I was at this game seated in the Upper Bullen's road stand, which for anyone not familiar with Goodison Park is the stand with the blue criss - cross blue frontage. The disallowed goal on any fair minded fan was a fault on the part of Peter Mellor the Fulham goalie ( also a part time male model) And this Everton team were well placed in the league and may have gone 2-1 up then who knows. In the 1974/75 season Everton were well placed to win the league until a devastating home defeat to Sheff Utd 3-2 after leading 2-0, in April 1975 blew them of course. Both Mike Bernard, never a full back, and John Hurst way past his best, lost their form late in the that season. Proving that the gap between success and failure is often the width of a cigarette paper. In the same seat in March 1981 I recall seeing Imre Varadi intercept a weak back pass from Nicky Reid of Man City, who were losing 2-1 to Everton late in a 6th Round FA Cup tie at Goodison. He rounded Joe Corrigan and some how shot into the side netting from an open. He was usually deadly in front of goal Instead of going 3-1 up City went the other end and made it 2-2 minutes from time Everton lost the replay and 9 of the 11 remaining games that season Slipped down to 17th from 6th and Gordon Lee was sacked in May1981 Howard Kendall took over 1981-82 and in my opinion produced Everton,s finest team in the post-war era with a record to show
I was there what an opportunity to win the cup Fulham at home Birmingham in semis and west ham in final,typical everton blew it again.that bent bastard Thomas didn't help though.
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RIP Viv Busby
The commentator is Gerald Sinstadt.
Thank you
Clive Thomas - not Everton's favourite ref!
Disallowed a winning goal in the 77 cup semi-final as well I think!
I was at this game seated in the Upper Bullen's road stand, which for anyone not familiar with Goodison Park is the stand with the blue criss - cross blue frontage.
The disallowed goal on any fair minded fan was a fault on the part of Peter Mellor the Fulham goalie ( also a part time male model) And this Everton team were well placed in the league and may have gone 2-1 up then who knows.
In the 1974/75 season Everton were well placed to win the league until a devastating home defeat to Sheff Utd 3-2 after leading 2-0, in April 1975 blew them of course.
Both Mike Bernard, never a full back, and John Hurst way past his best, lost their form late in the that season.
Proving that the gap between success and failure is often the width of a cigarette paper. In the same seat in March 1981 I recall seeing Imre Varadi intercept a weak back pass from Nicky Reid of Man City, who were losing 2-1 to Everton late in a 6th Round FA Cup tie at Goodison.
He rounded Joe Corrigan and some how shot into the side netting from an open.
He was usually deadly in front of goal
Instead of going 3-1 up City went the other end and made it 2-2 minutes from time
Everton lost the replay and 9 of the 11 remaining games that season
Slipped down to 17th from 6th and Gordon Lee was sacked in May1981
Howard Kendall took over 1981-82 and in my opinion produced Everton,s finest team in the post-war era with a record to show
Clive the book at his best again.
well done Fulham. EVEN WITH THE WORST CHEATING REF EVER
Martin Howarth come on Martin both teams had one chalked off that should have been allowed but I'm a Fulham fan lol .
Referee Clive Thomas ensuring the game was all about him. As usual.
Gerald sinstadt always seemed to hate Everton for some reason
had dark people stadium ban in england then or so 🤔🤷🏻♂️
"Haven't seen much of Busby yet..." --- apart from the fact he scored the first goal. Commentator has a bad memory.
Yeah, I thought that.
I was there what an opportunity to win the cup Fulham at home Birmingham in semis and west ham in final,typical everton blew it again.that bent bastard Thomas didn't help though.
Fulham eventually lost 2-0 to West Ham in the final that year.
Two of the worst goalies ever to stand between the sticks, plus a duff referee: cue some fine entertainment.
Yes Mellor cost them the final
Don't know which was worse; Dai Davies with the 1950s hair or Mellor with the teflon hands...