Everton 2-0 Watford 1984 FA Cup Final

[@waz3128]

I am a Liverpool fan and i find it sad that the football world has forgotten how good Everton were in the mid 80s. I blame Sky and the Premier league for pretending that football only started in 1992

[@davidhuggan6315]

Everton were probably the best team in Europe in 1985

[@texriba8000]

What great day out for the Watford fans, fa cup final in the sun on a gorgeous day at Wembley

[@kevinjohnson-xt6kn]

Somethings stay in your mind as clear as day . I can remember this fantastic match like it was yesterday. A very warm day and I just knew we were going to win . You could feel the blues 💙 were on the verge of something special. The noise in the stadium was electric the blues singing and dancing all around. What a magical day it was . Then when they came back with the cup on the Sunday I was by Lime Street and I swear I have never seen so many blues in one place . Was blessed to witness the greatest Everton team of all time .

[@greglyons2526]

I am a Liverpool fan but Everton were one hell of a side back in the day.Power and pace all round with no superstars as such,a proper team.

[@martinkulkarni3569]

No stars? Well not according to the Everton-hating Media, but you as a Dark Side fan knows fine well how many actual world class players there were in that team. We didn’t need the media’s acceptance, nor did we get any recognition from them. The media have always hated us since Harry Catterick’s time in the sixties because he wouldn’t let the players talk to the media without his permission. He threatened to sell Alan Ball after he found out he’d spoken to the press behind his back! The media have never forgiven us for that.

[@The_wolf2885]

Everton would won have won the European Cup in this era if Liverpool fans hadn’t of murdered 39 Juventus fans and got English clubs banned from Europe for 5 years

[@vantheman12welshman66]

When the FA cup final Saturday was a special day

[@richardbrian1130]

yes well said !

[@roddycavin4600]

I live in Scotland and totally agree with you. Finishing fourth in the Premiership is far more important than winning the oldest trophy in world history. Absolute shame. I was at Hampden that day sadly losing to Aberdeen.

[@davidhuggan6315]

It still is to me. Getting up at midnight to watch this year's

[@martinsmith1538]

Yes, could not be beaten

[@wendy9548]

Was lucky enough to be there with my dad and sister. Pre drinks in the pub, the crowd, the singing, the football 🎉 The BEST day… Travelled and watched them bring the cup back in Liverpool. The was a great day too 😂🎉😂🎉

[@paulbradshaw303]

Loved this Everton team. Always felt Peter Reid was the heart and soul of it. Team had everything , once they lost Grays physicality and replaced with Lineker it was never quite the same.

[@garethfieldstead7547]

Nearly 40 years ago. Still one of the best days of my life. The Watford fans where fantastic. Terrific atmosphere. What that side could have achieved only for the ban. Felt so sorry for Mark Higgins.

[@tuesdaydelaney4480]

Howard Kendall was our Everton Legend

[@31cify]

This was the day when Everton announced to the Football World; "We are back!" A wonderful few years for the Blues, something which has never really been recaptured since, and never to be forgotten.

[@Puppy-lt5ur]

+ELLA HORNBY Shame Andy gray fouled the goalkeeper to score his goal. Cheat!

[@strumbolli]

+Puppy 1975 He didnt the ball was between his open hands hence the lack of protest from Sherwood

[@redflag8970]

i thought when we beat everton in 83 quarter i felt something was stirring for them. we should of lost.

[@paulnorris6253]

@@redflag8970 ye 110 th minute the goal wasnt it we would have beat you back at Goodison but thats football

[@redflag8970]

@@paulnorris6253 ye we had little joy against that Everton side an they made light work of us throughout they period but we did have the two big wins. Great era

[@220773]

Trevor Steven was essential in this team. Wonderous player. Come on the Toffees!

[@kevshearer3245]

Gianmaria Framarin - sheedy too on the opposite wing

[@Muesli711]

Always liked Steve Sherwood's all-red goalkeeping kit

[@kevinshanahan6064]

Last I heard is Steve was still trading as a financial adviser as football in his day didn’t set you up for life. Ref - any one of another 99 refs would have seen Gray fouled Sherwood - feet off floor and 2 hands on ball. Gray’s momentary hesitancy to celebrate was a big giveaway he didn’t touch the ball, just Sherwood.

[@WakaWaka2468]

Sir Elton John did incredible things with this club 5:38

[@stephenmcnally2590]

Those were the days and I was there. Football has changed beyond all recognition since 1984, but for the best?

[@Dead-Ball-Situation]

The quality of football is better. The facilities are better. Culture & the state of today's society (including football) are not.

[@stevenkirby3239]

was during my gap year in Germany......I was 20.....I travelled back to UK to watch

[@davidhuggan6315]

I was in Germany when Everton won the 1995 FA Cup

[@EvoGoody]

Howard Kendall's look of pride at 9.53 says it all.

[@RDASoccer]

Everton had a great side in the mid to late '80s. Would love to see that again and another Wembley rivalry with Liverpool.

[@richardbrian1130]

Wembley (proper) has gone. its too late now. sadly

[@keneblana]

I read today that Graham Taylor said he never watched the game since .... Too sickened by Gray's goal/foul. Still, Watford never broke through either.... RIP a true gentleman and proper football man

[@Fozzie-ln9fs]

Wasn’t a foul

[@richardbrian1130]

+AJFozzie Gray's goal is absolutely fine. Everton were the better side. you are right !

[@nicholasweaver7809]

@@richardbrian1130 as you say never a foul if you look the keeper got a touch to it and it come off greys head after

[@stevejames3775]

It wasnt just Gray goal.. he was disappointed in the overall performance. Apart from the first 20 mins or so Watford never really got going.

[@hertfordable]

Not taking anything away from Everton they deserved the win. But anyone with an ounce of integrity knows that goal was headed out of the goalkeeper’s hands, and under normal circumstances would be disallowed.

[@paulmcdivitt2890]

Still the best Everton side of all time come on Everton 💙💙

[@davidlawrence9091]

John Bailey, kissing his medal and then dropping it. A Love/Hate relationship, already!🤣🤣🤣

[@seamustherotty9373]

Is you tube dimming all these old videos? I was at this game and it was a scorcher of a day

[@martinkulkarni3569]

As an Evertonian, I thought Watford were a bit unlucky. They created some great chances, and could have been ahead before our first. Some said they were just happy to be there, but I don’t agree. They were right in it until our second goal. Ironic the run by Peter Reid in second half. In the Cup final the following year, he made the same run except there was only one player near him, Kevin Moran, who brought Reid and got sent off. Manure who weren’t in it until then took over being inspired as down to ten men, against a mentally and physically tired Everton team won, and our treble chance was gone. Two mistakes led up to that. Kendall didn’t allow enough time off to rest after the ECWC final in the mid-week, and Southall’s one and only real mistake I ever seen him make led to the Manure goal. Van den Hauwe had Whiteside covered near post and Southall never got far enough across to the far post. Had he done so, the goal might have looked good on TV, but for that error it would have been a routine save for the worlds greatest keeper!

[@RundUmDenSVNiederwerth]

1-0 Graeme Sharp (38 min) 2-0 Andy Gray (51 min)

[@kevinevans6571]

I was there !!!!! Beautiful

[@Soccer01ification]

HAPPY 30TH ANNIVERSARY EXCELLENT ELECTRIFYING EVERTONIANS!

[@Puppy-lt5ur]

+Soccer01ification Dirty Scousers

[@bramleydragon]

"Oh, and Sherwood didn't collect". Bollocks!! He had it in his hands Gray headed it out of them. I've seen still pictures of it. The goal shouldn't have stood. This is a neutral point of view by the way, I'm not a fan of either team though I have nothing against either of them.

[@geedus71]

I was there on the terrace behind the goal, convinced the ref would blow for a foul... then watched in open-mouthed astonishment then red-faced fury as the bastard pointed to the centre circle. After that we were dead and buried. 32 years on and it still hurts! Bloody football!

[@bramleydragon]

+Mark Sesum my first instinct was, it was a foul. And I never said I NEEDED pictures to prove it.

[@MrJevman]

bramleybull you are all wrong. The ball was there to be contested. Gray got in there and plucked it from Sherwoods grasp before he could get a full grip on it. Get over it.

[@TheGiantKillers]

​@@geedus71 I was fortunate enough to meet a member of that Watford side while on holiday a few years ago and asked him about that goal. Naturally the fact it was allowed annoyed him but he confessed it didn't make any difference. He said the way Everton started the second half was a few gears up on the first, They were already the team that would dominate the League the following season and although they didn't blow Watford away but he felt, as a player on the pitch that they were losing all the 50/50s and getting bossed in midfield. It was as if they knew they were going to win no matter what Watford did. His honest assessment was that it was perhaps a blessing in disguise the goal got disallowed because Everton took their foot off the gas, while their annoyance at the goal being ruled out might have seen them go on and score another two or three.

[@Ruda-n4h]

@@MrJevman That constitutes a foul.

[@eddielasowsky7777]

Amazing effort from the blues, Liverpool only won the league championship, league cup and European cup that year. Have that reds!

[@CamperVanPersie]

In a little over a 12 month period,March 1984 to May 1985,Liverpool and Everton won a league championship each,FA cup,League cup,European cup,European Cup winners cup and Charity shield.Within this period,Liverpool were runners up in the Charity Shield,European Super cup and Intercontinental cup,whilst Everton were runners up in another FA cup final.This seems to have been totally forgotten about,but then Football only started in 1992....:)

[@Magicalfluidprocess]

He he very good 😊

[@mikebarton]

When we were younger...

[@ThorntonValiant]

Howard Kendall was only 38!

[@aspiknf]

1:05 John Barnes

[@aspiknf]

More footballers used to have mustaches at that time

[@videowatcher5088]

Everything better about the football back then

[@aspiknf]

In what way Videowatcher?

[@christophersharpe5222]

Luther blissett could have made all the difference in this final if he had still been at the club.

[@markseeley8476]

Luther Missit!

[@paulnorris6253]

So could Dixie Dean

[@tuesdaydelaney4480]

On this day I could not watch the match because I was on an 2 hour driving lesson

[@martinsmith1538]

Old Wembley is still the greatest. The new one pales in comparison. Centerpiece for finals. Should not have changed it.

[@justineagle6176]

Barnes should have scored twice

[@roywinstanley2902]

if sherwoodhad collected,he,d have collected lol, he didnt so build that bridge and get over it.

[@richardbrian1130]

well said

[@DhangoMicheli]

At 5:39min ¿is that Elton John?

[@juanmigueldelarivaminguez199]

Yes

[@Puppy-lt5ur]

+DhangoMicheli No, it's Barack Obama. What a stupid question!

[@danielmicheli354]

+Puppy 1975 FUCK YOU, SISSY-BOY. YOUR NAME SAYS IT ALL.

[@danielmicheli354]

Puppy 1975 And a MARICA is called "Puppy"

[@pietvandenbussche6341]

Elton John was owner of Watford at the time ...

[@Peterino74]

nice !

[@hughdmcl]

so funny watching keepers drop the ball pick it up give to defender , defender back passes to keeper. no back pass rule not in then, just strange to see it lol

[@aspiknf]

Sorry what is the back pass rule?

[@danielmicheli354]

@@aspiknf Back pass rule: When a player passes the ball with his foot to his goalkeeper, he may not take it with his hands. One of several absurd FIFA rules...

[@aspiknf]

@@danielmicheli354 Oh wow, thanks for giving me the definition buddy :-) yeah I also think it's absurd, why was the rule made?

[@danielmicheli354]

@@aspiknf The complaint was because many teams were said to have slowed down or delayed the game by continually passing the ball to their goalkeeper, you know, he usually took a few seconds to send the ball into the field to consume time and gain an advantage. It was absurd because the six-second rule already existed, the goalkeeper had six seconds to return the ball to play. But, you know, FIFA thinks with its ass or its pocket; for the game, for the essence of football they don't give a shit.

[@samwow123]

Daniel Micheli definitely not that absurd since it fixed negative football

[@jorgepalacio2388]

1:34 illegal

[@bmw-e30]

Gray's goal should have been disallowed--you can't head the ball out of the keeper's hands.

[@danielmicheli354]

Yes, you can...

[@greglyons2526]

looked a bit dodgy allright.Youd never get away with it now.

[@kevinevans6571]

The keeper never said a word, to complain???

[@Ruda-n4h]

@@kevinevans6571 He did actually if you look.

[@aspiknf]

5:38 Rihanna lookalike

[@MsMarc1234]

Bardsley's short from this game is on sale for 1,4k UK pounds

[@josephcole8046]

If only Barnes had put one of those away...

[@krzysztofzbojny]

Z Everton polski zespół w pucharach mógłby zagrać!