If you could go back to change a result....

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The Panathiniakos result was devastating because we totally outplayed them at Goodison - I was there - and I was told we were robbed
at their place - I wasn't there.
I don't think it cost us, though, because we were rubbish that season and I don't think we'd have beaten Ajax.

All of the matches talked about here were heartbreakers, but the 68, 85 and 86 FA Cups hurt me the most. 85 took the edge off a great
season and we were all over Man Utd. We would've scored if Moran hadn't brought down Peter Ried and we played Liverpool off the park for an hour in 86.
 

Interesting thread. I'll start with the 85 cup final: in those days winning the double was massive, only Spurs and Arsenal had managed it in the modern era. Then as others have said whichever game it would have taken to win the title in 86, thereby also stopping the other team from winning the double. After that I'm not so bothered. Obviously any final that we lost (though those of you saying 89, bear in mind we would have been branded as spoil sports if we had won that one ... there was even talk of abandoning the competition), but other games like Villareal, Fiorentina, Kiev, Wigan ... even semi finals, are a waste of a vote. Coming right up to date, the 4-0 at A*field was particularly depressing, especially as we went into the game thinking we had a good chance of winning, plus it was pissing with rain and I got a puncture on the way to the match. But these defeats, paricularly against another Merseyside team, are what make us who we are. It's character building.
 
1. The Clive Thomas semi, the most painful injustice of my Evertonian history which will never be topped.
2. The League Cup Final replay in 77. Brian Little ffs.
3. The Milk Cup Final at Wembley in 84. Alan Handballsen ffs.
4. 0-5 to the shoite in 82. Glen Keeley you woppa
5. Fiorentina, we played too well to lose that game.
 

What about the semi before Heysel, stopped that from happening and give us a shot at the European cup, League cup finals v Villa. FA Cup final v Chelsea for the younsters to see us win something.............
 
Final vs Chelski - just to see us win a trophy.
Villareal - just to see us compete against Milan, Barca and Bayern.
Liverpool - semi final.
Dynamo Kiev Away - I genuinely thought we had a chance.
Wigan - FA CUP at home.

I werent around for the 80's trophy challenges so thats all i got really of any significant note.
 
Though there are obviously much more important games id pick to change, for some reason the Villa Match in 08-09 when we lost 3-2 was first thing in my head. Up there with the most gutted ive ever been after a Match. Dont know why it sticks out so much with all the other painful defeats i can think of but for some reason it still really stings.
 
2001 Derby, Biscan sent off. Last minute McAllister winner currently on sky sports 1
 

There is a whole pile of them from the 1970s when often it was case of "what if...". The 1971 semi final has already been mentioned, but the derby at Anfield earlier that season was equally cataclysmic. 2-0 up having scored two different but excellent goals, we conspired to throw it away. The result gave the Viet Cong enormous belief and destroyed ours. For me it's a result that was the first domino in a decade of drabness.
 
For me it would also be the 1985 cup final as it meant we would have done the domestic double before them across the park.despite all their dominance in the 70s and 80s they didn't achieve it untill 86 (at our expense sadly ) and that would have hurt their pride.
Others would be Oxford away in 86,cost us retaining the title. The 1971 semi final defeat to that lot again saw the downward spiral begin for the school of science.
Also the 2009 Cup final,just to see us win a trophy in the 21st century really.
 
Merseyzig said:
There is a whole pile of them from the 1970s when often it was case of "what if...". The 1971 semi final has already been mentioned, but the derby at Anfield earlier that season was equally cataclysmic. 2-0 up having scored two different but excellent goals, we conspired to throw it away. The result gave the Viet Cong enormous belief and destroyed ours. For me it's a result that was the first domino in a decade of drabness.
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There is a lot of truth in that. My dad went and was on the Kop! Never went to an Anfield Derby again. We were coasting it and threw it away if my memory of his story is correct. It was the rise of the Toshack Heighway combo that caused us a lot of trouble and gave them the belief their star was on the up and ours on the down.
 

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