Villa Debuts where you can say "I was there!"

[silhillvilla]

Oh yes forgot that. Was on holiday in Cornwall at the time, driving listening to radio5. Almost totalled the car a few times.

[dave.woodhall]

Benito Carbone.

Can't remember who gainst but he was absolutely world class.

I was also at Ugo's against Norwich. That really was the stuff of nightmares. I would loved to have seen OPTA stats on his pass completion that day.

Ugo's debut may have been many things but it wasn't against Norwich.

[silhillvilla]

Ugo's debut was Arsenal away I believe. A few weeks before the Norwich "show"

[Ger Regan]

Dion's debut is one that sticks out for me, met him in the VP car park the day before.

[BC54 VFC]

Wasn't that bradford 4 - 2 game when Platt and Stuart gray made their debuts?

No. David Platt made his debut on Sat 20th February, 1988 away at Blackburn. He scored in a 3-2 defeat. I was there with my wife, who was expecting our elder son at the time. We sat in the seats on the side and what I remember most is the incredibly narrow passageway behind the, principally wooden, stand and thinking what if there were a fire (per Bradford nearly three years earlier).

[Steve R]

Chris Nicholl's debut was a 2-0 win at Rotherham. The Shrewsbury game must have been shortly after.

I was at Ugo's debut too, the 3-1 vs Arsenal. It was the first game I took my kids to.

[PeterWithe]

I was at JPAs at Old Trafford, he was shit.

[pooligan]

Yeah i remember being at Rotherham when Chris Nicholl made his debut. I can see him now running out in our yellow and blue kit and looking like he was 8 feet tall.

[pooligan]

Must have seen hundreds of debuts over the years but the one that stands out is Exeter City away September 25th 1985 .Simon Stainrod made his debut and scored all 4 goals in a league cup win. Pleased that i was one of the 5,325 there that night

[silhillvilla]

Anyone recall Mark Kinsella's debut ?







Me neither.

[Kevin Dawson]

Dwight Yorke at Crystal Palace in 1990. I was filmed for the 9 o'clock news, stood right in front of the camera outside the ground beforehand. Chatted to Yorkie outside afterwards about cricket as well. Dreadful game though.

[tomd2103]

Benito Carbone.

Can't remember who gainst but he was absolutely world class.

I was also at Ugo's against Norwich. That really was the stuff of nightmares. I would loved to have seen OPTA stats on his pass completion that day.

Ugo's debut may have been many things but it wasn't against Norwich.

Not sure when Ugo's debut was, but I do remember reporters and commentators across the land having all kinds of problems with his surname when he first came on the scene. 

[not3bad]

I was at Pompey for the Heskey debut I can always say I was there when he had a goal a game strike rate for us (or any club for that matter).

I was actually at Reading V Wolves with a Portsmouth fan that night!

[frank]

One that sticks in my mind is Nigel Spink at the City Ground on Boxing Day 1979. He didn't make another appearance until the European Cup Final. On my way back to the south-east I stopped off at a cinema in Leicester Square to watch a newly-released film called "Life of Brian". Also on a Boxing day, I saw Brian Tiler score against Cardiff on his debut in 1968 at the start of the Docherty revolution. Many of you will remember the 3-1 win against Man U in 1995 when Mark Draper (who scored), Gareth Southgate and Savo made their league debuts. Oh, and I saw Emile Heskey score a rare goal on his debut at Pompey.

[dave shelley]

Chris Nicholl's debut was a 2-0 win at Rotherham. The Shrewsbury game must have been shortly after.

I was at Ugo's debut too, the 3-1 vs Arsenal. It was the first game I took my kids to.

Re-Chris Nicholl's debut, you are correct about it being at Rotherham because I was there also.  I was at the Shrewsbury game too and for some unknown reason I was thinking that it was there he made his debut.  I'm losing it!