Mailbag - What's the worst defeat you've ever seen?
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Les, Keith, and Pete talk bad defeats, life or death spot kicks, car parks, best baldies, WHP, slide tackles, revenge, no sleep, trainies, lolly ices, and a bit o' politics.
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@TheBlueRoomEFC
15 күн бұрын
haha! Shout, that
Bad defeats? Well I look no further than 5th November 1989 and that infamous 6-2 thrashing at Villa.I was only 13 at the time and don't think I'd even seen us concede 4 in a game at that point so to see us let 6 in was a.totally new experience. We'd have gone back to the top of the league with a win but got humiliated live on tv and our title bid quickly fell away after that. Also a certain Bill Kenwright had just joined the board. That defeat signalled the end of the glory days and it was all downhill after the 80s success. I remembered getting hammered in school the next day off all the armchair redshites.
@TheBlueRoomEFC
15 күн бұрын
And we were in the class silver and white away kit, to make things even worse. Have you read (or listened to) Pat Nevin's (first) autobiograhpy - The Accidental Footballer? It's a class book all round, but the bit on Everton gives a great account of the issues that team faced (old v new player cliques, etc.)
@Prodigy_Fan
10 күн бұрын
@@TheBlueRoomEFC Yes I loved that silver and white away strip. Bought it again when it came out as a retro shirt a few years back but it always reminds of me of the disaster at Villa Park! As for the Pat Nevin book yes I've read it. I've always thought Colin Harvey should've done more to sort the dressing room rifts out. One thing shocked me was Nevin revealing Kendall was basically pissed before that infamous FA Cup quarter final defeat to then Second Division West Ham in 1991. All the hard work in knocking Liverpool out in the previous round went down the drain that night. The FA Cup was there for the taking that season and we blew it.
@TheBlueRoomEFC
9 күн бұрын
@@Prodigy_Fan Yeah, feels like Harvey was quite passive in all that dressing room nonsense - I guess that's the hardest part of going from coach to manager and he wasn't right for that step up. And blowing an FA Cup tie like that has become a very Everton thing to do - getting knocked outby Reading and Wigan springs to mind.