johnh Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 My favourite season was 1948/49, mainly because I didn't miss a single home game that season. The highlight was the record crowd of 78,299 against Liverpool 1 - 1. The lowest crowd that season was just over 25,000 against Blackpool. Everyone wanted to see Stanley Matthews playing for Blackpool but it was announced on the Friday that he wouldn't be playing. Perhaps the other reason for the low turnout was the fact that there was six inches of snow on the pitch and it was snowing heavily all day. Today, there is no way the game would be played but then they just seemed to get on with it. Everton won 5 - 0 with Eddie Wainwright bagging four. The odd thing is, the one thing I remember is that there was 6 inches of snow on top of the crossbars of the goal. In the first half Eddie Wainwright hit a shot that skimmed the bar and took a 'bite size' chunk out of the snow. it was still there when the game finished. I reckon that the average home crowd that season was not far short of 50,000. Another game I remember from that season was against Manchester City - it was on Christmas day. I had received my first pair of football socks as a Christmas present. In those times of austerity, just after the war, you couldn't just go out and get a pair of blue and white hooped socks, so I had to make do with red and navy blue hoops. Still, they were football socks and I wore them to the game on Christmas day. Frank Swift played a blinder for City and we had to make do with a 0- 0 draw. We played the return match against City two days later and it finished 0- 0 again. I used to go with my brother who was 13 months older than me but several years older in maturity. After some games when Everton had lost I was almost in tears with frustration but my brother used to be able to analyse the game sensibly and identify just how much, and why, the opposition deserved to win. If he hadn't been my brother I'd have punched his lights out! Saw my last game at Goodison in 1951 before we moved away from Liverpool but the memories of those days will be with me for ever. Romey 1878, Ant1979 and Matt 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubecula Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 Wonderful stories johnh I enjoy reading your reminiscences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 Saw my last game at Goodison in 1951 before we moved away from Liverpool but the memories of those days will be with me for ever. The last game while you lived there hopefully? Surely you don't mean the last game you ever saw there, must've been back over the years . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnh Posted January 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 MikeO Saw only one more game at Goodison after we moved. In the 1960's an FA Cup game Everton v Leeds. Moved down south in 1968 so not much opportunity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Angel Posted January 22, 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 my favourite season is this one..... cause we cab still live in hope unlike past ones. Kev627 and MikeO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalziel Kane Posted January 23, 2014 Report Share Posted January 23, 2014 I think the author was speaking for himself with regards to a favorite season as a one off example and not necessarily others to follow up, but following on from the last response would pick 1983 / 84 as a favorite season. It was a memorable time in life from a personal perspective, 1984 was perhaps the best year ever, and of course Everton would once again establish themselves as a force once more and rise from the ashes of the previous recent poor years, with an FA Cup Final win and putting together one of the greatest squads seen in the clubs history, on route to further glories in the subsequent three or four years thereafter. Ok it was short lived, on both levels, but still remains to this day a special period of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Angel Posted January 23, 2014 Report Share Posted January 23, 2014 yes, and its called a forum for a reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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