Reidy - Everton's midfield General -
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sam domingo
Player Valuation: £750k
Match report from this game. Well we might not quite have been the team of 1978 (Forest were unbeatable) but the reporter was correct about what Everton would do in the games coming up against West Brom and QPR winning 3-1 and then 5-1 respectively! Also Duncan McKenzie being quite dismissive of the teams that we'd played up to that point - including Forest who'd beaten us on the opening day of the season.
Manchester City might be top of the heap this morning, but the team of 1978 will be Everton.
Whether that forecast becomes fact at the end of this season or midway through next is entirely up to them. But by the time they have beaten West Brom and QPR this week, everyone will sit up and take notice of a side that has come on beyond recognition.
There were times in the 1-1 draw on Saturday when they threatened to wipe the floor with City.
Times like that brilliant move 10 minutes from the end. Faster than you can read this, the ball went crossfield via Bob Latchford, Duncan McKenzie, Martin Dobson, Andy King and Bruce Rioch, and while City were tackling shadows McKenzie and Latchford galloped into the goalmouth. Then both of them missed the centre and with it an open goal!
“Even you could have scored from that position,” snorted McKenzie. Modestly I have to agree.
So what have Everton got to make me discover them after all this time? In two words, class and crash.
McKenzie, Dobson, King and Rioch have attacking ability to drive defences dizzy and at the back men like Terry Darracott, Mike Pejic and Mark Higgins might not be over-blessed with skill but will stop at nothing to rob the opposition.
McKenzie disdainfully dismisses one third of the First Division, saying: “We had played nothing until today, City were the first good side we’ve come across and we were their equals, at least West Brom in midweek will give us a better idea of how good we are,”
I don’t think Everton have much to worry about. But Manchester City have.
They did score when McKenzie, indulging in a piece of unnecessary flashiness, lost the ball and Dennis Tueart put Asa Hartfordbthrough for a 20 yard shot.
Everton equalised when Latchford went low to head Dave Thomas’s corner.
ALAN THOMPSON WRITING IN THE DAILY EXPRESS 3RD OCTOBER 1977
Manchester City might be top of the heap this morning, but the team of 1978 will be Everton.
Whether that forecast becomes fact at the end of this season or midway through next is entirely up to them. But by the time they have beaten West Brom and QPR this week, everyone will sit up and take notice of a side that has come on beyond recognition.
There were times in the 1-1 draw on Saturday when they threatened to wipe the floor with City.
Times like that brilliant move 10 minutes from the end. Faster than you can read this, the ball went crossfield via Bob Latchford, Duncan McKenzie, Martin Dobson, Andy King and Bruce Rioch, and while City were tackling shadows McKenzie and Latchford galloped into the goalmouth. Then both of them missed the centre and with it an open goal!
“Even you could have scored from that position,” snorted McKenzie. Modestly I have to agree.
So what have Everton got to make me discover them after all this time? In two words, class and crash.
McKenzie, Dobson, King and Rioch have attacking ability to drive defences dizzy and at the back men like Terry Darracott, Mike Pejic and Mark Higgins might not be over-blessed with skill but will stop at nothing to rob the opposition.
McKenzie disdainfully dismisses one third of the First Division, saying: “We had played nothing until today, City were the first good side we’ve come across and we were their equals, at least West Brom in midweek will give us a better idea of how good we are,”
I don’t think Everton have much to worry about. But Manchester City have.
They did score when McKenzie, indulging in a piece of unnecessary flashiness, lost the ball and Dennis Tueart put Asa Hartfordbthrough for a 20 yard shot.
Everton equalised when Latchford went low to head Dave Thomas’s corner.
HK & Westy -
Cameron Manning
Player Valuation: £35m
That goal after the initial cheering was carried on by the crowd clapping for a good long minute celebrating Davie’s first goal on his return to the club.
Newcastle Utd 2 Everton 1 in April 1974 at St James Park. Everton keeper David Lawson makes the ball safe, he did not do that enough with George Hope attacking -
Everton 1 Leeds Utd 2 in Oct 1972 at Goodison Park. John Connolly takes on Trevor Cherry using Tommy Wright overlapping as a decoy -
Everton 2 Leicester City 0 in Oct 1966 at Goodison Park. Derek Temple slots the ball past Gordon Banks to make it 2-0 - he looked good in one on ones - his winner in the Cup final proved that -
Everton 1 Sunderland 2 in Nov 1981 at Goodison Park. Action as Everton miss too many chances & get beat -
Leeds Utd 3 Everton 2 in Aug 1970 at Elland Road. Billy Bremner scores Leeds’ 2nd goal. labby stands distrught what a bogey ground it was for us in the league - Also this is claimed to where Bally upset many of the team - as by his standards to throw a game away was too much for him as captain - he lost the plot -
World Class Bally, & HK - two of the Trinity - a delight to have seen them play -
When two players were sent in a part exchange deal as part of Bob Latchford fee the uproar over Captain Howard Kendall - our best player at that time from the fanbase was hostile - ironically on arriving many years later as Evertons Manager - HK sold Latchford to Swansea -
Alan Ball of England in 1971 -
Archive Style's want to bad either , bit of a favourites of mine at the Time.