League One

Wycombe Wanderers striker Sam Vokes talks us through his football memories

by
The Football League Paper Team
23 January 2022

football firsts

First game you watched live?
I was very young so I don’t remember it clearly but I do know which game was my first. I was a Southampton fan growing up and my old man took me to The Dell at the age of three. It was all the threes, because the game was a 3-3 draw against Sheffield United. I only know this through my old man telling me. I went home and away with them growing up and that is where my love for the game came from.
First football hero?
As a big Southampton fan, it was always Matt Le Tissier. I suppose he was the hero of every kid who supported the Saint...

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