Bayern in 83' surely tops everything

[tommo1903]

I was pretty sure my first was a 3-0 win v Motherwell in about 96/97 with Joe Miller scoring the 3rd . Then i looked on the AFC Heritage site and such a game did not exist. So fuck knows what my first game was.

 

 

The 4-4 against Sellick

 

My favourite game at Pittodrie is probably Aberdeen 4 Copenhagen 0.

 

These two would be up there with my favourites at Pittodrie. Unfortunately did we not pretty much hand the league to the huns the day of the 4-4?

 

Beating the huns 2-0 on the last day of the season when Beasley had boasted that they would score 5 was pretty good as well.

 

Favourite game: I have a few, New year at Tannadice a few years ago 1-2 Arnason's great goal. Bounce wis unreal.

 

Your favourite game at Pittodrie was at Tannadice?

[Foster14]

First Match, which my grandad took me to (my dad doesn't like football):

 

http://www.afcheritage.org/matches/fixtures/mreport.cfm?fixture_id=4168&season=1994-95&squad=Senior

 

My grandad had a heart attack at this match so he never went back again:

 

http://www.afcheritage.org/matches/fixtures/mreport.cfm?fixture_id=4190&season=1994-95&squad=Senior

 

and therefore I never went back again for a long time until:

 

http://www.afcheritage.org/matches/fixtures/mreport.cfm?fixture_id=4620&season=2005-06&squad=Senior

 

Don't think many would have 11 years between their first and second Dons games.

 

Favourites are the 3-2 over Rangers (my third game - had to get a ticket at the ticket office as my season ticket book was missing the ticket for the game), 2-2 with Bayern, 4-0 over Copenhagen, 4-2 over Celtic, and back to back season finales with 2-0 wins over Rangers.

[tightbreeks]

i think it was dundee or something in the early 80's

 

best

 

last game of the season against falkirk, 4-0, best coz their keeper had one puma boot and one adidas boot on!

[Ron1903]

First game - think it was Friendly v Coventry 12/08/95. Just looked on that Heritage site and found out we got beat 5-1, don't rememebr that at all but do seem to remember Noel Whelan played a half for us. Also seem to think Stillie ended up playing on the wing as we had used all our subs (that might have been the year after v Everton).

 

Favourite - has to be the 3-2 game against the zombies.

Got a minibus up to the game with the Livi Reds and on way back out of Aberdeen were giving every Zombie mink we passed the fingers then going through Torry there was a load of them outside a pub and they chucked a bottle at the bus and smashed one of the windows of the bus. Had to wait ages for the driver to wait on police etc to come out.

[strachanmcgheegoal]

First game - late 70's maybe into 1980 ish. Dundee Utd in the snow, guessing December. Looking back now Its probably a given that we were on a family shop to the toon (a big expedition in those days) and Mum had some urgent shopping to do on her own without the kids . Football memories. There may have been an orange ball. Funny mannies that seemed to shout a lot in the Merkie. An absolute explosion of facial hair on the pitch - presumably Kennedy and Millers mousers and Scanlons chin although Jarvie provided some balance. Score? We won, I think. 2-1? 3-1 maybe.

 

Best game. Had exams at the time of Gothenburg. Arse. Couldn't get tickets for Bayern as I recall. I went to the Sion game on my birthday but guessing that wasn't the same!

 

Genuinely can't pick out a single game. Dutd in 95 was just fucking awesome as I recall. There were some truely monumental tiffs with the huns post souness when we had Gilhaus, Nicholas and the like. The two genuine super powers of Scotland at the time. The quality on the park will never be repeated.

 

Not a game that stands out but one of the oddest feelings I remember was the Motherwell game (think it was Motherwell?) at todders in 92. Hearing the hun had blown a massive league lead and we were going to go toe to toe at Ibrox. Thanks again Alix. Cunt.

[SkyeDon]

First game was February 2002, 4-0 win over United. Leon Mike debut. Favourite, probably beating Rangers to secure Europe edges it.

[Jackie Moon]

My first game was a 2-1 victory over Hearts in a reserve game one cold Wednesday night I think..i was sitting in the Main stand centre... Memorable as my first game but also as I saw poor Ian porteous getting knocked clean out and losing some of his front teeth in the process after getting a flying kick to the head..

 

The following night I was at a supporters club meeting in Stonehaven to.. (I cany remember the name of the hotel but I think it's no longer there now) where I met John McMaster.. Billy stark and Bryan Gunn.. Got their autographs! Fking awesome when your only 10 year old and on School holidays..

 

And my first proper 'big' game was I think in the same year.. 84.. 85 season against IFK Gothenburg in a 2-2 draw at Pittodrie... To me it was a superb introduction to my life long support of the Dons..

 

Superb times...

[John_B81]

First game - Aberdeen 2-0 Hibs, August 1990. Opening game of 1990/91 season, Gillhaus and Connor got the goals.

 

Favourite game - Aberdeen 4-0 Copenhagen. The atmosphere, the occasion, the goals, the score! What more can a Dons fan ask for?

 

First post on the forum.

[Boras83]

First game at Pittodrie: Drybrough Cup final v Celtic (2-1), August 1971 (in the Merkland Road end).

 

Best game at Pittodrie: UEFA Cup 1st sound, second leg v Ipswich Town (3-1), September 1981 (in the South Stand) Premier League v Dundee United (2-1), May 1995 (in the Upper RDS).

[Clydeside_Sheep]

First game at Pittodrie - Aberdeen 3-0 Dunfermline. August 1991. Same as Clydeside Sheep!

Bitchin!

 

I used to get mixed up because we had also beaten dunfermline 3-0 at home in the late 80s and (looking at the stats) I thought that might have been my first game (I couldnt remember the proper date), these same-score games were 2 years apart or so.

 

However, what corrected me to the 1991 date was "Im too sexy" by Right Said Fred; this was released in summer 1991, and I disctinctly recall hearing it on the radio when going home.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39YUXIKrOFk

 

Therefore, it could only have been the 1991 game I was at, not the late 80s one. Case closed.

 

Jim Bett scored a peach of a free-kick, then Jess and Grant scored in second half.

I remember the Bett goal best of all. I didnt realise Grant was the other scorer, I thought it was Booth.