Every Everton manager's greatest game

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How about this one for HK?
FA Cup 3rd round in 1984 away at Stoke. This was the game when he famously didn't give a team talk; he just opened the dressing room window for the boys to hear the fans.
I was there and something changed on that day. It's almost as if something magical happened during that game.
 

The ones I'll go for are not necessarily the best I've seen, but are ones that have special memories for me for one reason or another:

Harry Catterick: Burnley away in March 1970 when we were on our way to the title. My first away game which we won 2-1. I was 12 and went with my elder brother. Home James football coach from outside the old Abbey cinema. The day was a blur but I recall Alan Ball hitting the bar with a back heel from a corner.

Billy Bingham: Leeds away in March 1975. We were top of the league and on paper this looked our toughest fixture of the run in. We drew 0-0 and I really thought we would win the league. We ended up winning only 2 of our last 9 games and basically blew it.

Gordon Lee: Bolton away in the League Cup semi-final second leg in Feb 1977. The first semi I saw us win. Great atmosphere. The first leg had finished 1-1 and Gordon Lee had not long taken over. Scored pretty early on, then missed a penalty but hung on for a win and then off to Wembley.

Howard Kendall: Obviously there are loads to choose from with Howard. I'm going for United at home in October 1984. We won 5-0 and it was the first time I thought we had a team good enough to challenge for the league.

Colin Harvey: Newcastle at home in 1988. First game of the season. Tony Cottee debut and a hat-trick. Went home thinking we'd continue with our trophy winning ways but it was not to be.

Mike Walker: Only the Wimbledon last day of the season game stands out. Absolute disaster of a manager.

Joe Royle: QPR away in March 1995. We won 3-2 with a last minute free kick by Andy Hinchcliffe. It was my son's 10th birthday and I took him and 2 of his mates. Made me believe in the joy of football again, particularly for kids.

Walter Smith: Leeds at home in Oct 1999. A 4-4 draw, but a cracking game of football when Leeds had a very good team.

David Moyes: Derby away in March 2002. His first away game in charge and a relegation 6 pointer. We won 4-3 but went from a joyous, stress free 4-1 up with around 20 minutes to go to 4-3 with around 10 to go. You could already see the change in attitude he brought, though. Unsworth with the first goal, just like in the game against Fulham at home the previous game.

Roberto Martinez: There were some great performances under Roberto. I'll go with the last time I saw us play well under him in the league. Stoke away in Feb 2015. We won 3-0 and played them off the park. Brilliant counter-attacking football. Unfortunately, apart from the Chelsea quarter final, it all went rapidly downhill from there.

Ronald Koeman: The 4-0 win at home to Man City last season. He's probably my least favourite manager after Walker. Not sorry to see him go.
 
Bluebonic said:
I agree 100% bud, but i would counter that with the fact that that particular night, was when i realised we would rule Europe for years. It did soemthing to me that night, made me think i was witnessing a team thta would eclipse the 62/63 side and the 69/70 side by smashing Europe to pieces. Then life as an Evertonian toodled along and webbed me in the knackers of course, but that night i dared to dream :)
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Well put. I bumped into a mate from school on the way out of the Bayern game and my parting words were "see you Wembley". We'd come from behind to win the semi (as you know, we conceded first in games in those days just to make the game more interesting) just a week or so before. Heady days, and it felt like it would never end. :/
 
Finest Moments:

Catterick: Could easily pick the Blackpool game where The Cat dropped Alex Young for a 16 year old Joe Royle. In the end he was proven right - Alex was 2 years away from leaving us and Joe Royle went on to become a legend. Built two great sides though and had an eye for real talent (West, Kay, Kendall for example). Let's pick two great title winning performances though: 1-0 v Spurs (Alex Young soared to head in the winner, 1963) and 1970 - the dismantling of Chelsea (5-2) just before the title winning game over West Brom in 1970.

Bingham: McKay called us Robots (and yes, we won 1-0 at Derby playing some terrible stuff) and who could ever forget the double losses to Carlisle? Perhaps he even saved the best for last, having just signed Duncan McKenzie and Bruce Rioch - that 2-0 win over Stoke in the FA Cup. But for me his finest moment was a 2-0 win at Arsenal in March 1975 - as good as it got, top of the table.. champions in the making.

Gordon Lee: Maybe we should just say Clive Thomas and move on... but, ok, it was a 5-1 win at Leicester.

Howard Kendall: Well, there are any number of games, 5-0 over United, 4-1 over Sunderland, that 4-0 win over West Ham (4-0 at half time), even the many wins over the RS.. that 2-1 win over Coventry, my favourite away day win at Spurs (April 1985), the Bayern game, the Kevin Brock moment.. there are so many.. Mountfield and Sheedy against Luton (semi)... I'm losing count. Let's settle for that 1-0 semi win over Southampton - the first big win on the road to future glory.

Colin Harvey: Tony Cottee's debut in a 4-0 win over Newcastle.

Walker: No, sorry, can't help you. Was it a 6-2 win over hapless Swindon?

Royle: Since we aren't allowed Derby wins - 3-0 over Leeds in the next game was nice but it must be the Spurs semi 4-1 win.

Smith - there weren't any to be honest. Maybe that win over West Ham

Moyes: Oh probably Nuremburg away.. or perhaps one of those wins at The Etihad or the one at WHL when we scored a glorious goal on the break from end to end.. but in reality the match that defined Moyes' "plucky Everton" was the 1-0 annihilation of Blackburn (with 10 men for 80 mins - Turner sent off for handling outside the box - we scored 4 but the ref and lino took 3 of them away (at least 2 looked good). A fine, gritty performance.

Martinez - I suppose the win at Old Trafford will do.

Koeman - 4-0 v City.
 
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Moyes: Crystal Palace 4-0 2005.
-the RS were inching closer and closer to us and CP was playing pretty well. However we just blew them away. Cahill had 2 goals and Vaughn chipped in one at the end. Kind of the day I became an everton fan.

Martinez: 3-0 Arsenal 2014.
-Moved Rom to the right flank which seemed pretty stupid but he tore them apart from that position. seemed like every move he made back then was genius.

Koeman - 4-0 Man City.
 
Heres a couple of great away games for Moyes, an away game at Villa Park, 2005 won 3 1 with two from Osman and one from Cahill, Everton were amazing that day, because its not a big team we played it might get forgotten about but it was a fantasic day out. Another top day out was the game at White Hart Lane when Kevin Kilbane got sent off early on and we went on to win 2 0, PJ scored the winner
 

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