What's your very earliest Everton related memory?

[Benicetoourboys]

My dad was a red and I just loved playing football, aged 9 in 1958 I asked him to take me. Something happened and we couldn't go ( thank the lord ), so he said I will take you next week to watch Everton. I entered a nearly packed Goodison and that was it. The following season I never missed a game and went with a mate from school, been a regular since then hardly missing a game. And love it just as much now at nearly 77 as I've always done. Nothing better than a few pints with your son and mates then 3 points.

Sliding doors moment, great that.

 

[Benicetoourboys]

The wide steps in the enclosure, I can remember being little & running up & down them at a reserve game.
Then being left at a relatives house near Goodison as Mum & Dad were going the match & thinking the Rugby match on the telly was Goodison.
First 1st team match 3-3 v WBA, great memory, right at the back of the Main stand.
Still thrills me going to the match, love being a blue.

 

[blue to the bone]

The 85 cup final. Asking my uncle to come outside and kick a ball during it. He said he would after it but our cousin was playing. Super Kev.
Hooked since then . Uncle passed the following year as a young man.

 

[paultheblue]

Probably Feb 64 when we were knocked out of the FA Cup at Roker Park .
I wasnt at the game but already had attended a few home games. That was the day i realised Everton were not invincible at 10 years old the pain of that defeat really hurt.

 

[anton66]

Me and my brother getting thrown in the boys pen by me dad who went into the paddock.
We then had to endure 2 hrs of a football match combined with a re-enactment of the warriors.
Every fortnight, great stuff.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

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.

Strangely enough I have the vividist memories of having a rs kit .
I don't know how I ended up with it.
My parents were blues.
Probably my dad's relatives from the south (Halewood).
Think he was the only blue in his family.
Growing up in walton it wasn't really a choice, all the nutters were,and still are blues.
I recall david Harvey getting a dart thrown at him from the mob that were in the park end looking for leeds,I seen them walking up to the ground practising the throws,luckily not at me,they must be in their 70s now.
I also remember naively asking one of my older mates ,why they were in the park end.....and stupidly doing the same myself in a few years....

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Losing to Villa in the 1977 League Cup final. I was absolutely gutted

I cried that night.

 

[Eggs]

I remember asking my dad, red and my grandad, blue to take me to a game. I didn't care where.
It was in the early 1950's and I was about six.
My dad said I was too little and my grandad said he'd take me
He usually got a taxi, had a flask of tea with a splash of whisky - which he always gave me a sip of, and sat up top in either the Bullens or Park end.
Don't remember results but players were John Willie Parker, his favourite, Dave Hickson, Wally Fielding, Jimmy O'Neil and Cyril Lello amongst others.
I didn't know the difference then, but we were in the 2nd Division. OMG!

…..Dave Hickson managed a team I played for back in the late ‘70s & he spoke so positively of John Willie Parker.

 

[allen]

My dad popping to Liverpool to see my grandma and bringing me this back.

Followed by the disappointment of watching the match itself!

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

My dad popping to Liverpool to see my grandma and bringing me this back.

Followed by the disappointment of watching the match itself!

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My wife broke that during an argument...don't worry I smashed her favourite ornament....

 

[allen]

My wife broke that during an argument...don't worry I smashed her favourite ornament....

I used it regularly for about 20 years before thinking "hang on, I might break this..."

Lives in the display cabinet now, rotated towards the blue half!

 

[Ray Purchase]

Circa 1968.

Being headbutted and having my money stolen in the boys pen.

Never looked back.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

I used it regularly for about 20 years before thinking "hang on, I might break this..."

Lives in the display cabinet now, rotated towards the blue half!

I was more upset cos me grandma had bought me the cup.

 

[Joey66]

Probably Feb 64 when we were knocked out of the FA Cup at Roker Park .
I wasnt at the game but already had attended a few home games. That was the day i realised Everton were not invincible at 10 years old the pain of that defeat really hurt.

My older brother & my late father went to that game 2- 0 down at half time v a lower league team & friends solid with the icy wind off the North sea - got beat 3-1 in the end B Harris our consolation scorer - they went in a ford transit van with a gang of mates they drank Sunderland dry in sorrow...

 

[Joey66]

Circa 1968.

Being headbutted and having my money stolen in the boys pen.

Never looked back.

It was a rough house my Dr Martins came in handy the only time I went in there ....