Three from your era


Teenage Me...

Kit - think was Big Nev's last year and he had a cob on all the time in this kit.

Player - Gary Speed
Great when we had a regular scoring midfielder


Goal
Was this or Farrely or Ferguson under Dave Watson. Tough times 96 to 98
 

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Kit:
Around that time I was about 10 years old and really loved playing in goal. I remember saving up my pocket money to buy the top from JJB Sports for about 35 pounds. I recall the padded elbow parts of the top, and just how thick the whole thing was, as well as its weird rolled-up-at-the-top neck part - can't imagine goalkeepers being too happy wearing such material nowadays! I don't think I appreciated the great Neville Southall at the time, but obviously as you get older and understand what was achieved with the club, it's impossible to deny he's been our greatest ever goalkeeper.
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Player:
As I got into my teenage years I got into a team, as a left back, a decade before we signed Leighton. If we'd have had a flying left back at that time it might have helped push me to the next level, but I still played pretty well. In Baines, 10 years later, I saw everything that I dreamed of becoming; a low-key yet popular, marauding full back more than capable of landing a free kick in the back of the net.

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Goal:
0:25 below. For the sheer yet short-lived significance of the goal, it has to be this one, by my second favourite ever player for Everton. Less than 8m for the signings of Baines and Cahill - if we could repeat that with inflation now it would help us no end!
 


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