GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

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...as a kid, I think just climbing that last flight of steps and seeing the pitch. Always meant so much. Inevitably I'd have played a game in the morning and run each flight and see the Old Lady in all its glory. Still love sitting with Little Eggs and watch him stand and applaud when that first chord of Johnny Todd goes. Back tingles when I think I've brought him up right.
 

Eggs said:
...as a kid, I think just climbing that last flight of steps and seeing the pitch. Always meant so much. Inevitably I'd have played a game in the morning and run each flight and see the Old Lady in all its glory. Still love sitting with Little Eggs and watch him stand and applaud when that first chord of Johnny Todd goes. Back tingles when I think I've brought him up right.
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I was actually talking to a Kopite mate about something similar a few days ago. He said he went to a few Everton games but his Uncle started taking him to RS and he said he was around 14-15 when he decided to support Liverpool. I said "how can you be that old before you decide? Which he didn't quite get me. I said to him the first time I got to see Everton at GP walking up the lower street end steps and seeing inside Goodison for the time ( this is when it was still terracing ) is still one of my greatest memories in life. From that moment on, that very second I had found something very special that I knew as an 8 year kid would play such an important role in my life. I'm 35 now but still get that buzz, even going to the u18 semi final with my 5 year old son, looking out over a wind swept Goodison and thinking of all the greats who have managed to grace the turf, all the amazing highs and the gut wrenching lows and how many more generations are going to be able to watch Everton at the old Lady, perhaps my son will be the last. I love Everton, and hopefully one day my son will pass that love onto his children.
 

Darts being thrown into the away end,tying scarf's around yer wrists, racist chants and fans throwing bananas at black players,small kids standing on boxes in front of the wall, seeing naff all when we had 55000 fans at a game, and singing "your going to get your flipping head kicked in" fans saying "what the flip was that Belfitt!". and the emergence of the RS ......yes its the 70`s, for those of you who weren`t around, you don`t know what you were missing!!!!
 
6d entry to the boys pen, no netting on the roof back then so climb over the fence into Gwladys St. when the copper on the cinder track got as far as the corner flag, anyone who remembers the boys pen will remember why we wanted to escape it. The toffee lady throwing sweets into the crowd before the game. Legging it to the cemetery gates after the match to get on the footie special back to Old Swan. Seeing the cream of British football talent wearing the Royal Blue Jersey.

I love being a Blue
 

maccavennie said:
I was actually talking to a Kopite mate about something similar a few days ago. He said he went to a few Everton games but his Uncle started taking him to RS and he said he was around 14-15 when he decided to support Liverpool. I said "how can you be that old before you decide? Which he didn't quite get me. I said to him the first time I got to see Everton at GP walking up the lower street end steps and seeing inside Goodison for the time ( this is when it was still terracing ) is still one of my greatest memories in life. From that moment on, that very second I had found something very special that I knew as an 8 year kid would play such an important role in my life. I'm 35 now but still get that buzz, even going to the u18 semi final with my 5 year old son, looking out over a wind swept Goodison and thinking of all the greats who have managed to grace the turf, all the amazing highs and the gut wrenching lows and how many more generations are going to be able to watch Everton at the old Lady, perhaps my son will be the last. I love Everton, and hopefully one day my son will pass that love onto his children.
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What a great post.

Climbing the stairs (for most parts of the ground) and as you reach the top seeing the first hint of the pitch (far side of the pitch) still feels as special now as the first time.
 
NewRadical said:
What a great post.

Climbing the stairs (for most parts of the ground) and as you reach the top seeing the first hint of the pitch (far side of the pitch) still feels as special now as the first time.
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Yes mate, never gets tiresome. I love that advert with that old fella at GP because he still has that glint in his eye that only supporting Everton can give you. I'm hoping that will be me in 50 years time and I've seen 19 titles, 8 European cup wins, 11 fa cup wins, 19 league cup wins, 25 charity shield wins.......and the RS become extinct!!!!
 
Amazing how many people pick out climbing the magical steps to the terraces. I have a memory like a sieve, but will never forget entering the Gwaldys for the first time, so exciting this splendid stadium appearing in front of me!
 

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