Memory Lane - your first Everton game.

[Jeff Jones]

Everton 0 Swansea 0 February 1953. Clinton missed a penalty. The boys' pen was fairly full but not as crowded as the Anfield Boys' pen always was. I occasionally watched Liverpool as well but was already a blue when Liverpool got relegated in 1954.

I don't remember the actual match, but that was about the time my grandad started taking me. The one thing I do remember is that we were either in the Bullens or Park end stands. I remember the view of the teams running out and that's how I know.

 

[Dymak]

Can't really remember tbh. The first game that I can remember with any real clarity was the fifth round second replay against the RS at Goodison, where Dave Watson put us through. I was six years old and the celebrations afterwards were immense, but that wasn't my very first game, I'd been to several before that.

 

[Jeff Jones]

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Sept 10 1960,Everton 3 Wolves 1,53,728 (Vernon R 2 Harris J) that was your debut Eggs mate,I knew I'd rememberlol

I was at that match with my Red uncle. He was one of those 'good fun' uncles but he seemed a bit moody that day.

 

[tommytowne]

Panathinaikos,9/3/71,I was five, just remember the glare of the floodlights, the greenest of pitches, the royal blue shirts,the majesty of Goodison back in the day,recall nothing of the game!!The love affair had begun and continues to this day

I wish I could remember nothing of that game. The pain, anger, regret, you name it is etched forever in my memory bank.

 

[Jeff Jones]

Everton v Chelsea 1971
Went with Dad and Uncle Frank put in the Gse pen
Tbh don't remmember too much about the game we won 2-0

Saw that match, too. It was a night game and we drove up and back from Stafford for it. I was dying for a pee on the way
back and barely hung on.

 

[Jeff Jones]

8th August 1970 - the FA Charity Shield at Stamford Bridge and a 43,547 crowd - Chelsea 1 Everton 2. Two fine teams playing silky stuff on a beautiful pristine pitch.

It was less than two months after England's loss to WGermany in the Mexico World Cup.

My dad and I were on one of our visits to London - a week or two of intensive sport watching. Football and Cricket mainly. Great days the 60s/70s.

I was at that match, too. I've done OK for someone who's lived in Melbourne for 58 yearslol

 

[Jeff Jones]

Panathinaikos,9/3/71,I was five, just remember the glare of the floodlights, the greenest of pitches, the royal blue shirts,the majesty of Goodison back in the day,recall nothing of the game!!The love affair had begun and continues to this day

And that one. 1-1 David Johnson. Shouda been 6-1!

 

[tommytowne]

Mine was autumn 1963. Home game against Blackburn we were reigning champions Young, Vernon Labone and so on.
Beaten 4-2 with hat trick from Fred Pickering for them. We did then what we criticise other teams now are doing. We went out and bought Fred and he returned the favour by scoring hat trick on his debut a couple of months later. The whole Goodison matchday experience that day was captured by this then 11 yr old and never left me.
Apologies for those who recall me recounting this on previous postings but I still love recalling the event.

 

[degsy]

5th Nov 1960 1-1 Vs WBA

 

[Jeff Jones]

5th Nov 1960 1-1 Vs WBA

That was my last match before we came to Australia. I stayed in the ground for a while after the match ended - might
have had tears in my eyes. I was 15 and Everton was the most important thing in my life.

I still can't stay away from the place. Did the stadium tour in June.

 

[Bluebonic]

Cant actually remember who it was against, or even the score but it was John Hursts debut! I remember being excited because i knew him from watching the reserves play (my da used to take me to watch the reserves back then as the main games were too crowded). I dont even know if we won or lost, old age and dry rot are getting the better of me!

 

[Joey66]

Burden Park 1962/63 season Bolton 0 Everton 2 scorers Bingham & Jimmy Gabriel aged 7 years old - traveling there the Golden Vision way in a big Ford Transit sat on beer crates in the back - my late father worked at Cronton Colliery so his blue evertonians mates, and my older brother - they filled the van front, and back - I was positioned sat on a barrier in the paddock towards the mass following of blues supporters - it was the atmosphere of the blues fans - behind that goal that I can remember blue balloons floating across the goal area - the loud chanting of the blues fans - sat on the bar in a busy pub full of blues the traditional packet of crisp and a bottle of pop - the fact we won etc - I was a fanatic with a scrapbook before I went - My first Goodison game can't remember as my older brother took me to many youth games at goodison as a young boy mixed in between seeing the first team .....
My late father used to take me to games early on - I would pester him too - one wet day he fancied giving it a miss - I was pestering him all morning sat in my blues attire bobby hat scarf , and wooden rattle - he gave in and we went - it was a winnable game - we played awful got beat 1-0 - as I entered the backyard of our two up two down house he was complaining about being soaked - getting beat etc , and I had an old burst ball in the yard and violently kicked it as hard as I could smashing the downstairs window - my older brother took me to the games after thatlol

 

[catblue]

No score game at Annfield. I was on the Kop with a Red mate when Duncan rattled the Ross bar with a powerful header. Suffice to say I experienced a very lonely moment or two stood up with my hands on my head swearing blue murder when that happened surrounded by the red horde.
Think it was 93/94 November.

 

[Toffeelover]

Long time lurker, first post. My first game, April 1963. Everton 1 Spurs 0, Alex Young header. The attendance was 67,000 and i was absolutely blown away by the stadium, the green grass, the blue colour and of course the noise when we scored. I was 14 years old.The result took us to the top of the league and of course we went on to be champions for my second game, 4 - 1 against Fulham. I became a season ticket holder later but in 1979 moved to Canada.
I was exited to go to Goodison in August 2016 with my son for his first game, how appropriate that it was again Spurs. As you all know 1-1, shame we couldn't get a win.
He is of course now a blue.

My first game see opening post.

 

[sam domingo]

Went to one or two matches when I was very young (4/5 years of age)but have absolutely no memory of them other than the noise of the crowd. My dad didn't bother taking me back until I was a bit older (age 7)so the game I always class as my first one was against Birmingham in December 1976,sat in the stand above the old Park End terrace. We'd just signed Duncan McKenzie who I thought was an exotic foreign player because we'd bought him from Anderlecht (he's from Grimsby!).Anyway,he scored twice after we'd gone 1-0 down and David Lawson saved a penalty,Birmingham sadly scored a late equalizer and 2-2 was how it finished,but I was hooked. Also,it would have been one of Billy Bingham's last games as manager and I think Howard Kendall was playing for Birmingham and got stretchered off?