Your own sentimental memories of Goodison.

[Bryan+]

Many memories really. Like @Dario Terracotta , my stand out memory would be Andy Kings shot sailing past a stretching Clemence, absolute perfection. My first game, a 0-0 against Arsenal in 73, Alan Balls first game back at Goodison. The size of the place blew me away, with the cigarette smoke rising in the floodlit sky. I was hooked.

Up the nicotine Toffs

 

[Sharpies volley]

The Bayern Munich game. There was magic in the air that night. Never felt anything like it since.

 

[Bluelenny1984]

Bogey

Argh now I know

 

[West Side Charlie]

This kid will have special memories for sure

 

[KaiserEFC]

Trying to enrage the bloke who sat behind me in the Upper Bullens who spent the entire game every game narrating everything that happened to his wife (she had eyes) used to be a favourite pastime of mine

 

[Voodoo Billy]

I’ll bet that figures large in that womans memories of Goodison too?

Maybe the club could arrange a reunion at half time during the last match at Goodison. I wonder if she kept the bogey?

 

[Cameron Manning]

Many memories really. Like @Dario Terracotta , my stand out memory would be Andy Kings shot sailing past a stretching Clemence, absolute perfection. My first game, a 0-0 against Arsenal in 73, Alan Balls first game back at Goodison. The size of the place blew me away, with the cigarette smoke rising in the floodlit sky. I was hooked.

I remember winding a bitter Reds fan up in my local pub after that Andy King goal, he was a long distance lorry driver and thought he knew every road and street anywhere, I asked the whole company that day, where is Kings Drive as I had to go to this Educational Office about my son, most gave in after a couple of minutes but this fella kept on “ Hang on I know where this road is” after another ten minutes he gave up and I said with a wink to the others “ It’s just behind Ray Clemence in the back of Liverpool’s net”!

 

[Dario Terracotta]

I have many happy memories of being in Goodison Park to go with the bad ones, most of them shared with my mate Mick who lived in the next street to me growing up, we saw our first away game at Maine Road for the semi final game v Bolton in 1953, I was 12 Mick was 10 just to illustrate how long we had been watching Everton although we had been to many Everton games well before then.

My last memory of my mate was about five years ago when we watched a league cup game in the Upper Bullens stand, Mick had Alzheimer’s and didn’t even know he was there really, me and his son watching the game but with our eyes on Mick as well, I think of him often after I’ve sat down cheering an Everton goal and thought how we used to celebrate those goals together starting in the Boys Pen and different parts of the ground finishing in the Upper Bullens in the last twenty years of watching Everton together.

My own dad

Spot on Terry, although i cursed my dad for raising me a blue many times Every trip you can make with him is storing one more memory for you. Quiz him on everything too, any favourite players of his who weren't big names an you may not have heard of. My dad really opened up on that stuff in the last few years, as he could remember them with crystal clarity. Get him to write on the back of every photo he has too. Who was in them, what the occasion was. All that knowledge gets lost and it is a crying shame

He's told me so much over the years,stuff like really obscure players from the second division days,like you say a living time capsule

 

[Andy McGurk]

Game memory: Sat in GS end for our win vs Manu, the one with Gosling and Rodwell scoring. Drove my dad back home only to drive to Nottingham last minute to visit some mates and got wrecked.

Non-match memory: my nan celebrated her 100th birthday in a social club hall near Claughton village, and she ended up dancing with this other woman, possibly in her 70s.

Fast forward 2 months later, my dad and I take a tour of Goodison and the woman who danced with my nan was the woman running the Goodison tour. Such an odd coincidence.

 

[Big Sams Undies]

First game against Southampton in the Family Stand in 1997 and my Dad brought a pizza flavoured cheesestring for me as a snack.

Goes without saying that the game was turd, we got beat and didn’t score…

 

[Bluerover]

Bayern.

 

[royalblue66]

Anyone remember the fellas advertising wrestling at every home game ?

 

[Cameron Manning]

Anyone remember the fellas advertising wrestling at every home game ?

Yes one of them was from the Gerrard Gardens area of the city, Joey Barrett, he also put the half times scores up, he worked for the Corporation as it was known then, he also sold the Echo and Evening Express in the evenings. There was a running joke about Joey——this fella went to the dole and asked if there were any vacancies, the clerk told him you’re minutes too late there was five vacancies here but Joey Barrett came in and took the five of them!

 

[royalblue66]

Yes one of them was from the Gerrard Gardens area of the city, Joey Barrett, he also put the half times scores up, he worked for the Corporation as it was known then, he also sold the Echo and Evening Express in the evenings. There was a running joke about Joey——this fella went to the dole and asked if there were any vacancies, the clerk told him you’re minutes too late there was five vacancies here but Joey Barrett came in and took the five of them!

Used to put the wrong scores up for a laugh ?.

 

[D410]

Bayern - A night that electrified the soul, heart and stands with my farther.

Thank You Goodison