Liverpool 0-2 Everton 1985-86

Prior to this result, Everton's last two victories at Anfield had come in 1970 and 1984 - on each occasion, they had gone on to win the league title that season. Would history repeat itself? Not this time - Liverpool would edge out their city rivals and West Ham to the crown by triumphing in ten of their final eleven fixtures. Martin Tyler saw this one in the Merseyside sunshine.

[@stormytempest3907]

Was in the kop that day! GREAT Day To be an EVERTON IAN.

[@carpediem4290]

Bravo Lineker...I remember you in Camp Nou in Barcelona...Bravo Everton!!!

[@guinnessharvey4476]

That was one helluva blues team. From a Liverpool fan

[@bluecornerboxing6091]

👏👏👍…from Everton fan

[@shuckylad]

This was a great day but it’s still painful us not winning the title in this season. Followed by that shocker of the cup final.

[@davidantony2734]

the keeper didnt help

[@999DaveUK]

Another double for Liverpool FC to follow...happy days. The BS put in their place.

[@josephxuereb1978]

​@@davidantony2734 liverpool were better than Everton and still are

[@davidantony2734]

@@josephxuereb1978 I was referring to Mimms - not any LFC player.

[@neilefc877]

our best ever kit. Absolutely gorgeous!

[@gadaboutfootball9535]

I thought the 87 kit you won the league with was better, I had it in Subbuteo form :). But granted, this one was also iconic

[@evertonson1]

what a team the everton team was in 1985

[@CoolDude-jp1kj]

Either side of Liverpool winning a treble and double. Even at your best you were still in Liverpool's shadow haha 😁

[@mmck6293]

​@@CoolDude-jp1kjweren't in your shadow winning a double (stealing your term) the previous year or the league the following year.

[@54macdog]

Blatant foul in the box, Richardson impeded, ref momentarily blind. Same old, same old when you are dealing with the RS.

[@999DaveUK]

A rare win for the BS. Lovely revenge in the FA Cup. Oh and another League championship for the Mighty Reds to follow.

[@freemanv4056]

@@999DaveUK Nobody with a brain likes Liverpool.

[@999DaveUK]

@@freemanv4056 Everton wives...run for your lives

[@bestcryptotips8614]

childish

[@gadaboutfootball9535]

It was the sort of decision Liverpool used to get on a consistent basis back in the 80s

[@shanecollis4207]

Young Martin Tyler! He's still going strong today! My favorite commentator by far.

[@Red-Red-Red-Red]

Err.. Dont be so naive. Martin Tyler didnt commentate this game, Live, no as post match highlights. He simply dubbed his voice over the match back in the end 90s or early 2000s! He used to do this on all classic games for various sports broadcasters. This dubbing was probably done around 1998 1999 after ESPN acquired Classic Sports.

[@shanecollis4207]

@Red Nope. He sounds way younger. He doesn't have the deeper voice he had around the time you mention. Look up Arsenal vs Leeds in 03/04 - if he did this just a few years before that, then his voice must have had quite a transformation.

[@ashleyhyne7027]

@@Red-Red-Red-Red I can assure you that Tyler did commentate on the game. Tyler worked for Granada in the 1970s and 1980s and was regularly reporting from OT, Goodison, Maine Road and Anfield. He's from Cheshire originally and first got a gig working with Marshall Cavendish in London in 1969 working as a staff writer on the Book of Football part work, and then from there got into the TV game via the regions. That game was shown on The Big Match. The previous year's derby was shown on MoTD.

[@Red-Red-Red-Red]

@@ashleyhyne7027 Cheshire? That explains why he is so anti Liverpool

[@hmq9052]

I think Martin bats for the girls

[@BobTheBlue]

The sad thing is that now, 40-years later, we haven’t ever had a better 11

[@Coolcol44]

I came over on the Belfast ferry for that one...as a blue it was GRREEEAAATTTT !!!!!

[@meanbean1407]

Your Everton fan, with a Leicester City badge profile picture?

[@Coolcol44]

@@meanbean1407 as a temporary Everton fan for the weekend, as all my mates were Everton.

[@peterc9153]

Hated that kit. Blue heresy. So relieved to revert back to all blue - and retake the title.

[@EFCkingTom]

definitely, 86/87 has to be one of our best kits.

[@gadaboutfootball9535]

So funny, I'm not an Evertonian, or even a Scouser, but so many on here are saying how much they loved that kit. TBH I prefered the 87 one too

[@OGSilverfox8]

Atmosphere looks amazing.

[@sdri6985]

as a blue, I have to say that is a dodgy first goal that grobelaar let in

[@54macdog]

+S Dri Any humiliation for Grob is worth watching. Putrid human being.

[@gadaboutfootball9535]

TBH Martin Tyler spent half the commentary on how Grobelaar was injured, so, it eventually caught up with him. He made some top saves that day

[@billoloo2870]

Anyone who's here to rekindle the good old memories with me 🤭🤭

[@palermothegoalgod-wd2wp]

I'm sure at that time Liverpool had never lost if rush scored in a game. Load of us blues in the Kemlyn road was urging Rush to score as to bury that record.

[@bez2k]

What a kit.... @hummel take note

[@benjamineckford1718]

Lineker was such a good finisher

[@seansalmon1977]

Safe to say this Everton team would have walked the European Cup if they were allowed to enter.

[@eddielasowsky7777]

35 fucking years and you still don't take any responsibility for your own failings. How many clubs have been in worse condition than Everton but still built themselves up and won trophies? Always fucking whingeing ya blue cunts.

[@HandleGF]

@@eddielasowsky7777 Copyright infringement alert ... 'always the victims never your fault' is a Liverpool FC trademark... remember Heysel once in a while ffs

[@eddielasowsky7777]

@@HandleGF The irony of your comment is lost on you LMAO

[@HandleGF]

@@eddielasowsky7777 As if you knew what irony meant :-D ... ... own your brand

[@eddielasowsky7777]

@@HandleGF Keep digging.......

[@tuesdaydelaney4480]

Everton best team on Merseyside of course 💙

[@noname52768]

Dream on

[@user-lq7cb6sl9n]

1995

[@paulmcdivitt2890]

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

[@TheNewsstandMan]

Mark Lawrenson. Never understood his greatness. The old Kop. Still standing room only, before Hillsborough. The ’85 side was excellent. Southall, Adrian Heath, Andy Gray, Sheedy, Gary Stevens, Graeme Sharp, Reid and Trevor Steven. Fantastic side. Lineker came the year after. They won again in’87. Liverpool was in a transition. One of the weakest sides in their modern history. Dalglish and Rush were still in their prime, but the defense were past theirs. McMahon, Lee and Mölby were good on the midfield, but not championship material. Hansen, Neal and Kennedy were just too old. The team hadn’t started a replacement process until the 90’s.

[@CoolDude-jp1kj]

You talk a lot of rubbish

[@of_doom_and_steel477]

Hansen was still easily in his prime. Dalglish was playing himself less and less because he was no longer in his prime. Lineker's one season at Everton was this very season. The too-old and not-championship-material side won almost all the rest of their games and ended up winning the double, and then massively replenished themselves with Barnes, Beardsley, Aldridge, Houghton et al later in the 80s. Other than that, spot on with every point ...

[@waynehigham6504]

Wat was Lawrenson doing there if that was anyone else he wud slate them

[@ianfrost53]

Who won the double that year😂

[@wallinggraham3836]

Imagine these teams playing against the barca of 2011. they would get absolutely destroyed

[@spanishpeaches2930]

Err..you have to put it the other way round. How good were Barca then? They didn't win much Euro silverware when English teams were putting their boot across Europe.

[@CoolDude-jp1kj]

Lmao good joke. 4-0

[@wallinggraham3836]

@@CoolDude-jp1kj if you mean they would beat barca 2011 4-0 then that also means they would thrah every world cup team even spain 2010. Barca were even better than spain

[@spanishpeaches2930]

@@wallinggraham3836 True. Thre great teams of the last 50 years...Ajax, then AC Milan followed by that Barca team.

[@wallinggraham3836]

@@spanishpeaches2930 same three teams i would pick too! in my opinion the 95 team

[@nonnayoubuzinnes1669]

Brucie always had a mistake in him! Two great sides at the time.

[@evertonson1]

give moyes the money and watch him win trophys ;)

[@hassanmonnan7526]

evertonson1 loool

[@gadaboutfootball9535]

This did not age well for so many reasons

[@tuesdaydelaney4480]

Best team Everton. Won

[@johnjohn17]

You'd be locked up today for wearing shorts like that. Great team Everton then

[@axmmusic3129]

Best side ever to not win the league

[@gazclint1]

axm music id disgrace mate Liverpool last season 97 points lose one game

[@CoolDude-jp1kj]

Nah Liverpool 2018/19

[@of_doom_and_steel477]

@@CoolDude-jp1kj Liverpool 1988-89.

[@WalkerSantosOficial]

Grobelaar frangueiro

[@shanklyreds]

Liverpool won more than the bitters in the 80s😂😂😂😂😂

[@johnoates9674]

Southall getting injured cost Everton.

[@cactusjack9846]

These were the 2 best teams in Europe at the time. UEFA banned English teams from Europe because we were dominating it.... Remember it was Jventus fans who charged Liverpool fans first and started the trouble... The wall would never have collapsed if it was played in an update safe stadium... All the corruption in Italian football and they have never been banned from Europe ever, absolute fix

[@MrRock1878]

How the fuck did we let them steal our title that season? They were shite.

[@Prodigy_Fan]

I wouldn't say they were shite mate, but a combination of many things denied us the title that season. Like Liverpool winning 11 out of 12 games after we beat them at Anfield, the hugely influential Peter Reid only playing around 15 league games that season,plus, most of all, Neville Southall breaking his ankle on a bog of a pitch in Dublin playing for Wales in a friendly in March 86 and therefore losing the world's best keeper for the run-in. That terrible defeat at Oxford, and Leicester doing the double over us, is also what cost us the league in 85/86.

[@colmmchugh6297]

It still beggars belief that Everton didn't win the league (and FA cup) that season. About two, maybe three, of that Liverpool team would have made the Everton starting line-up.

[@leonkinsella7748]

I remember Sharp's miss at forest in the run in, open goal hit the post from about 6 yards match ended 0-0

[@sib1930]

Because we're better. Simple

[@LUKAZADE365]

lol

[@999DaveUK]

What a great season for the famous Reds. League and then the beating of the blue shite in the FA Cup final.....

[@kevinsmall4308]

The victims cheating yet again. That was a pen against Richardson

[@CoolDude-jp1kj]

You Bitters really are desperate people. Who won the league that season?

[@user-lq7cb6sl9n]

Budapest 86

[@eddielasowsky7777]

Liverpool did a open top bus parade for the double, Everton for these 3 points lol #blueshite

[@eddielasowsky7777]

max thomas Shh ye little fairy, you'll make yourself cry.

[@markriley1804]

but no doubt we'd have been in another European final if not for Liverpool fans.

[@eddielasowsky7777]

max thomas You're crying, i'm sorry :(

[@eddielasowsky7777]

@@blueboy7589 Everton fans spend their life doing exactly what you said, because they don't win trophies anymore.

[@CoolDude-jp1kj]

@@markriley1804 Yeah no

[@grahamlowe7388]

usual bitter blues. Joiners in Liverpool are busy again, filling the cracks all the bitter blues have appeared from.

[@HandleGF]

Heysel days... different class, as ever.

[@CoolDude-jp1kj]

@@HandleGF 1995

[@CoolDude-jp1kj]

@@blueboy7589 Blue shite

[@spanishpeaches2930]

@@CoolDude-jp1kj Better than murdering shite though.

[@meanbean1407]

@@spanishpeaches2930 Where’s your European Cup at?

[@gazclint1]

We had the last laugh won tie league and then beat the blue nose wankers in the fa cup