What's your very earliest Everton related memory?

Dario Terracotta · 2025-12-11T13:04:28+0000

Not necessarily a game/match,I'd have to say mine are probably when I was maybe two or three,sat on my old fellas knee he would put one hand under his armpit and chant at me "Liverpool, Liverpool,under the arm",then the "we hate Nottingham Forest" song(I never really got why we should hate them back then

I know of the current dislike

),"rah,rah,rah,rah Morrissey"in honour of Johnny

I also remember if I wouldn't eat my veg,he's stick the food on my fork and commentate,"Morrissey going down the wing,centres for Joe Royle to head,it's going in(at which point i'd open my gob wide open

)and GOAL,food had been gobbled up

(this process went on until I was 35

)anyhow thanks Dad I wonder where my love for this grand old club came from eh?

maccavennie · 2025-12-11T13:14:46+0000

Dario Terracotta said:
Not necessarily a game/match,I'd have to say mine are probably when I was maybe two or three,sat on my old fellas knee he would put one hand under his armpit and chant at me "Liverpool, Liverpool,under the arm",then the "we hate Nottingham Forest" song(I never really got why we should hate them back thenI know of the current dislike),"rah,rah,rah,rah Morrissey"in honour of Johnny I also remember if I wouldn't eat my veg,he's stick the food on my fork and commentate,"Morrissey going down the wing,centres for Joe Royle to head,it's going in(at which point i'd open my gob wide open)and GOAL,food had been gobbled up(this process went on until I was 35)anyhow thanks Dad I wonder where my love for this grand old club came from eh?

Not my main memory but the 86 final always sticks out as an 8 year old for 4 things.

My best mates brother crying for ages as his dad had got up in the middle of the night and scarpered off to the final without him

A street party where all the houses had either blue and white decorations or red and white decorations and food laid out

Vomiting due to eating a square piece of butter which I thought was a piece of cheese

Bruce Grobbelars save from Sharp header

I'd have to have a good think about earlier memories, the above day has always stood out to me.

W84 Dum Freeze · 2025-12-11T13:22:53+0000

These, and a soggy leather Casey that you had to inflate with a bike pump.

Tony Hibbert's Wife · 2025-12-11T13:36:18+0000

Watching us lose the 89 Cup Final. Crying. My uncle taking the mick out of me. I'd like to say things improved.

A very innocent part of me still believes that Stuart McCall was and always will be the best player in the world, though.

bcblue1878 · 2025-12-11T13:38:19+0000

We never saw my Dad much on a Saturday, Cricket season he played Cricket for Hightown, and then followed Everton all over the place during the footy season!
My first real memory of “watching” a full game was the 1966 Cup Final as a six year old, which I watched at my Grandparents house where my Mum had taken us while Dad was as Wembley! I sat glued to the old telly desperate to see if I could spot him in the crowd!
The following season season I went to Goodison for the first time to a reserve game against Blackpool, then progressed to a few First Division games sat in the Upper Bullens!
Then two years after watching my first Cup Final on the telly , I was at Wembley in 1968 and we all know what happened that day! I cried all the way back to Liverpool!

Rob17896 · 2025-12-11T13:38:31+0000

Dario Terracotta said:
Not necessarily a game/match,I'd have to say mine are probably when I was maybe two or three,sat on my old fellas knee he would put one hand under his armpit and chant at me "Liverpool, Liverpool,under the arm",then the "we hate Nottingham Forest" song(I never really got why we should hate them back thenI know of the current dislike),"rah,rah,rah,rah Morrissey"in honour of Johnny I also remember if I wouldn't eat my veg,he's stick the food on my fork and commentate,"Morrissey going down the wing,centres for Joe Royle to head,it's going in(at which point i'd open my gob wide open)and GOAL,food had been gobbled up(this process went on until I was 35)anyhow thanks Dad I wonder where my love for this grand old club came from eh?

1966 FA Cup Final on the TV. Now it is a very vague memeory.

Pootsy · 2025-12-11T13:38:53+0000

1984 FA Cup Final introduced me to Everton. I followed the next season and the rest is history.

Tony Hibbert's Wife · 2025-12-11T13:43:23+0000

bcblue1878 said:
I sat glued to the old telly desperate to see if I could spot him in the crowd!

He wasn't the bloke who legged it onto the pitch and got tackled by that bobby, then?

Eggs · 2025-12-11T13:43:40+0000

….i’m certainly sure I started attending Goodison regularly around ‘62/63 but my first quite vivid memories are Pickering against Kilmarnock in Inter Cities Fairs Cup in ‘64 & also watching Jimmy Husband wearing no 10 at Goodison in the FA Youth Cup run the same season.

Joey66 · 2025-12-11T13:50:17+0000

1962 sat on a crash barrier with my late father holding on to me at Bolton Burden park away with my late father & all his mates plus my older brother - all travelling in a Ford Transit van most sat on beer crates in the back of the van - What amazed me was our away following as we were right opposite the mass behind the goal - blue balloons thrown on to the pitch - we won 2-0 - 1962/63 we went on to win the league - I can't remember my first home game as that was so special - 6 years old - a born Evertonian who held a scrapbook full of EFC photos at home & the other lot were in Division 2..... it was magical ....

COYBL25 · 2025-12-11T13:51:02+0000

Nearly getting crushed to death when the crowd surged at Villa Park at the FA Cup semi against West Ham 1980.

Getting picked up by a stranger and passed backwards over everyone’s head to safety, with my dad blissfully unaware

Joey66 · 2025-12-11T13:53:52+0000

Tony Hibbert's Wife said:
He wasn't the bloke who legged it onto the pitch and got tackled by that bobby, then?

The Cavanagh's - mate their local was in the Eagle & Child - a notorious rough house on Liverpool road a place were you wiped you feet on exiting the place - that pub was full of mine sweepers put your pint down & it disappeared - I was told never to go in there ....

davek · 2025-12-11T13:59:15+0000

Joey66 said:
The Cavanagh's - mate their local was in the Eagle & Child - a notorious rough house on Liverpool road a place were you wiped you feet on exiting the place - that pub was full of mine sweepers put your pint down & it disappeared - I was told never to go in there ....

The Eagle & Child: I heard a wartime story about that place: there was a shootout there with Yank soldiers stationed at Burtonwood near Warrington. I think the story went that one of the locals from Page Moss had sold a load of 'whiskey' to them which was just cold tea in whiskey bottles.

A notorious boozer.

goldfinchmule · 2025-12-11T14:02:08+0000

66 cup final 2-0 down and 6yrs old, felt sorry for them,you know the rest. Plus this bloke on the pitch leading the bobbies a merry dance. Thats it Everton are my team.