Today’s the anniversary of my first visit to Goodison…

… sixty bloody years ago Everton 2 Sheffield Wednesday 1. Goals from Jimmy Gabriel (penalty) and Derek Temple put us 2 up before (I think… I was only 8!) John Fantham got one back. My cousin and I each got food poisoning from a pork pie that we’d got from the Park End and missed school on the Monday; my uncle had had two pork pies and when he got out of his car when he parked up at home that evening he collapsed on the driveway Derek Temple’s winner at the Park End that day was a carbon-copy of his winning goal five months earlier at Wembley… a one-on-one run against Ron Springett. I met Derek about twenty years ago and commented on how similar the two goals had been.He said that he couldn’t remember the goal at Goodison… just a job of work for him. I suppose