Everton 6 v 2 Stoke C.     18th Oct. 1969

Everton: West, Wright, Brown, Kendall, Labone, Harvey, Husband, Ball, Royle, Hurst, Morrisey.

Scorers: Morrissey 2, Royle 2, Ball, Husband.

my first one was when my dad took me it was against stoke city i liked gordon banks at the time anyway he did not play.We won 6-2 it was around 1969/70 season i remember ball,royle ,labone,west,hurst,morrisey.Big joe royle scored a few i think that day think it must have been the season we won the league.It was great sitting on my dads shoulders i have now done the same with my son and daughter. Although now live in sheffield and they are not in the same league as us in more ways than one. Great site keep it up
regards tony (20/11/00)

Johnny Morrisey

Everton 1 Crystal Palace 1. 22nd August 1972.

Everton: Lawson, Tommy Wright, Henry Newton, Kendall, Sergeant, Lyons, Husband, Bernard, Royle, Harvey, Connolly.

Scorer: Joe Royle

Your first match as a kid is a defining point in your life. You usually attend the game involving the team that holds your fathers allegiances. Thank god it wasn't the shite. I was about 6 and remember walking up the steps of the main stand to the smell of pipe tobacco and a very green pitch whose colour got even more fluorescent as the floodlights kicked in. The team ran onto the pitch to a great reception although I only saw the first few steps as everyone stood up and blocked the view. In fact, it's much the same today as I'm I bit of a short arse. Apart from the kits (Champions of the World in the famous Royal Blue shirts /white round collar and Palace in white with a light blue and claret stripe down the front) it's all a bit vague...which incidentally is also much the same as today but for different reasons. I remember Joe Royle's goal flying past John Jackson in the Palace goal, and I also remember a Palace player called Mel Blythe - not because he was good or anything, just that he had a twat of a name. Come to think about it, I don't even remember Dave Lawson being shite so I must have caught him on his birthday or something. I was unfortunate in that I only saw 2 of the midfield maestro's as I think Bally had left for Arsenal, although this was more than compensated for by the pace, skill and all-round vision of Mike Bernard. Anyway, this has indeed proved to be a defining point in my life as since then I've seen us win cups and leagues, beat the shite (on occasions too numerous to list), beat the Mancs and even stuff Aldershot 4-1 in the FA Cup. Fuck off Barmby. Simon Kennedy from Aintree.

Joe Royle

Liverpool 0, Everton 3. 1939

Everton: Ted Sagar, Billy Cook, Norman Greenhalgh, Joe Mercer, T.G. Jones,Jock Thomson, Tommy Gillick, Stan Bentham,   Tommy Lawton, Alex Stevenson, Wally Boyes.

Scorers: Tommy Lawton (2), Stan Bentham

Quite a job to remember your first ever game watching the blues, especially when it happened 60 years ago. I had been brought up on a diet of Everton, Everton and more Everton. My whole family had supported the blues, we even lived in Everton Terrace. My biggest inspiration was my Uncle George. He was a great Evertonian. I kept asking him, when was he going to take me to the match. He promised he would take me "when I was older."

Well my Big Day came in 1939. I didn't know it at the time but the match was at Anfield Everton v the reds (The Derby). Everton had beaten the reds 2 - 1 at Goodison earlier in the season and were lying second in the league behind Wolves. I can't recall too much about the game we were in the Kop, Uncle George had me perched on a crash barrier, the noise of the crowd was deafening, the smell of urine took your breath away.   I was knocked off the barrier three times. I think that was because we scored three times. Yes we beat the reds that day 3 - 0. Tommy Lawton scored two and Stan Bentham got the third. Everton went on to win the league that season. League Champions, Double over the reds. Not bad for my first season watching the Blues, Good Old Uncle George!

(Just for the record, Tommy Lawton scored 38 league goals in 43 games and because of the outbreak of war in 1939, Everton held the title of League Champions from 1939 till 1947.)
Ray Jones from Aintree

Tommy Lawton

Everton 1 v 2 Notts Forest. 30th August 1994

Everton: Southall, Jackson, Watson, Unsworth, Hinchcliffe, Stewart, Ebbrell, Samways, Limpar, Rideout, Angel.

Scorer: Paul Rideout.

The first Everton match I went to was when I was 8 years old. It was on 30th August 1994 at home to Nottingham Forest and it was a night game. That night Everton were beaten 2 - 1. Paul Rideout scored the only goal for Everton, and Matt Jackson scored an own goal for Forest. I can remember that I got a bottle of Coke, a packet of crisps and some sweets for the match. At half time me and my Dad went down by the pitch I couldn't believe how big Goodison Park was.

In the second half Everton weren't that good and I was upset when the final whistle went. After the match I went to the pub because I was off school the next day so I could stay out for a bit longer. In the pub my Dad met up with some of his mates, they had a pint and they talked and argued about the match, whilst I played with the son of one of my Dad's mates. We got a taxi home, and it was about 11.30 p.m. I still have the ticket stub of the game and have since held 3 season tickets.
Chris Jones from Old Roan

Paul Rideout