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[commentator] This is Dixie Dean.

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[commentator] And a Victory for Everton in the FA Cup.

Everton Football Club, here we go!

[crowd cheering]

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[marching band music]

[film fluttering in projector]

[musical flourish]

[commentator] Our coachload of heroes had a heroes' welcome,

and how they deserved it.

Everton brought the cup back to Merseyside.

The cheers made it like Wembley all over again.

[crowd cheering]

On to the steps of St. George's Hall,

the players brought The Cup.

There are cups galore in soccer these days,

but they're mentioned by their name...

World Cup, European Cup, and so on.

Only this one, the most coveted trophy in the whole of sports,

is known as "The Cup".

[sound of film in projector]

[reporter] Alan Ball was practising today

with his new colleagues at Bellefield,

the Everton training ground.

[crowd cheering]

My son David was eight years old,

and he loved Alan Ball.

Alan Ball was part of our family.

It came on the radio,

Everton had sold Alan Ball to Arsenal.

Alan Ball had ceased to be the player he was with Everton.

David was devastated.

He asked for some money, and he shot out the house

to phone Harry Catterick, who was the Everton manager.

Not many eight-year-olds would think about doing that.

We had an offer near enough to a quarter of a million,

and I thought that this was good business.

[telephone ringing]

[David] I need to speak to Mr. Catterick.

Tell him I'm gonna have a rubbish Christmas

because he's ruined my life.

You can't sell Alan Ball. He's brilliant.

It was a shock. I was stunned, really.

I just can't say anything more about it

because I had no more feelings about it.

[David] Never go back to Goodison Park.

I'm going to support Arsenal,

and they will never win anything ever again.

[disconnection, dial tone]

And I was kind of right, because we never, for nearly 15 years.

[birds singing]

[man] In the '70s, we nearly won trophies.

We came close. It wasn't to be.

[music playing]

[commentator] Mike Lyons on the left, the captain of Everton.

[Lyons] We were unfortunate,

especially when we got robbed by Clive Thomas.

2-2, a couple of minutes left.

Brian Hamilton, he scores one, and the referee disallows it.

[commentator] In the middle, there are three waiting.

McKenzie Hamilton!

Hamilton's got the touch.

And Everton, incredibly... Or are they in flux?

[Lyons] He said, obviously handball.

Said to the press, he disallowed the goal

because it was an infringement of the rules

of the Football Association.

The linesman who was on duty that day,

he actually said that Clive Thomas had come in and said,

"Listen, lads, we'd better get our story straight about this."

["So You Win Again" by Hot Chocolate]

And I think he robbed us.

♪ You win again ♪

♪ Here I stand again, the loser ♪

[commentator] Oh, and Little is going to score!

What a terrible defensive disaster for Everton.

♪ So you win again ♪

♪ You win again ♪

♪ Here I stand again ♪

♪ The loser ♪

[Lyons] We'd had many occasions like that

where we'd let ourselves down,

and I think on the day, we let ourselves down again.

[beeping]

[reporter] The customary negotiations complete,

Howard Kendall was introduced as Everton's new manager,

to the obvious delight of the club directors who sat with him.

I think it's fair to say that Everton Football Club demands success,

and I have been appointed today,

and am very happy to be appointed today,

to bring success to Everton Football Club as soon as possible.

[reporter] Everton have in Howard Kendall

a very clear link with the kind of success

the club is so anxious to achieve.

He was, after all, a player in the last Everton side

to win the league championship, and that,

according to the club chairman, Mr Philip Carter, is now...

[fades out]

[reporter] Britain has swung decisively

to the Conservatives in the General Election,

and later today, Mrs Thatcher will become prime minister.

Where there is discord, may we bring harmony.

[reporter] For the first time in mainland Britain,

CS gas was fired at the rioters.

[man] To get to Everton in the first place,

I didn't have any transport because I didn't drive.

The place was on fire.

Brilliant, they've set the city on fire for me.

I wonder if they do this with every player.

And then we actually got to the ground, and I spoke to Howard,

and he said, "Right, we'll go out." I said, "Where to?"

"We'll go out and get pissed." "I don't drink, Howard."

You could see the realisation in his face saying,

"Oh, shit, what have we signed?"

And where there is despair, may we bring hope.

[Mullin] They brought chaos, and they brought heroin.

She made redundant

all the customs and excise people from Liverpool docks.

And all of a sudden, our streets were flooded

with a drug that was known at the time called "smack".

[reporter] The area is known locally as "Smack City".

[Mullin] No one really knew what it was.

Eventually, people found out it was heroin.

That echoes back through society.

And your relationship with your parents, your siblings,

your partner, your children, completely shattered.

And it took me decades, genuinely, decades.

[news jingle playing]

[reporter] Now, Liverpool. The left wing Labour council

is defying the government's spending targets

and says it's determined to spend 30 million pounds extra

on council jobs and services.

They're threatening to go deliberately into the red,

which would be illegal.

The council, which has just been re-elected

with an increased majority,

maintain the city's problems can be solved

only by massive public spending.

[interviewer] Do you believe in overthrowing the present government?

[man] Of course I believe in overthrowing the present government.

The people of the city of Liverpool

understand entirely where our position is.

We're about making sure we get the money to stop the city declining.

[reporter] When one or two managers might have stood back

and waited for a couple of months, you've come in

and brought in seven new players.

[players yelling]

[man] We were all called to the training ground at Bellefield

to report the signing of Alan Biley,

who was a very, very recognisable player.

Whether you thought he was good or bad,

-he had the long blonde hair. - Good for a commentator.

And having done the interview with Alan Biley,

Howard said to the gathered press,

"I've got a bit of a surprise for you,

because I've made another signing today."

And in walked Alan Ainscow.

And if there were 12 journalists in the room...

Howard looked as if to say, "Look who I've got."

And we all thought, is it... It might be Alan Curbishley.

Is it? Who is it?

No, I tell you. None of us knew who he was.

[reporter] Are you happy with the quality of player that you've bought here?

I'm very happy, yeah.

We called them "The Magnificent Seven", I think it was.

When they put their royal blue jersey on,

I think the crowd will look forward to seeing this new team.

["Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" by Soft Cell]

Magnificent Seven. We were far from magnificent, in all fairness,

They were all good pros,

but sometimes you need more to be an Everton player.

You have to be near enough a Scouser to play for Everton,

near enough.

If your attitude's not good, the people don't want you.

It's a harsh, unforgiving place,

but it's still got a real big heart.

It don't suffer fools gladly,

and it don't back down from anybody.

We're rolling. Well, I'll natter to you, Howard.

[man] Howard comes in. He brought in Alan Biley,

Mick Ferguson, part of the Magnificent Seven.

I'm going further and further down the pecking order here.

I don't think there's anything for me.

Maybe it was time for me to move on.

[commentator] Heath has pushed forward.

Sharp... Oh, my goodness!

[crowd cheering]

[man] I think that was a goal that catapulted me into everybody's thoughts.

In the northwest, there's a Kickoff programme.

Somebody said to me, they want you in the studio

to talk about the Tottenham goal and everything else.

It's been awarded goal of the season.

So I'm thinking, brilliant. I say, goal of the season?

I'll get a lovely bit of crystal for the mantelpiece.

I went in.

They showed me the goal, talked about the goal,

said you've won goal of the season,

and they presented me with a tea towel.

[laughs] A tea towel with "Kickoff Goal of the Season".

[laughs]

["Match of the Day" theme plays]

Fuckin' hell, it's like a fridge in here, innnit?

["Match of the Day" theme plays]

[Ratcliffe] We were going through bad times.

On numerous occasions, I thought I did...

not just OK, but really well,

but he dropped me for the next game.

I just said, I'm sorry, but I want to play.

So he put me on the transfer list,

and as far as I know, I'm still on it.

[laughs]

Liverpool play at Goodison Park against Everton.

Everton and Liverpool have played each other...

A mate of mine who I went to the match with, we were in the car,

and it came on the radio

that we'd got this fella from Blackburn called Glenn Keeley

and he was gonna play.

We looked at each other, "You never know, he might be alright."

[commentator] Glenn Keeley, on loan to Everton from Blackburn,

plays his first senior match of the season.

[Ratcliffe] Well, he's brought Glen in,

thinking that I wasn't good enough.

And we'd seen him in training, and we thought,

I'm not sure.

[crowd cheering]

And to throw him in to that game, this is a risk.

[commentator] Keeley could get caught here.

Dalglish, oh, he's pulled him back.

Now is that the goal scoring opportunity denied?

Does Keeley have to go off?

He lasted about 20 minutes, I think.

[commentator] And on his debut for Everton,

Glenn Keeley, on loan from Blackburn Rovers, is sent off.

We were up against it 11 against 11,

but 11 against 10, no chance.

[commentator] Rush.

Deflection, it's taken it in.

And put in by Lawrenson. He might score now, he has!

I'm sat in the stand with Mark Higgins, who was unfit

and Brian Labone, the three of us

within about three or four seats of each other.

I just keep looking at Brian, and Brian looking at me,

and I'm thinking, he must think I'm really crap.

[laughs] If I can't get into this side, he must be thinking,

"What are you still doing here, son, if you can't get in that side?"

[commentator] It's Ian Rush, can he score his fourth? Yes!

5-0.

Get yourself home, lock the door, see you Monday.

I was in the main stand. And my mate at half time, "I've had enough."

Gone. Just went.

I stayed. My mate went down and they wouldn't let him out.

He said, "Let me out, I'll smash the door down."

They were not letting him out.

So he had to go up and through the kitchen to get out.

[kookaburra calls]

[physio] And again. How's the weight?

If you needed any push to make changes to a team,

it's a 5-0 home defeat by the enemy.

He was obviously looking around

to see what other options he's got.

It was a big turning point for me and for the club.

That was my in. Challenge accepted.

[Mountfield] God, that's tight.

There you go, my first contract at Everton Football Club.

So the phone goes. My mum shouts up, "It's for you, Derek."

"Who is it, Mum?" She went, "Howard Kendall."

"Who's he?"

You could have given me a blank contract,

I would have signed it.

You wonder how thick players' contracts are now, look at that.

It says that I've signed for Everton for £125 a week.

[music playing]

[commentator] Over to Bolton's ground,

where Manchester United, playing left to right,

met Everton, an all-Lancashire semi-final.

Twelve minutes from time, an Everton pass found Colin Harvey,

-and he found the net. - [crowd roars]

Goal. By the only goal of the match,

Everton won their place in the final.

I know a lot of the boys in that era

coming through Everton's ranks will always put Colin Harvey right up there

as one of the best coaches they've ever worked with.

[Harvey] When I was growing up, I wanted to play for Everton.

And you end up doing it, which is...

It's your dream come true,

and it's something you've always wanted.

And then, all of a sudden, there you are on the pitch there,

in front of 60,000,

watched by your dad and your granddad and all those people.

[Southall] When I think of Everton, I always think of Colin.

That is Everton in a nutshell.

As well as training with the first team,

Colin had me back, sometimes three afternoons a week,

working with the experienced players

who weren't playing regular first team football.

To this day, I'll always top my hat to Colin

because he was fantastic.

He pulled me one day and said, "I think you've got a chance."

If I don't think you had the chance,

you could go home in the afternoon and play snooker with the boys or whatever,

"but I'll have you in most afternoons."

[Harvey] I was there to try and improve them.

But in the early days, wow, his temper was ferocious.

[laughs]

We were ay at Derby County, winning 3-0,

went out the second half.

As sometimes it happens, we got too lax.

They came back and drew it 3-3. Well, we know what's coming.

I did let them have it, like.

Absolutely erupts. Goes around everybody,

tearing a strip off everybody,

and we had Gary Stanley at the time.

He had this wonderful head of hair.

[Sharp] He's hammering him because he's a first player.

"You should be setting an example. You were awful,

bom, bom, bom." OK, so rant over.

So the boys slowly but surely got undressed

and go towards the shower.

And Gary Stanley, in his cockney accent, shouts out,

"Has anybody got any conditioner for my hair?"

Conditioner.

Well, at that point, Colin was in like a flash.

"Conditioner, conditioner? That's all you're about?

About your hair and everything else?

"You've just drawn the game 3-3."

[commentator] As the final whistle blows,

and the 129th Merseyside derby won conclusively by Liverpool

by three goals to nil.

I had certain standards, you know.

I'd set them for myself when I was a player.

Every day, you give 100%. Not every Saturday.

Every day was a win impulse. So I expected the same off them,

and if they didn't give it, I'd give them a battle.

["Embarrassment" by Madness]

-A quick comment from you, Ian? - Well, it was men against boys.

I mean, Liverpool were too good for them, too strong for them,

and very disappointing, Everton's side.

We want to The Tiger in Liverpool,

and we sat there having a drink, it was quite busy.

We sat in this corner, and we had a couple of drinks,

then he went, "I've had it. 3-0. They've murdered us."

So I said, "No, just battle it out."

And he went, "Alright, if you come and work with us as well."

So on the Monday morning, he announced it to the squad.

[commentator] Kendall and Harvey,

the players from the '60s, are now combining

to assert Everton in the face of Liverpool's endless success.

When Colin Harvey was promoted to the first team staff,

having schooled so many of the young players,

that was the turning point.

But it didn't seem like it at the time

because there were more difficult weeks still to come.

[man] Phone went, "Howard Kendall here."

"About bloody time."

He come back brilliantly, he went,

"What I've heard about you, I'm looking to find your in."

And then I thought, he'll do for me.

He said, "You fancy coming to Everton Football Club?"

I said yeah. He said, "Right, get in the car

and get to Goodison Park."

[announcer] Ladies and gents, the great Mr Peter Reid.

[applause, cheers]

[Reid] Good pal of mine, Neil Watmore,

we're having dinner that night to celebrate.

I had a pint of lager straight away.

Got the red wine out, brandy after that.

Woke up the next morning, I'm not in great nick.

Shower, eye drops in, Polo mints,

clove of garlic to get the garlic instead of booze.

I get to Bellefield, meet the lads.

A few of them are looking at me because I'm not looking great.

Little five-a-side.

Oh... I am... I'm hopeless.

The lads are looking around, who have we signed here?

A sprint session, which are called doggies.

Howard says, "You run with me, son."

So I thought, oh, great, thank god for that.

Laps me. Christ.

Colin Harvey comes, go and see him.

He wants to see you, the manager.

I go in. I go, "Listen, Howard, I've got to apologise."

I told him the story, Neil Watmore, I told him about all the drink.

That will never happen again.

I'm embarrassed, I do apologise.

And he looks at me. "Do you like a drink, lad?"

I said, yeah, I do. He said,

"You've got a great chance at this football club. Out!"

[door closes]

He's just said to me, "I've got faith in you."

I'd have run through a brick wall for him.

['80s music playing]

We talked to Wolves' manager. Howard asked him about Andy Gray,

and he went, "Don't take him. His knees are knackered."

What Wolves did in those days, it wasn't as slick as it is now.

They gave me my medical records.

They were about that thick.

And I thought, I can't take this up to Everton.

They'll never bloody sign me.

And I had a big open fire in the house at the time,

and the ones that I thought might affect my signing, I threw in the fire.

[engine revving]

I ended up going up with a bunch of medical files this size.

And I gave them them.

They went, "I could have sworn there'd be more than this."

I said, "Listen, doc, popular misconception."

Honestly, I've not had as many injuries as you think I have."

[Sharp] Everybody knew who Andy Gray was.

Villa and Wolves and Scotland, so he had the reputation.

Is he a big time Charlie?

He's won Player of the Year, Young Player of the Year, this, that, and the other things.

But no, he wasn't. No airs and graces about him.

Just one of the boys from the word go.

Give us a shout when you're running.

[man] All ready, Brian.

He came in, he's loud.

-[clatter] - Whoops. Sack the juggler.

But a winner.

Open arms. Come on in, Andy.

Maybe that's what we just need.

And he would tell you that anyway.

Your saviour's here.

The day, or the week, that I signed for Everton.

I wasn't sure if I could still do it.

[synth music playing]

What I didn't realise is what kind of state the club was in at that particular time.

[commentator] Howard Kendall is one man who will be glad to see the end of 1983.

[Gray] There were petitions out.

"Kendall must go,"

signed by thousands and thousands of Evertonians.

[crowd chanting]

[Sharp] That was a really tough time.

The pressure was building, and the football was poor.

Cannot see us getting out. I can't see where this is gonna change.

[crowd booing]

[Sharp] It just wasn't happening for us.

We are struggling.

Used to read your names out. Number 1, Neville Southall,

and there'd be maybe a ripple of applause.

Number 2, Gary Stevens.

And we always used to laugh about it,

because at the time, Adrian was having a hard time.

He'd come for 750 grand.

And as soon as you got to number 8, which Inchy was at that time,

we'd all kind of look around, and it was boo, boo, boo.

[crowd booing]

[Heath] Well, it wasn't exactly an endorsement,

shall we say, from the crowd.

They were disappointed, and they let me know.

They'd probably read that they were getting somebody

who was gonna come in and transform this team for them,

and I wasn't that guy.

[elevator music playing]

[chatter]

Every now and again, at regular intervals,

Howard would call us all together

and take us for a Chinese in the afternoon.

A lot of truths sought in those afternoons.

There was no holding back.

When somebody was gonna let you know that they didn't think you were doing

what the group needed or you weren't doing what the coaches wanted,

people were gonna let you know.

I've got a problem with you doing this and this.

You can say let's sort that out.

I think that was the beauty of the group.

I don't think anybody took it personal, because if you did,

it was probably the wrong group to be in.

[chatter]

The next game after one of those Chinese,

we went out, and we played and won.

[announcer] Mix one, cue Harry.

Our action begins with tonight's Milk Cup quarter final.

Christmas, New Year of '83 till the end of January '84,

we played three massive games.

One was Birmingham City away in a league game.

Howard said, "Today, if it doesn't happen",

I'm gonna have to make massive changes."

There's gonna be a clear-out. We won the game.

The game at Victoria Grounds when we beat Stoke.

And I always remember Howard. He opened the slats in all these windows.

And the noise that was coming through there. "Hear that? You want to let them down?"

Go and win it for them.

And that was it. And we went out and won the game.

And the third big game

is obviously the one that everyone talks about.

Third Division Oxford United against First Division Everton.

They must have been wondering tonight what might hit them.

[crowd chanting]

[commentator] Oh, a goal!

[crowd screaming]

1-0 to Oxford.

If there's ever a player who means more to Evertonians

than any other who never played for Everton,

then Kevin Brock is probably that man.

Although Adrian Heath actually still had an awful lot to do.

[crowd chanting]

Reid is working him so hard, Kevin Brock,

that he just doesn't see I'm there.

[commentator] Adrian Heath in, and he scored.

Everton are back in it.

Given away by Kevin Brock.

I think Adrian's goal that night saved a lot of us.

Not just Howard. I think it saved a lot of players as well.

[commentator] Oxford United 1, Everton 1.

We needed a spark,

and I thought we provided the spark before the Oxford game.

We really sort of pushed, as a team, forward,

and went to press the ball.

Reid was on, "Oh, I don't like tracking back."

What am I doing running back into the back four?"

I said, "Well, don't. Go to the ball and let the back four"

look after the player who's making the run."

Col, brilliant, that. Where you've got me in that position.

When teams get negative,

they tend to drop deeper, and deeper, and deeper.

He went, "We're not having this. We're gonna go this way."

His positive influence actually changed the way we played.

[crowd chanting]

[commentator] Have the good times come back to Goodison Park?

The Evertonians dream of reaching Wembley,

where Liverpool await.

[Southall] The only one person we could ever miss in our team was Sheeds.

Sheeds, to me, was like Messi or Maradona.

He was playing centre midfield for Liverpool reserves.

A really good footballer. You know, lovely left foot.

I said to Howard, "Come and have look at him."

"He's got talent," he said, "but his work rate isn't the best, is it?"

And I said, "Mr Kendall, I always try.

If you play me in your first team, I'll run around for you."

[commentator] It's gone in, goal given.

And they've run to Sheedy.

[interviewer] If you're rolling, Thames,

we're gonna go ahead with the Kevin Richardson interview now.

Richard was another really important member of the team.

He had a problem with his hand.

He'd had a broken wrist or a fracture in his hand.

[commentator] Only out from Bremner as far as Richardson.

2-0.

[Sharp] And then they had a scramble in the goal mouth,

and Richard's handballed it.

-[commentator] Wait! - [crowd yelling]

Southall's lost it. Shaw! Villa feel there was a handball.

Are we rolling now?

[Sharp] We'd like Kevin Richardson, for the interview,

Go on, Richo, on you go. But don't say you handballed it.

Whatever you do, don't tell them you handballed it.

You could see him thinking, "But I did."

I was a bag of nerves.

The incident at the end, the scramble,

just to get your version of it. I'm not putting you on the spot.

And I went, wh...

What was your verdict there?

Erm... Just... No.

No, no, it wasn't. It certainly wasn't a handball.

No, that's right in front of us, I think it went across us.

And all you could see was this big white cast coming in.

[interviewer] So there was no actual contact made?

No.

[laughs]

Most important people for us was Harper and Richardson.

[commentator] On towards Heath. Great chance for Alan Harper inside the penalty area.

1-1!

Alan Harper, the substitute, has equalised.

Shirts two, three, four.

Alan could play any position on the pitch

and play it well, and so could Kevin Richardson.

They'd come in, they did a job, they went out.

Five, six, seven, eight...

[Southall] Must have saved millions of pounds.

Without them two, we wouldn't have won anything.

10, 11, 12.

Mainly 12.

And the both of us would get in early,

just to knock on the door and have a go at Howard

why we're not playing.

Howard was the gaffer.

He would just say the team is A, B, and C, and that would be it.

He was a ruthless man.

You'll have to be very quick. We've got a flight to catch.

Can we test your voices, please?

-I've just tested mine, I think. - [man chuckles]

But a good manager.

In our hearts, we knew that we wouldn't be going anywhere

because we knew there was something

a little bit special coming.

[woman] Everyone from around here remembers this match,

March the 25th, 1984, when Everton played Liverpool

at Wembley for the Milk Cup.

[music playing]

[reporter] Thousands of Merseyside soccer fans

have begun the big trek to Wembley

for tomorrow's Milk Cup final.

Football's got to do this, you know?

Saturday afternoon may be the only outing a lad gets

who's on the dole.

If you're out of work in Liverpool,

and you haven't got a trade, and you haven't got a skill,

and all you've got is the football.

[reporter] It's calculated that 100,000 jobs

and millions in rates have left Liverpool in the last 10 years.

[reporter] Today at Liverpool's job centers,

long queues outside were predictable in a city

where youth unemployment has reached 90% in some areas.

[David Fehily] My dad couldn't get a job,

who's had all these years and all these qualifications,

and so nobody was giving me a job.

[man] What's happening now.

[interposing voices]

At London in Wembley. Is ours.

And nobody can take it away from us, can they?

People begged, stole, borrowed, hitchhiked,

walked if they had to

not only get the ticket, but to get down to Wembley.

[chanting]

[music playing]

[Derek Mountfield] I remember passing a Luton box van.

The back was ripped off,

and there was a three-piece suite

with reds and blues sitting with a beer in hand

waving at people as we went past them.

[music playing]

[announcer] Turning into quite the confrontation, this one.

End-to-end so far, six minutes gone, no goals.

Everton on the break, Heath against Grobbelaar.

Heath has beaten Grobbelaar. He shoots.

Hansen has surely handled it.

And what's the referee going to say about that?

It was the worst decision you've ever seen

in the football field.

[music - A Flock of Seagulls, "Wishing"]

Merseyside is here for the world to see.

[D. Mountfield] That's the one, all the players together.

♪ If I had a photograph of you ♪

I think we showed character coming back.

Ah, super. Super.

That's absolutely perfect.

How many people could compete at his level?

[David Fehily] With the replay, I remember coming out that day,

and I was walking down the stairs

with my head in my hands going, "Please, Lord, I've had enough."

I have been through enough.

Some fella taps me on the arm.

He said, "Lad, get your head out of your hands"

because we're coming back.

He said, "Look at the team, Southall, Reid, Sharp, Sheedy",

Trevor Steven."

Me?

[Trevor Steven claps]

[Andy Gray] In my first training session there,

the ball arrived rather awkwardly.

With just consummate ease, he just dealt with it

as if it was part of his body.

He was almost balletic.

I'm telling you know, if he ran through a puddle,

he wouldn't make a ripple.

[crowd chanting]

[Trevor Steven] I go up and talk to Howard.

I walked up the stairs, had a look around.

I could dream about what could be.

Whatever he offered me, I was coming to Everton.

I was totally convinced.

[crowd chanting]

And one of the frightening things, really,

is that my note-taking preparation for games

is very much the same today as it was then.

[crowd cheering]

Now, there's a goal that I scored for Everton

in our cup run

that gets talked about and mentioned to me

more than any goal I've scored.

Crikey, the famous Andy Gray

half-volleyed header at Notts County and the FA Cup.

[crowd cheering]

[Andy Gray] It was there in front of me,

and I didn't think I could reach it with my foot,

so I dived at it, and I managed to a half-volley header

out of the corner.

[announcer] And Sheedy takes, and Andy Gray

has scored from a virtually horizontal position.

[crowd cheering]

[Peter Reid] One of the great things

when I played for Everton was the team spirit itself.

I think Bails you should come up, come up and sit up...

[cheering, applause]

[Andy Gray] The Gnash is as funny a lad

as I've seen without knowing it.

He comes in the dressing room and goes,

"Hey, I met this guy from South Africa.

"He wants to start, like, one of these cricket circuits

over there, but with football in South Africa."

So Jim Arnold, who was one of the goalkeepers,

pulled the paper down.

John, it's all right about going over there for the money,

but what about the Apartheid?

And Bails goes, "No problem, we get the two-bedroom one."

[crowd chanting]

[David Fehily] My favorite away game ever.

We don't beat Southampton, none of those things,

not winning the cup, not winning the league,

not going in the Cup Winners' Cup,

none of those things happen.

The energy from the supporters.

They were all hanging out the windows,

and it's just a sea of blue.

A sea of blue and white.

We've got to win this game for these people.

[crowd chanting]

[announcer] And Everton with their captain, Kevin Ratcliffe.

It's amazing how superstitious players are.

[Derek Mountfield laughing]

Oh, God, how small are they?

You get to the grounds, you go for your kit.

I've gone for my shorts, and they're not my shorts.

They may be a 36,

but this is towards the end of the season.

They're now a 30.

By the time they've been washed,

they had shrunk to, maybe, a thong.

And I was so uncomfortable on the thighs.

Me, Sharpy, Reidy, I mean, we had the bigger of the arses

other than, you know, Nev.

But Nev had his own kit anyway.

You weren't going to pinch his shorts, were you?

No.

Somebody's got my shorts. Who's got my shorts?

And nobody would own up.

[announcer] Foul in the back

on Worthington by Kevin Ratcliffe,

and a booking.

I just didn't feel comfortable.

Rats, is any flipping chance

of you getting your arse in gear there?

It's my shorts.

I says, are you, pfft... Are you what?

Your what?

He says, "These shorts are too small."

He said, "You've got a pair of the baggy ones."

I said, "Somebody's got my shorts."

"Do you want to swap shorts?"

He went, yeah. I said all right.

He whips his shorts off and throws them at me.

He says, "There, pop them ones on, then."

And we swapped shorts at half time

in the FA Cup semi-final.

I was all right, then.

They're the ones Rats wouldn't get into.

He definitely couldn't now.

I take a free kick out wide.

It was a poor free kick.

I was just about to give Reidy a bollocking.

[cheering]

[music playing]

[Peter Reid] And I've never heard

anything or seen scenes like it.

I was just running around the pitch with my jumper

over me head going, oh, my God.

[Peter Reid] I know it meant a lot, too, the support.

Trust me, it meant so much to us as a group of players

because we were going to another final.

[crowd noise]

The dressing rooms were literally there,

like windows in a house, so you could literally open them

in the dressing rooms, stick your head out.

And this scouse head popped through, alright, Bailsey!!

And they'd start that spraying thing.

The lads would like, ah, with their mouth open, [whooshing sound]

I think Howard gave me a bollocking for that again.

Don't you be giving the champagne.

We want that on the way back.

[box scraping]

Memories.

Wow.

Oh, hey.

The famous cup final songs.

[music - John Peel's Everton Cup Squad, "The Boys In Blue"]

So, "The Boys In Blue."

But this year, Everton, "The Boys in Blue,"

have been doing their stuff.

They feel they've got a superior product.

Well, let's see what we make of it.

[music playing]

[Jim Rosenthal] Superior product.

I perjured myself yet again.

What's Kinky got on, by the way?

[Clive Tyldesley] He's gone clay pigeon shooting I think.

That's the worst football song I've ever heard, I think.

Pfff. No wonder we can't remember it.

"The Boys in Blue?" I don't even know how it goes.

"The Boys in Blue"... Was I on it?

I think it was the following year

when we went down to do the "Here We Go."

We're all singing there away, and "have a break boys"

and the producer walked over to me

and said, you keep singing, son.

Look, I'm turning your mic off because you can't sing.

[needle scratch on vinyl]

[Adrian Heath] Me and Reidy had this thing

where he always slept nearest the window,

I slept nearest the door.

So if the TV was on his side, he had to turn the TV over.

If the tea and coffee was on mine,

I had to make the tea and coffee.

This particular night, everything's on my side.

And I'm one of them

who goes to sleep with the TV on.

[music playing]

About half past 3, 4 o'clock, I'm, what's up, what's up?

I thought it was a fire alarm or something.

Woke him up and said, "Inch, turn the telly off.

"It's on your side. You're an idiot."

Well, I had to get up, turn the TV off.

Two seconds later... [snores] he's snoring,

and I stayed awake, then, until... of course,

now I've got the FA Cup Final day on my mind, and I can't get out.

So I didn't sleep from about 3:30 in the night.

[key rattling in lock]

[crowd cheering in distance]

[music playing]

The FA Cup final was an occasion.

Who will be raising the FA Cup in triumph this year?

Will it be the captain of Everton,

or will it be the Watford captain?

This was when, on a Saturday.

It started at, like, 7:00 in the morning.

[announcer] Good morning.

The World Of Sport caravan has come to rest at Wembley,

and I bid you a very warm welcome to our Cup Final Special.

I can remember TV cameras being around the hotel,

and it would...

there's no chance of it happening today.

Good morning, David.

Hi, Sunshine, you okay?

Fine, thanks.

[music playing]

Who's this lunatic?

Bloody Freddie Starr's down there.

[Freddie Starr] How are you, John, all right? Is that your wife?

Yes.

[laughter]

We've had a lovely evening together.

[laughter]

[reporter] How important is it for the team

to have someone like John as a joker in the dressing room?

[applause]

[John Bailey] Nice to see Andy, I haven't seen him for a couple of years.

He only comes home when it comes to getting married.

[laughter]

You hear the crowd, Oh Evymode, Evymode.

They're the boys who win the cup and all this

and spit on the floor and all hooligan,

then get arrested at the backload.

That was the FA Cup for you.

[John bailey] I've got it.

They know what job they've got to do today.

[John Bailey] Anyone seen my pants?

[music playing]

Everyone wanted to sit by to window

because you wanted to see the fans,

and they're waving, and all that.

And all we could see was just a sea of blue.

Fans banging on the doors, going, yeah, go on.

[Peter Reid] And the look on their faces...

grown men.

Lads on their knees, given it the... you know.

[announcer] It's just what this game of football

does to people, eh?

See, they've been in the shadow of Liverpool

so long that they're so desperate for success.

These guys have been waiting years, years for that.

There's a story of one chappie who was queuing this week and was asked

how long he'd been queuing, and he said 14 years.

Going to work week in, week out, Liverpool had won another title.

Liverpool has won this, Liverpool had won that.

[announcer] What do you think of the thousands of kids in Liverpool that don't have jobs?

And I think you have to be really desperate.

So, yeah, it was time for that release.

Don't let them down.

[announcer] Could reduce you to tears, almost,

to see just what it means to them.

That was mind-blowing.

It's... you actually can't describe it.

It's Like having an orgasm.

-You what? - What?

Not really like but, you know, getting close.

There's the one.

The 1984, FA Cup final shirt.

And believe it or not, I did fit into that once.

Worn once, washed once.

I think, really, they've got one big advantage over Watford.

What is that, then?

Well, you see, Everton have been to Wembley before.

Oh, right.

Yeah, you see?

[laughs]

So when Watford get lost on the way there,

they'll lose the game, won't they?

Because it's terrible around there,

all around the Wembley with the one-way system.

[music playing]

[announcer] On the left, in a smart gray suit, also,

Howard Kendall, followed by his Everton team

on the left of the picture.

And then you've got that tunnel.

And it's like a 45-degree slope.

You've got the light at the end of the tunnel.

And all you see is sky.

And all of a sudden, someone gets a button and goes...

[cheering]

And I loved the old one Wembley

because you had that long walk across the pitch.

[Peter Reid] That whole walk over that little bit of sand

is the best walk in the world.

Wow.

[Graeme Sharp] This is something all of us have dreamed of.

[music playing]

[announcer] A cross headed half away, and Stevens shot!

A goal for Everton!

From Graeme Sharp!

[cheering]

Wow, actually scoring in an FA Cup final

at Wembley, your parents are down watching it.

I might say it was a terrific pass to Sharpy,

but to be honest, it was like a half tackle,

half pass, half shot.

1-0 up and you just never know with a Cup final.

[announcer] Gray and Sharp waiting in the center,

and Gray is closing in here.

Oh, and Sherwood didn't collect,

and the goal is given.

And Everton are 2-0 in the lead.

It's not what you would call

one of the most classical of FA Cup Final goals,

but does Mr. Andrew Mullen Gray care?

Not a jot. Not a jot.

[crowd cheering]

I've just gone up and did that, and I got it perfectly.

It was right in between his hands,

and I just hit it out of his hands,

and I don't think it even reached the back of the net.

It just says scorers, Sharp and Gray.

It doesn't say scorers, Sharp, good goal, Gray, rubbish.

[music playing]

[announcer] The victory is for Everton in the FA Cup.

[announcer] Play it again, boys.

[crowd cheering]

[announcer] A memorable moment for Evertonians everywhere.

Their first major trophy for 14 years.

[crowd cheering]

[suitcase clacking]

The start of it.

The FA Cup.

1984, the start of that time.

[crowd cheering]

[David Fehily] I remember

going with my whole family,

watching Bails, and Neville,

and the Gaffer, and Derek, and Sheed

go right past me, like literally this far away.

Everyone who's given it the big one.

Dad died the next year.

That's probably the last time I was ever with my family

in a collective thing like that.

[Paul Bracewell] My first game was the Charity Shield

at Wembley.

[crowd cheering]

[announcer] And that was it, 1-0 to Everton.

Howard said don't worry about it,

nobody really knows about you.

And then, after the game, he said, well,

they certainly all know about you now.

But I've got to say, what a signing.

I mean, he's an outstanding, outstanding footballer.

There is a great desire to win football matches.

Paul Bracewell epitomized that.

[door squeaks open]

[announcer] Thousands of trade unionists

surge towards the town hall to cheer the Labour counselors

who've promised to cut neither jobs nor services,

even if this puts them outside the law.

Not even Thatcher that can ignore that weight of pressure.

[Gary Stevens] And it was an amazing moment,

that moment in time when you look out at all those people

and you know that they're there because of all of us.

We're actually taking a lead on something

that was very important for everyone.

And if you want to take on 51 Labour counselors,

it's not just the 51 Labour counselors that you're taking on.

You're taking on the entire city.

It was a strange place,

because obviously, all the political stuff was going on.

Derek Hatton was in his prime.

And then, on the other side of it,

you had this incredible explosion of music.

[music playing]

You know, Echo & the Bunneymen, Fiction Factory, Pete Wylie,

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, China Crisis.

♪ It's time to talk about it ♪

[Adrian Heath] You could go out and watch these bands

on a Tuesday night in front of 30, 40 people.

I don't think there could have been a better place to be playing football

anywhere in Britain at that particular time.

[Keith Mullin] The bands in Liverpool

were very, very prominent, very, very part of the scene.

The Farm grew up out of that era.

But what they emerged through, as well,

was that concept and idea of independence,

and I think that was very, very reflective

of this city, this concept and idea

that you're different to everyone else.

We'd gone away to Devon.

I remember us going and trying to get into this pub,

and there was a sign on the door.

The sign basically says, it said no gypsies, no Hell's Angels,

and no scousers.

[laughter]

It's the gospel truth.

And that was the first time I started to realize

there's something different about them.

You could identify a scouser in those days,

from a distance, with the music,

with the trainers with the big long quiff.

The kind of clothes you wore, how you wore them.

Well, Trevor Steven and Paul Bracewell

looked like they lived on a council estate

somewhere in Merseyside.

This tie's not too low, is it?

Trevor was always a cool dude.

Well, he had the hair, didn't he, for it?

He had the je ne sais quoi, didn't he?

A little bit of a fashion sense.

Martin Dobson, one morning in the weight room at Burnley,

pulled my socks up, first and foremost, stood me up,

shoulders back, pulled the socks up,

and he said, "Play smart, dress smart, think smart."

Okay.

[Peter Reid] Neville, just anything he could find.

Ned's game was to be when the leccy was off

when he got dressed in the morning.

[Pat Van Den Hauwe] I've just watched them on the TV beat Watford.

I couldn't understand it.

Why would they want me, like? You know.

Pat was a strange character, but he was good player.

Can we get a clap in front of your face like...

Why?

Because it syncs the cameras.

Oh.

[Kevin Sheedy] He came from Birmingham.

They had a reputation of being a tough team, Birmingham.

They had some strong characters, shall we say.

[Pat Van Den Hauwe] Birmingham.

One morning, Ron Saunders was the manager then,

and he got us all in a circle.

Right, before we start,

four or five of you are leaving the club today.

And then he turned to me.

You're going to Everton. Get your stuff.

Go now.

I didn't know where I was going.

How do I get to f'ing Liverpool?

When I first met Howard,

the way he shook your hand, and hello,

and whatever, took to him straight away.

I thought, Jesus, what a lovely man.

And he said, "Do you want to play for Everton?"

I said of course I do.

I heard about the rumors

that Howard had gone out to buy Pat.

Well, when I first signed,

I was watching the game,

and then the boss took me downstairs.

He said, "I want to introduce you to someone, John Bailey."

I said I've got changed,

ready to go to the player's lounge for a pint.

Bloody hell.

Hello, John.

John, come here.

I want you to meet someone. Shake his hand.

Introduce yourself to Pat and make him feel at home.

I went, you what?

John went, no.

I don't think I shook your hand then.

No, you didn't.

I kept looking over at him going, that bastard,

look at him, I'm gonna smash your head in, you know?

Did meet him in a pub,

and we had a chat and a few beers,

and been mates ever since.

Right, Bails leave you to it.

Can I chin him? Can I chin him?

All right, buddy.

It takes everybody a little while

just to come to terms with who Pat is.

Kept myself to myself in the beginning.

Picked up the nickname "Psycho."

I thought it a bit daunting.

I mean, look, Evertonians are Evertonians.

They call you something, all right.

I accepted that, and I still do.

But I'm not like that, really. I mean, playing-wise...

[crowd cheering]

[announcer] Recovered by Van Den Hauwe

who was fouled by Molhy and Walk and Van Den Hauwe square up.

I play to win.

Nasty as they get.

I loved him, I did.

[announcer] It's Van Den Hauwe.

[music playing]

[announcer] In English football, nothing compares

with this Wembley festival.

That speedy left-winger Derek Temple

had a great chance and made no mistake.

[crowd cheering]

Not even a Cup final can prevent

the Goodison park spirit invading Wembley.

That bobby ought to be playing at Twickenham.

So my wife taped the match,

and she got all the kids in, and she says, yeah,

who's that there?

All the kids were laughing at me,

running around the living room going, eh!

[music playing]

Good evening, and welcome to Match Of The Day.

And could a Merseyside Derby,

Liverpool v. Everton.

Sharpy's Derby match?

[Frank Willmitt] Sharpy Derby match

in the Jester at 12:00, hey, no tickets.

So about half past two, pfft.

I'm topped up now.

So I thought I'm not going to get a ticket.

So my mate comes in, yeah, two tickets,

Kremlin Road gives to them, and we go to the match.

In the run-up to the game,

Howard, again, and his wisdom

decides to bring in all these new balls

that Liverpool played with.

There were only one of two teams

that used these balls regularly.

They were a lot lighter and they moved a lot more.

So we got used some.

[announcer] They haven't won at Anfield for over 14 years.

[Gary Stevens] One of Howard's remits

was, look, let's try and be

a better Liverpool than Liverpool are.

[announcer] 90 years of football history

embodied in this fixture.

We had the belief that, you know, we can beat these.

[announcer] Reid, Stevens...

Now, yeah...

It landed roughly where I intended it to lie.

I was up against Mark Lawrenson

and then I thought, "I ain't going to beat him in the race,"

but instinctively, it set up really nice for me,

and all the training we had the week before

about do you hit the ball, especially in the volley, and that was it.

When I just looked up like that, the ball... bang!

[announcer] Stevens, looking for Sharp,

and he dropped behind Lawrenson,

and there it's Sharp for a fantastic goal.

[crowd roars]

Three reds in front of me...

get out of the way.

[announcer] An unbelievable finish from Graeme Sharp.

And the Evertonians have gone berserk.

I just give it loads of that.

Don't know why I give it that, but I'll give it.

Been nicknamed the windmill.

That's what that was.

[announcer] And the Evertonians have gone berserk.

The balance of power may be shifting on Merseyside.

[David Fehily] I remember the bin man, Neville,

running off the pitch.

I wanted a party right here and in front of me.

He never... he just turned around, went like that,

put his hat on, and ran to the halfway.

I'm going, what are you doing?

What if this never happens ever again?

It was to happen the next year, as it happened, but we didn't know that then.

We come off the pitch and thinking, right, that's it.

We've arrived.

The belief was also on the terrace now, you know?

And I think, from having been so long

without winning anything

and being the laughing stock, if you like,

of the Liverpool fans, now the supporters could see something.

We beat United 5-0.

That's probably the best team performance

that I've played with Everton.

[announcer] Sheedy right in with a header.

It's a good one, he scores.

Kevin Sheedy within four minutes, of return to his side.

Sheedy inside the penalty area, 2-0, absolutely marvellous goal.

Steven right footed again, oh, they've scored again.

Adrian Heath makes it 3.

I think we hit the post and the bar two or three times.

We had a goal disallowed.

We could have conceivably won that game at 8 or 9.

I always remember Joe Mercer,

old Joe Mercer, Everton player,

come in the dressing room afterwards.

You know, when people who you hold in high esteem

say something, you always remember, don't you?

[announcer] 2-0, a marvellous finish from Gary Stevens.

And he says, I've just seen Brazil playing Blue today.

[announcer] Adrian Heath will take it.

Sends it towards Sharp, it's there 5-0 to Everton.

Oh...

And I thought, good today.

[music playing]

He's a mad blue. Everybody knows that.

Adrian, he was playing absolutely out of his skin.

I mean they, all were, but Inchy was brilliant.

If we were out on a Tuesday night,

I guarantee you, at some stage, we'd bump into Derek.

We were in the pub. Adrian Heath was there.

His dad John Heath was there. A couple of others were there.

And he'd got to know my dad over a few years,

and he'd said to my dad, "I'm on Question Time next Thursday night."

It was the first time I'd been out,

John Heath, he goes, "I bet you don't make mention on air"

our Adrian should be playing for England."

And at that stage, we'd all had a few pints.

I said I bet you do. He said I bet you don't.

He said, I bet you 100 quid I do.

And I thought, "He's never going to get that in on Question Time. "

Woke up the next day, forgot all about it completely.

As the week went on, I was just building for this day.

I knew it was going to be Robin Day plus 4 against me.

[applause]

Hello.

So they started off,

and sure enough, I get the first question.

[Robin Day] Mr. Hatton...

Derek Hatton, on this miner's dispute,

so straightaway, I get it.

Those miners are there defending their jobs,

defending their communities.

Suddenly the program is nearly finished. You're like, where did that go?

And at the very last question, in those days,

they used to ask a silly question.

If you could spend a weekend with someone

who wasn't your family, who would it be?

And all of a sudden, out of the blue,

I remembered the discussion over the Adrian Heath.

Derek Hatton?

Probably with Bobby Robson, who's the manager of England,

to actually suggest to him that...

to ask him the question about why he keeps ignoring

some of the best footballers in the land

who play for Everton Football Club, including Adrian Heath...

[Robin Day] There we are. I have to leave it.

Who's the best attacking midfield player in the country.

He managed it, as Derek normally does.

The Echo had it on the back page headline.

It was everywhere afterwards.

And sure enough, Johnny came up with the 100 quid.

[music playing]

I get to, I think, it's December,

top goal scorer in the league, I get told on the Wednesday

that I'm going to be playing in the next England squad.

I'm feeling, this is fantastic.

And then, lo and behold, on Saturday, you know.

Straight into our first feature game, then.

The team leading the first division

of the Canon League, Everton against Sheffield Wednesday.

[crowd cheering]

[announcer] The boos are for Marwood.

[Adrian Heath] I actually didn't realize

he'd hit me with such force, to be honest.

I've never seen this picture before.

[announcer] It looks serious for Adrian Heath.

I heard Adrian, whoa, you know, a cry of pain.

ACL, you know?

Crucial ligaments, and nine months later,

you still haven't played a game.

I was going to miss an awful lot of great nights for the club.

[crowd booing]

[announcer] And Peter Reid taking retribution.

If one of your teammates just gets done,

you try and sort of rectify it.

And not just in that game, by the way.

Any time we played against him, I think, he'd become a target.

You know, that's the way it was in them days.

That's what we were. We looked after one another.

If you want to play, we'll play. If you want have a scrap, we'll have a scrap.

And I remember a skirmish down at QPR once.

Howard just said when you hit the field,

look after each other, take care of each other.

Resonated with me, so...

It was that bad that was- it was on News At 10:00.

Simon Stainrod,

he pulled his fist back to hit Andy Gray.

In that mad moment, and I'm talking split seconds,

you don't think.

And I run over and I whacked him.

[crowd noise]

[Kevin Ratcliffe] I think the only two players that weren't involved

were Kevin Sheedy and Neville Southall.

I think Neville was just going, what's going on here?

You know, I got sent off,

and I ended up with two black eyes walking off the pitch.

Looked like a fucking panda.

[Andy Gray] When Adrian got injured,

I felt huge pressure on me.

Sharp and Heath was the best front two in the country.

[crowd cheering]

I knew a lot of the Everton fans thought, damn, that's it.

We won't win it now.

Gray and Sharp won't be able to play together.

Far too similar.

I think that was the bit between their teeth.

Right, we'll show these.

I'd worn the number 8 for 12 games.

Number 8, never worn number 8 in my life.

And I'm thinking, where's the next goal going to come from?

And now, our first match,

the leaders of the First Division,

Everton against Leicester City.

[Andy Gray] Sharpy was injured,

and I wore the 9.

And if you're number 9 at Everton, of all clubs,

that's special.

He was desperate for it. He wanted it.

[announcer] Still in play,

it's there at last.

Andy Gray celebrates his second goal

in 17 games this season.

Stephen, knocked on for Andy Gray,

and what a magnificent strike by Andy Gray,

as good a goal as you wish to see.

Suddenly I've got the number 9 on,

suddenly I've got two goals, and off I went,

and off and running.

[music playing]

[announcer] Gray strikes...

[cheering]

[announcer] Steven... Gray's there again!

Oh.

I say,

another great header!

People remember the pass.

The Evertonians realize that it was a proper pass.

I saw people watching go, nah, he didn't mean that,

but they know I meant it.

And he puts it right on a sixpence.

[announcer] Steven away from Pickering.

Yes!

[crowd cheering]

Another superb goal.

[Trevor Steven] Now, that was a goal.

The ball, the finish,

people will watch and remember for a long time.

It was great.

[music playing]

[Andy Gray] The Spurs game was tagged as the league decider.

The atmosphere in the dressing room

was higher than anything I'd ever known.

[Graeme Sharp] We were fighting for the title with them,

and it was brutal.

Andy Gray and myself, Graham Roberts, Paul Miller,

punching, kicking, all sorts.

What's the script here, Andy?

He said, "I've not had any problem with these before."

"Oh, I hate these two.

"I've had battles with them, and I've been at Villa,

and Wolves and everything else."

And I thought, what's it got to do with me?

He says, "Just get on with it and make sure you give them a belt."

And that was it. We went out the second half, and it just carried on.

But I managed to smash one in with a trusty right peg.

I hit this thing first time.

That was the sweetest I ever had.

I got the opportunity in the second half

to kind of almost seal it.

It was great, because the Everton fans

were at the end of White Hart Lane.

[crowd cheering]

[announcer] 2-1, still 17 minutes left.

Thankfully, Neville was there to save us in the end.

[announcer] Mark Falco's header somehow

kept out by Neville Southall.

A save that brought Ray Clemence to his knees

at the other end in frustration.

That's what wins you league titles.

See, the difference between people and me,

I'd be disappointed if it went in.

You don't expect me to make saves, right?

Which is just fine,

but I do.

He was...

out of this world.

[announcer] Must be Varadi. Oh, what a brilliant save!

[Graeme Sharp] We'd have shooting practice and training.

You'd train beside Gray, and he'd head things,

and block things, and everything else,

and he would laugh about it.

But I tell you what, if you are struggling to score goals

and he's like bouncing out and heading out,

he'd absolutely destroy you.

Best in the world by a million miles.

Well, now it's the turn of league leaders,

Everton to show their prowess against Ipswich Town.

[Andy Gray] So we get a free kick about 22 yards out.

I also used to like to get on the free kicks early

to try and gain an advantage.

I got to the ball early, put the ball down.

I saw Paul Cooper lying in his wall.

The wall wasn't correctly placed,

so I just put my foot through it.

Over the wall.

[announcer] Speedy takes, and scores.

No says the referee.

The referee, Back! I didn't whistle!

I get the ball back,

and I'm ready to replace it, and Peter Reid comes over.

So he said, "What are we doing?"

What am I doing?

I went, fair, dues, all right I said,

I'll just stand there like a dummy.

He says, correct.

I said Peter, just get out of the f'ing way,

and I'll put it in the other corner.

And I went, flip off.

I could see Paul Cooper just edging

slightly over to his right-hand side,

and he just left a nice little space.

All I had to do was get it over the wall

with a bit of spin away from Paul Cooper, and I'd score.

And as soon as the ball left my foot...

[announcer] Sheedy again goes for the other side... brilliant!

Absolutely brilliant.

Most Evertonians of that era,

that's sort of the moment they remember,

twice-taken free kick.

[announcer] But what a lesson

in taking free kicks by Kevin Sheedy.

[Kevin Sheedy] Special memory for me.

[impact on ball]

[announcer] Holders Everton come out

to make FA Cup history by appearing

in their 20th semi-final.

And they'll be welcomed by some 25,000 supporters

from Merseyside.

Villa Park a massive blue and white

as Evertonians express their allegiance to the side

hoping to win three trophies.

[Peter Reid] Couldn't get going.

I was hopeless.

And the ball bounces at the edge of the box,

and that's my job to look after that.

And I don't get there.

[announcer] And here's Hill.

[crowd cheering]

Ricky Hill!

I think it was his worst performance ever

as an Evertonian.

I keep saying, why didn't you play that day?

I did, I did, well, I did.

Andy battered me.

We always found a way.

Great sides do.

[announcer] And it's Hill again. Good save by Southall.

A terrific stop.

Big hand on it, solid as a rock.

Saves it, keeps us at 1-0.

Brilliant.

Time was running out.

I think there was four minutes left on the clock.

Villa Park was a lucky ground for me.

[announcer] Harford and Foster are up together,

and they've been penalized.

There was not many places where I could really put it,

and I just decided on the bottom left-hand corner.

It wasn't the sweetest one I've hit.

[announcer] He drove one.

[crowd cheering]

Sheedy!

[Kevin Sheedy] I think as soon as that ball went in,

we knew we were going to win and the Luton guys knew

they were going to lose.

[music playing]

And I'd had my nose broken

and my eye blackened by Mick Harford.

My knee was throbbing.

There was there aches and pains in a lot of us,

and then they took Mick Harford off

at half time, of extra time.

And I looked to the sky and just prayed and said thank you, sir.

Three minutes to go, we get another free kick.

Too far for me to have a shot.

[announcer] Sheedy curls it.

It's there! It's a goal!

Derek Mountfield!

[crowd cheering]

"Black and blue hero," it says.

Some big scrawny kid with a funny moustache

and a big black eye just scored the winning goal.

[chanting]

[announcer] 21 games unbeaten now,

still chasing the treble.

The question is who can stop Everton?

[music playing]

A lot of people didn't give us a chance.

[Peter Reid] Howard Kendall was tactically so aware.

Kevin Richardson left Alan Harper right

and they embraced.

And so it was a solid, adjustable midfield.

Trevor Steven just in front,

with Sharpy up top.

Perfect.

Everton drawn 0-0 away to Bayern Munich

in the Cup Wnners' Cup.

Everton manager Howard Kendall says it's a tremendous result.

He got a great results, 0-0, so we'd had a couple of drinks.

I went back to my room, and I came, got in the room,

and I looked, and I thought, where's my bed gone?

My bed's gone.

So I couldn't figure out where my bed had gone,

so, all right.

Ned, where's my bed? He said, what bed?

But I just messed about a little bit.

Sometimes, he came back and he wouldn't have a bed

and he wouldn't have anything in the room apart from my bed.

He says, oh, just sleep anywhere.

I want, I want my bed. I want my bed.

So he lifted me off, and threw me in the wardrobe,

and locked the door of the wardrobe.

He was pissed, so I just locked him in.

But that's what you do with your spare stuff, isn't it?

So I'm stuck in the flipping wardrobe all night.

[laughs]

[music playing]

[chanting]

Do you think you'd ever been in the tunnel this narrow before?

Think about it, Bayern Munich.

No, not very often.

I thank God it was...

I mean, personally, I was desperate just to get out of here.

I was desperate just to get out.

I think it was right here that you started, wasn't it?

Come on, lads. Yeah, let's get into the...

It wasn't quite as nice as that, what we were saying, was it?

My dad got me a ticket to the park,

and I got a phone call just after school.

It was my football manager from the Sunday League.

I'd had a bit of an argument with him.

He wanted me to play up front,

and I wanted to play in the midfield

where the ball was always at.

And he went, listen, you've been picked

to be a ball boy for the Bayern Munich game.

Are you going be able to play for me still?

I said I'll play wherever you want me to play.

I will play wherever you want me to play, I will play wherever.

I think the crowd kicked in here, doesn't it?

You know, you know, who touched the side when they went out

and they won?

I didn't.

No.

Did you?

I don't think...

Could you reach?

[laughter]

[seagulls crying]

Everyone was really focused on what they were going to do.

And once you walked down that tunnel,

it was like nothing else mattered.

Nothing.

The noise was unbelievable.

I've never forgot it.

[shuffling]

Come on, lads!

[crowd roaring]

[chanting]

Down in the dressing room we know

we just have a sense of what the crowd was going to be like

because we could hear them above the dressing room,

walking above the dressing room on the stairs and I'm thinking,

this is quite a big crowd up there.

[roaring]

It scared you?

Yeah, it did. Yeah, it did.

Excited scared. Pumped me up.

We got into them mentally, I think, before we started.

Physically.

Which was brilliant.

I would swap everything I ever achieved in football

for that one night, everything.

Because that just said to me this is what Everton's about.

This is what the city's about.

Talking to people who were here,

who had witnessed big games in Europe before,

not necessarily Everton,

they thought that night at Goodison

was the best atmosphere.

And I'm talking about lads who had followed up in Scotland.

Rangers and Celtic,

and they said that night here

was the best they've ever experienced.

The best I've experienced I played in,

like you played in World Cup Finals.

Well, you chased Maradona for 50 meters.

I knew it.

I tell you, I knew you were going to get it in.

I knew you were going to get that in. And I knew it.

You were going in as if it was your life

depended on it as a gladiator.

If you look at the game now,

it should be X-rated

and anybody under 12 shouldn't be watching it.

[blow lands]

People criticize Andy for being a little bit physical.

They could look after themselves.

They were putting their foot on those nails. It was a real battle

I know they got a lot of criticism afterwards.

There was a couple unfortunate accidents.

But that happens in football. You know, these things happen.

That was a night for,

it doesn't matter how you get it done, get it done.

I lost a couple of semi-finals, and I hated them.

Who remembers losing semi-finalists?

Nobody. Nobody remembers them.

I think that night I roughed up the big boy a couple of times.

And probably in the modern day, I might have got sent off,

but it wasn't the modern day, it was my day.

[announcer] Gray, and he lashed out.

[echoing crashes]

I remember Ratters,

Kevin Ratcliffe three times, kicking...

Oh, he smashed it.

And then with...

And I'm thinking, oh, steady on, Rats,

and he got away with it three times.

[announcer] And Ratcliffe had to take drastic action.

[Kevin Ratcliffe] Reedy said we've got a problem with the Kogl,

he's causing us problems.

Yeah, I caught him, and never got booked.

How there was not more people booked in that game,

I'm not quite sure.

[crowd cheering]

Absolutely cacophony.

Eardrum-shattering noise,

[snaps] to that.

I thought the manager was brilliant at half time.

I thought the manager was brilliant.

You're better than them,

you're stronger than them, you're fitter than them.

Get the ball in the box, Gwladys Street end,

you'll sock it in. And that's all he said.

Different sorts of tactics,

but needs must.

[music - The Psychedelic Furs, "Heaven"]

My little claim to fame is I got on an assist,

gave Gary Stevens the ball, he threw it in.

[Gary Stevens] We worked quite hard at that.

Knowing where that ball's going to land,

and fortunately enough, I could put

a little bit of pace on the ball as well.

♪ And heaven Don't tear you apart ♪

[announcer] Gray goes in, Sharp!

The perfect start to the second half.

Stevens with another testing long throw, does it...

A goal!

Andy Gray!

My goodness, that erupted the place.

I've never seen Goodison like that.

Wow.

It felt like when I went back to the halfway line

that my feet were not touching the ground.

It felt like it was just like that, just walking.

The noise!

[announcer] Steven takes it to Reid.

I put my hand up. I had a poor, poor match.

I couldn't concentrate. I couldn't get into it.

Reidy's given me stick, you know,

about if I was going to turn up tonight and all of that.

And I couldn't really hear because there was 50-odd thousand in the stadium,

but I could see his mouth was running.

He wasn't very happy with what I was doing.

[announcer] Sheedy.

There wasn't too long left.

And bearing in mind, it was people panicking by this stage.

So I'm waiting for Andy Gray to make a run.

I've weaved passed a couple of players.

I'm still waiting for him to make a run,

and I've got 55,000 people shouting the man on.

[Trevor Steven] Kevin's patience on the ball.

Andy, first touch, swivels.

I don't know if he's recovered from that swivel yet.

And then I've got the Gwladys Street looking at me.

The crowd just moving forward, pushing forward.

The keeper just started to go down and I... hit it.

♪ Heaven is the whole Of your heart ♪

♪ And heaven ♪

♪ Don't tear you apart ♪

♪ And heaven ♪

♪ Is the whole Of your heart ♪

♪ And heaven ♪

And by God, we showed them we could play.

♪ Don't tear you apart ♪

♪ Yeah, heaven ♪

If you talk to any Evertonian who was there that night,

who actually got on this ground that night,

and you said, you can take one game to the grave with you,

say it was 55,000, I'm betting you 50,000

would take this game with them.

Well, I'd be one.

I'd be one.

♪ Is the whole of the heart ♪

♪ And heaven ♪

♪ Don't tear you apart ♪

♪ Yeah, heaven ♪

[seagull crying]

[announcer] Tears for Fears'.

"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" at number 15.

And up 18 places to 14, "Here We Go"

from Everton '85,

Simple Minds, "Don't You Forget About Me" at 13...

Hello?

Yes.

Rich, all right, mate.

So when he actually makes his entrance

on the program, make that Price Is Right lot sound

like a lot of Undertaker's Convention.

You must have been on a different bonus than us.

[laughs] Good to see you.

How are you?

Good to see you.

Oh, God.

I don't want to go. And I didn't want to do the song in the first place.

Nope, not a chance.

I wasn't travelling all the way down to London to sing a load of horseshit either.

Well, we trained first at 12,

got on the bus, first off-license,

pulled over, a few beers, rehearsals.

We didn't have enough people. We had ringers on.

Andy had his mate Rob.

And they were worried at that time

because this is going out live.

There's 15 1/2 million people. This is prime TV.

And the producers come up,

and obviously, seeing the state,

we were in then, no more drink in the green room.

I said, really?

Fair dues.

Tell Mr. Wogan if we don't get us a couple of beers,

we're not going on.

[laughs]

It's Everton Football Club, "Here We Go."

[applause, cheers]

[music - Everton Football Club, "Here We Go"]

[Everton players singing]

♪ Here we go, here we go Here we go ♪

♪ Everton is the best We all know ♪

Brace nailed it one or two others, Kevin Richardson.

[babbling]

Oh. Oh, oh. Can we get a close-up on that?

Because only Bryce knew the words.

And he fancied himself as George Michael.

♪ Here we go, here we go Here we go ♪

And they said, look, you're going to follow the cameras around.

The light's going to come on. And I always remember that.

And that's why, obviously, I've had stick since that.

♪ We're the team We're supreme ♪

And now the head's going now.

Camera four shot.

It does look a bit wooden,

but I'm just surprised it looked that good.

[cheers, applause]

This is the original Canon League trophy

that they won in 1985.

We don't think all the players totally appreciated or liked it,

but it's still very special.

[music playing]

It's... the ultimate.

You are champions of England.

Couldn't get any better.

[crowd roars]

I've got that picture there, as well.

I've just scored the goal against QPR.

I didn't realize that Peter Reid could jump that high.

[Kevin Ratcliffe] It's great to be on a side

where you're consistently winning, winning, winning.

[music - The Waterboys, "The Whole of the Moon"]

♪ I spoke about wings ♪

[crowd roars]

♪ You just flew ♪

♪ I wondered, I guessed, and I tried ♪

Wow.

This is why I wanted to be a footballer.

♪ You just knew I sighed ♪

Confirmation, you are the best team in the country

by some distance.

♪ But you swooned ♪

♪ I saw the crescent ♪

You think it's always going to be like this.

♪ You saw the whole Of the moon ♪

♪ The whole of the moon ♪

It was great with the lads and champagne.

Possibly the best day of my life.

[Peter Reid] And the big goalie just sat there

having a cup of tea, as he usually does.

Everyone else is going mental.

[singing]

Champagne in the bath, beer in the bath.

After that game, I actually went home and cut my grass.

Needed cutting.

[music playing]

You see all the hoo-haw now

and getting the trophies, and if you look back to the '85,

we walked onto the pitch, and there's just a table,

like the school table in the middle of the field

with the trophy and 12 medals on it.

Oh, my God.

Bring on the champions.

You've got it!

Some of the introductory words

that I was saying on the night in Rotterdam,

of the Cup Winners' Cup final here,

"This is the seventh major European club final

to be staged in this stadium," all handwritten out.

[music playing]

The final was a nonentity, really.

We knew we could beat them because they weren't very good.

[music playing]

[announcer] First 45 minutes dominated almost completely

by Everton,

but nothing to show for it on the score sheets.

We were hardly ever threatened,

and we blew them away second half.

[announcer] Oh, the back pass might come to.

Sharp! He's got Andy Gray there.

It's the goal!

Andy Gray, the blonde bomber who fires Everton in front!

It was so one-sided, it was unbelievable... it was!

♪ Thing you say They echo what I feel ♪

♪ Twisting the bones Until they snap ♪

♪ I scream But no one hears ♪

[crowd chanting]

♪ You say I'm familiar Close to touch ♪

♪ And then you turn and go ♪

♪ Feels like heaven ♪

♪ Feels like heaven ♪

[crowd cheers]

I heard somebody say there were 17 passes

before Paul Bracewell put it through to me.

I scored in the semi-final against Bayern Munich,

and no one can take that away from me.

♪ Tears to pave the way ♪

[announcer] Cross coming in, and he went all the way!

[crowd cheers]

And it's Trevor Steven, and it's the second for Everton.

I scored in the final against Rapid Vienna,

and no one can take that away from me.

[crowd cheering]

[football announcer]

The only surprise to me in the whole game

was that they actually scored against us.

♪ Feels like heaven ♪

I think they were still celebrating.

♪ Feels like heaven ♪

[announcer] And here's Sheedy.

Well, there's the answer!

♪ Feels like heaven ♪

[announcer] Sheedy, 5-0 for Everton.

The one everyone wants to see is the Cup Wnners' Cup.

I'm very proud of that one. Very proud of that one.

[announcer] They're got a superb young manager,

they've got a magnificent young team,

and I am of the opinion they'll be a force for many a year.

And there I am, fighting for an interview.

I'm hemmed in front of where the trophy is being presented.

[crowd cheers]

And it's like the tube in the rush hour, you like,

and so I've got the microphone, and I like cannot move.

And all of a sudden, I feel a hand going into my pocket.

And I look, and the guy looks at me,

and he says, sorry, Jim, I need this more than you, mate.

[laughter]

[crowd cheering]

[Adrian Heath] I remember sitting with Mark Higgins

at the... right at the back of the stand.

Well, you'd know it when the teams came out

because that was the time that it struck on the most for me

that I probably missed one of the great nights in the club's history.

Yeah, it was a tough night, that one.

People say we celebrated too much,

and maybe we did.

Hello, my mom and my dad.

I'd just like to say I'm not drinking.

Getting ready for Saturday at Wembley, all right?

[interposing voices]

[Everton players singing] ♪ Where did you get that nose? ♪

♪ Where did you get that nose Where did you get that nose ♪

♪ Where did you get that nose? ♪

[Derek Hatton] We get off the plane,

2:00 in the morning, Howard Kendall says,

"Come on, let's all go to Chinatown."

It was a major debate who went.

I wasn't out on the town with Derek Hatton

before anyone else says.

Nah. Sounds good, though, doesn't it?

We didn't do what we had done for two years

to blow it getting drunk three days before a game.

You'd think we're all piss heads,

but you don't win things and become successful

at a football club if you drink at the wrong times.

[seagulls crying]

That team gave us our dignity back.

A sense of pride, wasn't it?

We said the same word at the same time.

It was something to be proud when we needed it.

[music playing]

I thought that was last year,

that FA Cup thing.

[announcer] Two of the greatest clubs in Britain

contesting the FA Cup, Everton seeking

to become the first club in the history of the game

to take the treble...

the league championship, the Cup Wnners' Cup in Europe,

and now the FA Cup at stake.

The treble seemed very doable.

We felt like, you know, who's next?

Man United? Fine, bring them on.

We thought we were invincible.

[reporter] Do you think you've still got something left for Saturday, Andy?

Watch us go Saturday, Jim. We've got plenty left, believe me.

[crowd cheering]

[announcer] McGrath. Oh, mistake by McGrath.

Everton are through here. Oh, well,

Reid has been brought down by Kevin Moran.

Manchester United are going to be reduced to 10 men.

Ah, 10 men? We'll beat them, then.

[announcer] Whiteside shoots and scores.

Norman Whiteside has done it again.

[Pat Van Den Hauwe] Holding my hands up. My fault, that.

[Neville Southall] That wasn't Pat's fault. It was my fault.

I should have saved it.

Little things, little things.

It hit the fucking post and went in.

[announcer] And Everton's dream

of taking an unprecedented treble is over.

I just think we were drained.

I, for one, was.

I was exhausted.

I would...

if we had two more days, we would have done it I reckon.

[Andy Gray] It was a special side.

But this would have made us really special.

[crowd cheering]

[Andy Gray] That helped enormously,

because there were no sad faces around.

We had the league championship,

we have the Cup Wnners' Cup on the bus with us.

Now, that helped a lot of us.

[crowd chanting]

We were the best side in Europe, by far.

And we'd have been the best side in Europe

by far for the next five years, I think.

[music playing]

[announcer] I'm afraid the news is very bad from Brussels.

Hooliganism has struck again,

and I'm afraid the scenes are as bad as anything

we've seen for a long, long time.

People shouldn't lose their life going to watch a football match.

That is the overriding thoughts on it.

When you say there's fatalities, that you're thinking...

Is this really happening?

In those days, there was a hooligan problem.

I don't think the hooligan problem

was just in England or the UK.

I think it was throughout Europe.

[Neville Southall] You can't blame them for a football club,

for anything that happened at Heysel.

The health and safety was rubbish,

the policing was rubbish.

It's not up to them to police the ground.

It's not up to them to keep your fans in order.

That's what the police are for.

That's what the stewards are for.

I don't want to talk too much about it.

There's still a little bit of a thing there.

I don't like to talk about it.

UEFA were going to slam down hard.

[announcer] UEFA's president, Mr. Jacques George,

said all English clubs would be banned

from European competition for an indefinite period,

which could easily mean five years.

In addition, there would be further sanctions

taken against Liverpool.

Drastic steps, said Monsieur George,

had to be taken to stop the carnage.

Wow, you know, why are we being punished for this?

Well, no, it wasn't fair, was it?

I said, we didn't do anything.

No English club is welcome in Europe

for the foreseeable future.

[music playing]

The greatest team in our history

were banned from the European Cup

for a game we did not play in.

[Andy Gray] It should have been the beginning of the beginning for Everton.

It must be something that Everton's fans

find difficult to come to terms with

because they have been nowhere near it since.

Nowhere near it.

[crowd cheering]

[scrape of marker on photo]

I'm moving house, unpacking boxes

in the new house in Formby,

and I saw Howard's car drive up and park outside.

And I just turned to my girlfriend at that time,

and I said, "Don't unpack anything else.

We're not staying."

He said to me, you happy?

I said, happy?

Are you mad?

I said, look what we've just done.

I said, I love everybody here.

"Only I've got a chance of signing Gary Lineker."

I say, so I won't play? He went, no.

Do you want me to go?

I said to him, okay, I'll go. I'll make life easier for you.

I'll go.

I was horribly disappointed.

[man] Still, are you sad when you think about it?

Yeah, 100%, 100%.

[applause]

[Derek Hatton] When Kinnock made that speech in Bournemouth,

everything changed.

Implausible promises don't win victories.

From that moment on,

you knew that all those local authority leaders,

all those people involved in the council,

were then going to turn away, and they did.

And you knew then that you were left on your own.

I'm telling you...

Even to this day, I still bewilder

how Neil Kinnock could actually stand up and do that.

I'm telling you, you can't play politics

with people's jobs and with people's services.

[cheers, applause]

From then on in, he did all of Thatcher's work for her.

He made sure that many more houses we could have built

were not built, many more jobs we could have created

were not created.

[applause]

[seagulls calling]

We got the Heysel ban then we lost the double

to our greatest rival.

We were two games away from doing the double.

In the Oxford game, where it is, if we win that game,

we win the league.

Oh, we got done.

[crowd cheering]

They did us in the league, they beat us in the cup final.

That's enough to snap your morale.

Normal services has been resumed and Blues,

and all that, the reds are doing this.

Well, guess what, boys, not so much.

Eh, we come back, we take the title back off them.

At that point, they started taking us seriously.

[announcer] This time, the championship

was went away from home, at Carrow Road

against Norwich City.

[crowd cheering]

[Adrian Heath] The journey home...

that's where I always remember him, at his happiest,

sitting in the front of the bus with his cigar

and his glass of red wine, and with his players around him.

Because he loved being in the players' company.

[players yelling, laughing]

[announcer] Fans paused to remember the life

of the former Everton manager, Howard Kendall,

who died today at the age of 69.

I'd been to watch my grandson play in the morning at Formby,

and just as I walked in the house, actually, my phone went.

And I looked, and it was Jimmy Martin.

What's he ringing me on a Saturday morning,

because he'll be, you know, match day.

It was a Goodison game, as well.

But so, he said, "I've got some really bad news."

[seagull calling]

Maureen came and said, "Don't go to the game this afternoon."

I said, oh, no, I've got to.

[Graeme Sharp] Just come in here thinking,

he ain't coming today.

We ain't seeing him today.

This is a guy who's been an integral part of my life.

Not just football, my life.

I said, two bottles of champagne, please.

I said, well, I've got to get up.

I said, I've got to speak, so I'm not.

I says listen, are you telling me that our gaffa...

would like you not having a drink...

on this day of all days?

Aye. Laurent Perrier Rose, get it up!

[music playing]

I've come back from Mexico.

I've lost a lot of weight.

He called me in the office. He says you're not right.

I says you're right.

He opened a can of Guinness to give me it.

Honestly, he had one.

So I'm having this Guinness.

He says, you need to get your strength.

And I said all right.

And he says,

he said, "Take that with you."

So I looked around in his little office,

and there's three crates of Guinness stacked there.

[laughter]

Needless to say, I took them, and I got my strength back.

[laughter]

[music playing]

[Bill Kenwright] He loved Everton,

and we loved him.

To us,

he was just the greatest player.

He was the greatest manager

in our history.

More than anything,

he was a Blue.

Thank you, H, for everything.

[applause]

♪ Here we go, here we go Here we go ♪

[Andy Gray] We had a little sing-song,

and it probably sounded better then than it ever has done.

Singing a song that meant so much to the boss.

So it was... yeah, it was quite a fitting evening.

♪ Everton is the best We all know ♪

♪ We're the team Which is really number one ♪

♪ And we love you, Everton ♪

♪ Here we go, here we go Here we go ♪

♪ Side bye side ♪

♪ As we sing along together ♪

[Peter Reid] There's something unique about Everton.

The history grabs you.

The smell, the feel of the place,

the spirit of the place grabs you.

And once it grabs you, it never leaves you.

♪ Everton forever ♪

[Pat Van Den Hauwe] 25 years, I think.

I was asked to come back.

When I went to the do it there was all these people,

loads and loads of people

mentioned my name for me to go onstage.

Well, when they all jumped up, after all them years.

And I just legged it.

Left the building for a little while.

I was getting emotional, to say the least.

[Howard Kendall] Right, thanks.

The smile on me, hey? They all smile.

Tell me, that video...

♪ Side by side As we sing along together ♪

♪ E-V-E-R-T-O-N ♪

♪ We're Everton And we'll be Everton forever ♪

[Adrian Heath] The club and the supporters' club

have been lobbying for me to get a Cup Winners' Medal.

When I look back at my time at Everton,

that's the one thing that I always come back to,

is the love of the people to the players.

I've never felt that anywhere else like I do here.

[Derek Mountfield] I was in Dubai a few years ago at Christmas,

going to watch Everton play away at Newcastle.

Two Geordies walked in, and someone tells them who I am,

and I'm going, no, no, no, no.

And this Geordie reeled off the Everton team man for man

from '84-'85.

You were the best team I've ever seen, he said.

I think it's really important for the club

to realize what makes the club great.

It's not the players. It's not the history.

It's the people.

And the people mean the world to me.

My only regret was my Nan couldn't see any of it.

She had passed away.

She got me my first football boots.

Because she would have loved that.

She would have absolutely loved it.

♪ E-V-E-R-T-O-N ♪

♪ We're Everton ♪

♪ And we'll be Everton forever ♪

[cheers, applause]

[music playing]

♪ We're Everton forever And we're born to be Blue ♪

♪ We're Everton forever and We're born to be Blue ♪

♪ They say Howard's dream Came shining through ♪

♪ We're Everton forever And we're born to be Blue ♪

I play for the fans, and also the badge.

Thank you, Everton.

I've always been a Blue,

and when it came to joining a football club,

there were several big clubs wanted me,

but there's only one that mattered.

When I think of Everton,

I think of Howard Kendall,

the greatest manager we've ever had.

And I feel incredibly privileged to have knew the man

and to have been his friend.

♪ The people call us What they call us ♪

♪ We're in this Toffee Thing for life ♪

♪ We bring our families And our children ♪

♪ Come on, you Blues Come on, you Blues ♪

♪ It's in our blood It's our birthright ♪

♪ Come on, you Blues Come on, you Blues ♪

♪ From our Sunday School eleven ♪

♪ To the greatest Football team ♪

♪ We're Everton forever And we're born to be Blue ♪

♪ We're Everton forever And we're born to be Blue ♪

♪ They say Howard's dream Came shining through ♪

♪ We're Everton forever And we're born to be Blue ♪

♪ We're Everton forever And we're born to be Blue ♪

♪ We're Everton forever And we're born to be Blue ♪

♪ Today our dream Came shining through ♪

♪ We're Everton forever And we're born to be Blue ♪

[chanting]