Everton will play Mansfield Town at home in Carabao Cup 2nd Round

It was a trophy in which premier league teams were represented by their U 21’s and I’ve got a feeling I was at that game on a cold winter night but can’t recall it, don’t think it was all that long ago!

Unfortunately had a heart attack aged 58, always be remembered, he loved Everton and the fans. If Dyche was still with us, I'd be thinking banana skin fixture, but think we will have too much for them.

I think I remember that game a few years back in the Unsie era?

My first living memory, and I wasn't there, was the 3 game drama against Villa in 1977. Only 5 years old, I had to make do with listening on the radio with my dad and watching him kicking and throwing things off the table as Villa's winner went in at Old Trafford.

It's almost become personal between me and this competition.

Six matches from Wembley.

The game at Wembley was truly awful. The only highlight being, watching the players and ref,
search for the spurs, from the marching band, that had been lost whilst they were entertaining us, a half time.

Don't remember much about the game but if my memory is correct it was the day we signed Alex Young after weeks of speculation and at one time it looked like he was joining PNE.

I think, if Harry Catterick had been the manager then, we would have shown very little interest in The Golden Vision!

However the reason it has remained in my memory, often thought about whenever their name is mentioned, was the fact we only won 3-1! I clearly remember thinking we were going to put 8, 9 or even 10 past them but I left the game hugely disappointed we only won 3-1!

The Hanson handball was tough to take, but cannot help wondering what could have been, had Andy Gray not been cup tied, and Kendall went for Trevor Steven instead of Alan Irvine at Wembley.

My favourite? Purely because of the occasion and my first visit to Wembley, but the 1984 all-Merseyside final.

Although yet again, marred by injustice against them. Alan Hansen's handball and clear penalty.

Not everyone likes VAR, but that would have been given as a penalty.

You'll know who got the goal, I've never seen a more one sided game in my life, bar posts misses galore. I said to my mate after the game we will never win this thing. 40 years on and here we are, destined never to do it.

I'd love them to prove me wrong this season.

I had been to the final at Wembley and the replay at Sheffield . Also both fa cup semis v the shite. I was a season ticket holder but God knows how I could afford all those games. I was still in sixth form and had a bar job (Peasley Cross Labour club - I’m convinced the inspiration for the Phoenix club) and a pools round and also did that Everton lottery thing at the time - can’t remember the name but it guaranteed big game tickets.

Bitter sweet days.

First of all pricing:

Adults: £15
Seniors: £10
Under-18: £5

10 am Tuesday, auto cup scheme payments taken
Season ticket holders: Thursday 21 August
Forever Blue members: Friday 22 August
General sale: 10 am Saturday 23 August

I was at that game, too, and was on the Goodison Road terrace. The signing (s) were announced at half time and Alex Young and George Thompson were waving from the Directors Box.

I think Alex was still on National Service at the time and didn't really get going until the following season.

If you're a displaced ST holder, you don't get an automatic seat elsewhere, you're in a lottery with matchday ticket buyers. Nothing was said at the time of buying your ST near the away supporters section. Terrible customer service, cos people buying those seats were in the 1-8 year tenure bracket, should have been told their seat was subject to away cup games and not guaranteed.

Maybe it was in the smallest of small print for excited Blues buying their season tickets last February. Cunts.

Yes a double signing, George was a left back, don't think he lasted very long, I think Alex and George had a falling out later on, recall reading an article where it stated that George had borrowed a couple of hundred pound off Alex and forgot to pay him back. Alex gave him a wide berth after that.

There were some fabulous footballers in the sixties and seventies; I don't think there was one millionaire amongst them, so a couple of hundred pounds was at least 4 weeks wages then.

Yes, Alex and his namesake Alex Parker were both national service men when they joined Everton and Alex Young had those blistered feet to contend with as well.

Talking about them then and looking at football now really does make you feel slightly depressed and, being honest, I was bleedin' alive then as well!

I lived virtually opposite Ron Yeats, Tommy Leishman and Kevin Lewis, who sometimes got me complimentary tickets for the Upper Gwladys stand. I was their paper boy.

Times have certainly changed. None of the three Liverpool players had a car (1961-'62). Jimmy Harris' girlfriend, a former Miss Liverpool, lived next door to Kevin and I'd sometimes see Jimmy at the bus stop with her, waiting for the 12a bus to town.

Yes, every day you can get out of bed is a like a holiday!

Those days though long ago were memories to hang onto and for you getting treated like that by professional footballers must have made you feel ten feet tall, mind you I've met the cat a few times so the kitten must have been equally nice to know.

Best wishes and good health Bill and a happy season for us and every Evertonian.

Season ticket holders have the option to purchase their own seat first, which is fair enough. Oonce those have been taken up, those who have to be moved then have an option on Thursday to select where they wish to sit, before they go on sale on Friday to Forever Blue members, then Saturday on general sale.

It is only fair season ticket holders not in any of those sections get the option to sit in their own seat, before we then get to pick somewhere in the stadium, that is why I was wondering why I did not get the option for Auto cup scheme like last season.

I wasn't given the option – the club have taken my tenner without asking!

Tried to call – customer service is suspended due to the high volume of calls.
Brand new stadium but a customer service out of the Ark!

On the website it's only 226 and 227. We got an exclusive window today to buy tickets. All that's offered are the unsold season ticket seats dotted around the stadium.

I ended up in the Upper North Stand. Apparently, there is a huge queue at the box office