Preston North End 3 Everton 1 / 1st September 1958 / Att: 28,339

Everton: O'Neill, Sanders, Griffiths, King, Jones, Meagan, Harris, Hickson, Harburn, Fielding, O'Hara

Scorer: Hickson

Funnily enough my first (real) match was an away game at Preston North End. In saying that, I have to admit that my dad had blooded me at Goodison for reserve games a year earlier at the age of four but my first, First Team game was at Preston. I had whinged for the previous year about my dad not taking me to see the 'Real' Everton and rather than lock me in the cellar to stop me crying he agreed to take me because I think it was Tom Finney's last season and he himself wanted to see him one last time.

However, money was tight in those days and my dad had had a long time off work after a heart attack and I remember him sitting me down on the Saturday morning and asking me if it was ok if we went to see the reserves again instead( they played reserve games at Goodison in those days) Like a spoilt brat I screamed and stamped until he gave in and eventually agreed it was to Preston we were going. My dad probably used up all his ciggy money for the week on that trip.Even today, more than fifty years later I still feel tinges of embarrassment and regret at my behaviour that day!

We caught the bus outside St Georges Hall (by the Stone Lions) and it was the longest journey I had ever been on. I don't really remember the game except we got beat 3-1 (I think) but I do remember my dad, as well as lots of other Evertonians around me, being pleased at seeing Tom Finney one last time. We are like that we Evertonians aren't we? We appreciate class acts wherever they come from!

The one thing I do remember is that somebody stood on my foot and I squealed like a piglet until a St John's Ambulanceman lifted me over the wall and sat me next to him on a bench at the side of the pitch. I watched most of the game from there with my dad's hand plonked on top of my head from the other side of the wall! It turned out my little toe on my left foot was broken and it has been numb to this day!

I have always been grateful to my dad for introducing me to the Club he loved all his life. I am especially grateful to him for taking me to that away game at great cost to himself, probably something he could not really afford. And if he can hear me now I would like to apologise to him for the spoilt brat I was that day. But I think I made it up to him over the years in some ways....but I will never be able to thank him enough for what he taught me about football and what it means to be a supporter of the greatest Club in the world,

Thanks Dad. Thomas Roberts (05/04/08)

Leicester City 1 Everton 2 / 23rd February 1985 / Att: 17,345

Everton: Southall, Steven, Ratcliffe, Mountfield, Van Den Hauwe, Reid, Steven, Harper, Gray, Bracewell, Sheedy

Scorers: Gray (2)

IF I REMBER RIGHTLY WE BEAT LEICESTER 2-1 AWAY IN THE 84-85 SEASON. ANDY GRAY SCORED A WHOPPER VOLLEY AND I WENT WITH MY MAM, DAD AND BROTHER, BUT MINE AND MY MAMS TICKET WERE FOR THE HOME END. I SHIT MYSELF IN CASE WE GOT DONE IN FOR CELEBRATING WHEN THE GOALS WENT IN.

CAN’T REMEMBER WHO ELSE SCORED. I JUST KNOW IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I’D HEARD THE FAMOUS 'WE DON’T CARE WHAT THE RED SHITE SAY' SONG. QUALITY SONG AND RESULT.

FIRST HOME GAME WAS SUNDERLAND THE SAME SEASON AND WE THRASHED THEM 4-1. ANDY GRAY AND HIS IMPOSSIBLE HEADERS. WHAT A MAN, HE MIGHT BE AN ARSEHOLE ON SKY BUT WHAT A LEGEND.

DOM / TOXTETH (14/03/08)

Everton 0 Oldham 1 / FA Cup 3rd Round / January 5th 2008 / Att:33,086

Everton: Wessels, Hibbert, Stubbs, Jagielka, Baines, Carsley, Gravesen, McFadden, Pienaar, Johnson, Vaughan

Not the best results for my daughters first match, but I took Evie along to the Blues 3rd Round FA Cup tie against Oldham this season, and well we won't dwell on the result to long. She loved it however even though she never saw Everton win or for that matter score, but at least her favourite player Steven Pienaar was in the starting line up. She keeps saying to me when can she go and see The Good Everton play again, so on that point I have hooked her for life.

Brain Kelly (02/03/08)

Everton 2 Bolton 0 / December 26th 2007 / Att:38,918

Everton: Howard, Lescott, Neville, Jagielka, Yobo, Carsley, Arteta, Cahill, Pienaar, Gravesen, Yakubu

Scorers: Neville, Cahill

I'm still a bit under the influence of Goodison... It's one thing to be a local fan, and another to support and love the team from so far away, and then finally arrive at your first match, after crossing the whole darn entire Europe. The trigger was the vote on moving. I could I call myself a fan without watching a game in the Castle itself.

I can't even start to explain how much this game meant to me. The atmosphere, the crowd, the ability to dwell for a couple of hours among fellow blues. All that and more appears in an article I wrote about the experience in my paper, just so you get it, I'm a sports writer, and all my homeland game history grows pales in comparison. Bastard editor is a Shite fan, and tries to write in the opening part that Everton are small. Never mind the paper hierarchy, he got a real screaming from me.

What else can I say? Terrible opponents who enabled me to see an easy win, nice weather, some comedy with that constant "Shoot, shoot" whenever Neville had possession, and a chance meeting with Yakubu, he played when he was 17 the local team I support, Hapoel Kfar Saba, and showed great football even though we were relegated. He seemed happy to hear where I'm from. Only the rubbish camera didn't work and I don't have the proof.

Three days later I watched my second Goodison match, but I'll leave that to when the site starts the "The most depressing game you've ever seen" section. Fantastic memories, hope to be there soon again.

Yair Kattan, Israel (25/02/08)

Everton 0 Liverpool (shite) 3 / December 6th 1969 / Att: 57,370

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

My first game was in the Championship Season 1969 / 1970... unfortunatly it was the game at Goodison against the shite, and the never to be forgotten Sandy Brown home goal.

I remember yard dog Yates and the flying shite (Lawrence) for the shite, and obviously Sandy Brown but who else played. I would think along the lines of West, Wright, Labone Ball, Husband, Hurst, Morrissey etc. (I do believe that later Henry Newton scored a similar home goal against City). I was 14 and had hitch hiked along the East Lancs Road from Haydock. This became regular until joining the army at 17 and being stationed in Germany ever since. Managed one season as a season ticket holder in 1986/87. Great times. Only visit UK once a year and normally go to the Boxing Day game (Boro last year was shite). Managed to get to Nurnberg, what an atmosphere.

Superb site especially for exiles... Keep it up. COYB FTRS Mickntine (16/02/08)

Everton 3 Sheff Wed 2 / FA Cup Final / May 14th 1966 / Att:100,000

Everton: West, Wright, Wilson, Gabriel, Labone, Harris, Scott, Trebilcock, Young, Harvey, Temple

Scorers: Temple, Trebilcock (2)

My first game was the FA Cup Final in 1966. My brother, a Sheff Wed fan took me to the game at Wembley. I had followed Everton before that, but I will always remember being there when we won, 3-2.

I went with nothing but, thanks to the great Everton fans, came away with hats, scarves, a rattle and a signed programme!! Top fellas, AND we beat Sheff Wed to boot, which really pissed my brother off!! I was 12 and living in Coventry then but have moved about a lot since and have been to over 500 Everton games. I had a ten bob bet with my brother that Everton would win; I'm still waiting to be paid!!!!

Paul Rees. Forever Blue till I die. (11/02/08)

Everton 1 Zenit St. Petersburg 0 / December 5th 2007 / UEFA Cup Group A / Att: 38,407

Everton: Howard, Lescott, Jagielka, Baines, Neville, Arteta, Carsley, Cahill, Pienaar, McFadden, Johnson

Scorer: Cahill

Took my daughter Jade O Hara to her first match and what a result 1-0 against Zenit C'mon Tim. So she saw us qualify for European football after Christmas for the first time since 1985 and hopefully she can be a lucky charm and get us all the way to Manchester.

Also just to say Tommy Gravesen kept as all amused and in good spirits on the touchline by responding to everyone who shouted to him even when told to move his fat arse out of the way which made the kids who he waved to feel really special, Jade included. (02/02/08)

Everton 3 Leeds Utd 0 / Dec 5th 1994 / Att: 25,906

Everton: Southall, Jackson, Abblett, Ebbrell, Watson, Hinchcliffe, Unsworth, Horne, Parkinson, Ferguson, Rideout

Scorers: Ferguson, Rideout, Unsworth

I will always remember this day for as long as I live. I could hardly concentrate in school, all day Monday, after me father told me on the Sunday before that we were going to the match. The first time I would ever visit what was to become me 2nd home. I was so nervous having never been in that situation before. Ten minutes before kick off having took our place in the Lower Bullens Road, towards the Street End the whole ground seemed to erupt as the crowd gradually made their way to their seats on that bitterly cold December night. Then the moment I had waited for all my life at the Blues entered the field and the crowd again erupted, (well the 25,906 who turned up erupted into life)

As the goals flowed the ground was cauldron of noise, and at the final whistle was greeted with the loudest cheer of the night. I realised that there was only one team for me to follow, and here I am 13 years later having just returned from my first away European game still following the one and only EVERTON.

Attached is a copy of the program from that wonderful night.

Fantastic site guys keep up the good work Michael Begley (25/01/08)