Andy King RIP. A true Evertonian

[alibongo]

He was a great player for us and one of my childhood heroes.

Gutted to hear this news.

RIP Andy.

 

[Pat's Van]

RIP Andy

 

[duncs pigeon]

First time I had seen us win a derby. Remember it like it was yesterday. A true blue.
RIP my friend

 

[strummer]

RIP andy.it always looked like you enjoyed and was proud of playing for our club.very good player as well.the type of player we desperately need right now in fact

 

[BlueShark]

Just seen the news. Very sad this. He was one of my childhood idols and I will never forget the goal he scored in the 1978 derby match.

R.I.P. Andy and sincere condolences to the King family.

 

[jaycee]

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/dave-prentice-andy-king-always-9340271
nice write up of a great guy

 

[dave abrahams]

Yep,that was Kingy's often forgotten derby goal,an equaliser which got us in that particular era a fine point at the tinmine.

Yes, Liverpool absolutely battered us that night at Anfield, then Andy scored the goal that silenced the Kop sent me and
loads of other Blues into raptures. I remember him getting sent off at Goodison when Emlyn Hughes threw himself on
the floor, Andy hadn't touched the snide, but off he went. Great Bluenose even though he came from down south,look at
the tributes starting to pour in, all mentioning his sense of fun and good humour and personality , we could do with
someone like Andy now at Goodison Park. Rest in peace Andy and thanks for some unforgettable memories.

 

[dave abrahams]

By the way Hughes was playing for Wolves at the time.

 

[davek]

That King derby goal, uncannily similar to the Gareth Farrelly goal against Coventry.

Laughing at that video and the ball boys taking his wrist bands off him.

 

[tommye]

Why was you in the kop?

dads mate worked the turnstile, did Goodison too. Bunked into more games than I care to remember. Fun times

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Wasn't he only just at Goodison as a guest this season as well?

Rest in Peace

That goal against Liverpool means he'll live forever in our minds and memories

 

[rochdaleblue]

Holy cow, gutted if true.
His goal against the shi2e and the copper trying to take him off the pitch whilst being interviewed is one of my earliest EFC memories

Mine too. RIP Andy.

 

[Clint Planet]

Latchford, Dobson and King were my boyhood heroes. Used to love standing on the Street End singing "Oh, Andy is our King!" When he scored.

Like Alan Ball, Duncan Ferguson and Tim Cahill, he wasn't born a Blue but he certainly died one. 58 is cruelly short for such a great.

Rest in peace, mate. The world is slightly less fun without you.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

''OH ANDY IS OUR KING, OH ANDY IS OUR KING, OH ANDY IS OUR KING!!!

RIP ANDY.

Sad news that. Another underrated player outside Goodison.

 

[paultheblue]

The seventies will go down as a barren time in our history but looking back now we also had some wonderful times and to be honest I miss some of those days.Kingy was a very big part of that era and I loved the man.
RIP Andy gone but never forgotten