The happiest EFC have ever made you/the saddest EFC have ever made you

[mythbuster]

Happiest (I was in the Lower Bullens this day.)

Saddest: ('86 cup final)

 

[mahermi1]

The season we won the league and the cup winners cup at the time we were up there with the best of Europe. The saddest easy the day we sold Alan Ball to Arsenal, my favourite ever player.

 

[radiostar]

The season we won the league and the cup winners cup at the time we were up there with the best of Europe. The saddest easy the day we sold Alan Ball to Arsenal, my favourite ever player.

Cant understand why more people havent said this to be honest!!!

I was just a young lad so didnt properly appreciate it at the time but ive seen it and i dont think that year will ever be beaten! A treble could have been ours, a European trophy was the best though.

 

[Housequake]

Happiest:

 

[Eric Djemba-Djemba]

Happiest:

Haha, definitely up there for me as well.

 

[nigelcoyb]

Eddie Cavanagh slipping his jacket in the '66 final leaving the copper on the deck encapsulated everything about us - no-one could touch us.

We outplayed Shef weds but our top goal scorer Fred Pickering had picked up an injury and wasn't in the team, a young unknown by the name of Mike Trebilcock was in as replacement and with 30 mins left we were losing 2 nil!

As a young 'un glued to the telly with our kid, mam and dad, grandad and aunty pat I offered up a silent prayer in forlorn hope.

Such a day lives with you forever, you can count the times in your life when you really feel god stands shoulder to shoulder with you - this was such a day.

Trebilcock scored to make it 2-1 and as my xmas Everton annual later said "the noise of Evertonians rose to such a crescendo the foundations of the great old stadium shook" then incredibly Trebilcock scored a second.

I was just old enough to begin to take on board the tales of Everton greatness I listened to older family members talking about Dixie Dean scoring 60 league goals in one season of Lawton, Mercer and others of incomparable title and league records and then in front of my own eyes the legend of this club appeared.

The ball broke to Derek Temple alone on the edge of the Wednesday box he took a few strides and cracked the ball past the great goalkeeper Ron Springett.

There had been a miracle .... and I saw it.


Then we sold Ball and quite frankly the club has never been the same.

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[Blues Harp]

Loads of brilliant memories and some depths of despair.. reckon I have more than most on here being an arl git... part of being a Blue..in the end you move on and realise it is a game after all.. Still hate Clive Thomas though but remember us winning 4-0 at the ****e in early 60s

 

[IJC2]

For me the saddest moment was listening to the BBC World Service in a ****ty gym in a kibbutz in Israel (the only place I could find a radio which picked up the BBC at the time) and going 2 down against Wimbledon - really thought we were down. Fortunately, I was alone and nobody saw my first tears as an adult.

The happiest was when Inchy scored against Southampton in the semi at Highbury - I was in the Clock End and it was like bedlam in there - I thought I was hugging my dad only to realize it was a complete stranger after about 30 seconds of jumping up and down together - that was the day when it hit me, and I'm sure many other people, that we were on the verge of something great.

 

[Ben LeBlanc]

Can't post images yet, but the 2012 Derby was the first time I went to the new Wembley (had the misfortune of missing the semi-final and final of 2009.) But I have never felt a gutted as this, seeing my old man put his head in his hands was awful. Then they added insult to injury by playing You'll Never Walk Alone FFS. There were tears.

 

[Debaser]

Happiest - every single game I attended in the 1984-1985 season, home or away we absolutely battered everyone. But one game stands out that at the end every single person in attendance knew we were witnessing a truly special time. I to this day have never seen a performance like it, we absolutely annihilated them, and could have won by 12. The atmosphere, sheer joy and disbelief at what we were witnessing.

Click on this to witness Everton FC at the best they have ever been. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08ojFNTG1oE

I was on a high for months after that game. Every game I ever been to at Goodison since, I close my eyes and remember that day.

Saddest. 85 cup final was bad enough, but the 86 one was worse, for obvious reasons.

All the disappointments since (and there have been MANY) just do not come as close as, come on be honest everyone, we have come to live with it and expect it at times since the late 80's haven't we?. To me, losing (the odd game) over that period of about 3 years was so tough to take because we we so good at the time. Remember the Oxford United game away at the end of the 1985-1986 season? Battered them. Lineker should have scored 10, (used the excuse he had different boots on If I remember). That loss handed the title to Liverpool. Worst journey home IN MY LIFE (well (apart from the 2 cup finals mentioned above )

 

[TyphooToffee]

Did you pretend you didn't know the score lad and get dead upseat when Whiteside slotted in ET?

Did you put pretend bets on first goal scorer as if it was really happening the day you watched it Mick?

Did you buy the papers from 18 May 1985 of ebay and read them before you put the VHS on lad to get you into the F.A cup spirit?

Where I was seated I could see the bend on the ball, and that it was going in. as Whiteside had his back to me and was in direct line between me and Nev. In the bar after the game I saw Reidy, Trevor Steven and Gary Stephens waiting to travel to wherever the England camp was. They were sitting with their backs to the wall and looked devastated. It didn't help that I went on about how I could see it was gonna happen as soon as Moran got sent off' :stick:

I should add that I was in the bar where all the celebs were. A mate of my brother used to do all the travel arrangements for the FA and was able to get tickets, but they were always the expensive ones. But Wembley was my second home in the mid-eighties. It started well with the win over Watford in '84, but '85 and, worse, '86 were real downers.

 

[Azzurri]

Happiest: Sunderland away in the FA Cup quarter final replay. 7,000 of us went there and watched us piss all over them to set up what we thought was going to be a boss win against the shyte at Wembley.

Saddest: When we capitulated against the other lot a few weeks later.

 

[Pat's Van]

Happiest (I was in the Lower Bullens this day.)

Neil Pointin championing the DVD revolution there.

Ahead of his time that lad. A true revolutionary.

 

[pablo315]

I grew up in the 90's using my junior Evertonians card to get in the glady for a fiver! We didn't have much to cheer back then but I managed to get my first derby ticket for a night game which also happened to be joe royals first game for the club. We were introduced to a new hero that night. He took on the ****e defense on his own and bludgeoned them into submission. I was right behind the goal, when the big man rose 2 foot above their keeper to nail the best header you'll ever see. That is still the happiest I have been as an Evertion. The saddest was day the **** Johnson sold him behind the managers back.

 

[UltimoBarry]

Funny bloke Neil Pointon, remember having a kick about with him on the pitch at Tynecastle when he was playing for Hearts in about '98. He then went on to kick the buggery out of an Aberdeen winger for 90 minutes on the way to a 4-1 romp. Happy memories