What's your very earliest Everton related memory?

Eggs said:
….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 :lol:
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Yes. I watched the match at my friends house because she had colour TV and we only had black and white. Can remember her Mom giving us 2 boiled eggs each for tea instead of one because we had won.
Jeff a Baggies hero had an horrendous death. Obviously its known he had dementia but the day he died he was at his daughter Dawn's family birthday party. He started choking on a Tuna sandwich he was eating and even though Dawn and her husband who were both in the police force at that time couldn't help him so he choked to death in front of the family.
 

First thing I recall was going up to the bottom of the valley to watch the team come home with the cup 1966.
My mum used to go the game so I was aware of football before that but that's the first thing I can say stuck in my mind.
Had the mumps for the 1968 final, and my mum went the game and left me on the couch, with my sisters supposed to be looking after me,( seen them once all day) so not so good a memory of that day.
 
Littlesue said:
Yes. I watched the match at my friends house because she had colour TV and we only had black and white. Can remember her Mom giving us 2 boiled eggs each for tea instead of one because we had won.
Jeff a Baggies hero had an horrendous death. Obviously its known he had dementia but the day he died he was at his daughter Dawn's family birthday party. He started choking on a Tuna sandwich he was eating and even though Dawn and her husband who were both in the police force at that time couldn't help him so he choked to death in front of the family.
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…..I knew about the dementia (there’s a pic I’ve seen of him heading one of the old case balls and it’s literally deflated around his forehead) but I never knew of the choking episode. How awful.
 
I went to previous games but the earliest I can recall was the 66 cup final.
My Dad got me a ticket on the Friday and i vividly remember he came back from work and told me a 7 year old to get an early night as we were going to Wembley the next morning.
We drove to Stanmore and got the tube from there.
On Wembley Way we saw Dixie Dean and he was great and gave me a autograph and the picture appeared in the Evening Standard.
We had to swap tickets as my Dad's was in a different pen(they were all concrete pens in those days)
Remember crying after 4 mins when we went 1 down and my Dad telling me it will be ok as there were 86 mins to go.
And remember singing the newly formed Michael Trebilcock song after.."Hes the greatest little darkie in the land..."
And then meeting my Mum outside Wembley who had come down with us but didn't have a ticket.
I dont remember anything about the homeward journey..I reckon i must have slept.
And I dont remember what I had for tea last night...but i can remember that day of May 14 1966
 
Littlesue said:
Yes. I watched the match at my friends house because she had colour TV and we only had black and white. Can remember her Mom giving us 2 boiled eggs each for tea instead of one because we had won.
Jeff a Baggies hero had an horrendous death. Obviously its known he had dementia but the day he died he was at his daughter Dawn's family birthday party. He started choking on a Tuna sandwich he was eating and even though Dawn and her husband who were both in the police force at that time couldn't help him so he choked to death in front of the family.
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Bloody hell,that terrible for Jeffs family to comprehend for the rest of their days,I didn't know that had happened 😔
 

Two that stand out, one was my old man telling me how he ended up at Wembley in 66 after doing his weekly "milk round" collection early Saturday morning and him gutted he didn't have a ticket but he thought sod it! So he took all the takings and got on the train with the rest of the family, including the dog, all decked out in blue and white, and managed to bag a ticket. Needless to say his "milkman" days were over!

*if anyone wants their change from that milk collection, Sorry!

Me getting a Dai Davies style goalie cap and gloves and walking down Fountains Road with them on and the wind blowing the cap into the road, sudden onset of tears and a mindless walk into middle of Fountains Road with a few horns blaring and a kindly old man, picking me up, and the cap, while rollocking me for wandering into traffic! He also said, that's why we're Blues. That was my Grandad, who'd followed me to make sure I was "safe" with my new gear💙


And that is what makes us Blues, a mixture of mischief, stupidity and blind faith!
 

As a kid I actually had a red Hitachi kit. Only God knows why. Must have been some reason can't think why. Started supporting Everton when Gordon Lee was manager. Earliest tv was the Milk Cup final and reply. First game afterwards v Southampton at Goodison Andy Gray winner. We dressed our dog up for the (FA) cup final! Blue scarf everything.
 
Earliest memory was seeing a letter addressed to Everton Football Club on the sideboard. I asked my Dad what it was for, he told me he was asking the club to give me a trial. Being four years old at the time I believed him. Many years later I worked at that it was in 1966, and he was trying to get tickets for the cup final.
I also remember asking to go to watch Everton play, and he told me that I was too young, and had to wait until I was 5. As it turned out, I had to wait until I was 6. Being brought up in Birmingham meant that opportunities to see the Blues were limited. My first game was watching us beat West Brom 6-2 at the Hawthorns, with Alan Ball scoring four. So two months later, playing them in the cup final was a foregone conclusion wasn't it?
A very early introduction to life as an Evertonian.
 

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