Ian Snodin and Stuart McCall remember their days at Everton on Goals on Sunday.
Good times at Goodison Park
Ian Snodin and Stuart McCall remember their days at Everton on
Goals on Sunday.
The pair both played crucial roles for Everton with McCall scoring a brace in their FA Cup final against Liverpool in 1989 although he admits his highlight for the club was just playing there.
"I loved my time at Everton," said McCall. "It was good times, I was not desperate to leave but Rangers came in for me.
"That Cup Final was fantastic and I think that result for everybody else in the world was the result that they wanted after Hillsborough - Liverpool winning it 3-2.
"It ended up being a good cup final but for Everton fans it was a nightmare."
Snodin remembers that day well and recalls how he almost spent the game watching from the stands.
"I was injured in that Cup run - I played in the quarter final but not in the semi. When Macca did equalise we were just in tracksuit son the bench. I ran onto the pitch hysterical that he had scored, a steward grabbed hold of me and tried to put me back into the crowd.
"I said 'No I'm a player,' but he said he had heard it all before. Eventually he let me go back into the dugout."
Kammy remembers he was at Sheffield United where they lost to Chelsea on the final day of the season and Everton came back from 2-0 down to beat Wimbledon and to stay up.
"I do a bit of after dinner speaking and the Wimbledon game is one of my main stories," added Snodin.
"It was fantastic to be involved of that game. We were 2-0 down and we were going down. There was no question about it.
"Barry Horne scored with an unbelievable strike and then there was that goal that everyone talks about.
"Graham Stuart said it had so much pace on it the goalie never saw it," laughed Snodin remembering the winner that bobbled over the line."
In 1987 Everton were flying high, however the Heysel stadium disaster saw them banned from Europe and the duo are asked if that played in part in the club's downward spiral.
"When I joined in 87 they had an unbelievable team," remembered Snodin.
"We had the likes of Peter Reid l, Kevin Ratcliffe and Neville Southall who were just tremendous players.
"We won the league in 87 but because of what happened in Heysel we could not get into Europe.
"Howard Kendall left to go to Athletic Bilbao, no disrespect to Colin Harvey who was a magnificent coach, but Howard left and a few players started to go too. The team started to break up then, I think if we had gone into Europe then Howard would have stayed and a lot of players would have stayed too."
