Tell me about the 1985-86 season

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sheeds said:
Weren't we a couple of goals down to Luton in the FA cup and game back to draw and lineker scored the winner at goodison . I also remember lineker changing his boots and going a few games with scoring , did he revert to his old boots ?
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Someone referenced that earlier in the thread about the Oxford game. He left his boots at home or something and missed a bunch of sitters I think.
 
You see that game, sheeds?

I always day that was where we lost the league.

As you say, we came from two down and should have made it 3-2 when Sharpy missed a sitter right at the end we were all crammed into.

But if he had scored there would have been no replay that midweek (the replays were played right away back then)......and we would have played the Oxford away game which was scheduled for rhe Tuesday or Wednesday.


I always say if we had played Oxford when we should have played them we would have blown them away as they were in horrendous form at the time.

But there ya go......:(
 
johnnydawg68 said:
Someone referenced that earlier in the thread about the Oxford game. He left his boots at home or something and missed a bunch of sitters I think.
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I might be wrong but I thought the boots were earlier than Oxford , which was by the way a truly horrible away ground . As discussed Without a doubt the fact Southall broke his ankle playing for Wales in Dublin cost us , mimms was ok he just wasn't the best keeper in the world.
 
Khalekan said:
You see that game, sheeds?

I always day that was where we lost the league.

As you say, we came from two down and should have made it 3-2 when Sharpy missed a sitter right at the end we were all crammed into.

But if he had scored there would have been no replay that midweek (the replays were played right away back then)......and we would have played the Oxford away game which was scheduled for rhe Tuesday or Wednesday.


I always say if we had played Oxford when we should have played them we would have blown them away as they were in horrendous form at the time.

But there ya go......:(
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Yeah I was there mate , 20 years later 3-0 down I'd have stormed out but then I stayed and we absolutely battered them we really deserved at least a point. Spot on on the Oxford game I'd forgotten that.
 
1985-86 ?

We should have won the Double.

But we blew it at Oxford and THEY did, for the first and only time in their history. To swallow a more bitter pill would be nigh on impossible.

Oh and Bobby Mimms.
 
banno said:
What I remember about that season is Gary Lineker was a goal scoring machine. Problem was we changed our way of playing and became a little more direct than usual trying to utilise Linekers pace. Southall missed the last 10 games or so and Peter Reid was also a major casualty that season. Still think we were a far better team than anyone else yet we ended up with nowt. The Oxford game was the killer. It still came down to the last game of the season, we needed Chelsea to beat Liverpool at the bridge and us beat southampton. Chelsea let us down. The Cup Final to me looked quite comfortable for us until Gary Stevens did a shocker of a pass from which they equalised from then we sort of collapsed.
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This is a pretty good summary.

The way I remember it is we played a kind of total football in 84-85 with 7 players in double figures in the goals front (including defenders Mountfield and Stevens). we turned to a more static 4-4-2 with Lineker and Sharp hogging the goals (64 betwen them if I remember rightly). When the strikers failed however, we didn't have enough back up from other parts of the pitch. The rs still had the winning habit from all those years collecting trophies and were just more consistant.

I. Was. Gutted.
 
Jamo Martinez said:
This is a pretty good summary.

The way I remember it is we played a kind of total football in 84-85 with 7 players in double figures in the goals front (including defenders Mountfield and Stevens). we turned to a more static 4-4-2 with Lineker and Sharp hogging the goals (64 betwen them if I remember rightly). When the strikers failed however, we didn't have enough back up from other parts of the pitch. The rs still had the winning habit from all those years collecting trophies and were just more consistant.

I. Was. Gutted.
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That is what I thought TBH. Any idea how the goals were shared out the next season ?
 
electricblue said:
1985-86 ?

We should have won the Double.

But we blew it at Oxford and THEY did, for the first and only time in their history. To swallow a more bitter pill would be nigh on impossible.

Oh and Bobby Mimms.[/QUOTE]

See, that's what i remember. No injury to Southall, we would have won 3 on the trot.
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Jamo Martinez said:
86-87? the abiding memory for me was clarke's goal at Highbury.
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Great lob/chip, soon as that went in we knew we had the league sewn up.
Sharp only scored 5 league goals that season but it was well distributed in midfield (better than 85/86) with Sheeds and Steven chipping in with 27 goals between them and being our leading scorers. Paul Power turned out to be a great signing.
 
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