Match Thread Everton 2-0 Southampton. Sun May 18th. 12 pm

[witchdoc187]

i’ve still been watching the aftermath of the game not the actual game

am i weird? yes does it feel weird? very

i have this like eeery feeling i can’t shake yet

Doesn't really feel real. My son asked "are the ladies gonna play there?" "We'll go watch them then". Think there's a lot of people thinking the same

 

[Wat Tyler]

 

[GoldenToffee]

Andy Gray will be fuming he wasn't mentioned amongst the players there.

 

[RAFUH]

 

[trueblue84]

Bloody hell.

 

[RAFUH]

 

[PhilM]

Fantastic angles from the away end. The rendition of Forever Everton pre-match is immense!

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

I woke up this morning and I have come to the decision that I’ll probably never go back to Goodison, at least not to watch a game. I may never go back at all.

It’s nothing to do with the women playing there: I’ve taken my son and daughters many times to watch them. Instead, it's because it will no longer be my Goodison.

It won't have the same smells, feeling or textures. I won't be with the people I've sat with and became friends with for so long. It won't have the atmosphere.

My conclusion is that it's better to say goodbye and remember it as it was for so, so many fantastic years, rather than let those memories be altered.

Perhaps I'll change my mind in a year or two, especially if the Women's team have an important game and need our support, but in reality I think I'm now done.

I felt the exact same and decided that was my last game at GP, but I took my daughter there and then my grandson, we have a 18 month old granddaughter and I’m definitely taking her there, just hope the stadium stays open long enough for us to take her.

 

[trueblue84]

Meh. Personally thought MOTD's coverage was disgusting. Not so much the match, but at the end, where they talked about the places we remember and then proceeded to show a love-in with the rs and coverage of anfield that took up most of the montage.

 

[windymiller]

I was gutted when the pigman sold him. It was an act of vandalism that we still haven't fully recovered from.

 

[Rita_Poon]

'kin hell I went on a bit there like...

like the tether.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Unlike @ste d' indica, I don't have much of a personal account as I said my goodbye's 20 years ago after my only visit as an adult in the upper Gwladys. I didn't think, at the time, I'd be back anytime soon living 5k+miles away. Although I thought that would change a couple years ago, my body said nope and I ended up being chained to a Saguaro here in Arizona....until I receive a transplant it's not a good idea to leave the states even though law of averages says I won't get one soon...you never know in this instance. But, as I told @chicoazul a long time ago, if I could bottle that night up, I'd take it to my grave:



I was not going to say anything as it's all " youz " day but I guess I have, the pull is too strong...soz abar me.

PS As an aside, I've heard a lot of consternation about it but Goodison is not a a live musical venue, there's a reason front of house engineers exist, even in concert halls. You wouldn't have wanted that job or to be that musician yesterday, dealing with the arl lady's acoustic eccentricities. That's not on the club so let it slide, her various architects weren't even thinking about acoustics in that way all those years ago, it'll be better down the dock.

Goodbye Goodison...I'll always remember your perfume.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Nah I was sound, I got in an hour before kick off and took my own and the seats next to me.

 

[matty1878]

was they’re flags under the seats?

my nephew said he bought me one

but i doubt his credibility…

 

[Bluelenny1984]

I woke up this morning and I have come to the decision that I’ll probably never go back to Goodison, at least not to watch a game. I may never go back at all.

It’s nothing to do with the women playing there: I’ve taken my son and daughters many times to watch them. Instead, it's because it will no longer be my Goodison.

It won't have the same smells, feeling or textures. I won't be with the people I've sat with and became friends with for so long. It won't have the atmosphere.

My conclusion is that it's better to say goodbye and remember it as it was for so, so many fantastic years, rather than let those memories be altered.

Perhaps I'll change my mind in a year or two, especially if the Women's team have an important game and need our support, but in reality I think I'm now done.

Weird you say this, I feel the exact same way. I feel like I’ve said goodbye yesterday, and going back now just wouldn’t feel right or wouldn’t be the same. Weirdly mourning the memories, like you say in time maybe it will feel differently but right now I’m still processing that I won’t be going back there with me dad and chowing down on what can only be described as the best salt and pepper chicken on earth served up by the Hot Wok!!