Your best Everton eleven

[irishtony1878]

442
Southall
Gary Stevens
Ray Wilson
Ratcliffe
Labone
Kanchelskis
Ball
Harvey
Kendall
Latchford
Dave Thomas

Subs
West
Tommy Wright
Reid
Lukaku
Arteta
Dave Watson

 

[Steve Wigan]

...I saw Tony Kaye but I was too young to truly judge him. I did actually play against him once when he was an old fella. He was tough as teak, truly hard as nails I just bounced off him. That says lots to me of what a player he must have been.

I played with Kay in a couple of Mickey Mouse games, around the time he was 'banned'. Brilliant reader of the game...he used to supply lots of through balls inside the full back for me to chase, and I very rarely caught them.He called me 'the grand old man of football.' The gomof' was sir Stan Matthews,who was about 50 at the time....I was about 25.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

If only terry Curran could've kept that initial form .....

 

[Number_25]

Martyn

Coleman
Lescott
Jagielka
Baines

Gravesen
Fellaini

Pienaar
Cahill
Arteta

Lukaku

 

[irishtony1878]

Played against him in a charity game, think it was late 70's. Never gave an inch, proper professional, had a right cob on when we scored.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

442
Southall
Gary Stevens
Ray Wilson
Ratcliffe
Labone
Kanchelskis
Ball
Harvey
Kendall
Latchford
Dave Thomas

Subs
West
Tommy Wright
Reid
Lukaku
Arteta
Dave Watson

Picking Watson before Derek Mountfield?
Now how controversial at that time would've that been

 

[Tel001]

Wheres Barkley

Both him and Dominic royle Jane sharp Lewin have been sold to Barca and Real Madrid as they are the next Messi / Ronaldo

 

[scullhed]

Southall
Stevens
Baines
Ratcliffe
Watson
Steven
Reid
Bracewell
Sheedy
Sharp
Latchford

Subs
Pickford
Lyons
Parkinson
Cahill
King
Kanchelskis
Gray

Technically I saw Kendall Harvey and Royle but it was at the end of their time before being sold, and I was only 5 I think! So going with predominantly 80s. Attacking bench though

 

[Brisan123]

Southall
Stevens
Labone
Ratcliffe
Wilson
Ball
Harvey
Kendall
Morrissey
Latchford
Young

That’s about what I would have picked although you would have to coach them on what 4/3/3 was lol

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

On its day that team could take anyone apart.

and drink them under the table

 

[Brisan123]

West
Wright Hurst Labone Brown
Kendall Ball Harvey
Husband Royle Morrissey

With nods to Collins, Kay, Young, Vernon, K Newton, T. Jackson and Whittle, to name but 7...plus Parker and Wilson

Yes 84-85 might...due to the fact that they seemed to hate losing a little bit more...edge them out in a photo finish or 21-20 over 41 frames
But 69-70 would score the most 147s
So
Given 1 free go in a TARDIS or DeLorean, I'd go back to Aug 1966 and watch it all grow and unfold...and mayhap even have a word or 2 in a certain youngsters earhole...not that he'd listen, they know it all at that age.

I’m surprised the Vision is not in your best 11

 

[Brisan123]

..I think you have to apply a longevity filter and not include players who were only with us for a short time. Lineker, Kanchelskis, Stones and Rooney were fabulous but I wouldn’t include them.

The Holy Trinity was the backbone of the greatest ever Everton team, so Kendall, Ball and Harvey are a given for me as are 2 of the 3 truly world class players I have seen playing for the Blues; Southall and Wilson. Once you have them you can fill in others around them;

Southall

Gary Stevens
Labone
Hurst
Wilson

Steven
Kendall
Harvey
Sheedy

Ball

Sharp.

No Young @Eggs
I’m surprised seeing as how you love proper footballers and Alex was a proper footballer

 

[Eggs]

No Young @Eggs
I’m surprised seeing as how you love proper footballers and Alex was a proper footballer

..yep, @AndyC said the same, Bri. He was a class act was Young, one of those players who I say have such a lovely touch of a football ‘they look like they’re playing in carpet slippers’. I also like attitude, and I felt at times Young didn’t turn up or went missing in games. I understand how he is idolised, but sadly he won’t get in my best team.

 

[Nymzee]

Threads like this make me sad I’m so young the best players I grew up with were the likes of Arteta and Hibbo.

 

[Brisan123]

..yep, @AndyC said the same, Bri. He was a class act was Young, one of those players who I say have such a lovely touch of a football ‘they look like they’re playing in carpet slippers’. I also like attitude, and I felt at times Young didn’t turn up or went missing in games. I understand how he is idolised, but sadly he won’t get in my best team.

My dad who seen a lot of the Vision always reckoned Young sometimes struggled with the burden of expectation placed on him by the fans
Every time he got the ball a sense of excitement came over the fans and the crowd hushed for a second or 2
It’s though they expected him to do something magic with every ball he got