Everton take on Manchester City on Saturday and Goodison Park will host a celebration of the 1984-85 Champions;  it is also close to the 40-year anniversary of the fantastic European Cup-Winners Cup Semi-Final win over Bayern Munich at Goodison Park on 24 April 1985. 

In part of the celebrations, the fan zone will be handing out pin badges featuring some of the former players before the match, and the 1878 Originals will have a new banner in the Gwladys Street depicting those players, along with other banners to celebrate the occasion.

During half time, former players will take to the pitch with the 1985 Football League Champions trophy, and the European Cup-Winners Cup trophy. I am not aware how many of the former players will be there, but at a guess, I would say most of the squad. So, if you normally pop downstairs for a pie or a pint at half-time, I'm just giving you a heads-up as to what will be happening on the pitch that you might rather not miss!

So come on, come on, get down to Goodison Park — and enjoy the pre-match and half-time celebrations, and hopefully a performance befitting of that great team of 1984-85, with a nice 3 points against Man City.

 

 

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Danny O'Neill
1 Posted 17/04/2025 at 14:38:59
A team that for my generation, and probably others, set the standards and expectations I judge subsequent Everton teams on.

So close to the treble. I always reflect that had that been now, would we have been asked to play an FA Cup final 3 days after a European final? I doubt it, we would have been given a week to recover.

The elusive League Cup still avoided us as we went out to Grimsby.

Nothing will ever take away those years and won't take away my levels of expectation for where I want us to be. That is the benchmark, and we will be back there in my lifetime, so the younger generations know what it feels like and get their just rewards for sticking with us.

I was born in 1971, so often ask those who remember how they compared to the teams of the 60s. It seems to be a split decision between 69-70 and 84-85.

I can still rattle them off. Neville Southall, Gary Stevens, Pat Van den Hauwe, Kevin Ratcliffe, Derek Mountfield, Peter Reid, Trevor Steven, Andy Gray, Graham Sharp, and last but not least, the player with the magic wand of a left foot, Kevin Sheedy.

The team picked itself and we expected to win and mostly did.

It didn't start too well. Having beaten Liverpool to win the Charity Shield, we lost the first two against Tottenham and West From, conceding 6 and scoring 2 in the process. But bar the odd blip, we never really looked back after that.

Special mentions to Adrian Heath, Alan Harper and Kevin Richardson.

What a team, what a time to be an Evertonian. No-one could compete with us that season.

Apologies, it's getting close to match day.

Dennis Stevens
2 Posted 17/04/2025 at 14:55:53
Paul Bracewell sent off, Danny?
Danny O'Neill
3 Posted 17/04/2025 at 15:28:29
I take my punishment Dennis. Very careless of me. Great understated player. Apart from by Evertonians.
Brian Wilkinson
4 Posted 17/04/2025 at 16:11:36
Back of the class Danny for missing Bracewell off, what a player.
Phil Roberts
5 Posted 18/04/2025 at 15:07:53
His pass to Tricky Trev for the 3rd at home to Sunderland will live in my memory until my dying day
Andrew James
6 Posted 18/04/2025 at 22:41:18
Bracewell was still playing a decade later (I think he played for Newcastle in the FA Cup QF in 1995) which showed what a smooth operator he was. Despite the bad injuries he got after the last season we won the league title.

Great player and a wonderful partner for Reidy.

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