The Great Escape Full Match 1994.

[irishtony1878]

I had given up my season ticket and picked and chose my games this season.
Me and my lad who was about 7 at the time got to Goodison about 12.00 and there were already thousands outside, strange to think that it wasn't all ticket, you could still pay at the gate.
I think they opened up about 1.00pm, there were loads jumping the queue and the police and stewards were useless, my lad and other kids were getting squashed and it was getting dangerous, arl fellas shouting there are kids here and nobody giving a sh1te.
At some point someone said that's it, we are full in the Gwladys St, they are still letting people in the main stand.
We tried all around the ground and eventually gave up about 2.30 as it was chaos, we jumped back in the car and like most, we listened and cried to the radio.
I was one of the idiots who jumped on the pitch after the Coventry game as well, at some point i got a piggy back off Thomas Myrhe.

 

[tim gabbott]

Seagers allegedly let the goals in.

The third goal I remember standing behind the goal looked well sus at the time.. looks even worse now seeing it back...
My mate said years ago there was so much activity in the boardroom makes you wonder

 

[BenToffee79]

Was sat in the Bullen’s where the away fans are now ,Wimbledon only sold out the upper Bullen’s ,just sat there at 0-2 thinking this is it we’re a endsleigh league club! I remember thinking we won’t be on match of the day next season,that upset me the most ha (I was 14 )

 

[glorydaze]

Still have the When Skies Are Grey magazine i bought outside St Lukes, complete black cover made me more depressed than i already was.

 

[zukai12_]

If we did go down at that point, would it have lead to going bankrupt or would they have bounced back?

 

[StreetEndBlue]

I was there but shouldn't have been. I wasn't a season ticket holder until the following year and we were lucky to get gates over 20,000 outside playing those horrid barstewards and the Mancs so only pitched up at Goodison about 2pm and me and my mate were shocked to see queues for the Gwladys all the way up City Road.

I was about to get off when my mate shamefully decided to push us into the queue (something I certainly wouldn't have tried on my own) and we just about managed to squeeze in before the gates were locked and ended up in the block where the Street End meets the Paddock. Never sat there before or since.

As for game, well I hate hearing it be called a 'great' escape. It was an escape, and a fortunate one at that, nothing great at all about it.

I do recall though hearing about Liverpool fans doing the conga at Villa Park after hearing that we were losing 0-2 and on our way down. They certainly wouldn't been doing it when we came back from the dead and won.

 

[Tubey]

23:25 of that game, where the fella in the crowd goes off on Limpar hahaha

Deserved too; that handball was inexplicable.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Kind of glad I was far too young to remember this. Do not think I would have coped well haha lol

 

[Dutch Toffee]

Told this story a few times before, but with a bit more 'luck' or careful planning, I could've been at that game, as my maiden voyage to Goodison. Instead ended up going a fortnight earlier, against Coventry at home and a week later away to Leeds. Arranged tickets for those games long before the dates. My initial idea was to make the Wimbledon my actual first Goodison trip, but my mate who travelled with me, informed me that travelling a week earlier suited him better.

Still to this day , I feel it's one of the worst (footballing matter) decisions I made.

 

[Preki]

Just watched it and that team was shocking. At the time 7 years seemed a long time but really from being Champions to this is inexplicable in retrospect.

 

[larbert toffee]

Really would not want to go through that again, ended well but something I would not want to endure again as an Evertonian.

 

[brieverton]

My blood pressure is high enough. Really wouldn't want to relive that. Despite the massive relief.

Segers is going to save that shot eventually and I'll wake up and we're still down after 27 years.