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

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Howards tipple said:
I read somewhere last night...sorry can't remember where due to a few cans..but it was estimated at 550,000.

I reckon at least 150,000 around Goodison then every street and boozer heaving, can't be far off the mark.

And no trouble. No nicking seats. No pitch invasion. Just every blue doing what they needed to on such an occasion.
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I’m sorry but did you just say 550 thousand?

I mean it was rammed but..
 

Johnniepk said:
Another story from Sunday.
Ive sat next to the same bloke for about 10 years. He brings one of his lads every week alternating between his two boys. Ive watched them grow up and they are now about 14 and 17. They were both in the seats on Sunday and i asked where Dad was. They told me they needed three tickets and dad had been trying all week. They came, all together , them thinking it was all sorted. He used his phone to get access for his two lads and they went through the turnstiles. Then he stepped away. He stayed outside. He had not really got the third.
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Cheers mate you’ve set me off again now.
 

Sheedy's right peg said:
I thought a minimum of 5,000 outside but must have been way more. There was a crowd singing on Goodison Road the entire game, plus all the pubs were packed. Even the Top House stopped letting people in by half time.
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The rest of our group without tickets, about 50%, went up to the black horse and their beer garden which is pretty big was packed and they had to stop people coming in, I reckon a load with kids might have come for the welcome and headed home also
 
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Johnniepk said:
Another story from Sunday.
Ive sat next to the same bloke for about 10 years. He brings one of his lads every week alternating between his two boys. Ive watched them grow up and they are now about 14 and 17. They were both in the seats on Sunday and i asked where Dad was. They told me they needed three tickets and dad had been trying all week. They came, all together , them thinking it was all sorted. He used his phone to get access for his two lads and they went through the turnstiles. Then he stepped away. He stayed outside. He had not really got the third.
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This is totally why, we are who we are. How many Dads, Grandads, Brothers, Sisters etc have made a choice like this over time. must be a good few and that sense of belonging, stems from those small but wonderful gestures!

Similar story in 84, Milk Cup Final, my Dad queued in the bitter cold to get us tickets, sadly, he only managed to get one, but we booked and travelled down with Barnes coaches together singing, drinking, laughing all the way, him knowing he was probably not gonna get in and have to find somewhere to watch it on the box! As I entered "block C" IIRC and he wandered way the bitter sweetness of it hit me, he'd sacrificed his love of this club for me😢.

We'd arranged a place to meet after, but he wasnt there and I was worried, no need. As he went to sit on a coach that had a TV( apparently??) some lad said "you need a ticket mate?" and with that a deal was struck, it was just before kick off and in exchange for the price of a few bevvies, my Dad was sorted, off he went. Right on the half way line!!! had a superb view, and most importantly he was there to see it. "merseyside, merseyside, merseyside" etc

He was well chuffed, you could see it in his eyes💙

This is what he and many others like him do and did, for the greater good, for that sense of "no mate, after you" it is 100% who we are and what makes us the same!

Hes done so much for me, so so many times its hard to recall, every joy I have had about Everton has been shared with him, every sad bit too, its "Just what they do" he says to me💙

He couldnt go Sunday, his illness has taken control, he wouldnt have been able to do what me and my lad did safely😢

What I did do, was raise a burger and a beer(as we used to have, well a Higsons and a Sayers! lol) to him and made that same commitment to my kids, that when we see glory again, and we WILL, they will witness it even if I have to give them my ticket💙

Sunday, was a homage to our Everton Families, for everyone that was there, in the ground, outside it, in the Brick, The Wilmslow, wherever it may have been, to what brought us together.
 

Socistep2 said:
The rest of our group without tickets, about 50%, went up to the black horse and their beer garden which is pretty big was packed and they had to stop people coming in, I reckon a load with kids might have come for the welcome and headed home also
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My mate was in the Thomas Frost for the match and he said that was absolutely packed.

I watched the second half on someone's phone in the Spellow (with about 20 others crowded round the mobile). They did have a big screen but you couldn't get anywhere near it as it was heaving in that part of the pub.

Ignore my earlier estimate of 5,000 outside the ground - I've always been crap at maths.
 
Johnniepk said:
Another story from Sunday.
Ive sat next to the same bloke for about 10 years. He brings one of his lads every week alternating between his two boys. Ive watched them grow up and they are now about 14 and 17. They were both in the seats on Sunday and i asked where Dad was. They told me they needed three tickets and dad had been trying all week. They came, all together , them thinking it was all sorted. He used his phone to get access for his two lads and they went through the turnstiles. Then he stepped away. He stayed outside. He had not really got the third.
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Wowza - what a dad 🥲
 
ceremony/pre match good things:

  • Roy/PJ Smith spoken word - boss fella, great writing, powerful delivery
  • Johnny Todd on the Violin
  • There She Goes Again - gotta be an anthem for us now
  • Spirit of the Blues live - sounded boss
  • Good mix of players, dotn get the complaints re players who've not won anything, there'd be hardly anyone on the pitch who fans younger than 40 have seen play. also likes of Baines, Cahill, Jagielka etc would have been good enough to win things in different eras for us
could have been better:

  • playing elton john in a different key meant no one could sing along
  • fireworks going off during in my life. tonally all over the place there
  • bellew. lad needed a script to ask ex players the same question repeated each time. now that bill's gone hopefully he can get legged too as being the professional fan mouthpiece
 
Vaughan said:
ceremony/pre match good things:

  • Roy/PJ Smith spoken word - boss fella, great writing, powerful delivery
  • Johnny Todd on the Violin
  • There She Goes Again - gotta be an anthem for us now
  • Spirit of the Blues live - sounded boss
  • Good mix of players, dotn get the complaints re players who've not won anything, there'd be hardly anyone on the pitch who fans younger than 40 have seen play. also likes of Baines, Cahill, Jagielka etc would have been good enough to win things in different eras for us
could have been better:

  • playing elton john in a different key meant no one could sing along
  • fireworks going off during in my life. tonally all over the place there
  • bellew. lad needed a script to ask ex players the same question repeated each time. now that bill's gone hopefully he can get legged too as being the professional fan mouthpiece
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Agree with all of that, but I'd add one thing - when the trumpet player played Johnny Todd in the style of the Last Post to finish the ceremony. Genius.

I thought the whole thing was very Everton - not too sophisticated, no big "name" entertainers, just True Blues having an old-fashioned wake for Goodison. When I watched some of it again on telly today, I thought if they'd have shown it in black and white it could have been the 1960s. No big over-the-top tifo style banners, no thumping techno music, no massive egos making it all about them.

Could have deffo done without the fireworks but there you go.
 

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