The Everton "train wreckers".......

[Merseyzig]

I love the accents on the blokes in this clip, so much warmer than its modern day equivalent.

 

[bluelife]

I love the accents on the blokes in this clip, so much warmer than its modern day equivalent.

Aye. Only time I hear them nowadays is watching old Beatles interviews and that. Shame

 

[fitzyefc]

any way to view this on youtube my phone doesnt play flash

 

[Winslow89]

Our support in the early 60s was certainly the subject of some media distaste. I've still got somewhere some old Charles Buchan Annuals with articles about the hostility of the Everton support. One was written by Kenneth Wolstenholme. Another was about a well known Arsenal supporter of the time who always wore a top to toe Arsenal design suit complete with top hat, rosettes etc. In the article he's asked is there any ground he doesn't wear the outfit to. He said the only place he'd never wear it was GP because the crowd is too hostile to away supporters.

The train wrecking was a regular thing. Remember that the specials and coaches were the main means of travel then.

Interestingly you can probably trace the start of the media love-in with the RS to this era. Because while we were repeatedly being attacked by the press (not just the fans but the club eg the infamous purple hearts allegations by the Sunday People) and were reluctant to talk to the media (we even banned the TV cameras for a spell) those lovable Reds were being fawned over for their pre-match singing of Beatles and other songs on the Kop.

Quality post this. My dad was born in 1960, and used to talk about how crazy it was even in the late 70s/early 80s for travelling away etc. I was at City away before christmas (behind enemy lines) and got the vibe that their support is mostly a family affair. The game has really changed.

 

[summerisle]

Below is from Toffeweb ; I was a nice middle class kid sitting in the rickety stands so had no problems

• • In 1977 Everton had beaten Second Division Bolton Wanderers (2-1) on aggregate to reach Wembley and similarly to the 1984 campaign had also made good progress in the FA Cup. On January 18th 1977, Steve Burtenshaw’s Everton – Billy Bingham had been relieved of his duties following the 3rd round FA Cup victory over Stoke - had taken the lead at Goodison courtesy of a goal from Duncan McKenzie (33’), following a Ronnie Goodlass corner-kick. The match had remained at that scoreline until late in the game when David Lawson had been penalised for the four-step rule and Bolton’s Neil Whatmore (88’) had blasted the resultant free-kick into the Everton net to earn the Trotters a draw (1-1). The 54,032 fans who had packed into Goodison would have to wait almost a month to see which of the two sides would reach Wembley.Aston Villa had travelled to Goodison in the hope of reaching yet another League Cup Final, as their record in the competition had been far superior to that of Everton who had only reached Wembley on one previous occasion and that had been in 1977, when Aston Villa had eventually triumphed when they had beaten Everton (2-3) following a goalless draw at Wembley and another draw at Hillsborough (1-1). Villa had won the competition on three previous occasions, they had won the inaugural competition in 1961 and had triumphed at Wembley in 1975 and their most recent victory had come in that match with Everton in 1977 at Old Trafford.

1977 Goodison First Leg Line-up
Everton: Lawson, Robinson, Jones, Lyons, McNaught, Hamilton, King, Dobson, Latchford, McKenzie, Goodlass

The second-leg at Burnden Park played on February 15th attracted 50,413 people - and those of us who had a ticket but had been chased by the Bolton mad-lads, who had then proceeded to rob us of our money and more importantly our tickets also robbed us of our chance to see Everton reach Wembley, and we had to listen to the radio commentary in a local hostelry while we waited for our parents to collect us– Bob Latchford (24’) had opened the scoring with what many have described as a goal good enough to win any match as he powerfully headed a Ronnie Goodlass cross into the Bolton goal midway through the first-half and Duncan McKenzie (65’) had frustratingly spurned the opportunity to truly ignite the Everton party midway through the second-half when he had put his penalty-kick wide of the goal.

Fortunately there were no more goals to report and Bob Latchford’s goal had been enough to secure a place at Wembley to face Aston Villa. It had been the first time that Everton had reached a final at Wembley in my time of watching and I couldn’t believe that I had been literally ‘robbed’ of the opportunity of attending that match. It had been reported in a future Everton v Bolton Wanderers programme that the floodlights on one side of Burnden Park had failed and that the Referee - according to the Bolton magazine - Jack Taylor had been temporarily knocked-out, I assume it had been nothing more sinister than him being hit by the football. Future Everton players in the Bolton side included a 20 year old Peter Reid, Jim McDonagh and Mike Walsh and Bolton also had West Ham United’s current manager Sam Allardyce in their line-up.

1977 Burnden Park Second Leg Line-up
Everton: Lawson, Bernard, Jones, Lyons, McNaught, Hamilton, King, Dobson, Latchford, McKenzie, Goodlass