Your unforgettable Goodison Park FA Cup memory

[Jamo Martinez]

My first cup game. January 1978. 4-1 win against Villa. I was just buzzing to beat the buggers after the pain of the league cup final defeat the year before.
I naively thought our name was on the cup. Went out in the next round (at Sunderland, I think).

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

Everton: Myhre, Steve Watson, Xavier, Ball, Unsworth, Gemmill, Gravesen, Pembridge, Hughes, Campbell, Cadamarteri. Subs: Gough, Simonsen, Moore, Jevons, Tal.

Tranmere: Achterberg, Hill, Jobson, Hamilton, Yates, Allen, Hinds, Koumas, Flynn, Parkinson, Rideout. Subs: Allison, Henry, Scott Taylor, Murphy, Hume.

Remember being linked to Koumas for about 10 years

 

[duncs pigeon]

All I remember is, there was a Welsh man will a little portable radio providing updates.

Not me then

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

A 1-0 replay win over Southampton in 1981 - O’Keefe winner in extra time.

Best atmosphere ever imo.
4 sides bouncing.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

2_0 v a very good arsenal side who duly beat us 1-0 days later. 80s
Both at home.
Everton that moment.
I'd throw in the 0-0 Sunday game v WBA late 70s.
Weird atmosphere, maybe cos it was Sunday?70s
Decent crowd I recall, or where i was in the park end seats it was .
Of course we lost the replay.
Smashing villa 4-0...both on and off the park.
Lowlights...wigan ,tranmere and leading 2-0 v citeh who pulled it back to 2-2 then hammered us ìn the replay 3-0

 

[Pejic300]

Everton: Myhre, Steve Watson, Xavier, Ball, Unsworth, Gemmill, Gravesen, Pembridge, Hughes, Campbell, Cadamarteri. Subs: Gough, Simonsen, Moore, Jevons, Tal.

Tranmere: Achterberg, Hill, Jobson, Hamilton, Yates, Allen, Hinds, Koumas, Flynn, Parkinson, Rideout. Subs: Allison, Henry, Scott Taylor, Murphy, Hume.

''Get Tal on!'' - Nobody

 

[Lawrence]

Altrincham. The great days had really started to fade away by then.

 

[sam domingo]

My first cup tie was against Stoke in 1977. We won 2-0 and I think Billy Bingham got the sack a couple of days later? I loved the cup ties from my early years as a blue against Ipswich, Southampton, Villa and Liverpool, but a couple I really enjoyed were when we became the first team to knock Arsenal out the cup since 1977 (they'd been finalist's 3 years running)with two goals in the last five minutes (Kenny Samson scored an own goal) and then a couple of years later we became the first team to beat Spurs in the cup for three years, also 2-0, massive crowd and a brilliant atmosphere. I think our previous home match had a crowd of around 15,000 there was around 45,000 at the Spurs game which showed how much the cup meant back then.

 

[bluenorthwarrior]

First ever game at Goodison was the tie in early 90s against Woking, I must have been 11 or 12. I think it was an away tie that was switched to Goodison from memory, nothing special but ended 1-0 via a Sheedy goal.

Sat in the Lower Bullens and I remember my Grandad explaining the noise from above was people stamping their feet in the Upper Bullens. As I say not a special game but the memories are etched in my mind.

 

[Bryan+]

Getting beat at home 0-3 by tranmere.

Unforgettable.

 

[superkeeper]

Middlesbrough at home in 2009 for me. I can’t actually remember a great deal about the game, other than going behind just before half time and then really sticking it to them in the second half. What I don’t forget was full time, walking down the stairs and out onto Goodison Road, hearing chants of Que sera sera, knowing we were in a semi final, playing at Wembley, getting closer to maybe winning a trophy. For 13 year old me, that was sort of the first taste of what following Everton was like, competing for a trophy, like my dad had the fortune of doing back in the 80s and having that excitement about it at the time.

 

[Berlin Blue]

Everton 1 Blackburn 4 in the third round in 2007 for me honestly.

Blackburn 3:0 up at half time. Riot police in the street end concourse at half time giving anybody a kicking who sang ‘Let’s go effin mental’ for some reason.

Still no idea why they went so heavy handed.

 

[Sporting Billy]

Sheedy free kicks v Ipswich( think it was a cup match?)

 

[Alan Whittle]

The game that first gave the Board the idea to hire Moyes v PNE when he was there. They were a tidy outfit and it was a close run thing. 2-0 from memory with a late tap in from Joe Max Moore?

 

[degsy]

….March 11th, 1967; Alan Ball 1-0 v RS.

It’s not all bad being old.

That was one of my 2 - I couldn't separate them -
The other was a 4th Rd replay Vs Leeds (dirty dirty leeds) with stand in Centre Forward Jimmy Gabriel in full on Conan the Barbarian mode put the so called leeds hard men to the sword, 60+ thousand in attendance at Goodison which reached a level of Bear Pitedness never bettered.
They folded
They bottled it
They bricked it
They did not like it up em
This was were, IMO, Revie decided unless they upped their already hard, but just borderline fair methods to full on snidey [Poor language removed], get your retaliation in first, they weren't going to be able to compete.
A total Cowards decision.
We saw the results the next season at the so called Battle of Goodison...we fell for it, we lost our discipline, lost our rhythm and helped them get away with it - which in confirmed in Revies mind that he was right.