Share your traumatic Everton game experience

[Thetigerblue]

It was my Christmas present...

That’s so bad I have just laughed. Almost worthy of its own thread along the lines of ‘Worst Christmas thanks to Everton’. Being tonked 6-2 by United on Boxing Day definitely up there.

 

[MinkyJoe]

In the 70's getting a football lesson from Forest, the same team that a couple of years later won 2 European cups on the bounce.
Same decade being torn a new one at home by Bobby Robson's Ipswich side, Mariner and Brazil running riot.

If I've got the right game, I was there too. First match of the 77/78 season against newly-promoted Forest, who went on to win the league. No way was a newly-promoted team going to beat us.

Everton 1-3 Nottingham Forest

Embarrassingly outplayed.

 

[Joey66]

Villa park semi-final v City 1968 - nearly got crushed to death as the blues fans arrived late hold up on the M6 outside Birmingham & kicked the wooden exit doors down, so every one flooded in to the Holt end at the back - people being sick in the crush - never saw the game - left for our coach & a roar went up 5 minutes from the end - City had scored - we got beat 1-0 ....

 

[Togger Blue]

Villa park semi-final v City 1968 - nearly got crushed to death as the blues fans arrived late hold up on the M6 outside Birmingham & kicked the wooden exit doors down, so every one flooded in to the Holt end at the back - people being sick in the crush - never saw the game - left for our coach & a roar went up 5 minutes from the end - City had scored - we got beat 1-0 ....

I posted earlier in the thread about my trauma (1963). However, that semi-final (1968) for me ranks up alongside your experience Joey - I was 15 and had a paper round and on that Saturday morning, in a hurry 'cos I was going to the match, I was legging out of the shop with my bag of papers and caught my hand in the newsagents door - gashed, blood, bruised - no A&E though (still got the scar), no time before getting a Home James coach that morning to Villa Park. Coach broke down while in that M6 hold up you mentioned. Then we got there late like you, also at the back of the Holte End, but I was still there when Tommy Booth headed the winner right at the end. It was a miserable, cold day as well. Sacked the coach home and stayed in Birmingham during the evening and got the train from New Street late in the evening. Arrived about midnight at Lime Street, last buses had all gone and I was skint, walked home 5 miles through some dodgy districts, but got there eventually. The things we do 'cos of EFC!!

 

[Joey66]

I posted earlier in the thread about my trauma (1963). However, that semi-final (1968) for me ranks up alongside your experience Joey - I was 15 and had a paper round and on that Saturday morning, in a hurry 'cos I was going to the match, I was legging out of the shop with my bag of papers and caught my hand in the newsagents door - gashed, blood, bruised - no A&E though (still got the scar), no time before getting a Home James coach that morning to Villa Park. Coach broke down while in that M6 hold up you mentioned. Then we got there late like you, also at the back of the Holte End, but I was still there when Tommy Booth headed the winner right at the end. It was a miserable, cold day as well. Sacked the coach home and stayed in Birmingham during the evening and got the train from New Street late in the evening. Arrived about midnight at Lime Street, last buses had all gone and I was skint, walked home 5 miles through some dodgy districts, but got there eventually. The things we do 'cos of EFC!!

I was about the same age - could have been a Hillsborough too many fans at the back of the Holt end doh