Better yet, there were no live radio games in the opening weeks of that season either due to some dispute or other.
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Better yet, there were no live radio games in the opening weeks of that season either due to some dispute or other.
Ratkiller
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He done something along those lines in dempseys one night.
He came a bit unstuck. Lucky for him Gary Stevens calmed it down and got him away.
Looking back on that season, I am still baffled as to why we never wound up as champions.
We won at Anfield in Febrary or March to go about nine points clear and everyone, Kopites included, thought that was the end of it.
We never did much wrong after that.....but from memory they won their last ten matches in a row or something mad like that.
Even then, we were still looking like winners until one fateful April evening when we went to Oxford of all places and were beaten by a late Billy Hamilton goal.
And even at that........going into the last game we were a point behind them but they had a tough looking game at Chelsea and we were at home to Saints (I think)
We won 7-0 or something like that and at one stage Goodison erupted as a rumour swept the Old Lady that Chelsea had taken the lead.
But alas, it was Dalglish whom had scored at Chelsea and the rest is history.
The following week we faced them at Wembley and we battered them in the first half and lead through a Lineker goal.
At one stage Beglin and Grobbelaar were boxing right in front of where I was standing.
They were in disarray.....but the Gods intervened as usual and they turned the tables in the second half.
It was the worst trip home from an away match.....ever.
We won at Anfield in Febrary or March to go about nine points clear and everyone, Kopites included, thought that was the end of it.
We never did much wrong after that.....but from memory they won their last ten matches in a row or something mad like that.
Even then, we were still looking like winners until one fateful April evening when we went to Oxford of all places and were beaten by a late Billy Hamilton goal.
And even at that........going into the last game we were a point behind them but they had a tough looking game at Chelsea and we were at home to Saints (I think)
We won 7-0 or something like that and at one stage Goodison erupted as a rumour swept the Old Lady that Chelsea had taken the lead.
But alas, it was Dalglish whom had scored at Chelsea and the rest is history.
The following week we faced them at Wembley and we battered them in the first half and lead through a Lineker goal.
At one stage Beglin and Grobbelaar were boxing right in front of where I was standing.
They were in disarray.....but the Gods intervened as usual and they turned the tables in the second half.
It was the worst trip home from an away match.....ever.
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johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
Good stuff. Thanks for sharing mate.
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
JD mate, get hold a book, "Fever Pitch", by Nick Hornby. It has nothing to do with Everton, but it chronicles his life as a Gooner during the 70s & 80s. Will give you a real feel for how it was to follow footie back then. It is also a very good read to boot.
It was 6-1 versus Southampton mate with a lineker hat-trick and I remember that rumour of a Chelsea goal, god it feels like a million years ago.
lowerbullensperson
Player Valuation: £25k
i can put it down to one game and that was liverpool at home we went 3 goals behind then pulled 2 back lineker missed a couple of chances to level, so if he had we would have had 1 point more but they would have had 2 points less and we would have won the league (in a nut shell )
johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
It's one of my favorite books ever. I ready i shortly after converting to footie and Everton. It's amazing. The movie version is ace too.
johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
Funnily enough they replay that game over here from time to time and I watch it every time. I can't imagine what that day must have felt like in the ground.
Edit: It's really weird to watch that game with no Park End Stand re-built yet.
johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
Just watched it (the shortened version on youtube). Dalglish score about 10 seconds in.
If we'd have come back and we should have , it would've have been one of my favourite games we were brilliant second half
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
Believe it or not, that day I was at Wembley, watching my mate play in the FA Trophy, (The FA Cup for non league), for Taunton Town against Diss, pretty much in the Royal Box! My mate come on as a sub as our 3rd screamed in, so I am jumping about like a loon, while every one wonders why I love the Taunton sub so much! True story mate.
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