[Ex-LeamSpire]

Town_Fan, on 24 October 2014 - 03:50 PM, said:

Do kids really follow their dad's team? I find it highly unlikely my lad will follow Chesterfield anything like I have. To me you should always support your local team where you grew up.

It's an interesting question. My old Dad never really claimed support for any particular football team - but get a few beers in him and sit with him and his mates in Hasland Club and you soon get the stories of them "going up t'see Blades 'wi 50000 in t'ground in t'60s' etc etc. Saying that, he encouraged me to go and see us when I was showing feint interest in Town in the early '90s and he took me to games when Johnny-no-goals got us promoted in 94/95. Since then I have been hooked.

He dropped off coming with me - and then I moved to Warwickshire so I'm more likely get to away games than home ones now His health hasn't been so good recently - but to give him credit he tunes into Peak every match and follows our fortunes more than he ever did when I was a kid. Maybe it works both ways?

[trickytrevsfanclub]

My Dad has never been interested in football. I'm entirely self taught☺️

[Nerima Spireite]

Town_Fan, on 24 October 2014 - 03:50 PM, said:

Do kids really follow their dad's team? I find it highly unlikely my lad will follow Chesterfield anything like I have. To me you should always support your local team where you grew up.

We're living in Japan. Still, there's no way our daughter is going to support anyone but Town!

[whittman]

60s 70s Spireite, on 24 October 2014 - 09:43 PM, said:

Forgotten about Shentall. Used to arrive in his suit, trilby, overcoat and Rolls Royce. Had zero respect from the fans as you say. Never invested in the club, and oversaw a procession of unreplaced exits of very good players. The only positive quirk was his place at the top tables kept us in the Central League with teams such as Man United, Everton and Liverpool.

Shentall was certainly friends with people in high places including the then president of FIFA Sir Stanley Rous and was regularly on trips

all over the world

We were bottom of the Central League every year but saw some great players in the visiting teams rumour has it that George Best played

his first ever match for Man Utd at the Rec

[The Peoples Champion]

whittman, on 24 October 2014 - 09:04 PM, said:

My dad took me into the Cross Street wing stand from about the age of 5 then onto the Kop when I was a bit older

Never considered supporting anyone else but in those days we did not even have Match of the Day to try and sway me not as though it would have

Dad took me to my first game at four, said I tried to kick every ball in the stand for Town.

Monday morning got me a scarf that went on th my bedroom wall.

Been CFC daft ever since.

[60s 70s Spireite]

whittman, on 25 October 2014 - 07:58 AM, said:

Shentall was certainly friends with people in high places including the then president of FIFA Sir Stanley Rous and was regularly on trips

all over the world

We were bottom of the Central League every year but saw some great players in the visiting teams rumour has it that George Best played

his first ever match for Man Utd at the Rec

I always tried to get to the matches against Man United, Everton and Liverpool. I don't recall ever seeing Best, but I saw Brian Labone, Gordon West, Alex Young, Roy Vernon, Tommy Lawrence, Ron Yeates, Shay Brennan, Bill Foulkes, Pat Crerand, and many others. As Albert Homles recently said in one of the pre match talks, the reserve games were far harder than the Divison Four games!

[Spiretone]

Me and my first wife split when my lads were both really young. She remarried and moved to Nottingham with my kids. I've always spent every weekend with them and they're both Spireites as that was a big part of what we'd do as they were growing up. Their step-dad has taken them to the odd Forest game but they'd rather watch the Spireites. Nothing compared to standing on the Kop at Saltergate with my brother with both of us having one of the lads on our shoulders. They're 17 and 19 now and season ticket holders. The thing is that when they were young they were just happy to spend their weekends with me, wherever we went. The love of the football came later.

[dazcarrlegend]

Ernie Ernie Ernie, on 24 October 2014 - 01:24 PM, said:

Pathetic. Enough said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...otball/29736422

Football allegiances aside, I am sure if you had an ill child and wanted to make some money for a charity, there would be a lot of things you would do

[Westbars Spireite]

I just seen something I've not seen since we played them at Saltergate - a Wigan fan. Walking down Brockwell Lane, presumably on the way to see them lose at Derby.

[whittman]

60s 70s Spireite, on 25 October 2014 - 08:10 AM, said:

I always tried to get to the matches against Man United, Everton and Liverpool. I don't recall ever seeing Best, but I saw Brian Labone, Gordon West, Alex Young, Roy Vernon, Tommy Lawrence, Ron Yeates, Shay Brennan, Bill Foulkes, Pat Crerand, and many others. As Albert Homles recently said in one of the pre match talks, the reserve games were far harder than the Divison Four games!

There was one particular match I remember for some reason against Liverpool res which was played on a Mon evening early season with I think

a 5-50 ko ( pre floodlights ) Cant remember the score but I think we will have lost

The lack of floodlights led to various kick off times with a League Cup tie against Stoke kicking off at 4-45 which meant going straight

from school.

The attendance I think was nearly 13000 but with floodlights we might have touched 20000 such was the interest in the match