Your greatest 'moment' at Goodison

[ste d' indica]

Match 3. 2019. The derby.

A chill still in the air, leaden skies beginning to darken, a nervous tension crackles around the stands as we wait for Z cars.

Then, as the moment arrives, there's a dip in temperature. As Walton takes on an almost apocalyptic feel, Evertonians glance uncertainly at each other, some whispering 'what is this??' as the unfamiliar tone of an air raid siren screams from the depths of Goodison.

Even we were a little unsettled, but that lot? Well dear readers, they 'kin shat themselves.

 

[supertoffee98]

Of all time is probably Bayern Munich, but I was born in 1998

That I've seen live is derby day 23/24, the only thing that will come close to that for me ever is a cup final/league winner.

 

[Andy McGurk]

I think I've only managed 20 games at Goodison tops? But one that stands out was taking my wife to her first and only trip to Goodison for the Beckford v Chelsea game. Essentially a dead rubber match but a goal of the season contender, a Seamus red card, explaining to her why 40k Evertonians are singing "Lady Boy" at Fernando Torres, and then singing "getting sacked in the morning" to Carlo only to hear he was already sacked before we hit the A580

 

[Roachey11]

Beating Newcastle in the final home game of the 04/05 season was one of my favourites. The pre match atmosphere for Villarreal also sticks out.

 

[West Side Charlie]

Beautiful this, think of Goodison and try not to cry

 

[Del-boy]

Being a kid and trying to get in for the Everton V Wimbledon game that we needed to win. I’m sure it was pay on the gate back then?
Anyway we couldn’t get in as it was packed and heard the groans outside the ground as we went behind.

Then listing to the radio on the drive home with my dad and hearing the comeback. Just a memory that always sticks with me 30+ years later.

 

[9LeagueTitles5FACups]

Match 3. 2019. The derby.

A chill still in the air, leaden skies beginning to darken, a nervous tension crackles around the stands as we wait for Z cars.

Then, as the moment arrives, there's a dip in temperature. As Walton takes on an almost apocalyptic feel, Evertonians glance uncertainly at each other, some whispering 'what is this??' as the unfamiliar tone of an air raid siren screams from the depths of Goodison.

Even we were a little unsettled, but that lot? Well dear readers, they 'kin shat themselves.

The first derby match which I attended. We stopped them from winning the title (Man City beat them to it by a solitary point) and I recall Michael Keane making a wonderful sliding tackle to deny them a clear goalscoring opportunity.

 

[Clivee]

Have been a lurker for years but never posted! My favourite memory was way back 71 I think when as an 11 year old, stood in the Gladys St end with my Dad, Watched them put 8 past a hapless Southampton team. Gordon West (my hero as a wannabe gk) Bally, Royle etc. The place was rocking. Remember collecting all the newspaper cuttings and pasting them in my album! The other thing that springs to mind was taking my little brother who had somehow become a Man City supporter to watch them a few years later. Tony Book hacked one of our guys right in front of me in the terraces. Being the big hard older 16 year old bro, I gave hm a sh*t load of verbals! Unfortunately, he heard me and stared me out with the nastiest look for what seemed a lifetime. God I wanted the ground to swallow me up!

 

[bluenotred]

March 11th 1967, night match. Fa cup 5th round. Everton 1 Liverpool 0. Alan Ball scored at the Gwladys st end. Limbs everywhere. There were 64,000 at Goodison, and another 40,000 watching on giant screens at Anfield. It was an incredible night. I was in what was then the Bullens rd paddock.

 

[hallamblue]

Andy King's derby winner. I was six years old and I'd been going to matches since I was four, and it was the first time we'd beaten them. I jumped up and down on my wooden seat at the end of the match until my dad told me we had to go home. I don't think I've ever been that happy in my life, other than my wedding day and the birth of my kids.

 

[toffeeblue9]

Don't think I could give you just one.

My first game, October 3rd 1989, a 2nd round 2nd leg Littlewoods Cup game against Leyton Orient which ended 2-2, in front of just under 10k was the most incredible thing I'd ever experienced as an 8 year old. Most memorable thing about it was an absolute screamer by the Leyton Orient left winger, Danny Carter, which their fans still talk about now (I would find out much later in life when I moved down south).

Not like today with smart phones, so my dad didn't think to take a photo of the occasion, but a few years ago I discovered that The Daily Post happened to snap a photo of me and my dad in the Family Enclosure as Kevin Radcliffe was stretchered off (my arl fella is the one in the beanie who has a look of Yozzer Hughes).

To give you a couple of others, which may be more popular ones, the Rooney Arsenal game was special, any derby win you want to name, the Arsenal game under Martinez, the Southampton game in Moyes's first full season, but I think the Palace 3-2 game might be the one which lives me longest.

 

[Sixty Nine Seventy]

So many great days (and nights) but has to be Bayern Munich as I managed to get dad to come. He had decided the game was getting too commercial and he refused to go at the time but I managed to get him there on the night and boy was I glad I did. Close behind was the night we beat West Brom to clinch the title in 1970 as me and my brother (yes we are a pure blue family) ended up on the pitch as we were forced out of the old terrace because of the sheer weight of people pushing forward from underneath the old Goodison Road stand. Memorable, just memorable.

 

[salmon fingers]

So many great days (and nights) but has to be Bayern Munich as I managed to get dad to come. He had decided the game was getting too commercial and he refused to go at the time but I managed to get him there on the night and boy was I glad I did. Close behind was the night we beat West Brom to clinch the title in 1970 as me and my brother (yes we are a pure blue family) ended up on the pitch as we were forced out of the old terrace because of the sheer weight of people pushing forward from underneath the old Goodison Road stand. Memorable, just memorable.

Two fabulous nights can I add a third Everton v Borussia munchengladbach when we won on pens I was very lucky to have these 3 nights in my memory's

 

[Togger Blue]

1970 - v Sheffield Wednesday clinching the title - with all my family & friends - the whole ground sang - never before had I heard that - regrettably only my brother & I are & a 94 year old Uncle the ones still alive ..... Goodison rocked even the grandstands joined in the chanting plus incredible football topped off by a blinding goal by CH - to take the title in pure football all season ..... Bally was our KVD .....

The Holy Trinity could find a pass to each other in the dark .....

Joey have you been on the ale? We clinched the title on the Wednesday night v West Brom 2-0, Sheffiled Wednesday was away the following Saturday. I went to every match that season. *not read every page, somebody else may have highlighted this already.

 

[Togger Blue]

Having helped Joey with his memory lapse in #149 there have been far too many brilliant moments, usually due to it being a crucial goal, to judge one as being better than the others. However, something that has never faded from memory was during half time in the Bayern game. I left my seat in the Bullens Road (Upper), somewhere near the divide is now between home & away, and went for a piss in the bogs. Although we were losing, the atmosphere with everybody talking was so positive and all hands believed we would come out and turn the game on its head, you could almost feel the willpower from the fans - and we did! Collectively we just had that unshakeable belief! **As a side issue to that night, the attendance must have been well over the official figure. There were lads sat on the stairs even in Bullens Road (Upper). I recognised some who used to be Street End Boot Boys from the late 60's.