First opposition player you remember

Mine and St Ives' first Bloomfield visit was the good Watford team that got promoted from the 3rd Division that season. Fairly certain all the talk was of their forwards who were scoring free.

Think Ross Jacket was one, was it too early for Luther Blissett or was he the other? But for some reason, the only name that I recall clearly was Ray Train.
 
I knew the famous players off the telly but a Blackpool opposition player? Like someone said above, I didn't pay attention to the opposition as a young fan. Perhaps the first opposition player I acknowledged was the Charlton keeper, Charlie Wright. He was well known for chatting with the kids behind his goal so there was always a scrum to get a good place on the wall to join in the banter. Probably 1968.
 
I have a vague memory of seeing Nobby Stiles playing for Middlesbrough in the early 70s, my dad made a great deal of it because JA had retired and I was watching a world cup winner.
My real first independent memory was seeing Ray Kennedy playing for Hartlepool in 83??
 
1966_and_all_that said:
I knew the famous players off the telly but a Blackpool opposition player? Like someone said above, I didn't pay attention to the opposition as a young fan. Perhaps the first opposition player I acknowledged was the Charlton keeper, Charlie Wright. He was well known for chatting with the kids behind his goal so there was always a scrum to get a good place on the wall to join in the banter. Probably 1968.
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yeah similar for me too. When going to watch us back in the sixties my focus was on us and not the opposition so can't really come up with any name of an opposition player who I first noticed.
 
Not the first i saw but i always remember big Keith Walwyn (rip) for at the time York City, later to become a Seasider
 
Bobby Charlton-When I was a nipper, I lived in North Wales and sometimes went to watch Wrexham. Sir Bobby played a season at Preston and in 1974/5 came to the Racecourse. I can't remember the result but it put an extra 3/4k on the gate just to watch him.
 
Like many I didnt take notice of opposition players until I was in my teens. The first I took interest in, due to my uncles enthusiasm, was the short dumpy bloke in his forties (pot and kettle😉) who played in goal for Blyth Spartans c1998
 
Joey Beaucamp for Oxford. I was 8 or 9 at the time but for some reason I can remember that 0-1 win for them at home. I didn’t even go. One of my earliest Blackpool memories when I started to support them
 
Happychap said:
Rodney Marsh. Such arrogance, so skilful, what an entertainer.
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Not my first game by any means, but Marsh was the first opposition player I remember wanting to see. His equaliser for QPR in front of the kop was sublimely taken, even a 12 year old me could see that.
 
Billy Wright - Wolves. We were playing Wolves when they were top of Div 1 in the late 50’s and at the tail end of his career.
Maybe I noticed him more because it was all over the news that he married Joy Beverley- one of the Beverley Sisters who I loved when I was a lad in short pants. It was a Posh and Becks wedding of the day.
Of course he was a player who appeared on all the football cards we collected while at school.
 
not sure the first but remember us playing against Dave Bamber and the south paddock signing Dave Bamber is a wanker is a wanker

being a naive kid I had no idea what a wanker was... so was chanting it after at the dinner table in fornt of my mum!!!! she got all upset and my dad went bersek saying I wasnt going to games anymore!!! haahha
 
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