First Everton game

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5th Nov 1960 Vs WBA 1-1 the over riding memory is of wee Bobby Collins squaring up to a massive WBA defender (c u jimmy) who had the good sense to back down.
 

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That was the one. Only a year later was at Wembley and been on the roller coaster that is life as an Evertonian ever since!
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I remember that game mate, boy did we serve up some crap under Walker lol.

I remember the following season where we hadn't won a league game in about 10 games and we somehow scraped a 1-0 won against West Ham after being completely battered. Thankfully Royle came to the rescue just in time and got the players believing again and like you said Wembley them beckoned ;)
 
Bolton away 1963 won 2-0 sat on a crate of ale in the back of a transit van- cannot remember my first home game as
I went to Goodison a lot to watch Youth cup games so I did see a bit of the 1963 side onwards!
 

1-1 draw against Wimbledon in 97, Jeffers equalised an Ekoku goal after a mistake from my then favorite player Waggy.

Was just relieved he didn't go on to score 4 again tbh.
 
FA Cup third round proper

Sat February 5th 1972 - Walsall home 2:1 win

Got Beat next round home to Spurs 0:2


Everton Team Stats

Gordon West
Tommy Wright
John Mclaughlin
Howard Kendall
Mick Lyons
Henry Newton
David Johnson (goal)
Colin Harvey
Joe Royle
John Hurst
Alan Whittle (goal)
 
Everton 2 Brighton & hove Albion 2. They had that big bloke at the back with the head band. Can't remember the year. 1970 something.
 
Not my first game but very nearly Liverpool Senior Cup Final 1961 Everton 4 RS 3
I remember Roy Vernon scoring and Ian St John getting a hatrick for them I was 11
At the time and my brother was 9 We were in the boys pen but I didn't see Bill
 

Funny to think back now that my first match was the start of an incredible story. Just that it was for the away team.

August 77. Everton 1-3 Notts Forest. Like everyone else said it was a bit of a blur. Can't remember anything about the match itself.

The whole experience fills your senses and overwhelms them, somewhat like a trip. And I was 12.

The green of the pitch under bright summer sunlight. The chips that tasted different to any I'd had beforehand. The smell of cigars mingling with that of onions from the hotdog and hamburger stands. The mounted police. The sheer amount of people in one place at the same time. Z cars. The swaying of the crowd like the sea. Racist chants (directed at Viv Anderson). Violent chants (you're gonna get your 'kin 'eads kicked in). The sheer wonder at how the singing started up (Who was orchestrating that?).

I can remember so many details but nothing of the football.
 
My dad used to sneak me in as a baby, got pictures of me at the back of the empty Gwladys street in like 1992-93, vaguely remember being at the 7-2 against Southampton, but my first season ticket and first 'proper' game i class is Crystal Palace, in August 1997.

Palace just came up, Howard's return for the third time, and Atillio Lombardo and Bruce Dyer scored (Genuinely felt like he was around forever, so can't believe he's only 40. My dad got that fed up, that we left, and I missed Ferguson's goal.

First away was that infamous game at the Reebok, the one which saved us inadvertently, from relegation.

Still haven't seen us with a trophy though :lol:
 
First first team game was 5th February 1972, aged 9, FA Cup 4th round Everton v Walsall.



Went to plenty of Central League games before that.
 
Always thought mine was Arsenal in 1969, but was corrected and it was Arsenal in 1971.

0 0

Weather was awful, and my Everton banner, (well, pillowcase), which I had carefully tucked into my anorak, was more like a blue and white tied dyed shirt than the "EVERTON!" that I written on it.

Went with my Dad, (blue), and Uncle, (red), which was quite normal in those days. Went to Anfield with them also, same season I think. Leeds. Another awful 0 0!

We moved to Bristol via Shropshire, Wales, not long after that.

Just remember it being dead wet, blokes with really long hair, and the sheer size of the place.
 

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