Your favourite Everton Season

[badloaf]

2003. Sitting in the crowd, hearing someone shout, ‘Bring on the kid!’ and just holding your breath because you had no idea what he might do when he got on

I don’t care what happened afterwards with Rooney, but he was the most exciting player we’d had since the 80s and he lit that season up.

I think some fans forget just how miserable things had become under Smith (the Tranmere cup game being the perfect example) and Moyes did then what he’s doing now - gave us some belief.

And that was massively helped by bringing on a small child who looked like your arl fella to confuse and terrify opposition players. Sol Campbell was never the same after that goal

 

[badloaf]

63 points and an FA Cup final - as good as it's got I'd say

It was a good season. That first few minutes at Wembley were boss.

 

[stretford blue]

1974/75 1977/78 07/08

 

[April1970]

1969-1970.

 

[Bryan+]

Lukaku being blamed and characterised as being under the control of a witch doctor by Moshiri had to be up there

 

[Drico]

Moyes’ xG in his final season was better than Martinez’ first season. Imagine if Moyes had had Rom

It was the sheer devilment of Roberto's side that I liked. The boyish naivety. Moyes's side was very good - but tended to know its place and adapted to that, as all experienced sides do. It took Roberto's 12 months to be found out - and then it collapsed.

One swallow does not make a summer, but what a lovely swallow it was. Before it smashed into a brick wall kamikaze-style...

 

[bicycleheader]

bringing on a small child who looked like your arl fella

 

[Bedfordblue]

Lukaku being blamed and characterised as being under the control of a witch doctor by Moshiri had to be up there

That was such an outlandish comment, I remain convinced it was an actual line that Lukaku or Riaola tried to spin while getting him out of the club.
Lukaku threatened to sue Mosh but didn’t iirc……
Zlatan, who had the same agent, took the piss out of him over it to wind him up in Italy. As if he would know what was said by Moshiri at Everton before he’d even played at Utd.

Too much weirdness around the whole story for Moshiri to have just made it up imho.

Voodoo message told Romelu Lukaku to leave Everton for Chelsea, says Moshiri

Everton’s major shareholder, Farhad Moshiri, has claimed Romelu Lukaku refused to extend his contract after a voodoo message told him to join Chelsea

www.theguardian.com

 

[Dario Terracotta]

1927-28, champions and getting to see Dixie get his noggin onto Alec Troups crosses for the majority of his 60 goals

 

[Saint Domingo]

If it’s post 95 then 07/08 and the uefa cup run. Think we played our best football under Moyes that season.

 

[EFC_FRANCIS]

2014 was the greatest false dawn of my life. I genuinely believed.

 

[banno]

84/85 for those of us old enough to remember and be there. Joy to watch with some dodgy games that Big Nev sorted out for us.
3 days between ECWC (15th May) and FA Cup final (18th May) when the FA Cup final was our sixth game in the middle of May.
8 games a month in both March and April with some real massive games then the fixture pile up in May did us no favours at all.

Everyone at the FA Cup final could see that legs where gone and we couldn't step up a gear.

 

[PeregrineT]

For me personally Id have to say 2014, and I think the first part of 2014/15 was part of that. It felt exciting and the beginning of a new era, we had a hotshot new foreign manager, signed a stud striker (and then signed for a record fee), and just missed out on the top 4. Early next season wasnt the best start, but part way in we were looking okay and even better had won our group in Europa and were looking like we would make the final 8. The future looked promising and hopeful, until the season continued to derail and we got knocked out of all the cups.

But that era definitely sticks in my mind.

 

[Cork Evertonian]

1994/1995, 1995/1996 and 2013/2014 in that order would be my top three, although i give David Moyes a lot of credit for that 72 points season.

He laid the foundations and the structures only for Roberto Martinez to destroy them, and ensure that we failed dismally to build on that season in the subsequent years.

There was a real feeling in those three seasons that Everton were back as a major player again.

 

[Bryan+]

That was such an outlandish comment, I remain convinced it was an actual line that Lukaku or Riaola tried to spin while getting him out of the club.
Lukaku threatened to sue Mosh but didn’t iirc……
Zlatan, who had the same agent, took the piss out of him over it to wind him up in Italy. As if he would know what was said by Moshiri at Everton before he’d even played at Utd.

Too much weirdness around the whole story for Moshiri to have just made it up imho.

Voodoo message told Romelu Lukaku to leave Everton for Chelsea, says Moshiri

Everton’s major shareholder, Farhad Moshiri, has claimed Romelu Lukaku refused to extend his contract after a voodoo message told him to join Chelsea

www.theguardian.com

Probably lost in translation, Rom is a Christian (catholic iirc) and probably mentioned something about gods plan and his private doctor and Mosh goes “Which doctor?”

Then the headline is Witch Doctor.