An Everton Awayday That Didnt go to plan

[Kenshin]

Only contribution i can sadly make is going to see us play oldham as a kid and a giant wasp landed on my burger in front of me. I launched both burger and wasp into a group of fans who then scattered when they seen the size of the thing.

 

[degsy]

Leicester away early season 76-77. Got told did not need to change for Nuneaton where I was meeting mate. Did not change at Crewe, went all the way to Euston and missed game by the time I got back to the midlands!!! We won 5-0 grrrr!!!!

sorry to here that, you missed a cracker, I hitched to Leicester on Friday afternoon, stayed with the BiL in nearby Oadby hitched back on sunday.

 

[colin t]

Another time, my mate got his arse ripped to shreds by a Police Alsatian, walking back from a night game at Old Trafford under a so called Police escort

That will teach your friend not to rub dog biscuits on his underpants in the hope of getting some attention haha.

 

[COYBL25]

That will teach your friend not to rub dog biscuits on his underpants in the hope of getting some attention haha.

Thanks Bob.

Peace be with you x

 

[Eggs]

...my daughter was born a few days before our Cup Winners Cup Final in '85. I was there for the birth then straight into an old mini bus, across the channel to the final in Rotterdam. I was already in the bad books but on the way back we decided not to go straight home, we stopped in Clacton then headed to Wembley for the Cup Final.

Mrs Eggs still mentions it now but my daughter doesn't mind at all.

 

[Togger Blue]

FA Cup 3rd place play-off 1971 - Everton v Stoke City - that alone made it a match which should have, but hasn't, been erased from TB's memory. We'd lost the semi final to the rs, just a few days after Panathinaikos had binned us out of the European Cup. To make matters worse I, and a few other die hards, travelled down on the morning train from Lime Street for the match on the Friday evening, the day before the Final (rs v Arse). The train was cluttered with the other lot, silk scarfs tied round wrists, and we were playing for 3rd place ... pfft!! Anyway, on arrival at Euston, off our little group of Street End lads went on the ale. By the time we got to Selhurst Park we were all bladdered. The atmosphere was hardly electric with a crowd of about 5K (I've no idea what it actually was). The game ended with me thinking we'd drawn 2-2 & would share 3rd place. Being pissed & in typical Everton fashion we invaded the pitch to laud our heroes, even after getting dumped out of the 2 cups in the recent past. I must have been talking complete bollocks since one of the lads bothered to tell me that we'd actually lost 3-2 & finished 4th - I must have been in the urinals & missed any crowd noise signaling a goal scored at some point! Then it was off back into the West End. Somehow our little group ended up with a bigger crowd of rs marauding around. Unfortunately some bloke walking in the opposite direction was identified as a Cockney, and as happened in those bad old days, was launched through a shop window. All hands legged it, but me and another lad casually strolled on, we'd done nothing so why run away? Then it dawned on us a bizzie car was trailing along behind us. The lone officer called us over, and the next thing we were on route to West End Central or somewhere 'helping with enquiries'. After a fairly short time we got released with a warning about the company we appeared to have been keeping! And so the night continued, dog rough on the Saturday morning, thousands of the other lot roaming about, so got a late morning train home ... got in just in time to see Charlie George score the winner. I suppose every cloud has a silver lining. But 3rd/4th place play-off, what a sad fixture & a sad result, no wonder it got binned as an idea!

 

[paultheblue]

Hats off to you mate I dont remember even playing that match but I sure you are right I could not have faced that game especially as the RS were off to Wembley at the same time.
For any younger supporters our all conquering neighbours had only won the cup once at this stage and thanks too Charlie George they lost this final.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Howards return the second time around,I'd been to the Cup defeat in the midweek when Colin Harvey was sacked,made the return journey on the saturday,got caught in traffic on the Pennines,legging it to Bramhall Lane after parking up,five to three the away end is in sight reaches the turnstiles to hear a great roar from our end as Howard saluted the blues,bloody missed him!!got in to see the worst 0-0 I've ever seen,Everton that