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Rodley Mariner
November 20, 2022, 8:05am
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Still the game I've been to where the team most on top in the game lost.

We were absolutely battered that night but the Town defence, Chris Nichol and Batchy in particular were in thou shalt not pass mode that night. Well worth getting drenched for.


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For more context, this excellent Everton team were at full strength.
The scenes on the goal and after we’re just crackers. So glad I twagged school to get there.


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I’ve still got the newspaper cuttings somewhere.
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For more context, this excellent Everton team were at full strength.
The scenes on the goal and after we’re just crackers. So glad I twagged school to get there.


Yeah, they were THE team at the time and had won their previous 10 games. As you say, they were at full strength too, this was before clubs played weakened teams in these competitions. That season they went on to win the league, and The Cup Winners Cup (remember that?)


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Bloody hell……cannot believe it was 38 years  ago!

Amazing night and you could almost say we did the double over them when we beat them at home 2-1 in what I think was the FA cup…..Mike Brolly double?

We parked the car near the ground and wouldn’t pay some local kids to look after it for us……when we got back we were relieved to see it still there……all 4 wheels on……but no front windscreen!

Driving back over the Pennines was horrendous but what a night!

I saw Paul at the local petrol station recently and told him the story…….he thought it was ace!

He said Neville Southall never forgave him and said it was a lucky goal!

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Yeah, they were THE team at the time and had won their previous 10 games. As you say, they were at full strength too, this was before clubs played weakened teams in these competitions. That season they went on to win the league, and The Cup Winners Cup (remember that?)


How can they have won the league Cup if we knocked them out? Do you mean they won the FA cup that season? Or they won the league Cup the season before maybe?
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Was in the Everton end that night - the only time I’ve been to Goodson Park. Not sure how I managed to get out alive - after Bonnyman chipped that free kick in to Wilkinson in the 89th minute. 7000 Grimsby fans in the opposite end went wild.
Smash and grab to the extreme!


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November 20, 2022, 7:03pm

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How can they have won the league Cup if we knocked them out? Do you mean they won the FA cup that season? Or they won the league Cup the season before maybe?


The Cup Winners Cup was contested by all the European FA Cup winners from the previous season. Everton beat Watford in the 1984 FA Cup Final. Watford had one Steve Sherwood in goal that day.


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Plenty of plaudits for that great Everton team.  Did not realise that they had won their previous 10 games.

Everton only had one home defeat in their very successful season - to Town.

Other facts.  All the Everton players were stars in their own right.  All well known.  No super stars.  As well as winning a European trophy, they could have won the European Cup - if there was not a ban in place for English clubs.  English teams were winning the European Cup regularly then.
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Plenty of plaudits for that great Everton team.  Did not realise that they had won their previous 10 games.

Everton only had one home defeat in their very successful season - to Town.

Other facts.  All the Everton players were stars in their own right.  All well known.  No super stars.  As well as winning a European trophy, they could have won the European Cup - if there was not a ban in place for English clubs.  English teams were winning the European Cup regularly then.


Yeah, it was the final season that English teams could play in Europe before the ban came in.


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The Cup Winners Cup was contested by all the European FA Cup winners from the previous season. Everton beat Watford in the 1984 FA Cup Final. Watford had one Steve Sherwood in goal that day.


No, you said they won the league Cup that year, but they can't have done as we knocked them out of it!
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The Cup Winners Cup was contested by all the European FA Cup winners from the previous season. Everton beat Watford in the 1984 FA Cup Final. Watford had one Steve Sherwood in goal that day.


Might have had more luck with two of him in goal
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No, you said they won the league Cup that year, but they can't have done as we knocked them out of it!


What Les said was “ That season they went on to win the league and The Cup Winners Cup (remember that?)”- They won the league, as in the old first division, and the Cup Winners cup.

Was there that night in the Everton end and burst out laughing when we scored. Didn’t go down well with the locals but managed to get out intact. Nigel Batch was inspired that night and stopped us conceding a hatful. As others have said Everton were a very good side at that time and this result was, in my view, better than when we beat their neighbours many years later.
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No, you said they won the league Cup that year, but they can't have done as we knocked them out of it!


Think he was saying they won the league in the 84/85 season.
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I know what you meant Les and I am 74 .


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What Les said was “ That season they went on to win the league and The Cup Winners Cup (remember that?)”- They won the league, as in the old first division, and the Cup Winners cup.

Was there that night in the Everton end and burst out laughing when we scored. Didn’t go down well with the locals but managed to get out intact. Nigel Batch was inspired that night and stopped us conceding a hatful. As others have said Everton were a very good side at that time and this result was, in my view, better than when we beat their neighbours many years later.


Aaah OK I get it now! Apologies to Les!
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No, you said they won the league Cup that year, but they can't have done as we knocked them out of it!


Read my post again. I said they went on to win the league (ie, finished top of the table) AND The Cup Winners Cup.


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Read my post again. I said they went on to win the league (ie, finished top of the table) AND The Cup Winners Cup.


Yeah I saw and realised my error a post further up!
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