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What was the first game you ever saw live?

I think it was Fulham against Aston Villa when I was about five or six. My clearest memories of it are the smell of hot dogs and cigars, but also the sound of those huge wooden rattles. The atmosphere was great and so noisy. But the second game I went to was Chelsea against West Ham, which wasn’t nice – that was a very different atmosphere altogether. I was about 10, I went with my mate’s dad and he’d managed to get seats in the new East Stand, which was really posh. I remember looking over at The Shed,