Everton 3 , Sunderland 0 / FA Cup 3rd Round / Jan 22nd 1966.

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

Scorers: Pickering, Temple, Young

January 1966 FA Cup 3rd rd v Sunderland won 3-0 can't remember scorers. I think Pickering scored one. I was 10. I think the team was - West Wright Wilson Gabriel Labone Harris Scott Young Pickering Temple- maybe one or two wrong.

I 'd been whining on about going to a match for ages. All my mates at Teulon St School went with their dads - but my dad worked Saturdays so my mam asked one of her friends son's to take me to the match. He was about 15 and we went in the boys pen. It cost a shilling. As soon as we got inside this lad bunked over the railings into the Glwadys St.End, as nearly everyone else seemed to be trying to do. On the other side he lit a fag and shouted, "see you in the park, wait by the bridge" then he melted into the crowd to avoid the coppers. I can't remember much about the match except that I learnt how to swear properly ( I was a late developer) and the kids in the pen didn't stop singing and chanting from about 2 o'clock until well after the final whistle. The noise and the smell of stale urine was incredible. The toilets were amazing as you could just piss anywhere, nobody gave a bugger!

The smell of pies and sausage rolls is embedded in my brain for ever and sits right next to the bit that says "best day of your life". We won the cup that year and I carried on going into the pen (and bunking over the fence occasionally, until they wired it right upto the roof), until I got a paper round and could afford to go in the corner of the St End by the church. The big kid met me in the park and we walked home to Rockfield Rd., all he said to me was "if you tell anyone about my fags i'll never take you again. " He never took me again anyway so if Mrs Edna Thomas, formerly of Blessington Rd. is reading this, your son Joey, now about 52 or 53 started smoking when he was about 15 and when you gave him money for chips on the way to the match he used to buy 10 Park Drive instead. Revenge is sweet- but thanks anyway. Mick (07/06/04)

Everton 3, Chelsea 3 May 3rd 1995 / Attendance:33,180

Everton: Southall, Barrett, Ablett, Ebbrell, Watson, Unsworth, Horne, Stuart, Amokachi, Rideout, Hinchcliffe.

Scorers: Hinchcliffe, Ablett, Amokachi

I would have been 8 at the time and this was the season I really started getting into football and Everton. I remember watching the highlights of the Wimbledon 3-2 game the year before which really set me off. I had been nagging my dad for a ticket to the match all year, and eventually with 3 games of the season left he said pick a game. I had the choice between Chelsea, Man City and Soton I think. I chose the right one anyway because the others both ended 0-0. I got a seat close to me dad in the Main Stand and everyone squeezed up so I could be by me old fella. One I saw the Amo nod and grin when he scored that was me done. Blue for life. I have had regular season tickets since. There's nothing like your first match! Craig Roberts, 17, Wrexham (31/05/04)

Everton 3, Spurs 4, April 5th 1958

Everton: Dunlop, Sanders, Tansey, Rea, Donovan, Meagan, Harris, Temple, Hickson, Thomas, Williams.

Scorers: Hickson (2), Thomas

I am sure, but maybe not, it was the opening game of the season. At Home to Tottenham. Maybe 1957. Dont remember much about the game Except Dave Hickson trying to strangle Tony Marchi on the running track just after the start. What I do remember, is the massive buzz , as me and me Dad reached the top of the Street End stairs. There it was, a sight and feeling that will stay with me for the rest of my life. Kenny Lawler. Auckland, New Zealand (24/05/04)

Everton 1, Spurs 1, November 18th 1990/ Attendance: 28,716

Everton: Southall, Atteveld, Watson, Ratcliffe, Keown, McDonald, Snodin, McCall, Sharp, Cottee, Sheedy.

Scorer: McCall

My first match was aged 8, against Tottenham at Goodison in November 1990.My heros at the time was Tony Cottee and Dave Watson. The game finished 1-1, although I can't remeber who scored, but I do have the game on video somewhere as it was the Sunday feature game on Match of The Day on BBC1!!! The likes of Gazza and Linekar where playing for them. I was sat in the Upper Bullens and my other memory of the day is that the players went therough about 5 balls in the first 10 mins as they either burst or went off to the Bullens Road. I don't now why I remember that. It was already bred into me to be a Blue by my Dad, but I left Goodison that day a TRUEBLUE4EVER
David Cederholm, 20, Wirral/Lincoln

Everton 1, Arsenal 0, October 1st 1969 / League Cup Replay

Everton : West, Wright , Brown , Kendall, Labone, Jackson, Whittle, Brindle, Royle, Bennett, Humphreys.

Scorer : Kendall

My first game was in 1969 against Arsenal in the League Cup, the game was not a sell out . We took our place in the Upper Bullens, my dad, brother and me. As the game progressed I got into it more and more, then something happened that changed my life. Alan Ball picked up the ball and strode forward with a player in pursuit Then with all my might this seven year old shout,s "Alan he's behind you." Well Ball turns around and look's at the man and simply play's a pass . My dad turns to me and says he heard you and I believed him . As you get older you realise every one else was shouting .So just last week I was in the Coach and Horses Maghull and who was there, Alan Ball himself !! I told him the tale and he laughed about it. After the show and a few drink's, I thanked him and told the tale again to which he said "DO YOU KNOW WHAT I HEARD YOU " He only said it for my benefit . As in the game I believed my dad. That night I believed Alan Ball himself. (Tony Wileman still going after 34 years )

Everton 3 Spurs 1, April 9th 2004/ Attendance : 38,086

Believe it or not, it was this past Friday's match against Spurs. Being a new Evertonian here in the States, my wife decided that my Christmans present should be a trip to England to see Everton play Spurs and Leeds United with the obligatory sightseeing in London in between as we had never been overseas before.

Needless to say it was all that I had imagined it would be and more. The fans, the atmosphere, and the result just topped it off. We sat in the Upper Bullens and with Naysmith's goal, the guy next to me (much larger) picked me up as we were jumping up and down in celebration. Watching it in the USA on TV just doesn't do it justice. Oh, and we made sure we spend a few quid in the Megastore before the match.

While in London, all the cab drivers asked why we were here and I told them to watch a few football matches and take in the sights. Naturally they'd ask which club and I told them Everton. "Everton? Why Everton?" was the usual reply. Well because a friend of mine back in the States who grew up in Liverpool was a big Everton supporter and I follow American players in Europe closely and at the time, Joe-Max Moore was playing for Everton so it's all just grown on me. That and they have the best young manager and
player in the UK, and they don't have a bunch of bandwagon fans like Arsenal or ManU do in the States, and haven't gone out and bought "instant team" like Chelsea, and they're the People's Club,...and...and...and....

Anyway...had a blast and I hope to do it again soon.

Bill Hawker, Houston TX (19/04/04)

Everton 4, Watford 1, October 19th 1985 / Attendance : 26,425

Everton: Southall, Steven, Van Den Hauwe, Ratcliffe, Marshall, Steven , Bracewell, Heath, Sheedy, Lineker, Sharp.

Scorers: Heath, Sharp (2), Bracewell.

Being a blue is decided on your day of birth as far as I’m concerned, and although my Mum and Dad were blues, and in fact met at the match, my first game was in the company of my Uncle Tom. We twatted Watford four one, and I was in the paddock. I’m six foot four now, but then I was real small and couldn’t see a thing! Everton were devastating that day, with Sharp in particular good form. My first ten games were all wins, and that just shows what a force Everton were in the mid-Eighties. The terraces were quite intimidating to a young lad like me at the time, and I remember the language used by Evertonians around me being particularly bad. I was hooked though, and really enjoyed all my early visits. Sharp was class, he dominated games for us, I just wish we had someone like him now! (Maim im 12/04/04)