Family enclosure, a 1st team game, ideally against a weaker team with a big away following. Go early, wander round the ground, go to the gift shop (sorry!), have a pie. Get seats as close to the pitch as you can, pay more if you need to. St James's is an awesome place for a first game as it's always packed and the atmosphere in my experience is awesome.
I went to my first proper game (been watching my dad play non-league since i was born) at a similar age, Villa - West Ham, stood in the Holt End. I remember very little of the game but the smells, the noise, the excitement stay with me, it was magnificent. I don't really follow football anymore but the excitement of that match still occasionally drags me to games.
binners nailed it.
I'm not really into football but my dad is, if he wants to watch a match I'm pretty sure he'd be happy if I took him to see Hartlepool, (my dad loves anything to do with football so watching kids kick a ball round on Sunday would do) BUT, I KNOW he likes Newcastle so I'm happy to give a few hours of my time to see him happy (to phrase another geordie 'because he's worth it').
Now if you want to see you son happy take him to see a game, it's only a few hours of your time and you never know you might actually enjoy some of it. I'm sure at a later point your son will go and spend a few hours with his dad doing something he doesn't particularly enjoy but wants to spend time with his dad.
Newcastle also have the best basketball side in the country, so go for a grand slam of sport.
Erm, no they don't.
Just like Football, the Champions reside in Leicester
Ironically someone gave me tickets (adult/child) for Champions league match at Man City but I didn't think he'd be OK with a 7.30pm start.
I'll wait for tickets at Man U
I hope you took the advice of a cheap mid week cup game!!
[url= http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/37686639 ]Newcastle thrashed 10-man Preston in front of almost 50,000 fans at St James' Park to reach the EFL Cup quarter-finals.[/url]
50,000 and 6-0 in the middle of half term apparently would have been bouncing in there by the end
