First Away Game

Dippers 66. For me first time in Div 1

Lost 2 3 but we were great. Still remember the morning papers next day. One with a classic headline..
'I dont know why the kop were singing, they should have been praying;

Chased across Stanley Park after the match. Great night out.
Yes at that match midweek we are 2-1 up,week before we beat them at home our first home game of that season 66/67.
 
Forest away, end of the 94/95 season. I was 10. Sat high in the stands with the Forest fans, we were there with some Forest-supporting friends of my parents from Nottingham. Lost 1-0 to a really scrappy Collymore goal, hazy memory but bit of a depressing game if I remember well.

When I was a kid we had the 92/93, 93/94 and 95/96 season review VHS tapes but I only recently got my hands on a 94/95 one. As a kid I loved that season under Horton despite where we finished - when you watch the season back and see how many points we lost to terrible goalkeeping (all of them at times - Coton, Dibble, Burridge, and the less said about Simon Tracey the better), we could have easily finished safe mid-table. And of course it was the one year around then that United didn’t win it, which helped.
 
Late 60's, Turf Moor. The only away match I went to with my Dad who died in '71. It was 25/- each on the Finglands coach and we sat in the 'posh seats' which tipped up and down and were a bit better than the Platt Lane benches but cost 12/6. Must have cost the old man around a fiver overall which was probably not far off half his weekly take home pay at the time. Quite a precious memory for me personally!
 
everton away 1977 to 78 programme


EVERTON 1 CITY 1

League Division 1


1st October 1977

Attendance 43,286

Scorers
City
Hartford(49)
Everton Latchford(60)

Ref D Turner​

City Corrigan, Clements, Donachie, Owen, Watson, Booth, Barnes, Kidd, Power, Hartford, Tueart – sub Royle(45)

Everton Wood, Darracott, Pejic, Lyons, Higgins, Rioch, King, Dobson, Lathford, McKenzie, Thomas – sub Pearson(unused)

Went on my own, on the coach from Maine Road, I had just turned 14!!
Kicked off outside the park on the way back to the coaches!
That was when Goodison was a Great Ground, with the Horse Shoe ends
 
October 1973. Sheffield United on the Special. Me and my mate aged 14. We won 2-1 and I got beat up.

EDIT:
Actually, it was Nov 72 v Leeds. Lost 3-0. I was taken by a family friend a Leeds fan in the Lowfields Rd aged 13. What a baptism. The Blades game above is the first on my own… ie without an adult
 
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Leicester August 1976, opening game of the season. Result was 2-2 (Tueart, Royle) but being so young I don't remember much of the day except waving to other Blues on the motorway and the Elton John/Kiki Dee song being played a lot on the radio!

Obviously we didn't realise it at the time but if we had won that game we may have won the league, finishing a point behind Liverpool in the end. We had a great team at that time and that was the season I really fell in love with City, having my first ST in the Platt Lane.
 

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