Whats your earliest Goodison Park memory?......

[Dario Terracotta]

Mine was the brightness of the floodlights,the total vivid green of the pitch and the sheer size and majesty of a ground that only five years previously had hosted a World Cup Semi Final

 

[Lionel_Nutmeg]

Early 90s for me and being a massive geek/collector, it was the old programme shop. If I remember rightly it was on the end of a row of terraces at the Park End, pre-renovation.

 

[Brendan Janus]

Arcs behind the goals !

 

[mickefc]

I'm not sure who we were playing, I must have been maybe 6 or 7 but I just remember the crowds, the noise and the beautiful smell of horse [Poor language removed] and onions. I still love it today

 

[Dario Terracotta]

I'm not sure who we were playing, I must have been maybe 6 or 7 but I just remember the crowds, the noise and the beautiful smell of horse [Poor language removed] and onions. I still love it today

Don't see those fellas flogging the burgers these days with their old stained white jackets,how we ever bought anything of them I'll never know!!lol

 

[Fresh Prince of Belle Val]

QPR 2-2 in the 90s. Things that stood out was the noise as z cars started, how good Les Ferdinand was. And we were awful.

 

[Boss_Blue]

Probably around 6-7 and remember walking up onto the stand (lower bullens) and being mesmerized by the sounds and pitch.

Then being bored for what felt like an age until we scored (I forget which player but very early nineties) and the place going crazy.

That adrenaline rush is probably what first cemented football and Everton into my young mind.

 

[allezlesbleus]

The sheer size of the place when aged about 5 around spring 1964 saw ressies vs villa as dry run for real thing a bit later. Length of time to walk up steps of old main stand, the way the wooden seats sounded when you got up and flicked them back into place. The green of the pitch and whiteness of the lines. The letters on the paddock?enclosure? Wall for the half time scores. Can't remember if they used them for ressies. Maybe. Not sure. First proper game I remember was Sunderland at home in 1966, cup third round, sat near front of lower bullpens. Noise and excitement even though hard to follow the ball, it was all so fast. Can't recollect the goals, just the excitement. Won 3-0 on way to Wembley!

 

[Deleted member 28206]

The massive wall of human piss in the bogs, the raw abuse of the English language.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

The sheer size of the place when aged about 5 around spring 1964 saw ressies vs villa as dry run for real thing a bit later. Length of time to walk up steps of old main stand, the way the wooden seats sounded when you got up and flicked them back into place. The green of the pitch and whiteness of the lines. The letters on the paddock?enclosure? Wall for the half time scores. Can't remember if they used them for ressies. Maybe. Not sure. First proper game I remember was Sunderland at home in 1966, cup third round, sat near front of lower bullpens. Noise and excitement even though hard to follow the ball, it was all so fast. Can't recollect the goals, just the excitement. Won 3-0 on way to Wembley!

They used to play the ressies games at 3pm on a saturday when the first team was away as I recall Allez,funnily enough the same thing happened to me,my old man took me to a ressies game first before my proper "initiation"!!

 

[Jacob]

Mid sixties...little kid....taken to a reserve match by my big bro on leave from the RAF.... (how the hell he used to get back for the footie proper I'll never know). The old Goodison Road stand. Then being taken to First Division game for my birthday...v Stoke home and away at their place. The hairs on the back of my neck standing up seeing the pitch...hearing z cars....they still do. Only wish my big bro was here to do it all again.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Mid sixties...little kid....taken to a reserve match by my big bro on leave from the RAF.... (how the hell he used to get back for the footie proper I'll never know). The old Goodison Road stand. Then being taken to First Division game for my birthday...v Stoke home and away at their place. The hairs on the back of my neck standing up seeing the pitch...hearing z cars....they still do. Only wish my big bro was here to do it all again.

Bit of a theme developing here Jacob,you,me and Allez all went to a ressies game first as a precursor to the real thing.

 

[Steve Wigan]

On my uncles shoulders, late 1940s, watching us beat Spurs 1-0(I think!) Spurs had Ted Ditchburn in goal, and Eddie Bailey(?) and Len Duquemin in their team, Everton ,well it was the time of Peter Farrell, Cyril Lello, etc, I'm sure. Daresay a historian can pin point the game and correct what I can't remember ! I think the week before the RS had played the Arsenal, score was 1-0, but not sure who to. Never forget the seething mass of bodies standing crammed together, and the surge when the game got exciting.Deafening noise. Cigarette smoke and the smell of stale ale. Scarves and wooden rattles.My, its different these days! Some of it is different, at least!

 

[Dario Terracotta]

On my uncles shoulders, late 1940s, watching us beat Spurs 1-0(I think!) Spurs had Ted Ditchburn in goal, and Eddie Bailey(?) and Len Duquemin in their team, Everton ,well it was the time of Peter Farrell, Cyril Lello, etc, I'm sure. Daresay a historian can pin point the game and correct what I can't remember ! I think the week before the RS had played the Arsenal, score was 1-0, but not sure who to. Never forget the seething mass of bodies standing crammed together, and the surge when the game got exciting.Deafening noise. Cigarette smoke and the smell of stale ale. Scarves and wooden rattles.My, its different these days! Some of it is different, at least!

Nice one Steve,my mum went to school with Cyril Lello's daughter,although she never had a clue about football til she met my old fellalol

 

[Steve Wigan]

Nice one Steve,my mum went to school with Cyril Lello's daughter,although she never had a clue about football til she met my old fellalol

Theres a sequel to the above as well....in the 1970s I was working free lance for a magazine publisher and was visiting bookshops and newsagents around White Hart Lane..it turned out that Ted Ditchburn the former Spurs goalkeeper I'd watched in my first match, had a newsagents near WHL, and I had a good talk with him. Finally, he said to me 'go two streets over to the next paper shop and you'll get a surprise'. Well I walk into this next shop, and the owner is serving...it was Wally'Nobby' Fielding , former Everton star known in his day as 'the best uncapped inside forward(!) in the League. So not much work was done that day...another long talk ensued !