2009 FA Cup Final

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Bittersweet memories for me. We'd just moved back to Liverpool from Australia and the 1/4 final at Goodison was the first match I took my lad to (he was seven). Magical.

Couldn't get tickets for the semi so watched it at Goodison, another magical memory, carrying my boy around the room on my shoulders after the penalties singing the banks of the royal blue Mersey.

Got a spare for the final and made a weekend of it with my mates in London. What a great start to the game, just made it to our seats in time. Then fat Frank mimicking his arl fella and ruining the day for us.

The lengthy queue of young lads with hay fever for the cubicle in the bogs at halftime made me laugh at least.
 

GwladysBlue said:
I don’t think they seemed cocky, Moyes just flapped it in that first leg. We should’ve beat a team like Fiorentina home and away that year. Even Rangers managed to knock them out and we’d already beaten the eventual winners.
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We beat Zenit, but i seem to remember that being our hardest game of the year. They played really well and a win flattered us. They continued to grow, if we'd have got to the final, it would have been a really interesting final That Zenit side was littered with talent.
 

My youngest was due about this time so there was no way I was going to be allowed to go...
The morning of the final our ancient telly finally gave up the ghost. Cue a mad dash to Currys for a replacement. Got it all set up just in time for kick-off, then noticed it was a Samsung, same as Chelsea's sponsors that day. Should've taken that as an omen, even after Saha's rocket.
 
I didn't watch that final, partly out of nerves and partly because I expected us to lose whilst hoping for a win. Instead I sat in the garden enjoying the sunshine until my kopite neighbours started cheering wildly when Chelsea equalised. They are absolutely obsessed with us.
 
I didn't enjoy any part of the day or the build-up. Just our luck with injuries as well.

Perversely, the early goal made it worse. It felt we were waiting on the equaliser and then waiting to fall behind.

There was never a chance of us getting back into it. It just never felt to me like we had a real shot at getting a result so it was a non-event in terms of excitement.
 
ToffeeTim said:
Disappointing day. We scored too early and hadn't a clue what to do from that point.

Chelsea were better than us.
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It was never a good thing going a goal up early on under Moyes, you knew he'd just sit back and hope we could keep them out. More often than not, we'd concede late on and then have no nous on how to switch back from pure defending.
 

At 1-0 up Fellaini had a half chance when he was put through a Czech ran out to the edge of the box to smother the ball. Fellain didn't even go for it. All he had to do was stick his leg out and hope to get a small deflection past Czech for an almost certain goal, but he just accepted that Czech had already won the race for the ball (he hadn't). After that we were rubbish. Lescott at fault for Drogba's goal. Nowhere near him when he scored.
 
Cried like a little girl at full time - what made it worse is that it just felt like it was destiny that year beating a good Villa, RS, Utd all on our way before scoring that fast.

Gutting.
 
What a day, had booked a family holiday in a villa in majorca months before, it was going the day of the final.
My lad had been going since he was 4 and had never been to a final.
Couldnt let him miss it so let the others go on holiday, spend about 6 hundred quid on plane tickets for me and him to follow on.
Up early and had a good time going on the train having a drink with my mates a brief monent of hope when we scored , then reality ,sat there knowing we were going to get beat most of the game, pissed off for my lad more than myself , it was the beginning of the end for me , i was getting fed up with the whole Plucky little Everton ,kenwright ,moyes ect
Sat on the train coming home thinking , i really cant be botherd with this much longer.
Had about 4 hours sleep then up in the middle of the night for the trip up to Manchester airport.
Got the villa, my girlfriend had put an Everton flag on the villa balcony, she is a blue,
Mad as it seemed it bucked my up, thought well sod it they cant keep us down can they, walked upstairs got the flag and jumped in the pool from the second floor shouting Everton full dressed, to the cheers of the people in the villas around us,
Bit daft as it was high and the pool not that big and i dont swin very well but sometimes you just need something to get you going again.
The semi against the Rs was the final nail in the coffin later on, the worst team i have seen them have in many a year and we still fk it up,
Decided to give my season ticket up and after 40 odd years and go when it suits me
Still watch every game and go when i am off
Would love us to do something for the younger fans , be great to see them celebrating.
 
andy4efc said:
Anichebe had his leg done in by Kevin ‘he’s not that type of player’ Nolan.
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You know he sued Newcastle for that and they settled out of court? Another bizarre Evertonism.

As for the game I never expected to beat that Chelsea side and I actually felt worse after the United semi than this one. We did deserve to win after drawing a disproportionate amount of PL teams on the way there though.
 

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