What's your very earliest Everton related memory?

[the golden visionary]

Sitting at goodison 86 87 season with me arl fella, I had a peaky blinders style flat cap on with a everton badge on it, i wanted to put my hood up as my ears were cold then put the cap on over, he wasn't having it tho, called me a wool

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Proper memory of Brian Labone testimonial.
Been before that with dad or uncles.
V leicester 1-1 1973 1st league game of the season.
Remember playing by the main stand being built.

 

[PITA]

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

I bet you thought following Everton was going to be great.

 

[Benicetoourboys]

I bet you thought following Everton was going to be great.

It is.

 

[PITA]

It is.

If you are a masochist.

 

[Eggs]

About five years ago I found this picture of the ‘68 final, that’s me and my Grandad in the “blue” circle! My Dad and Uncle were on the terraces with the hoards of Everton fans!

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….i was in the ‘stands’ too so almost certainly in the same area as you, but not on the front row. Weirdly, I’ve always had a soft spot for the Baggies despite that heartbreaker, @Littlesue will have Jeff Astle down as a hero

 

[canuckblue]

84 cup final.

Good place to start I feel

First time I actually saw them play. The CBC broadcast the cup final those days and my dad would make a full English and then we'd watch the game and go play golf. So when we won the 84 game, it was especially memorable as my aformentioned Evertonian granddad had passed only four months earlier.

 

[Caolam]

Jeff Astle scoring in extra time in the FA Cup final.

 

[Yarrgh]

Walking through the cemetery or Stanley Park trying to keep up with my dad. Watching a lot of teams in pale colours or stripes probably because they were rubbish and thrashable.

 

[Pootsy]

I bet you thought following Everton was going to be great.

I got a very early introduction into why it’s easy to hate Liverpool.

 

[RomanReigns]

Growing up abroad it was difficult to watch games. My dad had Astro tv and it would show some games but they were normally on past my bedtime. I remember one time my dad woke me up for a game when we were playing Newcastle and I think Michael ball scored a penalty for us. I also remember getting interviewed at school once by the Disney channel and they asked me who my favourite footballer was and I said it was Mikael Madar. If Everton were playing and they weren’t on tv we would join the mIRC Everton chat and get the live commentary from people typing in the chat. People would troll and say a goal was scored. The good ol days of dial up internet.

 

[tommytowne]

It was before I'd even stepped foot into Goodison on my first visit in 1963 that is uppermost in my mind.
I'd never seen so many people on the march walking down from Everton brow but it was the sight of those four monolith floodlight towers almost shouting This Is Everton.

 

[Thesouthallarms]

Getting beat by Newcastle in the fa cup in 97 I think I was 4 , Ian rush and John Barnes played I’d been to many games before but that was the first one I remember a sign of things to come

 

[daza_1973]

1979/80 - Inheriting an Everton umbro diamonds down the sleeves kit and wearing it for PE in primary school.

 

[goldfinchmule]

1979/80 - Inheriting an Everton umbro diamonds down the sleeves kit and wearing it for PE in primary school.

Loved that kit.