Tell me about the 1985-86 season

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johnnydawg68 said:
So you're saying Everton were the best team in the league, and were arguably the best team in England, maybe Europe over 3 seasons and they never featured on TV at all that year? Mind boggling.
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Yep. But footie was not popular in the same way it is now. No replica shirts, mass segregation, violence, etc etc. You didnt have the same "love in" you get now. For example, no MP would dream of saying they supported a team, now it is pretty much mandatory they pronounce their love for someone or other. Game was on its knees really.

Probably had more live Rugby, Cricket, Tennis, Golf & Snooker than footie.
 
thebluefox said:
inchy i think sheeds
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Yeah you might be right mate , Long time ago !

Who was the jockey that was Andys mates ? I remember him doing rehab somewhere and a bloke was chatting to him about everton and andy not really interested and the bloke walked away until someone told him he was jockey and andy nearly broke his new getting off the bike he was on to catch him up.
 
roydo said:
Yep. But footie was not popular in the same way it is now. No replica shirts, mass segregation, violence, etc etc. You didnt have the same "love in" you get now. For example, no MP would dream of saying they supported a team, now it is pretty much mandatory they pronounce their love for someone or other. Game was on its knees really.

Probably had more live Rugby, Cricket, Tennis, Golf & Snooker than footie.
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This is interesting. Maybe deserves it's own thread but my understanding is that footie was very much the working class sport and the middle and upper classes, by and large, didn't have the same attachment for it as say cricket, rugby, golf, tennis etc.

Fair?
 
roydo said:
Yep. But footie was not popular in the same way it is now. No replica shirts, mass segregation, violence, etc etc. You didnt have the same "love in" you get now. For example, no MP would dream of saying they supported a team, now it is pretty much mandatory they pronounce their love for someone or other. Game was on its knees really.

Probably had more live Rugby, Cricket, Tennis, Golf & Snooker than footie.
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That's a great point , I was typing out something like that before but you've hit it better.
 
sheeds said:
Yeah you might be right mate , Long time ago !

Who was the jockey that was Andys mates ? I remember him doing rehab somewhere and a bloke was chatting to him about everton and andy not really interested and the bloke walked away until someone told him he was jockey and andy nearly broke his new getting off the bike he was on to catch him up.
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dont know sheeds , i know a few andy gray storys like , he was a lad was andy , your mate will remember the jockey wont he .
 
thebluefox said:
dont know sheeds , i know a few andy gray storys like , he was a lad was andy , your mate will remember the jockey wont he .
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Yeah i'll ask him if he's ever back in England out of the sun he was always with that formby crowd and like you say they had a few stories . If there had been media like now and camera phones can you imagine the papers about that crowd ?
 
johnnydawg68 said:
This is interesting. Maybe deserves it's own thread but my understanding is that footie was very much the working class sport and the middle and upper classes, by and large, didn't have the same attachment for it as say cricket, rugby, golf, tennis etc.

Fair?
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Spot on JD. We were the great unwashed, thats for sure. Looking back on it now, it was awful, but at the time, it was just the way it was. Most clubs had a hard core of nutcase hooligans, usually with a name. I remember the ICF, (Inner city firm) from West Ham, and their MO was to kick your head in, at least, then leave their ICF business cards on the body. Nice. Every club had them to some extent. Organised pre and post match fights were commonplace.

Late 70s was different. Then the idea then was for the away team fans to "take" the home end. 20 mins in, it would all kick off. Darts, knives, chains. But my old man thought nothing about dropping me at the match, (in Bristol), as a 10 year old, right behind the goal, knowing that a flare up was likely. Like I said, different days.
 
to be honest i wouldnt say we played great football that year ,gave a few hidings out arsenal 6.1 city 4,0 southampton 6,1 , but we were a lot more direct , with links pace , i think the goal v luton in the qf reply sumed up the way we played that year , highlight of the season for me was ian marshall bursting on to the scene, what a tosser he was, still have nightmares over that beaut
 
sheeds said:
Yeah i'll ask him if he's ever back in England out of the sun he was always with that formby crowd and like you say they had a few stories . If there had been media like now and camera phones can you imagine the papers about that crowd ?
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mate we could of made a fortune, the formby crew were allways in the alt in magull
 
thebluefox said:
to be honest i wouldnt say we played great football that year ,gave a few hidings out arsenal 6.1 city 4,0 southampton 6,1 , but we were a lot more direct , with links pace , i think the goal v luton in the qf reply sumed up the way we played that year , highlight of the season for me was ian marshall bursting on to the scene, what a tosser he was, still have nightmares over that beaut
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When he was at Oldham I think big joe used to send him out whilst he gave the team talks as it just confused him . Didn't they call him swamp donkey or swamp monster or something like that ?
 
roydo said:
Spot on JD. We were the great unwashed, thats for sure. Looking back on it now, it was awful, but at the time, it was just the way it was. Most clubs had a hard core of nutcase hooligans, usually with a name. I remember the ICF, (Inner city firm) from West Ham, and their MO was to kick your head in, at least, then leave their ICF business cards on the body. Nice. Every club had them to some extent. Organised pre and post match fights were commonplace.

Late 70s was different. Then the idea then was for the away team fans to "take" the home end. 20 mins in, it would all kick off. Darts, knives, chains. But my old man thought nothing about dropping me at the match, (in Bristol), as a 10 year old, right behind the goal, knowing that a flare up was likely. Like I said, different days.
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Totally OT but things were just different in 70's everywhere. When I wasn't in school, my parents would pretty much expect me to be out of the house on my own until it got dark. Our parents didn't think twice about us managing on our own or with our mates with out them around. Very different days now.
 
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