Everton 1 Luton Town 0 / May 4th 1991 / Att: 19,809

Everton: Southall, Ebbrell, Hinchcliffe, Ratcliffe, Watson, Atteveld, Warzycha, McCall, Newell, Cottee, Beagrie

Scorer: Cottee

My dad took me to my first match when I was 7 in 1991. It was vs Luton, we won 1-0 and Tony Cottee scored. Have been hooked ever since! I don't remember much of the game but I remember getting the football echo and the headline was "Cottee hits the mark as the blues edge home," or something like that.

I was getting all the players mixed up and my dad kept telling me to shut up for asking so many questions. Everyone was calling Mike Newell a donkey and I couldn't understand it because he was playing for the blues. I thought then that I would never give an Everton player abuse but then I saw Nyarko playing at Goodison about 10 years later! Am living in Germany now so hardly ever get the chance to go to the games. I rely on this site a lot so keep up the good work!

Joe COYB! (17/01/06)

Sheffield United 0 Everton 0 / February 22nd 1964

Everton: West, Brown, Meagan, Gabriel, Labone, Kay, Scott, Stevens, Young, Vernon, Temple

It was against Sheffield United and I am unsure of the year. I was probably about eight at the time (I am 53 now). It ended 0-0 and Bramall Lane was still used then as a cricket ground for Yorkshire.

I don’t remember much about the game at all but it must have been around February as my dad took me on the train from Grimsby as a birthday present. He was a blue till he died, but I am carrying the tradition of 5 generations of Everton supporters with my son who is a mad blue and goes to as many games as a student loan permits.

Rob in Grimsby (10/01/07)

Everton 1 Bolton 0 / November 18th 2006 / Att: 34,417

Everton: Howard, Yobo, Stubbs, Lescott, Valente, Neville, Arteta, Carsley, Osman, Beattie, Johnson

Scorer: Arteta

I enclose a picture of little Chloe (age 4) at her first match against notloB this season..

The look on her face when Arteta hit one was a joy to behold. She would love to see her picture on the site.

PS: She had her first argument about footie last week and guess, it was with shite supporters that are from the Isle of Man. Sums it up most ManX's people aren't manx and most shite supporter"s aren't from the pool.
Thanks again

Lee Dolman (a blue for 33 years) (05/01/07)

Everton 0 Norwich 1 / January 30th 1993 / Att: 20,301

Everton: Southall, Jackson, Watson, Ablett, Snodin, Harper, Kenny, Beardsley, Barlow, Johnson, Cottee

Wondering if you could put my first match on your site. It was in the 1992-93 season at home against Norwich. I had just started high school and my mates dad took us. We sat in the Park End.

I remember Amokachi (editors note, he was not at Everton then) going clean through in the opening seconds and missing it and my mate said to me 'were gonna win 5-0.' We didnt, in fact we lost 1-0, cant remember who scored though. Outside the ground after the game the general topic of conversation was how shite Matt Jackson was. I was undeterred though and although my mates have since stopped going to Goodison I was hooked and have been a season ticket holder in the Lower Gwladys ever since. Great site lads.

Stu (21/12/06)

Everton 0 Bolton 0 / 28th December 2002 / Att: 39,480

Everton: Wright, Yobo, Stubbs, Weir, Pistone, Carsley , Li Tie, Gravesen, Naysmith, Campbell, Rooney

Back over for Christmas from New Zealand when I was eleven, my Uncle Michael took me to see the Blues for this fixture against Wanderers. Not the most entertaining of matches, all I can remember is eating crisps in the Hermitage beforehand, Rooney hitting the bar and Jay Jay Okocha's twat of a haircut. My cousin Chris mentioned that this wasn't a bad start as we'd been fucked by manure for his 1st match a good decade earlier.

Ironically, my next match was against Brum, sitting in the Upper Bullens with Michael again exactly one year to the day of the Bolton game. Fortunately we kicked the shit out of them this time, though with hindsight it is unfortunate that a certain Wayne Rooney scored the winning goal that day.

Everton have never lost when I'm at Goodison, hopefully I can return at Easter 2007 to continue that trend, Lord knows it is more exciting than getting up at 2am on the other side of the world to watch a match.

KOPITES ARE GOBSHITES !!

Jack (Auckland, New Zealand)

Everton 1 Newcastle 0 / March 23rd 1968

Everton: West, Wright, Darracot, Kendall, Labone, Kendall, Whittle, Ball, Royle, Hurst, Morrissey

Scorer: Kendall

My dad took me to my first match and I can still remember walking down Gwladys Street to our turnstile for the Street End stand. I'd never seen such crowds of people, the police horses were huge. People were handing out free samples of a new hair cream called "Score" - whatever happened to that? Walking up the stairs and into the stand, I was awestruck by the size of the place, and the pitch looked so green.

All I remember about the game was it was 0-0 into the 2nd half with the blues hammering away at the Street End when Alan Ball got sent off and all those samples of hair cream were thrown onto the pitch. So that's what happened to it. But we got there in the end with a cracker of a goal from Howard Kendall 1-0.

Years later, when I'd married a lass who knew nothing about football, we were watching a match against Manure on TV when she innocently asked me why I didn't like those players in red. I explained why Everton were so special and ended the lesson with "and for good measure, Mancs suck."
Two days later she was at a business seminar where one speaker (who was being obnoxious and was from Surrey) was going on about how he was a Manure fan. The missus spoke up from the back, "my husband's an Evertonian and he says Mancs suck". Apparently brought the house down and he never mentioned it again.

Rob, Nottingham (05/12/06)

Everton 1 Charlton 0 / November 9th 2002 / Att: 37,621

Everton: Wright, Hibbert, Stubbs, Yobo, Unsworth, Carsley, Li Tie, Gravesen, Pembridge, Radzinski, Campbell

Scorer: Radzinski

I have been an Everton fan since I started watching football (about 20 years now). Without any real connection to the city of Liverpool, until now, I still can't exactly tell why I love Everton so much, thus I can only say that I was simply born to be a Blue!

Visiting Goodison Park was something that I had dreamt for years, and the opportunity came when I came to England to study. I still remembered my excitement when I got off the bus and saw the big banner 'Everton: 100 years in top flight football', it suddenly made me felt so proud about being an Everton supporter!

The match itself, not much to talk about really, although I remembered that Radz scored the winning goal. I must say that I felt so lucky that, in my first ever match (I'd never had a second chance to watch first ever match again), Everton ended with a win. In the coming years, I kept on visiting Goodison about a few times a season, however, to me, all these games that I watched (incl. some really memorable games like 200th Derby & the game v Newcastle which got us into the Champions League) were never comparable to my first game, as it was the Charlton game of which I had finally paid my pilgrimage to the 'Promised Land' – Goodison Park!!

Great Site. Keep up the Good Work!! J

Cheers, Koi Yu Ng (29/11/06)