The message of Easter is one of renewal and new life, so this is a particularly poignant weekend for Evertonians as they prepare for a momentous change in their history. The theme for Goodison Park’s antepenultimate fixture will be ‘84/85 Day’ to salute the Blues’ most-successful season.
Next Thursday is the 40th anniversary of Everton’s 3-1 win over Bayern Munich in the European Cup-Winners’ Cup semi-final second leg, widely regarded as Goodison’s greatest night.Although the ECHO is planning a special piece of content to mark the occasion and the heroes of that campaign are rightly lauded, Blues supporters just want to be able to looks forwards, rather than backwards all the time.Everton has a rich and unique heritage, but while only Manchester United and neighbours Liverpool can top their record of having won silverware across nine separate decades, those glory days are now fading fast into the distance. This correspondent is now long enough in the tooth to be the father of someone who has just passed their driving test, but the match when Bayern boss Udo Lattek famously complained: “Mr Kendall, this is not football,” as the German giants were outfought and out-thought when the Grand Old Lady was at her fiercest, was before my own football consciousness, and my aforementioned offspring is now older than I was when, as a schoolboy, the Blues lifted the FA Cup a decade later, which remains their last major honour to date.
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