Who was captain when you went to your first match?

Who was captain when you went to your first match?

  • Seamus Coleman

    Votes: 1 0.4%
  • Phil Jagielka

    Votes: 7 3.0%
  • Phil Neville

    Votes: 11 4.7%
  • Weir/Stubbs/Ferguson, I’ve mentally blanked out this era

    Votes: 28 12.0%
  • Don Hutchinson

    Votes: 2 0.9%
  • Dave Watson

    Votes: 51 21.8%
  • Kevin Ratcliffe

    Votes: 49 20.9%
  • Mark Higgins

    Votes: 4 1.7%
  • Mike Lyons

    Votes: 28 12.0%
  • Anyone older is clearly just Joey66 or Methusalah, so please select and state name

    Votes: 53 22.6%

  • Total voters
    234
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@Dario Terracotta
What a brilliant story mate!! We were at that one! Travelled from near Watford where we lived by train Including 7-months pregnant Madame Allezlesbleus !!! Didn’t stop her standing on the seats at the end to celebrate!!! My dad was having kittens!!! Great days and boss train journey back to London.
 
How did we lose that tie
Missed a barrowload at Goodison and there has been rumours of the integrity of the officials in Athens,I posted in the classic matches thread the second leg a while ago,the footage of Alan whittle being totally wiped out in the penalty area is unbelievable,he’s about five yards in the box and he gives a free kick outside the area!!!
 

Missed a barrowload at Goodison and there has been rumours of the integrity of the officials in Athens,I posted in the classic matches thread the second leg a while ago,the footage of Alan whittle being totally wiped out in the penalty area is unbelievable,he’s about five yards in the box and he gives a free kick outside the area!!!
Me and my mate went to the that game at Goodison, like you said we should have won that match standing on our heads but the ball just wouldn’t go in and it was only in the last minutes that David Johnson got the equaliser. Going to to the game me and mate said as soon as it is three nil we are off home to watch the recording of the first Ali v Joe Frasier championship fight, which had taken place the night before, we eventually got home in time to watch the fight in my mates sisters house. My mate had stopped himself from knowing the result, I knew, both Ali fans, my mate had a double disappointment that night, Everton and Ali’s defeats put him on a real downer, and me, but I had all day to get used to Ali’s defeat. Then we got robbed in Greece and got beat by Liverpool in the semi final on the Saturday for another double defeat. Never rains but it pours being a Bluenose.
 
April 1990
Everton Vs Forest . 4-0 and 2 a piece for Cottee and Whiteside .
I didn't like football much but I was visiting family in the area ( born in the manor but left when I was very young ) and just tagged along with my uncle who I adored. I huffed about watching it until I saw TC which sparked my interest then I saw Whiteside and I just fell in love with the game . Little did I know what the future had for Norman was but it was too late , I was hooked .
I watched lots on T.V before but as my old man was a United fan I just couldn't relate to the team or football .
I'm pretty sure Wiggy was the captain .
Shame about Norman but my new Polish hero would arrive soon afterwards .
 

Missed a barrowload at Goodison and there has been rumours of the integrity of the officials in Athens,I posted in the classic matches thread the second leg a while ago,the footage of Alan whittle being totally wiped out in the penalty area is unbelievable,he’s about five yards in the box and he gives a free kick outside the area!!!

Is right, Dario, but we were in very uneven form that season (to say the least) & and I'm not sure we'd have had enough to deal with Neeskens, Rep and Cruyff in the final. Who knows?!
 
Is right, Dario, but we were in very uneven form that season (to say the least) & and I'm not sure we'd have had enough to deal with Neeskens, Rep and Cruyff in the final. Who knows?!
Yep,they were a great team,as ever with us it is always ifs,buts and maybes, however,the final was on home soil at Wembley that year,I would imagine even allowing for Ajax's fine support we would have taken over Wembley,as you say on the night,who knows?
 
Me too K.. we were blessed to have "The Last Of the Corinthians" as skipper werent we. I think in Joey's earlier post in his Old Everton Pictures thread (Echo front-page re Bally 27/9/69 - my 12th b'day... Jeez) it mentions Pele saying just how good Labby was. God bless his soul.


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A true gentleman was Labby.
 
  1. Nick Ross 1888 - 1889
  2. Andrew Hannah 1889 - 1891
  3. John Holt 1891 - 1893
  4. Bob Howarth 1893 - 1894
  5. Richard Boyle 1894 - 1896
  6. Billy Stewart 1896 - 1897
  7. Richard Boyle 1897 - 1898
  8. Jack Taylor 1898 - 1900
  9. Jimmy Settle 1900 - 1901
  10. Tom Booth 1901 - 1904
  11. William Balmer 1904 - 1905
  12. Jack Taylor 1905 - 1908
  13. Jack Sharp 1908 - 1910
  14. Harry Makepeace 1910 - 1911
  15. John Maconnachie 1911 - 1914
  16. Jimmy Galt 1914 - 1915
  17. Tom Fleetwood 1919 - 1920
  18. Dickie Downs 1920 - 1921
  19. John McDonald 1921 - 1922
  20. Hunter Hart 1922 - 1927
  21. Warney Cresswell 1927 - 1929
  22. Hunter Hart 1929 - 1930
  23. Ben Williams 1930 - 1931
  24. Dixie Dean 1931 - 1937
  25. Billy Cook 1937 - 1938
  26. Jock Thomson 1938 - 1939
  27. Norman Greenhalgh 1946 - 1948
  28. Peter Farrell 1948 - 1957
  29. TE Jones 1957 - 1961
  30. Roy Vernon 1961 - 1965
  31. Brian Labone 1965 - 1970
  32. Alan Ball 1970 - 1971
  33. Howard Kendall 1972 - 1974
  34. Roger Kenyon 1974 - 1976
  35. Mick Lyons 1976 - 1982
  36. Billy Wright 1982
  37. Mark Higgins 1983 - 1984
  38. Kevin Ratcliffe 1984 - 199
  39. Dave Watson 1992 - 1997
  40. Gary Speed 1997 - 1998
  41. Dave Watson 1998 - 2001
  42. Kevin Campbell 2001 - 2002
  43. Duncan Ferguson 2002 - 2004
  44. Alan Stubbs 2004 - 2005
  45. David Weir 2005 – 2006
  46. Phil Neville 2007 - 2013
  47. Phil Jagielka 2013 - 2019
  48. Seamus Coleman 2019 - present
 

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