Your own sentimental memories of Goodison.

[matty1878]

no idea

 

[Cow kecks]

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Just seen the latest video of young George Shaw, remember him? Won goal of the month in 2014, I don't don't think any of us have the memories that young lad will have. Once Everton and Goodison has touched you hey gang.

It was 2016, my bad.

 

[welshtoffee]

Many many memories, winning the league vs Qpr, Bayern Munich etc etc...Too many to post. Unfortunately all I see now is an old rundown ground which has served its purpose for many years but as we all know its time to move on. Everything has to come to an end and lets hope we get the memories I have had at Goodison at Bramley Moore.

 

[royalblue66]

Calamity James signing auto’s for the kids, by FE,
fella said “alright David?, don’t drop the pen.

 

[dublinbluenose]

I remember being at a game in 2002-ish, I think it was against Villa (Rooney scored). I got a pie at HT that was HOT and a can of beer that was COLD. I'd never experienced that before or since at Goodison. To get both of them together, at the appropriate temperature, AT THE SAME TIME.

I'll treasure that.

 

[Cameron Manning]

Sentimental memories of Goodison all revolve around being there with my Dad, who passed away in 2006!
He was one of those who were at Goodison for its biggest ever crowd v Liverpool in 1948 as a 15 year old, and part of the smallest league crowd v Coventry in 1983!
So mine in some sort of order….

First game 1967 as an 8 year old, v Blackpool reserves, can still remember the “greenness” of the pitch, and weirdly the bright orange Blackpool shirts!
First trophy win witnessed live, winning the league v WBA in 1970, what a night!
Best game, Bayern Munich 1985.
Rooney’s goal v Arsenal 2002, was there with my Dad and my 9 year old. My Dad had left a couple of minutes before Rooney scored to get out before the rush! We thought he’d missed “that” goal ! Then we found him on our way out, still celebrating, he’d stopped at the top of some steps as Rooney got the ball and stood watching as the ball flew past Seaman into the net! He was leaping round like the 15 year old him in 1948!

Great memories of being at Goodison with my Dad!

I saw those two games v Liverpool and Coventry and remember those orange shirts of Blackpool and how strange they seemed to be watching them in a league game on a pitch full of snow when Eddie Wainwright scored four and Jimmy McIntosh getting the other making his debut after being signed from Blackpool, no less, the day before, in a 5-0 win. Stanley Mathews never played that day, an old fella told me before the game “ You won’t see Mathews today- he doesn’t play on snow”

 

[Old Blue 2]

Like a lot of you, some of my best memories are at Goodison and it will be an incredibly difficult day v Southampton. We all know we need to move on to make new memories but the legacy of the old lady will resonate with so many of us, and for lots of different reasons, for years to come.

My Dad was a steward at Goodison in the early 80's through to '95 and, for a long time, used to get me in the game for nothing via the stewards entrance at the corner of the Gwladys Street and the Bullens Road. I remember that the same policeman used to let me in each week (certainly felt like that). This was all predominantly before the standing terraces were removed but I did used to be able to sit in the lower bullens a lot - only problem was I used to be in the game about 2.5 hours before kick off. I remember just sitting there most weeks with a sausage roll and drink watching the players arrive and listening to a practically empty Goodison before fans slowly started to arrive. It sucked me in and I would be excited before each game to experience it again. Some weeks they even let a couple of my mates in. All stopped in the early 90's but I had a season ticket in there for years to come afterwards.

One of my earliest memories is winning the league in 1987 (I was 6) and watching Ratcliffe and Reid carry the trophy around Goodison in a sea of blue and white. Not sure why it's them two I remember only, but it is certainly a core memory. I was sat in between two distant family members in the lower bullens and I remember how happy everyone was - especially my old man. There are plenty of other great memories at Goodison down the years but that one is a core memory given I was so young.

I also took my son to his first game in January 2014 (he was 4) with my old man also. We beat QPR 4-0 in the FA Cup at a cold Goodison. We sat at the front of the upper Gwladys and two older ladies behind us kept giving my lad sweets and he was made up. He's 15 now but suggests he still remembers it. A couple of years later he picked his first season ticket in the family enclosure and we've been sat there since. Now it's all about going to watch my beloved blues with my son including starting a new chapter at Bramley Moore.

By pure luck, my old man got a ticket for the second test event last night because his best mate can't go. He won't be sat by us but he'll be coming with us and we'll get to see the new ground properly for the first time together. All three generations of us and we'll hopefully get to see our stone on Everton way together (unlikely though I know). My dad hasn't been to any game with us since that QPR game in 2014 (he's 70 soon) so, for me, it will be a pretty emotional experience for that too!

My photos.
Norwich away. The game we won to clinch the title. Taken by me 3-4 seconds before van den Hauwe scored the only goal of the game.

And parading the trophy around Goodison.

 

[TGW89]

First: Rooney busting the Leicester net to mount our comeback in 2003 (W 3-2) - Almost mid-table at the time, but a pretty important three points in hindsight, given that the reverse would have seen us stay up only on GD in 03/04.
Best & Last: Watching DCL head in at the GSE to complete our comeback vs Palace. The blue smoke and the party.

 

[Dddddd]

I remember being at a game in 2002-ish, I think it was against Villa (Rooney scored). I got a pie at HT that was HOT and a can of beer that was COLD. I'd never experienced that before or since at Goodison. To get both of them together, at the appropriate temperature, AT THE SAME TIME.

I'll treasure that.

The pies are full of molten lava these days so they’ve sorted that - they just need to stop putting the beers in the same oven

 

[paultheblue]

I remember being at a game in 2002-ish, I think it was against Villa (Rooney scored). I got a pie at HT that was HOT and a can of beer that was COLD. I'd never experienced that before or since at Goodison. To get both of them together, at the appropriate temperature, AT THE SAME TIME.

I'll treasure that.

I was in the people's club one time early 2000s and they use to have a microwave at the end of the bar for anyone who wants a pie.
On this particular day I asked for a pie and was told that i couldn't as the fella who operates the microwave hadn't turned in.

 

[duncs pigeon]

My first game at Goodison,Aug 1970 v Arsenal. My Dad, a few of his mates and 10 yr old Alan Ball crazy me. We had travelled from N Wales, got to the ground and I was in awe of GP.
My Dad managed to get two tkts for the Bullens Rd paddock. Once we were in, the Evertonians were fantastic, lifted me onto the barriers for a better spec, told me all about Everton and winning the league the pre seaon. Cant remember the game, we drew 2 each, but just the atmosphere and the kindness of the Evertonians has always stuck with me. Even now, I still remember sitting on that barrier, even my first st was in the Bullens rd paddock. GP will always be special, more so by the people/fans who go there, you Scousers, esp Evertonians are a special breed

 

[terryefc]

My first game at Goodison,Aug 1970 v Arsenal. My Dad, a few of his mates and 10 yr old Alan Ball crazy me. We had travelled from N Wales, got to the ground and I was in awe of GP.
My Dad managed to get two tkts for the Bullens Rd paddock. Once we were in, the Evertonians were fantastic, lifted me onto the barriers for a better spec, told me all about Everton and winning the league the pre seaon. Cant remember the game, we drew 2 each, but just the atmosphere and the kindness of the Evertonians has always stuck with me. Even now, I still remember sitting on that barrier, even my first st was in the Bullens rd paddock. GP will always be special, more so by the people/fans who go there, you Scousers, esp Evertonians are a special breed

Ha. I was at that game. 3rd visit to Goodison. Arsenal had red socks on. I was with my older bro and on my sisters shoulders at the front of the Gwladys.
My first was against Palace for the 1st home game season before. 2-1 blues. 2nd was with my sister again when Man United came to town. She wanted to see Best. I remember they set a bus on fire at the Pier Head.

 

[blue61]

Many memories really. Like @Dario Terracotta , my stand out memory would be Andy Kings shot sailing past a stretching Clemence, absolute perfection. My first game, a 0-0 against Arsenal in 73, Alan Balls first game back at Goodison. The size of the place blew me away, with the cigarette smoke rising in the floodlit sky. I was hooked.

 

[Bluebonic]

On the very same journey with my own dad mate,he last went to Goodison think it was the ill fated Bournemouth league game!!,I've got a push chair for him these days as his legs at 86 are very poor with various health conditions,insulin diabetes,the dreaded Alzheimer's,he was even in hospital new year with a twisted bowel, desperately hoping I can get him there one last time this season,got him his season ticket for next season and even if he only makes it to one game at BMD it will be fine,owe him that,brought me up an Evertonian

Spot on Terry, although i cursed my dad for raising me a blue many times Every trip you can make with him is storing one more memory for you. Quiz him on everything too, any favourite players of his who weren't big names an you may not have heard of. My dad really opened up on that stuff in the last few years, as he could remember them with crystal clarity. Get him to write on the back of every photo he has too. Who was in them, what the occasion was. All that knowledge gets lost and it is a crying shame