Andy Gray - Everton legend?

[Khalekan]

What did he say/do?

I can't get it inserted.

Go on YouTube and ask for Andy Grsy commentating on Jagielka goal

 

[Joey66]

Legend.

He scored diving headers 6 inches off the ground with boots flying in. He had no fear. You just don't see that these days.

Mick Lyons did that class him as a legend? a loyal great player over a longer period, I remember a Goal V Leeds at home were he dived low to head a goal off Norman hunters boot, just never won a trophy great long servant for us though!

 

[Joey66]

Absolutely a legend.. Gray and Sharpe together in the 80,s were as good as Ball, Harvey and Kendall for inspiration.
You only had to see them together and you knew that either one or the other would provide the finishing touch to the brilliance of our midfield then, who themselves being Reid,Bracewell,Stevens and Sheedy were a class act.

Graham Sharp became Evertons 2nd highest ever scorer to Dixie dean so yes he was a Legend!

 

[Huyton Layne]

I can't get it inserted.

Go on YouTube and ask for Andy Grsy commentating on Jagielka goal

 

[Khalekan]

He didn't have the same success because he didn't have the greatest Everton team in history playing with him.

Like I said, the term Legend is used to openly and frequently. If Gray is a legend, throw Rideout in aswell. Loved Andy Gray, a proper no nonsense #9. The night he was creaming his chino's over Gerrards goal though... ?? And you say he 'gets ' Everton? A weird one that really, fuming to be honest.

As I said to other chaps.....go listen to Andy on YouTube when Jags equalises.

Better yet, listen to his radio chats with Neville or Reidy before "fuming" over whatever it is you are "fuming" over this time.

A total Everton legend is Andy.

 

[blue4eva77]

Hahaha

 

[Khalekan]

Nah, can't agree with any of that statement to be honest. I respect your opinion, but it's obviously very different to mine.

Rideout may have been similar to Gray in some ways, but what he brought to the team, and the club as a whole, were oceans apart compared to Gray's achievements.

Rideout didn't have anywhere near the same success, charisma or presence as Andy Gray. Nor did he have anywhere near the same connection with the fans

Correct.

 

[Khalekan]

Too young to remember really, looking back at clips and games... I've seen enough to appreciate the kind of striker he was.

Hahaha

Hey.....you were able to post it.....

 

[Joey66]

I see some valid points, but there is a difference between an EFC great player , and a Everton Legend its not a play on words its a player who has been a loyal servant, and a great player imo!

 

[blue4eva77]

As I said to other chaps.....go listen to Andy on YouTube when Jags equalises.

Better yet, listen to his radio chats with Neville or Reidy before "fuming" over whatever it is you are "fuming" over this time.

A total Everton legend is Andy.

I was fuming about Gray and his commentary at the time yes. You werent? If you didn't have anything to say or thought anything out of the ordinary at the time, you're a liar.

He played for our club, loved our club, has a soft spot for our club and it's fans. He gets Everton blah blah..... just like me, you and the next Evertonian do; would we celebrate a RS goal like that? I can picture him standing up too fist pumping. It was bizarre for me.

 

[chicoazul]

It's a bit lad bible all this legend appointing.

Just settle on him being a tremendous striker in royal blue, he done so much in such a short time and he'll forever have my love for it.

 

[Joey66]

I was fuming about Gray and his commentary at the time yes. You werent? If you didn't have anything to say or thought anything out of the ordinary at the time, you're a liar.

He played for our club, loved our club, has a soft spot for our club and it's fans. He gets Everton blah blah..... just like me, you and the next Evertonian do; would we celebrate a RS goal like that? I can picture him standing up too fist pumping. It was bizarre for me.

I agree with all of that a EVERTON great yes, but too short of a career to be a Legend imo - I do agree he has a heart with us still - unlike Lineker who hardly mentions his time with us!

 

[4737carlin]

Mick Lyons did that class him as a legend? a loyal great player over a longer period, I remember a Goal V Leeds at home were he dived low to head a goal off Norman hunters boot, just never won a trophy great long servant for us though!

I would say Lyons is more of an icon from the 70s perhaps, just like Tony Hibbert has been over recent years

 

[Khalekan]

I was fuming about Gray and his commentary at the time yes. You werent? If you didn't have anything to say or thought anything out of the ordinary at the time, you're a liar.

Boy, that is some chip you have on your shoulder, fella.

Re Andy Gray, he is a club legend but he is not an Evertonian in the sense that I am.....lifelong, born, bred and buttered.

He played for my club for a couple of years and created one heck of a splash.

I should imagine he is a Villa fan more than a fan of Everton, Wolves or any other club he played for.

He was a professional footballer turned professional broadcaster.....and as such his brief was no doubt to pander to the pro English bias that Sky, his erstwhile employers, display toward our clubs in Europe.

So no.....it wouldn't surprise me nor would it annoy me if he got excited about a Liverpool goal in a European game and I have too much going on in my life to sit "fuming" about it all these years later, even iif the event had registered with me at the time it happened.

Unlike your good self, my distaste for the RS precludes me watching them on TV as I often feel nauseous in the extreme even reading sommat about them ergo I was in complete and blissful ignorance of this heinous crime committed by the man who battered Bayern Munich into submission all those years ago.

That night defines Andy Gray's status among sensible Evertonians.....not some imagined "fist pumping" on your behalf when Gerrard scored a goal.

If you stopped "fuming" for a few minutes you might like to watch one of the Youtube links several of our friends were kind enough to post of Andy's reaction to the Jags goal.

There us no doubt where Andy's loyalties lay when that rocket went in

Hope this helps

 

[4737carlin]

would we celebrate a RS goal like that? I can picture him standing up too fist pumping. It was bizarre for me.

Yeah but none of us do commentary for football matches shown live on sky, he cant exactly shout ****off you stuffy **** besides its best having the sound turned down low when they are playing so you don't have to hear the moronic songs they come out with.