"Everton That" moments

[toffeeblue9]

Buying Alex Nyarko, giving him a 5 year deal despite work permits only lasting 4 years

Forgetting to put a contract offer to Dan Gosling in writing, meaning he was able to leave on a free transfer rather than us receiving any compensation

Radzinski going on strike to force through a transfer to *checks notes* Fulham

Employing the only opposition manager to ever publicly ridicule us as a club

 

[Crestfallen]

Finishing 4th only for the RS to win the CL, and us getting knocked out by Villarreal .Couldn’t get more Everton that!

 

[Shibbywiggles]

Us fans getting really excited that FINALLY retrospective bans were being brought in for diving!

No more Gerrard starfishing, no more Suarez going down like he was shot, no more United players swarming the referee to force decisions…

No actually just ONE ban to Oumar Niasse because his fall when he was tripped was quite clumsy and then forget the rule and never speak of it again


Everton that

 

[judge]

We are well known for being an unlucky club and a a club that's run very poorly. So what would be your most Everton moment be? A personal favourite of mine was Richard Wright getting injured at Chelsea by falling on a sign saying not to warm up in that exact place. Another 1 was when a limited amount of fans were allowed back during lockdown and some fella got a seat right behind a post. Another would be doing everything other than getting Danjuma to sign contract and him going to Spurs.

But two of those were positives

 

[judge]

Finishing runner up in the league and FA cup, in 86 both to Liverpool.

This is the definitive one - you could add 'forgetting to take our 40 goal a season striker's favourite boots to the last away game' to it

 

[Marc bolan]

Losing to 4 tier Shrewsbury who were managed by our most successful captain

 

[GoldenToffee]

Winning the league title by 13 points but being banned from European competition for several years due to our abhorrent neighbours. As soon as ban lifted, going from Champions to frequent relegation fodder in a short number of years.

 

[Bluelenny1984]

The way the club adopted Bradley Lowry as one of our own.

The fans absolutely refusing to let the club be relegated when everybody else had thrown the towel in.

Not everything that’s ‘Everton that’ has to be negative. Admittedly most is like.

Your not wrong there’s a lot to love about the club….well maybe some stuff anyway.

 

[OlDirtyBluenose]

Having a billionaire accountant as our owner and failing financial fair play.

 

[Iana]

Losing the league title in 75 by 3 points and still contrived to finish 4th !!
Lost home and away to the bottom club Carlisle United, we were 2-0 up in the home game, win both of them and we'd have been Champions.

We were 2-0 up at home against Sheffield Utd with about 4 games to go in that season and a victory would have put us back on top.

We lost 2-3.

 

[Timbucktoo]

Finishing 4th only for the RS to win the CL, and us getting knocked out by Villarreal .Couldn’t get more Everton that!

Clocking up 72 points in the PL, which nearly always was good enough for top 4, and finishing 5th.
That same season we beat Arsenal 3-0 at home which put us a point behind them I think with a game in hand, only to lose the game in hand at home to a struggling Palace team and topped it off losing 2 of our last 3 to end up 7 points behind them.

 

[Iana]

Clive Thomas in 1977 FA Cup semi-final.

 

[COYBL25]

Benitez was the tin hat for me.

Not only had he insulted us as a club and as fans, but not only did we appoint him, but gave him a mandate to rip the club to pieces from the inside out and get rid of anyone he didn`t like - ie our most creative players who immediately saw him for what he was.

That really was " only at Everton ".

 

[Iana]

Brian Kidd but not Ray Stewart getting sent off in the 1980 FA Cup semi-final.

Ray Stewart converted the equalising penalty.

 

[Neiler]

Signing Henry Onyekuru for £7mill and being unable to get him a work permit, never played for the club.