Showing posts with label Everton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Everton. Show all posts

Friday, November 7, 2025

FA Cup 1965 1966 Final Everton Sheffield Wednesday

Finale
7 Mai 1966
Wembley Stadium


  The other club in the 'sleeping giant' category were Sheffield Wednesday. The Owls, like Everton, had not visited Wembley since the war and had been sustained for three decades by their thrilling 1935 victory over West Brom. Wembley apart, Hillsborough is arguably the most famous FA Cup venue, but in 1966 it didn't stage a single tie. Wednesday's far-flung route saw them visit Reading, Newcastle, Huddersfield and Blackburn, emerging victorious each time. Johnny Faniham, David Ford and Jim McCalliog provided the goals, but they lined up at Villa Park as underdogs in their semi-final against Chelsea. Tommy Docherty's side were keen to avenge their defeat at the same stage a year earlier but failed to cope with a heavy pitch. Graham Pugh and Jim McCalliog saw Wednesday home and Chelsea left Villa Park with that sinking semi-final feeling again.

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Premier League 2011 2012 Manchester City Everton

24 Septembre 2011
6e journee
Etihad Stadium


 Pour prendre un raccourci commode, City est à United ce qu'Everton est à Liverpool. Une équipe au palmarès ordinaire, écrasée par l'ombre envahissante de son voisin. Un club sans destin tragique et sans épopée à partager. Un nain de l'Europe, avec pour seul trophée une Coupe des Coupes gagnée en 1970. Un citoyen de seconde zone, en somme, avec ses quelques moments de gloire, ,aujourd'hui du siècle dernier, avant-guerre ou dans les années 60. mais surtout avec son avalanche de frustrations et d'ambitions déçues. Et, au fond, cette image de perdant qui lui colle à la peau depuis une éternité. La donne est peut-être en train de changer. Si, en 2003, City a quitté Maine Road et l'environnement glauque du Moss Side pour aller s'installer plus à l'est dans un stade flambant neuf et un quartier en rénovation, et si les pétrodollars de Cheikh Mansour, son propriétaire émirati, ont profondément modifié son train de vie depuis trois ans, ses supporters continuent pourtant de cultiver leur différence. 

Friday, January 26, 2024

FA Cup 1984 1985 Everton Manchester United

Finale
18 Mai 1985
Wembley Stadium London


United wrecked Liverpool's hopes of a League, FA Cup and European treble with their win at Wembley in 1977. They repeated this victory when they met Merseyside's other famous team - the blues of Everton. It may seem strange to anyone under 20 years of age but Everton were the dominant team in England during the mid Eighties. In 1985 the trophy Room at Goodison Park was already home to the Canon League Trophy and the European Cup-winners Cup and Everton looked set to achieve something that no other club had done before win the League and Cup Double and a European prize in the same season. United were unfancied by many having lost to Everton 5-0 in the league earlier that season at Goodison.