Understated heroes who have made huge contributions to EFC.

[weltonblue]

Amazing to think back now but Jim Arnold was our no.1 and Neville was his deputy.

And from a previous era Andy Rankin anyone?

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Good pick, matt jackson funnily enough contributed alot to that cup win. A winner against derby i think in the early rounds, the opener against spurs at elland road and a good bit of play for the build up to the goal in the final

Aye, I like Jackson, that was where his career peaked though arguably.

 

[wba83]

Kev richardson the obvious one, both kev campbell and duncan kept us up single handed in different seasons, Pienaar is someone who perhaps doesn't get mentioned outside of everton but was a fantastic footballer. I felt Don Hutchinson was a good player a few others that depend on your perception of the question I suppose.

Be interesting to hear some shouts off older members

Alan (mooncat) Harper played all over for us .screamer at Chelsea in 87 run in

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

John Hurst anyone?

 

[jaycee]

Alan (mooncat) Harper played all over for us .screamer at Chelsea in 87 run in

About 9 minutes in

 

[Eggs]

..for that last league title win there was some unlikely hero’s like Paul Power and Wayne Clarke (who @T LEAFE shared his honeymoon with), but the unsung hero for me was Pat van den Hauwe.

The full back played almost a full season as fill-in centre back and oozed quality, rounding off the campaign by scoring the title winning winner at Norwich. I always thought the Psycho tag detracted from a Rolls Royce of a footballer.

 

[T LEAFE]

..for that last league title win there was some unlikely hero’s like Paul Power and Wayne Clarke (who @T LEAFE shared his honeymoon with), but the unsung hero for me was Pat van den Hauwe.

The full back played almost a full season as fill-in centre back and oozed quality, rounding off the campaign by scoring the title winning winner at Norwich. I always thought the Psycho tag detracted from a Rolls Royce of a footballer.

Pat was a legend. No one would mess with him. A real character off the pitch and a real ladies man allegedly

 

[Dario Terracotta]

John Hurst anyone?

I went before Charles,thanks lol

 

[msb]

Buckley, john hurst, johnnie morrisey ... proper players who gave their all..

 

[Joey66]

Johnny Carey.

Famously fired during a taxi ride but not before laying the ground for Harry’s underrated 1963 Champions.

Yes my late father and now my older brother rated his football reading a book the GV reckons if he had not come seriously injured when signed by Carey he may have saved his job as his form for Hearts before serious injury was red hot - got going for Carey just too late.....
he rated him higher than the Catt......

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

I went before Charles,thanks lol

Sorry I skipped a few pages.

 

[larbert toffee]

Mick Lyons put himself in the firing line every game he played for us and kept my faith in the team when I was a youth, Kevin Campbell for his remarkable scoring record when he first joined us which saved us from relegation almost single handed.

 

[Papa Shango]

David Moyes.

Hero isn't exactly a word i'd use to describe him but I think he made a huge contribution to the club and it's understated. Look at where we were before he arrived, look at how mediocre/poor we've been since he left (other than one excellent season under Martinez). Our ambitions now, with far more resources available to us is to get back to where we were under David Moyes.

I kind of think the reverse.

Don't get me wrong I think he did a very good job here generally. However I feel like he has left us with a loser mentality. Yeah we were crap before he arrived but we don't even bother to dream any more.

 

[weltonblue]

Local lads George Telfer and Gary Jones were real understated heroes.

 

[TraffordBlue]

I kind of think the reverse.

Don't get me wrong I think he did a very good job here generally. However I feel like he has left us with a loser mentality. Yeah we were crap before he arrived but we don't even bother to dream any more.

I think that's a bit of a myth personally. That accusation could be aimed at him if we were winners in the lead up to him arriving, but we were far from it.

In the 10 years before he arrived: 13th, 17th, 15th, 6th, 15th, 17th, 14th, 13th, 16th, 15th* (* he took over with a couple of months to go)
In the next 10 years under him: 7th, 17th, 4th, 11th, 6th, 5th, 5th, 8th, 7th, 7th

The losers mentality set in long before Moyes arrived and part of his mentality was as a result of having one of the poorest owners in the league financing us and because he took over a club who had one solitary top 6 finish in the 10 years before he arrived. He didn't join a winning club at the time he took over.