Roy mate, nobody's saying you have to look back with blue tinted hind sight 24/7; but have a little word with yourself willya...We won the Title by 9pts. @ 2pts for a win, a near record points haul effectively with 3 or 4 games left to go.(much like 84-85)
That team is up there dead level with the 80's team. Football was more open back then that's all, it was easier mentally to have an 'off day'...I mean it's Everton innit, it's in our DNA.
As I said in my post earlier, I was at the game and both sides sort of cancelled each other out, but the EFC body language in the last 10-15 changed... It said settle for a draw and beat them in the replay...you could then see the game change from 'stalemate' to City having realised they had the initiative. And in those cases once you have mentally, then physically 'gone on the back foot' it's very hard to get out from under...I admit that that would not happen with the 84-85 team.
If it was a horse race you couldn't split them with a photo finish.
I usually explain my choice this way -
1st= 84-85
1st= 69-70 photo
3rd 62-63; by a short head
4th 86-87; by a neck
But I give it - just - to 84-85 because they hated to lose that little bit more.
In snooker terms (rather than first past the post) over say 41 frames it would be 21-20
69-70 would score more 147 clearances
but 84-85 would win the close frames, the 57-53, the 'by one ball' or a snooker type frames...they just hated losing
