No idea, my dad took me to a few games after 66 and before 70 is the best I can come up with! We moved back to Ireland in 74 and the first game I was at after that was Micky Walsh’s (sadly, something of a waste) first Saturday home game against Arsenal. We won but my most vivid memory is being threatened a few times in the Gwladys St for flying a tri-colour. Wonderful times
Re: First ever match at Goodison?
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 12:18 pm
by Cantoffee
Only been to one and suspect I won't make it over for another before the move unfortunately.
3-3 draw with Liverpool in 2013 - good match honestly. Sat in the main stand and paid a fortune on stubhub for the tickets.
Re: First ever match at Goodison?
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 4:44 pm
by Cozzie
Cantoffee wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2024 12:18 pm
Only been to one and suspect I won't make it over for another before the move unfortunately.
3-3 draw with Liverpool in 2013 - good match honestly. Sat in the main stand and paid a fortune on stubhub for the tickets.
This was an absolute roller coaster of a game that we really should have won. It was end to end.
Re: First ever match at Goodison?
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 4:51 pm
by Bluedylan1
That was an absolute sickener to draw that game.
It was at the height of the Martinez vibes period. Couple of weeks later was Oviedo at Old Trafford and then the draw away at Arsenal where Geri scored a cracker and Barkley skimmed the bar with an outrageous hit.
Couple of weeks after that the win at Swansea with Seamus scoring a beauty and kicking the hoardings, and then the Barkley free kick over the wall.
Ah, fun memories. Anything seemed possible at that time.
Re: First ever match at Goodison?
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 5:31 pm
by Cantoffee
Yes, I remember Barkley picking the ball up and carrying it by a defender like he wasn't there. I must have said "ooooohhh" or something because the man next to me just looked at me and said "special, isn't he?".
Good times, definitely peak vibes but they were good vibes.
Re: First ever match at Goodison?
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2024 9:16 pm
by Shropshire Blue
Beat Stoke 2-0 in November 1963. Stanley Matthews played. Lower Bullens.
Re: First ever match at Goodison?
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2024 4:57 am
by Fynci
Everton 1 - 1 Coventry, 10th May 1998.
I kid you not.
I saw a couple of Everton friendlies when they played Blackpool in the preseason (maybe a cup game too?), but my first trip to Goodison was on the last day of the season. Gareth Farrelly saved us!
Re: First ever match at Goodison?
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2024 4:49 pm
by blueforyou
First 2 Goodison games:
April 1969 v Leeds (Champions) 0-0
August 1969 v Leeds 3-2 (ended their long unbeaten run)
Re: First ever match at Goodison?
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2024 5:16 pm
by Polledreng
Indiantoffee75 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 6:17 pm
Wolves at home 2003. England won the rugby WC that day.
Radzinski and zinedine Kilbane
I was there as well - not my first game though..... but find it weird the numbers of fat men in England shirts screaming because of that win (not the football but the rugby - find it to be almost as weird a sport as boxing)..
Re: First ever match at Goodison?
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2024 10:56 pm
by TheRam
Everton 2-0 Coventry.
Campbell’s first goals on that amazing run he had that season. Easter Sunday I think it was.
Loved him ever since.
Matterazzi got sent off in that game and was in tears sitting at the family enclosure.
Re: First ever match at Goodison?
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2024 11:41 pm
by Jimmywhack
2 2 V sunderland
Ally Mccoist was playing for them