Tag: Everton

Video of the Day: Aston Villa vs Watford (& Others), February 1983

Video of the Day: Aston Villa vs Watford (& Others), February 1983

Posted by | Feb 20, 2016 | |

The Fifth Round of the FA Cup starts today, and as of yet there haven’t been many surprises in what has felt like a somewhat underwhelming competition, so far this season. Perhaps today will throw up an interesting result or two. Still, one disappointing season does not a useless competition make, and for our little blast from the past we’re going all the way back to 1983 for a complete edition of London Weekend Television’s The Big Match from the same stage of the competition, with matches between Aston Villa and Watford, Everton and Spurs, and Middlesbrough and Arsenal....

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The Premier League in Review: Liverpool get the Leicester Blues

The Premier League in Review: Liverpool get the Leicester Blues

Posted by | Feb 4, 2016 | , |

Whenever things aren’t going so well at Anfield, there’s a statistic that is rather instructive to refer back to. Liverpool have not finished below eighth place in the table in whichever division they’ve been playing in at the time since the end of the 1954/55 season. Unlike any other football club in England, there is no-one below a pensionable age supporting or otherwise involved with this particular club who can even remember what it’s like to finish below this position in an end of season league table. At the time of writing, Liverpool are in eighth place in the...

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Video of the Day: Everton vs Liverpool, January 1981

Video of the Day: Everton vs Liverpool, January 1981

Posted by | Jan 26, 2016 | |

There’s nothing quite like a local derby, and there’s especially nothing quite like a local derby when one is pulled from the velvet bags in the FA Cup. Unlike the league, this is sudden death, where one of the two teams concerned will end its involvement either that day or after a replay. There are no opportunities to avenge a cup defeat for that particular season, at least. And where the balance of power between two local rivals isn’t quite even, that can be particularly useful for the underdogs in that particular equation. Everton had started the 1970s in...

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Video of the Day: Southampton vs Everton, March 1985

Video of the Day: Southampton vs Everton, March 1985

Posted by | Jan 12, 2016 | |

This morning’s Video of the Day deposits us at the end of March 1985. Things are wide open at the top of the First Division of the Football League. Everton and Tottenham Hotspur are tied on points at the top of the table, though Everton, who are fighting on three fronts – the FA Cup and the European Cup Winners Cup are also at this point still very much in their sights – have a game in hand on the team from North London. On the last Saturday of the month, however, Spurs are surprisingly beaten at home by...

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Sunday Night At The Football Palladium 4: West Ham United vs Everton, October 1975

Sunday Night At The Football Palladium 4: West Ham United vs Everton, October 1975

Posted by | Aug 16, 2015 | , |

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. It’s time to empty our collective heads for an hour, sit back, and enjoy some Sunday night football from a bygone era. As most – if not all – of you will be plenty aware by now, West Ham United will be leaving the Boleyn Ground at the end of this season for the Olympic Stadium, so tonight we’re going back a full four decades to October 1975, to a time when the club was the holder of the FA Cup. This is an episode of London Weekend Television’s The Big Match, so it...

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