ANDY RANKIN RIP

[T LEAFE]

RIP Andy and thanks for the memories

 

[Toffal]

R.I.P Andy Rankin . Written into EFC history first team helped by Andy to win a European cup penalty shootout . God Bless

 

[davek]

R.I.P.

 

[Blue Heart]

Sad news of a great club servant. A more than able deputy and occasional first choice. R I P.

 

[summerisle]

 

[paultheblue]

RIP Andy gone but not forgotten

 

[degsy]

Wasn't it the first one in Europe?

iirc, first in the European Cup, maybe not the very first in a European Comp.
I have Hibs in mind.
But Andy was our hero that night.
He was always there to cover Westy when needed.
Was in goal for the Coventry flick up free kick - but nobody was saving that.
RIP

 

[kev]

iirc, first in the European Cup, maybe not the very first in a European Comp.
I have Hibs in mind.
But Andy was our hero that night.
He was always there to cover Westy when needed.
Was in goal for the Coventry flick up free kick - but nobody was saving that.
RIP

 

[Joey66]

The first shoot-out was the infamous "Andy Rankin" game, in the second round of the 1970-71 European Cup. With the aggregate tied at 2-2, the end of extra time saw Everton and Moenchengladbach enter the record books before a kick was taken, this being the first ever penalty shoot-out in a European Club competition, as Uefa only introduced the rule that season.

The crowd would have been much larger - I was there on a windy wet night it never stopped raining - 5th of November too - Andy was our hero that night even admitted he moved far too early to save that pen to beat the German champions - only for the weather a bigger crowd would have witnessed a game up there with the Bayen Munich tie - RIP Andy

Plus, the fans did not know the pen shoot out rules - some left - thinking we were out when Joe missed the first pen & they scored their first pen .....

 

[Marc bolan]

iirc, first in the European Cup, maybe not the very first in a European Comp.
I have Hibs in mind.
But Andy was our hero that night.
He was always there to cover Westy when needed.
Was in goal for the Coventry flick up free kick - but nobody was saving that.
RIP

First European penalty shoot out Honved beat Aberdeen in the cup winners
As you rightly say Everton were the first in the European Cup

 

[Toffeelover]

R.I.P.

 

[brieverton]

R.I.P.

 

[degsy]

First European penalty shoot out Honved beat Aberdeen in the cup winners
As you rightly say Everton were the first in the European Cup

I was in the right country hibs / aberdeen

 

[tommytowne]

Excellent goalkeeper who but for the presence of Westy could just as easily been our regular choice.
Present at the game against Borussia and that moment when he saved that penalty I thought the Old Lady would collapse.
RIP

 

[Bluerover]

God bless you Andy - one of the squad when I first started following Everton in 1969.