It was wall to wall buses, like literally 10 46's parked up in spellow lane all waiting for the rush. There were still 100's of cars parked right up to Gwladys St. until they brought in the parking restrictions.
That was back of course when Buses were a public service and you could still get a scheduled bus (not a one off late night special) at 0020am on new years eve, not like now when the last bus is 5 oclock in the afternoon.
For night games if you were young nimble and quick ( which I was then) my trick was to make my way in the last 5mins to the back of the terrace by the big gates in Goodison place. When the final whistle blew, it was about turn and run like 'k to Walton church and get the limited stop 500 which sailed on and didn't stop until it got to town.
For the 67 Derby (7.30 Sat evening) with the screens at their place, the total attendance was 104,000, that was chaos, there just weren't enough buses, time and road space. We ended up doing a fast(ish) one in each pub jog all the way to town for 10.30 last orders in The Central (opp the station as was)...which, such was the business they were doing, they 'forgot' to call until 11.30
