"A Team With No Stars"

[TyphooToffee]

After reading about the lack of a statue of Big Nev, and that save against Mark Falco at White Hart Lane, I found this video. It filled my heart with joyous memories of how Howard Kendall's Blues rose from the depths of despair to become the best team in Europe

They called us a team with no stars. I suppose at the time it was, in a sense, true but how ridiculous that seems now.

Enjoy.

 

[Eggs]

….Southall was the best in the world, he and Peter Reid won Player of the Year awards. Steven, Stevens were England regulars, Ratcliffe captain of Wales. The squad had quality, attitude and blend Magnificently put together by Kendall.

They were all stars and they continue to be recognised as such by us.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Eleven,no thirteen stars if you include Richo and Plug,and they really did shine so brightly,how proud I was to follow this team all over the gaff

 

[The Binman]

Still a greatly underrated team, by literally everyone outside of everton...

It's absolutely criminal...




(Yes, yes, the media done like us, we don't fit into the narrative, but still, criminal!! )

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Still a greatly underrated team, by literally everyone outside of everton...

It's absolutely criminal...




(Yes, yes, the media done like us, we don't fit into the narrative, but still, criminal!! )

Only room in their world for one team to see no wrong in from this city,always been the same and I can’t see it changing.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

I assumed this was a quote from the commission's report.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Peter Reid claimed his second league winner’s medal that season and Ferguson wrote: “If anything, his talent has become under-estimated with the passage of time.
“The same can be said for the Everton team of which he was a key part, a side that was undoubtedly one of the strongest in Europe during the mid-1980s when Howard (Kendall) had them playing some brilliant football.

“When people talk about the job that I took on at United in 1986, one of the first things that is often highlighted is the challenge we had to overhaul Liverpool but I have always thought that was disrespectful to Everton, who won the championship for the second time in three years in my first season in charge.
“Howard’s decision to leave at the end of that campaign probably stopped Everton in their tracks a little bit but when I first went to United there is no question that they were a top side, and I knew full well that getting the better of them was going to be a big job in itself.”

Fergie also reveals that the first team he saw Reid, who later became a firm friend, in the flesh was on one of Goodison’s greatest ever nights.

“Everton were playing Bayern Munich in the semi-final of the European Cup Winners’ Cup at Goodison Park and I was in the stands,” wrote Ferguson. “The atmosphere was terrific and all of the Everton players responded magnificently, Peter more than most.
“There are times when you watch games and you can just tell that an individual isn’t going to allow his team to lose.
“While I’m not taking anything away from his Everton team-mates, who were brilliant to a man, there was not a chance that Peter was going to walk off the pitch at the end of the game without having reached the final.

“He had a bloodied sock and his ankle was in such a state that it would have been understandable if he had gone off but players who are built like Peter was don’t stand aside when the going gets tough; they play even harder.

“That was exactly what he did and I still regard it as a privilege that I was there to see him help Howard Kendall’s greatest team to reach a European final that they would go on to win.”

When such words are uttered by the most successful manager the nation has produced, they probably hold a little sway.

 

[TyphooToffee]

Peter Reid claimed his second league winner’s medal that season and Ferguson wrote: “If anything, his talent has become under-estimated with the passage of time.
“The same can be said for the Everton team of which he was a key part, a side that was undoubtedly one of the strongest in Europe during the mid-1980s when Howard (Kendall) had them playing some brilliant football.

“When people talk about the job that I took on at United in 1986, one of the first things that is often highlighted is the challenge we had to overhaul Liverpool but I have always thought that was disrespectful to Everton, who won the championship for the second time in three years in my first season in charge.
“Howard’s decision to leave at the end of that campaign probably stopped Everton in their tracks a little bit but when I first went to United there is no question that they were a top side, and I knew full well that getting the better of them was going to be a big job in itself.”

Fergie also reveals that the first team he saw Reid, who later became a firm friend, in the flesh was on one of Goodison’s greatest ever nights.

“Everton were playing Bayern Munich in the semi-final of the European Cup Winners’ Cup at Goodison Park and I was in the stands,” wrote Ferguson. “The atmosphere was terrific and all of the Everton players responded magnificently, Peter more than most.
“There are times when you watch games and you can just tell that an individual isn’t going to allow his team to lose.
“While I’m not taking anything away from his Everton team-mates, who were brilliant to a man, there was not a chance that Peter was going to walk off the pitch at the end of the game without having reached the final.

“He had a bloodied sock and his ankle was in such a state that it would have been understandable if he had gone off but players who are built like Peter was don’t stand aside when the going gets tough; they play even harder.

“That was exactly what he did and I still regard it as a privilege that I was there to see him help Howard Kendall’s greatest team to reach a European final that they would go on to win.”
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When such words are uttered by the most successful manager the nation has produced, they probably hold a little sway.

What a great post that is. So refreshing to read what a real football man thought about Howard's team in the non-social media days before every man and his dog thought they were football experts.

Living in the south my social media consisted of putting a blue ribbon over the family dog's collar before taking her for her walk in the morning of the day I left for Wembley for the 1984 Cup Final, unaware of the glory days to come.