How many times have you seen Everton live?

[evertony]

No matter what we go to, and I know it will be a great stadium on Bramley Moore Docks, what is left behind has almost incomprehensible value in terms of memories, friendships, shared experiences, community and family history. For me, I must be there on that final day, preferably one of the very last to leave the stadium as my great granddad was one of the very first to enter it - it will be an alpha and omega moment, in family terms there at the beginning and the end.

I imagine there will be a very late ending to that final game.....we will simply have to be dragged away from our spiritual home, the place we've worshipped at for many a year. Always wanted to have my ashes scattered at GP but seems like that's unlikely now.

 

[tommye]

I imagine there will be a very late ending to that final game.....we will simply have to be dragged away from our spiritual home, the place we've worshipped at for many a year. Always wanted to have my ashes scattered at GP but seems like that's unlikely now.

PM me. We can come to an arrangement. Cash up front of course.

 

[evertony]

PM me. We can come to an arrangement. Cash up front of course.

I considered it, but the downside is I wouldn't be able to experience the new stadium.

 

[tommye]

I considered it, but the downside is I wouldn't be able to experience the new stadium.

@Derek Acorah might be able to help

 

[glorydaze]

No matter what we go to, and I know it will be a great stadium on Bramley Moore Docks, what is left behind has almost incomprehensible value in terms of memories, friendships, shared experiences, community and family history. For me, I must be there on that final day, preferably one of the very last to leave the stadium as my great granddad was one of the very first to enter it - it will be an alpha and omega moment, in family terms there at the beginning and the end.

No one will want to leave, still be 30k there the following day.

 

[Jeff Jones]

My wife has just worked out that she has been to 27 games and seen us win a grand total of...ZERO games. 0 in 27. Jesus wept. Rest assured she will not be coming again.

Ha, my wife has a 100% record at Goodison - 1-0 v Man Utd and 2-0 v Chelsea - both under lights in 1971. She not a football fan and came
to the Utd game because George Best was playing. Don't know why she went to the Chelsea match.

Bad away record though. She came when we lost a match at WBA.

 

[Jeff Jones]

....now divide it by the number of times you've seen us lift a trophy live.

You took the wind out of my sails when I read that, Eggs, but I've just remembered, I was at Stamford Bridge when we beat Chelsea
and won the Charity Shield.

 

[johnnydawg68]

Well I can tell you I've never see us lose, and never seen us concede live

 

[obc]

0. hoping to push an Ingerland trip (with requisite stop at Goodison for a match) for my 50th, if not in the half dozen years between then and now.

 

[allezlesbleus]

Yes Dario T.E. Jones played in the promotion team of 1953-4, good strong centre half, good penalty taker, scored from about forty yards in the final game of the promotion season v Oldham Ath. Tommy Clinton one of the many Eire players
who turned out for the club in the forties and fifties, the penalty he missed, just before half time, could have been a game changer, that was my first away game watching Everton.

My dad was at that game! Said we did everything but equalise in the second half. Hit the woodwork at least once?
I think Clinton's wife ran the ticket office for many years? Or have I got that wrong?

 

[allezlesbleus]

No matter what we go to, and I know it will be a great stadium on Bramley Moore Docks, what is left behind has almost incomprehensible value in terms of memories, friendships, shared experiences, community and family history. For me, I must be there on that final day, preferably one of the very last to leave the stadium as my great granddad was one of the very first to enter it - it will be an alpha and omega moment, in family terms there at the beginning and the end.

Well said. We will be doing it for those who went before us too!

 

[Dario Terracotta]

I just try not to think of it,put it to the back of my mind,I'm not normally an openly emotional person,obviously family stuff will always take priority,and i know the benefits a move please god to the docklands would bring(NSNO)but without being melodramatic I'll be in bits on that last day when it happens.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

My dad was at that game! Said we did everything but equalise in the second half. Hit the woodwork at least once?
I think Clinton's wife ran the ticket office for many years? Or have I got that wrong?

I think you're spot on allez in fact im sure he lived in the EFC club houses in the long gone goodison avenue behind the old park end.

 

[McMagic]

Interesting. . . How many times you seen the RS though?

I'm gonner bore you with my love for Everton, I wouldn't eat a red penguin biscuit, I wouldn't wear anything red, family still give me stick at get togethers. I used to live in Knowsley when I was a kid, I'd get the 92 bus in the Summer holidays, the bus came up through Rice Lane to
County Road, round the bend past Walton church, then 2 more bus stops to this massive school playground on the left, you didn't need to
look up, as you could clearly see the four Tower Floodlights and the Gwladys Street roof, by this time I was close to peeing myself with excitement (Just seeing the ground). 2 more stops and I was at Spellow Lane, I walked up to the ground, I walked round anti-clockwise
saw some kids playing Centre & in, against the big blue doors in Bullens Road, joined in for a few minutes, until I found out that they were reds.
I walked round to the main entrance and watched people toing & froing, I can remember one face, a very smart Graham Williams, I don't
know if he was signing on or off or getting treatment. I spent a few days of those hols just being by the ground. My Dad used to take me into Town for new clobber, I can always remember getting the No.19 bus from the I.C.I. (Yorkshire Imperial Metals) We went upstairs on
the right, down the Lancs past the Crown, straight though Queens Drive, under Walton Bridge, up the hill, you had to wait til you got to Gwladys Street before you could see the palace, as we went past Walton motors towards the now Dixie memorial, my Dad stood up and said Raise your hats to a great ground and a great team. Nobody did, a couple of women smiled, in sympathy I think, I was very embarrassed. My Dad was from London and a Spurs supporter. I just wish that he could embarrass me once more...

 

[dave abrahams]

Dave you should have a chat to my old fella mate!!he has always mentioned that Oldham game he went to and how they put tar on the walls to prevent our lot getting in,he's told me many,many times how his hero Davy Hickson carried us out of the old second division on his back!!

That tar didn't keep them out, especially on one large gate, the fans got loads of papers and put them all over the tar and climbed up over the lot, that was the first year they sold the FA Cup final programme outside of London, I bought that night
and got Johnny Carey's autograph on the front page of it. Jojnny was manager of Blackburn Rovers at the time and if Everton would have lost one drew that game then Blackburn would have gone up instead of us.What a great night that was,
I went to Exchange St. Station around three o'clock that afternoon, the place was crowded with Everton fans, you couldn't
move for them, singing and chanting, we never stopped singing until about one o'clock the next morning, not a just a great victory and Everton coming up but Liverpool were relegated that same season, Oh Happy Days, and Liverpool would remain in the second division for the next EIGHT YEARS, wish I could go back to that night for just a few minutes, a fabulous time.