Lineker us and the 80s

[dublinbluenose]

Sharpy stated he & other players missed loads of easy chances that night = the pressure made most players do it - that old boots analogy was rubbish for GL....

No he actually didn't have his favourite boots, they went missing when sent to be repaired

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[Joey66]

No he actually didn't have his favourite boots, they went missing when sent to be repaired

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It was just a myth & excuse that game other players missed sitters according to Sharp including himself!

 

[FinnT]

I remember the moment it turned that season... We scrambled a 1 - 1 with Chelsea at Goodison - a live TV game. Then we lost to Two late goals at Luton - the same day the redshite walloped Oxford 6 - 0. You could sense that day we werent going to retain it. Just one of those feelings.

 

[StreetEndBlue]

Many reasons have been put forward for our double failure of '86 but something that rarely, if ever, gets mentioned is why the hell in the April did Carter allow Kendall to go off and have talks and sign a provisional contract with Barcelona whilst we were right in the midst of fighting our biggest rivals for the league and cup double?

HK should've been told in no uncertain terms no talks with them could take place until the end of the season with his 100% focus on this club instead of fluttering his eyelashes at another one, not only that, he comes back from the talks telling Gary Lineker we were preparing to sell him to Barca. Read into that what you will.

In Peter Reid's diary of the 85/86 season 'Everton winter Mexican summer' he details that the players knew Kendall was preparing to leave for Spain that summer. Surely that could well have unsettled them at a critical point of the season and our history?

Couldn't blame him for being interested in the job at Barca given we were out of Europe but his head was turned with two huge prizes nearly in our grasp only for both to slip.

 

[Drico]

Many reasons have been put forward for our double failure of '86 but something that rarely, if ever, gets mentioned is why the hell in the April did Carter allow Kendall to go off and have talks and sign a provisional contract with Barcelona whilst we were right in the midst of fighting our biggest rivals for the league and cup double?

HK should've been told in no uncertain terms no talks with them could take place until the end of the season with his 100% focus on this club instead of fluttering his eyelashes at another one, not only that, he comes back from the talks telling Gary Lineker we were preparing to sell him to Barca. Read into that what you will.

In Peter Reid's diary of the 85/86 season 'Everton winter Mexican summer' he details that the players knew Kendall was preparing to leave for Spain that summer. Surely that could well have unsettled them at a critical point of the season and our history?

Couldn't blame him for being interested in the job at Barca given we were out of Europe but his head was turned with two huge prizes nearly in our grasp only for both to slip.

Yeah, I have long felt that the sainted Howard - and mainly those around him at the club - got off quite lightly in the story of our 80s demise.

His head was turned. Fair enough. But the way Carter just facilitated all of this speaks to complacency and laziness. "Give it to Colin, then". Harvey, great Evertonian that he is, was a very mediocre manager indeed. He was left holding the baby by our administrative incompetence.

In 86, when Barca came calling on Merseyside, they actually rang Anfield first about King Kenny, and were told in no uncertain terms he was not available but there is a fine manager across the park who we might interest you in...

Even at our best, they were playing 3D chess against us.

 

[StreetEndBlue]

Yeah, I have long felt that the sainted Howard - and mainly those around him at the club - got off quite lightly in the story of our 80s demise.

His head was turned. Fair enough. But the way Carter just facilitated all of this speaks to complacency and laziness. "Give it to Colin, then". Harvey, great Evertonian that he is, was a very mediocre manager indeed. He was left holding the baby by our administrative incompetence.

In 86, when Barca came calling on Merseyside, they actually rang Anfield first about King Kenny, and were told in no uncertain terms he was not available but there is a fine manager across the park who we might interest you in...

Even at our best, they were playing 3D chess against us.

Complacency it was on behalf of Carter. Just what he was playing at allowing Kendall to go and talk to another club with us so close to making history will always remain a mystery. There's not a chance any Liverpool manager would've been given the green light by their board to talk to another club so close to the end of any season, let alone one with trophies there to be won.

The last bit you say about Barcelona coming calling for Dalglish but was told by people at Liverpool to look at Kendall instead, that was actually Athletico Bilbao a year later. HK talked about it in his autobiography.

 

[Rita_Poon]

they actually rang Anfield first about King Kenny,

 

[PrekisCrossBarlow!]

Sharpy stated he & other players missed loads of easy chances that night = the pressure made most players do it - that old boots analogy was rubbish for GL....

That Oxford away match has been twisted in the mists of time.

We may have missed a sitter or two but they battered us, and it could easily have been about 4-1 or 5-1 to them.

 

[wba83]

Many reasons have been put forward for our double failure of '86 but something that rarely, if ever, gets mentioned is why the hell in the April did Carter allow Kendall to go off and have talks and sign a provisional contract with Barcelona whilst we were right in the midst of fighting our biggest rivals for the league and cup double?

HK should've been told in no uncertain terms no talks with them could take place until the end of the season with his 100% focus on this club instead of fluttering his eyelashes at another one, not only that, he comes back from the talks telling Gary Lineker we were preparing to sell him to Barca. Read into that what you will.

In Peter Reid's diary of the 85/86 season 'Everton winter Mexican summer' he details that the players knew Kendall was preparing to leave for Spain that summer. Surely that could well have unsettled them at a critical point of the season and our history?

Couldn't blame him for being interested in the job at Barca given we were out of Europe but his head was turned with two huge prizes nearly in our grasp only for both to slip.

I never knew that in April 86 Kendall went to see Barca mate so at the start of our championship year 87 he and the players knew he was going at the end of the 87 season

 

[StreetEndBlue]

I never knew that in April 86 Kendall went to see Barca mate so at the start of our championship year 87 he and the players knew he was going at the end of the 87 season

Terry Venables was supposed to be leaving Barcelona in the summer of '86 and he'd recommended Kendall to the Barca board as his replacement. They made a move and HK went to meet them, with the blessing of Carter, and he agreed to take the job and signed a provisional contract. I believe this had a destabilising effect at a critical time considering what happened with us blowing the double very shortly after.

What makes it worse was Venables eventually signed a new deal at the Nou Camp so it was all for nothing and they signed Lineker off us on the cheap. I've really disliked them ever since this episode.