Share your traumatic Everton game experience

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Gillingham in the cup ,away.
8 hour train journey (the special)
Then finding out the 2nd replay was at the same place.
Any man city away game early 80s...coppers hated us more than their mob.
Results wise 5-0 reverse v the shabite.
6-2 reverse xmas v manure.
Getting beat in the cup at the pit by that reserve team.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Both 80’s FA Cup finals against the R/S at Wembley. As a kid with our kid, with all his kopite mates and in the RS end. Also traveled in a van with them all singing “king Kenny” songs, utterly traumatic experiences .. Slightly levelled out by being on the Kop when Michael Thomas put the wining league goal in. Strange to think in those days as a young one we would sometimes go to each others home games if a ticket was going, fair do’s to him as he sat in the street end at the Wimbledon game and applauded… wouldn’t happen nowadays.

Ironically I'd say more evertonians have been to more of their games than big reds .
I went to their game v stettiene with my red mate.iirc the whole city was buzzing with french folk coming here,and French being the language taught at school.

 

[kiss the crest]

when we had the winter break, then realised Everton play again

 

[BlueInNZ]

31 January 1989, FA Cup replay at home v Plymouth. I was a student at the time, traveled on the train for the evening game. We won 4-0. But I didn't realise that the trains heading back East stopped about 9pm. So I had no way back and nowhere to stay. So I crashed on a station bench. A couple of coppers came along and warned me that it was a dangerous place at night. Freezing cold too.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Cardiff away fa cup anyone?

 

[orchard]

'86 when we were hammering Southampton at home and we thought the other lot were losing to Chelsea. When it dawned on us that we'd actually lost the title...

 

[John BCN]

In the 70's getting a football lesson from Forest, the same team that a couple of years later won 2 European cups on the bounce.
Same decade being torn a new one at home by Bobby Robson's Ipswich side, Mariner and Brazil running riot.

At that Ipswich game they were issuing vouchers for the forthcoming derby so there were also plenty of RS there which made it even worse. We did get our revenge on Ipswich 4 weeks later in the Cup though.

 

[SteveWatsonAbsoluteGent]

Palace at home in 2022. I know it all turned out on in the end but at half time I turned round and seen my two lads 11 and 13 in tears, I just thought “what have I inflicted on these kids”. Turned the other way and seen my best mate with just a glazed look in his eyes. Like a mixture of shock, anger humiliation, hurt, the lot. Everywhere I looked grown men and women in silence with tears in their eyes. Apart from the death of A family member or friend it was as low as I’d ever felt in my life.

I was in the top balcony.
Honestly didn't know how to react.

My brother kept saying. We will turn the around.

How he had faith in have no idea.

 

[blueloon]

Back in 1972 I think , we were at Coventry’s old ground and for some reason were moving around and got stuck at about half way , peering through the crowd ,trying to see the pitch properly. They had a free kick , suddenly the ball somehow popped vertically in the air and was volleyed into the net ! WTF!! We lost 3-1 It wasn’t until I got home to see MOTD that I saw it was a now illegal “ double foot flick” that got the ball in the air for Ernie Hunt to volley home. Never of course to be repeated.

 

[goldfinchmule]

Back in 1972 I think , we were at Coventry’s old ground and for some reason were moving around and got stuck at about half way , peering through the crowd ,trying to see the pitch properly. They had a free kick , suddenly the ball somehow popped vertically in the air and was volleyed into the net ! WTF!! We lost 3-1 It wasn’t until I got home to see MOTD that I saw it was a now illegal “ double foot flick” that got the ball in the air for Ernie Hunt to volley home. Never of course to be repeated.

Everton that.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Hard to narrow it down, to be fair. The ones that jump immediately to mind are:

The Wimbledon game, me and my mate from our close swore we weren't gonna check the score until MOTD. Some red came running out at HT telling us it was 0-2 and we spent the rest of the day thinking we were down. Obviously that one turned out alright in the end.

The Efan Ekoku walloping.

First ever competitive game at Goodison: Blackburn 95. Turned up buzzing only to go 0-2 down in the first 10 minutes. 1-2 in the end, I think.

 

[Andy McGurk]

Tranmere 0-3, losing 3 nil at home to the kopites is one thing but to effing Tranmere! I avoid matches in the main stand because I think I'm a curse. Only 13or 14 at the time, had to go back to school and face those plastic RS and Man United fans

 

[Tel001]

Every time Keane tries to nick the ball, do a back pass or whenever Ashley young tries to tackle in the area is traumatising

 

[MisterJ]

About an hour before every kick off, when I see a team sheet with Keane, Young and Doucoure on it

 

[Nyhus]

I remember the semi against the rs where we gave away the game with a terrible backpass like it was yesterday. I had friends over, we were in a good vein of form while the rs was not. Then reality hit.