Futbology, the app formerly known as Groundhopper

[Patrick Thistle]

Jobi1

This is the camera icon to use when you select a match you've been to

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[Jobi1]

I think you're just showing off about that magnificent victory there...

[Patrick Thistle]

I think you're just showing off about that magnificent victory there...

Multi-tasking

[cantagalo]

longeared mentioned in the matchgoing thread that he'd just got his second Hristo Stoichkov badge.

February 8th is a productive football day for me because I've now got three Stoichkovs from 2020, 2022 and 2023. I think I can be forgiven for missing out on 2021.

I was surprised that this daft but strangely engaging feature has been going for more than three years.

[Southport Zeb]

I've got those three years as well. I do like the absurdity of Stoichkov being celebrated by visits to Atherstone, Skelmersdale, and Litherland.

[Patrick Thistle]

How many of us got one of these today?

[Third rate Leszno]

I did. That was my second Baggio, picking this one up at Marine was a bit less exotic than my first at Atletico Madrid.

[Jobi1]

Yep, and uploaded my first photo on there to mark the occasion!

[Artificial Hipster]

Me too, my first. My only 'on this day' today was a 2-0 victory for Man City at St Andrews in 1989.

[Third rate Leszno]

I had a very eclectic selection today, the earliest being Wales v Soviet Union at the Vetch field in 1987.

[Jobi1]

Mine for today was my first game outside England: SV Meppen v. Hannover in the German 2nd division in 1995 while on a school exchange trip (taken along by my host family – our teachers weren't that interesting).

[Patrick Thistle]

A reminder today of Shrewsbury 2-3 Oxford on 7 March 2020. Then football got cancelled and it was 16 months before I went to my next live game.

[Simon G]

My last game before lockdown was a 0-0 bore draw between Cheltenham and Port Vale. I got to witness it again a few weeks ago.

[cantagalo]

Yes, mine was Brentford 5 Sheffield Wednesday 0.

I walked out of Griffin Park with a real spring in my step, completely unaware that this would be my 485th and final game there.

[Artificial Hipster]

A blank for me today which given I've still got plenty of dates to fill is always a pleasant surprise when I know I've got a game to go to in the evening.

[Jobi1]

I've got one of those coincidental on-this-days today – only got two games logged but both featuring Bournemouth, losing 1-0 at York in 1995 and winning 2-1 at Cardiff in 2000. There's a fair chance those are the only two times I've seen the Cherries as well.

[Uros Predic]

My trip to Edgeley Park on Saturday apparently marked my 300th football ground. I'll have been at more. There's a bunch of Central Midlands League clubs I trekked round as a kid watching my dad's team that I couldn't possibly put a date to, plus a few grounds I've played at, but not watched at, but yeah, 300 is the number of grounds I've been able to recall visiting.

I've never really considered myself a groundhopper, but for someone who doesn't really go to much out of their way to tick off a new ground this feels like a hell of a lot. Objectively it also feels like a colossal waste of time and money, but that's probably because I'm largely skint these days.

[cantagalo]

One of those peculiar 'On this day' coincidences has just cropped up.

Exactly 3 years ago, I was at Notts County v Eastleigh. It was the final game before lockdown.

Tonight I shall be going to.......Notts County v Eastleigh.

[Jobi1]

I'm guessing I'm not the only OTFer to have the first football match in the Millennium Stadium as an 'on this day' today?

[Patrick Thistle]

Looks like our paths could have crossed Jobi1

[Jobi1]

My abiding memory is of when Ryan Giggs appeared on the big screen during the national anthem, and there was a cacophony of excited screams from the lower tier (family section) and resounding booing from the rest of the stadium (I believe it was his first ever friendly for Wales, having made his debut nine years earlier). Also how brilliant Jari Litmanen was.

[Patrick Thistle]

One for Giggler here. I have zero memory of this game

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[Giggler]

One for Giggler here. I have zero memory of this game

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Nicky Adams scored with a cross-cum-shot. Ordinarily I’d have been there but my dad had recently been in hospital so we didn’t go.

[Patrick Thistle]

Nicky Adams scored with a cross-cum-shot. Ordinarily I’d have been there but my dad had recently been in hospital so we didn’t go.

There might have been a programme in the bundle I sent to you

[Giggler]

I think there may have been, but I only seem to have the ones with action photos/profiles of Brian.