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It's a shame for the final season they aren't issuing physical tickets.

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Now we're looking likely to stay up, we can focus on appreciating the Old Lady in her final months.

I used to sell the bingo tickets, remember them? And when I got my 2 free seats would take my.mum to the game. 8 games in total in the 85 season. 7 wins and a draw. Should have bought 2 season tickets, she was good.luck charm I miss those days with her ,remember a game, i think it was Newcastle and the crowd suddenly roared. She absolutely shook. And asked what happened their keeper shit himself I said " Liverpool are getting beat" the guy next to me laughed as well. Some great memories if that season.

Brutal getting a ticket for Man United today. Is the queue position really random regardless of what time you log on?

Was in the queue before 10 and still in it as it got sold out which was 10:37 I think. Managed to snag on in the back of the Upper Gwladys in the end but hard work like.

Doubt I’ll get to a game considering how hard it will be to get a ticket. A bit gutted but I have so many strange memories of the place - I worked there as my first ever full time job after finishing high school. I’ve probs seen almost every inch of the gaff. Every basement area, every concourse, comms gantry, every box, every refuse area, every bar, changing rooms, players family bar, every ticket office, every store room, club shop store room, managers office, chairman’s office, boardroom. Feels like it was yesterday I was fucking about thinking I was running the gaff.

Even been in the small goods lift for the top balcony that’s just about big enough to fit a crouched contorted person or 6-ish cases of coke bottles. Health and safety red flag but a good laugh with the lads at the time. So many nostalgic flashbacks.

Today after 10 seconds

blueforyou wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 5:26 pm Today after 10 seconds

also tody after full time

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/vi ... 5zx22y7kxo

Also Ronaldo Koeman as our manager

Dunc absolutely dominating the usually dominant Man United in 95 and scoring the winner

he had everything that day, strength, skill, even keepie uppies, was brilliant

Sandro scoring a worldie on his pre-season debut in about a minute against Sporting Lisbon. Ooh we’ve got a talent on our hands here! Here we go!

One of mines not a footie memory. Tony Bellew winning his world title. Boss night

Some more memories/thoughts. Not ready lads.....

7 games left

Some of my absolute best memories are from inside this ground. I have seen some incredible moments, last minute winners, heroes created, pure ecstasy, so many tears, so much heart break, so many bruises from celebrations, so many swear words from age 11, season ticket with my dad for many years, standing on my chair as a child so i could get a better hug off him when we scored, the intense pride when Rooney scored his first goal right in front of me at the Park End - 'remember the name...' Once a blue, always a blue. Rather be dead than red.

The pile up after Lee Carsley scored against Lpool with Cahill's defiant arm raised at the top of that mound, the blue flares, Richarlison's dive celebration after we scored to stay up, the sunsets we can see over the church in the corner of the ground, the letter box view from the back of the Glwadys Street, the noise of seats clattering when we all stand up as the lads race towards the opposition, the roar of the fans when we get a corner.
The smell of chippy, piss and weed are my memories from inside Goodison. I can almost feel the slight crush as the winter coats of big men brush past me, I am too small to see anything but my dads hand holding my hood keeps me safe.

I know the way to my seat and I would always go up early on my own and sit reading the programme, my feet up on the seat in front. Hood up, a bottle of coke on the floor, reading about my beloved club. Listening to the shit sound system and watching the warm ups and the sprinklers wetting the pitch.

I always jokingly complain about how my dad got me into Everton, ruining my life. But fucking hell, he left me with something so precious and so sacred.

Same. Hardly been as an adult, really. Season ticket as a kid with my dad. Going through the turnstiles under his big coat before we had STs and he would slip the fella a few bob. Bringing a beer crate to stand on so I could see the game. The sights the sounds the smells. The levels of romantic blue tinted memories are so far in the past and attached to my relationship with my deceased dad that I feel they have evolved into epic proportions in my mind. But then when I get to the odd game and my tummy flips I know it was all real. The realest feelings I’ve ever felt.

I've been a season ticket holder since I was 5 (thanks dad) and I'm 38 this year, and over the years I think I've experience almost every emotion you can think of in that time. Ultimate highs thanks to last minute winners and wins that nobody thought we were capable of, and ultimate lows thanks to some truly terrible performances at times when things outside of football were also tough....and that one time I got bumped and stepped into a very full urinal.

I've been lucky enough to get to know a few people around me who've been constants that entire time, like the family who sit in front who used to give me sweets as kid, now make the same offer to my son when he comes with us. I've also met people in the last few years who are trying to sit near us again when we make the move.

My great moments are always mixed between sharing an experience with my family, and seeing us defy the odds. I've been lucky enough to see some truly heroic performances, both as a team and individually, and almost always at times when we most needed it, when the challenge was probably too high and we gave it everything regardless, even if we didn't win.

I'll miss the night games the most though, those matches under the lights against United or one of the other big boys, where the atmosphere was just something else and I'd be up till 1 in the morning afterwards, I don't think you can get that feeling any other way.