What Decade Was Your Favourite?

[Cork Evertonian]

Both the nineties and noughties for me. I doubt i'll ever be happy as i was back then either! The twenty tens weren't that bad either, but then 2020 happened, and then we had covid, and then we had the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and then we had the talk about electricity blackouts, and rising energy prices and fuel shortages!

I have memories of 1989 as well, i can remember my first day at school, and the day my younger brother arrived home for the first time fairly clearly.

The 80's were a miserable decade overall, but i'm not sure was it as bleak a decade as now though. At least in the 80's you had great music, there was no covid and Everton were boss and winning stuff on a fairly consistent and frequent basis!

 

[Rita_Poon]

Both the nineties and noughties for me. I doubt i'll ever be happy as i was back then either!

For an opener about favourites, this'll take some beating.

 

[Cork Evertonian]

For an opener about favourites, this'll take some beating.

I'm just being a realist. I'm sure there will still be great moments, and Everton might win something again, but we all have a period of time in our lives that we look back on with fondness and affection, and we lament the fact that those day's won't be coming back ever again.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

80s..
The music.
Leaving school.
A Vespa.
Realising its not just for stirring tea..
Leaving home.
Everton, of course.
90s when my kids were born,but without leaving home I wouldn't have met Mrs AB .

 

[Rita_Poon]

I'm just being a realist. I'm sure there will still be great moments, and Everton might win something again, but we all have a period of time in our lives that we look back on with fondness and affection, and we lament the fact that those day's won't be coming back ever again.

Having struggled with some darkness of my own, I found that the more I considered the when I was happiest and the whys with it, it prevented me from accepting what had happened and being able to get onto terms and move forwards. Guaranteeing that there was no more happiness on its way as I was to busy carrying around the past. Ordinarily this is where I'd quote something like "you've got to live for today as its a gift, thats why its called the present" and other such. The thing is you might be right, and life tends to be much less painful (physically and mentally) in your 20s and 30s if you're lucky. The thing is you never know whats round the corner, for better or worse, its the living it and cherishing the moments with family and friends where you can that keep us together and carrying on for. Whatever is burning your backside, it isn't worth despairing over. Though it's easier said than done.

 

[kev]

I voted the 1970s.
I guess most people will vote for the decade that they were in their late teens and early 20's.
The 1970s were the time of my life (complete with crushed velvet loons and 4" platform shoes) lol

The only downside for people who were 20 in the 70s is that we'll be 70 in the 20s

 

[Billy Dean]

90s for me. My teenage years, loads of good music and ace times

 

[Cork Evertonian]

80s..
The music.
Leaving school.
A Vespa.
Realising its not just for stirring tea..
Leaving home.
Everton, of course.
90s when my kids were born,but without leaving home I wouldn't have met Mrs AB .

That period of time from January 1984 to May 1987 must have been awesome to experience. Cork won two hurling all Irelands in 1984 and 1986, and another one in gaelic football in 1989 as well.

Times were hard economically back then, in Ireland we had lots of strikes and factory closures, and it was a tough period for Liverpool as well.

A month after i was born the Ford motor company factory closed down, and that had a devastating impact on Cork as a city. In summer 1985, they were gone demented thinking the statues were moving down in Ballinspittle.lol

You look at the music though, and i love the music from that period, and you look at the sport Everton doing so well, and Cork winning all Irelands (post their 1990 double, Cork have only won four all Irelands in the subsequent thirty two years) on a fairly frequent basis, i do lament the fact that i have no proper memories of the period.

 

[Karbutar]

Started following Everton in 2003, so I went with the 90s..

 

[McBain]

The one where you used to strap yourself in for an afternoon of Sport when you heard this come on the Telly.

 

[Cork Evertonian]

The one where you used to strap yourself in for an afternoon of Sport when you heard this come on the Telly.

In the AFL Carlton won three flags in the 80's 1981,1982 and 1987. It wasn't a bad decade for your Paramatta Eels either! So in aussie sports your team and my team were firing an all cylinders, and Everton were winning loads of trophies as well!

 

[Cork Evertonian]

Great video this is. That Cork team had some great characters in it such as Kevin Hennessy, and of course the coach the legendary father Michael O'Brien!

Everton winning the FA Cup, a Cork Double, and Ireland at Italia 1990. The nineties shade it over the noughties for me really.

 

[McBain]

In the AFL Carlton won three flags in the 80's 1981,1982 and 1987. It wasn't a bad decade for your Paramatta Eels either! So in aussie sports your team and my team were firing an all cylinders, and Everton were winning loads of trophies as well!

It was a golden age! Let's hope Frank put the spring back in our step and dusts off the old trophy mantle.

 

[ilikecheese]

When people were in their 20's generally unless you rose to financial levels you thought were beyond in your 20"s and archived them in your late 30's or 40's.

 

[Rich B]

I voted 90's. Britpop, late teens, girls, FA CUP win 1995, memories of that game against Wimbledon. On a personal level, life was so much more care free than adult life with family, mortgage, career. I'd love to go back to the 90's.