What's your very earliest Everton related memory?

[blue61]

Cup Final day 1968, I was nearly seven. My then 15 year old brother had a right gob on because he was missing it while we travelled on holiday. He made our dad stop and sat on a swing listening to the result on a crackling radio. Not the best start to a holiday, but judging how upset he was, I thought I'd take on the pain myself. We still go the game though.

 

[Nyhus]

Getting a sparkly Everton football card as a kid. Its how i became an Everton supporter.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

A really innocuous memory that sticks in my head is walking to nursery/school with my ma and asking her who plays for Everton (my auld fella had made it clear I supported them but didn’t provide much info beyond that and I was an inquisitive sort) and her - in hindsight - audibly panicking because she has little or no footy knowledge and telling me Gary Lineker and Peter Reid, and so I decided on the spot that Gary Lineker was my favourite player (I think she may have said something about him scoring loads of goals).

Anyway, based on my age and when we’d have been likely to make that journey together, I can only surmise he was already playing for Barcelona by then. Bless her cotton socks.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

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.

God mate,that was among if not the worst of Everton days,I came out of Wembley that day absolutely crestfallen but more bewildered as to how we had ended up empty handed and that lot were celebrating a double

 

[truebluejersey]

The Bob Latchford 30 goal haul season

Duncan Mckenzie jumping over a mini and also if my memeory serves me correctly throwing
a golf ball the length of the pitch, could be wrong on that though.

 

[truebluejersey]

oh and getting a pair of white Alan Ball boots for Christmas

 

[maccavennie]

God mate,that was among if not the worst of Everton days,I came out of Wembley that day absolutely crestfallen but more bewildered as to how we had ended up empty handed and that lot were celebrating a double

I've watched the highlights of that match i don't know how many times and I'm still not sure how we didn't win that game and ended up getting beat 3-1.

 

[terryefc]

Cup Final day 1968, I was nearly seven. My then 15 year old brother had a right gob on because he was missing it while we travelled on holiday. He made our dad stop and sat on a swing listening to the result on a crackling radio. Not the best start to a holiday, but judging how upset he was, I thought I'd take on the pain myself. We still go the game though.

Mine too. Jeff Astle. Grr.
No one got any tea that day. Whole house in mourning.

 

[EFCPaul]

Gary McCallister's screamer to win it at Goodison Park for them. Was 7 and just starting to understand footy. Didn't celebrate or anything, I hadn't picked a team at that point, but I just remember what a big deal it was.

Nothing beats a last-gasp goal. Tarky's equaliser was finally a case of it going our way against that lot for once.

 

[kev]

The Bob Latchford 30 goal haul season

Duncan Mckenzie jumping over a mini and also if my memeory serves me correctly throwing
a golf ball the length of the pitch, could be wrong on that though.

Not sure he ever did that as an Everton player did he? Or at least not publicly.
I believe he first jumped a mini when he was at Forest, but the only video I can remember seeing of him doing it was at at Elland Road (Paul Reaney's testimonial game)

 

[Dario Terracotta]

I've watched the highlights of that match i don't know how many times and I'm still not sure how we didn't win that game and ended up getting beat 3-1.

Saw it live mate but never watched any of it from that day to this,too bloody painful

 

[Benicetoourboys]

Saw it live mate but never watched any of it from that day to this,too bloody painful

This.

 

[truebluejersey]

Not sure he ever did that as an Everton player did he? Or at least not publicly.
I believe he first jumped a mini when he was at Forest, but the only video I can remember seeing of him doing it was at at Elland Road (Paul Reaney's testimonial game)

You are probably right.

I just remember some fella weave some magic who could jump over a mini.

 

[stringer bell]

1966 cup final..aged 5and and half...me arl fella who couldn't get a ticket throwing money to all us kids celebrating in the street

 

[Eggs]

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!

….i was an 11yo at that ‘68 final. On the Blackpool theme, for some reason I have a vivid recollection of Emlyn Hughes playing LB for Blackpool at Goodison. Can’t recall the year but he left in ‘67.