Nonce nuggets?
Jimmy Harris scored a hat trick for us imagine coming home, and saying to your family I got a hat trick but we got beat 10 -4 ! No I was only three, my late fathers brother who lived in London most likely was there - both dead now, Everton mad - my late father posted him the Liverpool Football Echo every week - even when he died my late mother carried on the tradition- of posting it to him - still a generation of London Blues down there!
What I failed to add in my opening drivel was that, being a ten year-old new Evertonian living in North London, and one of seven kids, the chances of me getting to visit Goodison Park were as rare as rocking-horse sh*t. When I watched the TV adaptation of Gordon Honeycombe's play, The Golden Vision, I was both awestruck and sad at the same time. Sad because I had to make do with going to Hendon FC to see live football, when what I ached to do was to walk to Goodison Park every other Saturday.
Bah......the 50 sommats are, by definition, glory hunters as their heyday was the mid to late '80s
Every time we lose a game I calm myself by remembering I've seen us beaten over 100 times before,and looking at the stats since 1961 we have lost more than we have won,but just one more trophy.....please
At least the red lot got beat 1-0 that would have give me some joy. as you say its hard to remember your early games the Burden Park one away was deffo my first my home game???? as I seen that many Everton Youth Cup games at Goodison I just cannot remember my first full first team game, my late father or my older Brother would have taken me, if I had my original two shoe boxes of programmes then I would know but my late mother who was so tidy gave them away out of a spare bedroom that was almost empty I was upset to say the least!
It WAS quite a year for us blues! I was in tears at half-time in the Cup Final but ecstatic when we turned it round. Laughed my head off when Eddie Cavanagh ran on the pitch, but he went down in my estimation when he confiscated our ball in the 70s when we lived on Canny Farm - miserable so-and-so!Ah, Mike Threewillies, what a game that was! I watched that game at a school friend's house. He was a Wednesday fan.lol
I rushed home after the game so I could watch the celebrations without having to tone it down.
For any whippersnappers looking in, Mike Threewillies is Mike Trebilcock, and the game was the 1966 FA Cup Final. No one had a better summer that year than English Evertonians. First the great Cup Final comebackthen the World Cup!
Yes only 15,000 allocation for the 1966 Fa cup final - tickets were hard to get yet the touts cleaned up - those programme tokens were a pian as you always seem to lose one token!
Fully paid up member of the glory hunters here !
See you in six and a bit years lads
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