ON THIS DAY

[andybaker]

Brilliant stuff all the grandLADs on here!

nice one!

 

[steken1]

Werthers originals and Pints of golden all round in here.

 

[royalblue66]

Good on yer......gives you a different viewpoint on 'the modern game' doesn't it ?

Sure does mate, all the info is at the touch of a button now, we had to wait for the echo, mind you it was still s+++ even then And fingers covered in printers ink, happy days tho

 

[bluejock]

Fantastic. Well in old timers.

 

[Pabbers]

Werthers originals and Pints of golden all round in here.

Now yer talking.....love a drop of that!

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

..and I was there.........seven years old, on my uncles shoulders........

Wasn't Uncle Cyril was it?

 

[royalblue66]

Wasn't Uncle Cyril was it?

haha, sounds very much like him.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Whereabouts in the ground was you mate?

That 'arl Goodison Road Enclosure looked superb.

Interesting fact about that game.......

Everton’s record attendance came in a League fixture against Liverpool at Goodison Park on 18 September 1948. A staggering 78,299 fans saw the sides draw 1-1. It was Everton boss Theo Kelly’s last match in charge of the club. He was also the man who designed Everton’s club crest and chose their motto ‘Nil Satis Nisi Optimum’, which means ‘nothing but the best is good enough’.

 

[Steve Wigan]

Whereabouts in the ground was you mate?

That 'arl Goodison Road Enclosure looked superb.

Interesting fact about that game.......

Everton’s record attendance came in a League fixture against Liverpool at Goodison Park on 18 September 1948. A staggering 78,299 fans saw the sides draw 1-1. It was Everton boss Theo Kelly’s last match in charge of the club. He was also the man who designed Everton’s club crest and chose their motto ‘Nil Satis Nisi Optimum’, which means ‘nothing but the best is good enough’.

Probably Goodison Road, quarter of the way back lots of kids on shoulders then ! Don't know about that particular game,probably a few years later, but often I would turn and look up at the directors box
and see the formidable Labour M.P. the legendary Bessie Braddock waving to the crowd from the front row. Another early memory was the Christmas holiday game...with the smell of whisky and cigar smoke, and the crush. Those were the days when if you came from Ireland to watch a game, it was almost always Everton. Our following from the Emerald Isle was legendary. It really was a working mans game in those days, and I can't remember any 'trouble' until years later when there was a demo at Blackpool when Alex Young was dropped(quite rightly in my opinion) for a certain Joe Royle to make his debut.

 

[West]

Well in lad hope everton win a trophy for you soonish!

 

[royalblue66]

Probably Goodison Road, quarter of the way back lots of kids on shoulders then ! Don't know about that particular game,probably a few years later, but often I would turn and look up at the directors box
and see the formidable Labour M.P. the legendary Bessie Braddock waving to the crowd from the front row. Another early memory was the Christmas holiday game...with the smell of whisky and cigar smoke, and the crush. Those were the days when if you came from Ireland to watch a game, it was almost always Everton. Our following from the Emerald Isle was legendary. It really was a working mans game in those days, and I can't remember any 'trouble' until years later when there was a demo at Blackpool when Alex Young was dropped(quite rightly in my opinion) for a certain Joe Royle to make his debut.

And the H/T entertainment was two fell's walking around the pitch carrying a long pole with a board on it advertising the wrestling at the Stadium. Happy days

 

[Eggs]

And the H/T entertainment was two fell's walking around the pitch carrying a long pole with a board on it advertising the wrestling at the Stadium. Happy days

...remember them, one had forearms like Popeye. Half-time scores came up along the side of the pitch on metal plates. If you didn't have a programme you couldn't work out the scores.

 

[royalblue66]

...remember them, one had forearms like Popeye. Half-time scores came up along the side of the pitch on metal plates. If you didn't have a programme you couldn't work out the scores.

Hahaha brought it all back, there Eggs. Remember we would be waiting for the metal,plates with the scores on them, they used to put the wrong scores up for a laugh.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Probably Goodison Road, quarter of the way back lots of kids on shoulders then ! Don't know about that particular game,probably a few years later, but often I would turn and look up at the directors box
and see the formidable Labour M.P. the legendary Bessie Braddock waving to the crowd from the front row. Another early memory was the Christmas holiday game...with the smell of whisky and cigar smoke, and the crush. Those were the days when if you came from Ireland to watch a game, it was almost always Everton. Our following from the Emerald Isle was legendary. It really was a working mans game in those days, and I can't remember any 'trouble' until years later when there was a demo at Blackpool when Alex Young was dropped(quite rightly in my opinion) for a certain Joe Royle to make his debut.

Hahaha brought it all back, there Eggs. Remember we would be waiting for the metal,plates with the scores on them, they used to put the wrong scores up for a laugh.

Boxing Day games are the ponkiest of the season due to the mass sprout consumption the day before.


I'm old enough to remember the alphabet in the corner for the scores.

 

[Steve Wigan]

Does anyone else remember when Danny Blanchflower came with Spurs...at the time he was advertising Shredded Wheat(?) on ITV, which had not been going that long, and someone ran on and put a box of Shredded Wheat on the centre spot! Does anyone else remember Garfield Sobers, the West Indian cricket icon, signing amateur forms with Everton as a goalkeeper? It was probably a gimmick. Harry Cattrick, of course, would meet players on the motorway services, and sign them for Everton !! And...none of this was on the telly !!!!