4.40 ...Brian Clough on Everton ...' They have a superb young manager, a magnificent young team, and I am of the opinion they will be a force for many a year....How heartbreaking to hear that in hindsight
We all know why we didn’t don’t we? Wallpushing murderers seen to that. Been a curse on our whole history those scum. They only exist because we moved from Mordor. Cursed by the devils scum
The greatest Everton side by far , i was lucky to watch all of these fantastic players home and away . 33 years ago , a blink of an eye and time has blew away . COYB
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This old blue remembers it well (as I do the 84 Cup final). I have ZERO DOUBT Everton would have landed the European cup the following year (and perhaps in 88 also) , but for the ban on English sides. I also agree with Sharon Hopton that Celtic were robbed. Everton v Celtic would have been an awesome final!! I ran into some Celtic fans in Rotterdam supporting Everton as they were so mad! Also many thanks to Celtic fans for coming down to the Neville Southall testimonial, they made it a great night, and behaved in a most respectful way while cheering on their team to a 2-2 draw at Goodison. Great fans, great club..
Those words spoken by Brian Clough at 4:40 must have been the last nail in the coffin for many. This was a team about to open up Europe, but what might have been was denied by the thuggish nature of so many so close.
I've been a Toffees supporter since 1968 and this was a wonderful moment in Everton's history, I remember it well. I hope we can get the good times back once more when we move to our new stadium. COYB
17yrs old..and at the ecwc final with my 15yr old mate...what a great few days in my young life..travelling on a coach...boozing on the ferry across..pouring it down while others hung over the side spewing everywhere..then walking around rotterdam..beautiful...strolling to the stadium..two lads..excited as anything...then the match the win..holding the cup aloft..andy gray letting an injured fan behind the fence touch the trophy...memories ill have forever..
Oh yes. We were a force. When Kevin scored that 3rd goal I remember being on my knees in front of the television going 100%MENTAL Oh how I wish.... NSNO
That was the best team I have ever seen. Only the Liverpool sides of 78/79 and 87/88 come close. You went to Goodison in those days and came home disappointed if you didn't win 5-0.
Liverpool fan here and Iam not a wool . Great Everton team and I use to go to the odd Everton home when Liverpool played somewhere mad ( 1984/5 season ). Iam disagreeing though to say this Everton team were better than us in 1979 and 1988.
The greatest English football team of the 1980's. Only to be denied European dreams by the spoilt brat thuggery of Liverpool followers. How many times has a team been to Europe, their fans having a game of football with the local police and the chief of police saying they were great ambassadors of football?
The ban was culmination of over ten years of English club's supporters causing violence in European games. From Spurs fans rioting in Rotterdam in 74, Leeds in Paris 75, Man Utd having to play home European games in Plymouth due to rioting in Ostend, Aston Villa having to play a tie behind closed doors due to fighting at Anderlecht's ground, fans of the England team rioting at Euro 80 and the Euro 84 qualifiers in Greece, Denmark & Luxembourg....I could go on. Heysel, as far as Uefa were concerned, was the last straw.
Truly exceptional action who knows how far this cohesive gel of a side could of made that next year in the top European completion so unlucky to be denied through no faultoftheir own
I guess that the greatest English football team of the 80s was Liverpool, to be honest, played three finals of the European Champions Cup and won 2. Their team was simply legendary and relentlessly came up with the goods on both the national and international level (save for the International Cup in Tokyo, were they were blown off park by Independiente and Penarol, if I recall correctly). On the other hand, Steaua Bucharest (my team) played an insane football between 1985 and 1989, way ahead of its time, too bad we encountered a Milan at the height of its powers in the final of 1989, otherwise we would have had two European Champions Cup in our track record. Anyway, can''t believe it's nearly 35 years since that Rotterdam final, I remember it like it was yesterday...
Halcyon days for our club. So glad I'm just about old enough to remember this era. Disgraceful due to the board at Everton we've been fed shite off them we should be grateful we are a Premier League club. The mid-80s was Everton as a club achieving it's massive potential.
which competition do you mean? They won the only cup that neither Liverpool could win. They have managed to win the cup of winners cup before it was crazily and foolishly abolished. What could Everton have done more or better ????
a clarification or explanation was very useful, because after all the cups were three then ( and it was the best solution according to me). Even if all of us, as fans, are used everywhere to consider the winner of the former Champions Cups or present Champions League as the main European champion, if not the only one. But the supercup has often overthrown this idea.
@@Faber9722 They were due to play in the European Cup the following season having won the English league. However, Heysel happened and Uefa banned all English clubs. This meant that Everton were prohibited from playing their first round tie v Anderlecht who themselves were given a bye into the second round.
Do you mean that the decision of the ban arrived , when the draw of the season 1985-86 had already taken place? And according to the new draw, would Everton have faced Anderlecht, in case the ban had not been decided?
Can remember watching match live, and was one of the most one-sided finals I've ever seen... It was shame that Everton side never got to compete in European Cup the following year, they would have either won it, or would have got very close.
It wasnt that one sided. Rapid did not have a good day and one of their best, Panenka, could not play. There were much more one sided games like milan-barcelona, kiew-atletico madrid or milan-steaua
Ciao sono un tuo coetaneo italiano, tifo Inter e l' ho vista anche io questa partita nel 1985 e penso anche io che se non ci fosse stata la squalifica delle squadre inglesi, l'Everton l'anno dopo avrebbe detto la sua in Coppa Campioni 😜
The fact that Mountfield was onside and denied Gray a second goal in this game just shows how dominant Everton were. This side remain the pinnacle for all future Toffees teams to aim for.
Back in the day an underdog with a gold run could make it to the finals. It was magic and exciting. The new mode with consecutive group stages makes sure that will never happen. It’s sad.
For a Londoner u had to admire this Scouser team! It was a very well balanced,aggressive and entertainment side! It was no wonder they supplied so many players to play for England.. And they had some very effetive unsung heroes like Bracewell! And this was football,not like the Millionaire Social media stars,who couldn't give a f##k about the fans,badge and the Teams History!
As a Villa fan I will try and offer a value on 1-11 based on age, form, fitness and subsequent achievements. Let's say a 500k footballer back then is worth 20m now. 1985 prices. Southall 100m. Stevens 15m (never rated him) Ratcliffe 35m Mountfield 15m VDH 45m Steven 90m Reid 45m Bracewell 75m Sheedy 60m Sharpe 75m Gray 25m (I think that is what he went for soon after)
An English team reaches a European final and have a goal wrongly ruled out for offside whilst the opposition score a clear offside goal! Lucky they scored enough goals that they couldn't possibly rule out.
Looking at the absolute state of that stadium, it's easy to see how tragedies unfolded elsewhere during that era. A toxic combination of hooliganism & decrepit stadia was all it took. As a Celtic fan, this was one of my earliest footballing memories, being allowed to stay up late to watch this game. There was a lot of bad blood between Celtic & Rapid from earlier in the season. I was too young to know all the ins & outs. All I knew was that our whole family was rooting for the team in Blue vs the team in Green & White for a change LOL! Going back to the stadium, It's maybe a blessing that Celtic weren't there as there would have been a HUGE crowd in attendance and who knows how that stadium would've coped..... It's all speculation now but maybe it was for the best in hindsight
I was a season ticket holder back then Craig, and I can tell you, the movie clips don't come close to showing the whole story. Skill and graft lad, skill and graft.....
Great memories from a great side....dreadful ruling to ban all clubs from European football.why on earth did they choose to pick a crumbling stadium in heysel.
UEFA did not like English clubs because we was far to successful in Europe in the 70s and 80s. They blamed it on our fans being hooligans but our fans was no worse than the rest of Europe. When that tragedy happened and corpses was being carried you they let the game carry on. Forward to 2021 a player nearly dies on the pitch and UEFA merely postpone the game for a few hours They are bad people
Evertons real final that year was the semi Vs Fc Bayern when after a 0-0 draw in München , Everton won 3-1 at goodison , 2 goals in the last 15 minutes putting them through to the final after Dieter Hoeneß had given Bayern a half time lead . I was at the game and have always had a soft spot for Everton since , great fans and a great city .
Oh the days... no names on shirts, no VAR, no electronic advertising boards, standing terraces, real grass, mainly English (Brits anyway) playing for an English team, no female commentators. Real fans.
Une des dernières finales « blanches » du football européen. Une équipe 100 % britannique contre une équipe 100 % autrichienne, un Tchèque mis à part. Un autre monde ? Ou un monde qui va revenir, je l'espère !
The greatest team in all of Europe at the time but because of the shite that shall not be named we never got the chance to show the world because of the ban in English clubs playing in the European cups
Outrageous to ban all clubs from European football because of one club,s behaviour.Everton suffered most because of that and to be perfectly honest I don't think Everton really ever recovered from that ban.
@@roywinstanley9402 we didn't mate no, the team split up and Howard kendal left to manage in Spain. But I'm optimistic we'll have our time again, but not anytime soon
@@jeanlawley6483 you have no football knowledge. Because of Liverpool fans killing 39 juve fans Everton were banned from playing in Europe, which meant the Everton squad split up. Kendall moved abroad and Evertons best players left . Ask anyone who knows about football and watched that Everton team and they would say the same thing.
today 's actual Squad should take some notice,skills,Tricks from :Steven,Sheedy,co..and start to train for next season,time is more then enough due to cod.19 .maybe this season is over.
rapid vienna was twice preferred. in the game against celtic of course and one round later against dresden where the referee must have been of vienna as it seems!!!
Rapid Wien crushed 5-0 Dynamo Dresden and East German teams were not badly organized. Dynamo had won 3-0 at home and they were completely outmatched in the second game. Rapid Wien was a good team (not like now) and they proved it again in 1996 and again they found a better adversary (PSG). Rapid Wien had no fault. Celtic had its reasons to complain (1-3, 3-0 nullified by the riots of the fans, provided that I have read well about the riots, whether they had been caused by the Scottish fans), but after the third game Wien won again, Celtic could have confirmed his 3-0 but they threw away their possibilities of winning.
if the Austrian goalkeeper had been struck by a Scottish fan, it would have been a true misfortune for the Scottish team. The work of an entire football club has been ruined , marred by an own fan. Even if I remain convinced , that the greatest crime has been committed by Uefa, when they abolished this cup, because it allowed a loto of teams to come out of the namelessness, and anyway it was one of three most important cups, so that if you could win all of them, it was a great mark of prestige. Look even at Real Madrid. They are the history of football, they have won everything that is available among the international competitions, and unless somebody , within the bodies of Uefa, CHANGES ITS MIND AND REORGANIZES THE CUPS AS THEY WERE, THEY WILL NEVER MANAGE TO WIN IT. A BIG unjustice also towards the merengues. Coming back to the former topic, Celtic too were robbed and deprived of this possibility by the act of a foolish fellow , who maybe has damaged its own beloved team. Truly a pity!!!!
@@Faber9722 no mate the rapid player claimed he was struck by a coin which the TV cameras proved never happened,hence the replay at old Trafford on a neutral venue
@@Billybhoy anyway I can Just Guess that Celtic had thousand reasons to be angry. Because all their work was spoiled by a trivial accident, which has nothing to do with playing , and they would not have any longer the possibility to win the Cup, because It was foolishly abolished.
They won something, which escaped also to Liverpool. Even if it was not all fault of the Reds. Because the abolition of the Cup of winners cup has turned out to be a true crime towards the fans of whole Europe.
That's when we had the best side in Europe , but were never allowed to compete in the European Cup because the fans of our city rivals couldn't behave themselves ....And then like to remind us every derby by singing ' Where's your European Cup's ...then they get upset when we shout murder's back ..The things you learn eh
Agree with Cloughy. There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that we would have dominated European footy for some time. If the ban on English clubs didnt happen I believe Howard would have stayed at the club. Was this the best blues side ever? Not sure as the championship winning side of '69/70 with the holy trinity took some beating. COYB
Absolutely. Thanks to the 'thugs from across the park mob', one of the best European sides in the making, never got to show what they could do on the international stage. The European ban was totally unjust for teams that were not the cause of the violence off the pitch. It was really sickening to be tarnished with the same brush that rightly blames the likes of thug-pool for the problems that had been in the news. We will never know just how far that Everton team would have gone if they had not been banned.
