Extracted and slightly adapted from my blogs on the 1983/84 FA Cup, a look back on Everton's progress in the competition, and how winning the trophy provided the foundations for the success that followed under the sadly departed Howard Kendall.
Monday, 19 October 2015
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Football League: Goals galore, Sept 25, 1982
Whilst browsing through my Telegraph Complete History of British Football book recently – I really, really must get out more – I stumbled across a section in the 1982/83 season that got me interested. It soon became clear that Saturday September 25 was something that I should be looking into.
A day that
would see 50 goals in the First Division alone, 151 in the whole of the
Football League at an average of 3.35 a game, six hat-tricks,
thrashings, outfield players in goal, and one player
scoring four and ending up on the losing team. Football wasn’t always
exciting in the 1980s, yet the events of this day in 1982 were
refreshing to say the least.