150. Watched the Blues since '64 but had to include Dixie Dean based on what my Dad had told me.

Southall

Stevens Labone Ratcliffe Wilson

Steven Kendal Ball Harvey

Dean Lineker

Subs: West; Watson; Gravesen; Kanchelskis; Pickering

All the best. Tom Coogan. (11/10/05)

149.

Southall

Yobo Kay Wilson

Kanchelskis Parkinson Ball Reid Sheedy

Dean Latchford

Subs: Gordon West, Gary Stevens, Peter Beardsley, Paul Bracewell, Gary Lineker

Mark Ellis. (11/10/05)

148. I have been an Evertonian for 50 years, and even had the great honour of working for E.F.C. as full time Chef at both Goodison Park and Bellefield from 1981 till 1992. The best X1 I SAW in this time was.

Southall.

Tommy Wright. Labone. Ratcliffe. Ray WIlson.

Ball. Kendall. Harvey.

Alex Young. Graham Sharpe. Roy Vernon.

Subs. Gordon West. Gary Stevens. Peter Reid. JImmy Gabriel. Bob Latchford

Manager. Harry Catterick. Asst David Moyes.

Harvey Williams. (11/10/05)

147. Best team for me from what I saw would be:

Southall
Wright, Labone, Ratcliffe, Wilson
Kanchelskis, Ball, Kay, Sheedy
Young, Vernon.

I remember Vernon in the charity shield against Man United, taking a penalty. On his run up he stopped put his foot on the ball and tied his bootlace, goalkeeper Gaitskille {i think} dived across the goal, poor bastard...Cantwell the United skipper had Vernon by the collar. It was no use Vernon and the rest of the sixty thousand couldn't stop laughing either. Goalkeeper never moved when Vernon did take the kick.

146.

Southall
Stevens
Wilson
Ratcliffe (Capt)
Labone
Reid
Ball
Steven
Sharp
Dean
Sheedy

Subs: West, Mountfield, Harvey, Young, Latchford

Great Site. keep it going. Once a blue always a blue. Mark Scarratt. Aged 36. (11/10/05)

145. Great site boys. Here's my best blue eleven...

southall

stevens. mountfield. ratcliffe. van den hauwe.
steven. dobson. reid. thomas.
sharpe. latchford

subs: west. young. cottee. heath. ball.

PHIL CREEVY. (04/10/05)

144. I have been an Evertonian for 50 years, and even had the great honour of working for E.F.C. as full time Chef at both Goodison Park and Bellefield from 1981 till 1992. The best X1 I SAW in this time was.

Southall.

Tommy Wright. Labone. Ratcliffe. Ray WIlson.

Ball. Kendall. Harvey.

Alex Young. Graham Sharpe. Roy Vernon.

Subs. Gordon West. Gary Stevens. Peter Reid. JImmy Gabriel. Bob Latchford

Manager. Harry Catterick. Asst. David Moyes

Harvey Williams. (04/10/05)

143. My best team

BIG NEV

SNODIN. MOUNTFIELD. RATTERS. POWER

STEVEN. REID. BRACEWELL. SHEEDY

SHARP. MCKENZIE

SUBS: MIMMS. RICHARDSON. HARPER. ROONEY. WATSON

Tommy Barry. (04/10/05)

142. Thanks for the site. Helps an ex-pat stay in touch no end. Anyway. Best side. Having attended matches religiously from mid 70's to late 80's then if lucky 1 or 2 a year since emigrating to Canada these are the best I have seen. (I started with the 84-85 team and then looked for where I could improve on that)

1 Southall

2 Snodin

3 Pistone (in this team he would be awesome)

4 Ratcliffe

5 Materazzi (sorry Mountie)

6 Reid

7 Steven

8 Rooney

9 Gray

10 Bracewell

11 Sheedy

Manager Kendall/Moyes

rest of squad: Martin, Weir, Watson, Keown, Hinchcliffe, Speed, Rioch, McCall, Nevin, Beardsley/McKenzie, Sharp/Latchford

(not a bad reserves team either!) Yes, the traitors are there, but if these players had stayed together, they wouldn't have wanted to leave. Dave (Keg) Keighley. Fredericton. Canada. (04/10/05)

141. Hello fella`s…. saw my first game at 4 months , funny but I don’t remember that much..exept we ARE THE GREATEST TEAM THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN .

1. SOUTHHALL

2. G.STEVENS

3. VAN DEN HAUWE

4. K.RATCLIFFE

5. M.LYONS

6. P.REID

7. G.STEVEN

8. A. BALL

9. BIG BOB

10. BIG DUNC

11. D.THOMAS (socks down wearing mouldies in 4 inch of mud)

SUBS. ALL THE GREATS

COULD YOU PLEASE ASK THOSE TWO NOBS FROM MOTD TO SORT THAT FRONT LINE OUT? CHEERS. ROCKET. ST. HELENS. (YOU'RE BORN BLUE) (04/10/05)

Best XI - Last 40 years.

Neville Southall

Ian Snodin, Dave Watson, Kevin Ratcliffe, Ray Wilson

Trevor Steven, Alan Ball, Peter Reid, Dave Thomas

Graeme Sharp, Peter Beardsley

Subs: Bob Latchford, Kevin Sheedy, Mark Higgins, Roy Vernon and Gordon West

Mike Bond. (08/09/05)

139.

Southall

Stevens, Labone, Ratcliffe, Wilson

Steven, Ball, Reid, Sheedy

Lineker, Dean

Subs, McKenzie, The Golden Vision, Lawton, Sharp, Creswell.

Mike Williams. (08/09/05)

I was born the day we the fa cup in 1984, so my team will be mostly recent players!

GK. Southall
RB. Gary Stevens
LB. Michael Ball
CB. Dave Watson
CB. Kevin Ratcliffe
CM. Joe Parkinson
CM. Tim Cahill
RM. Andrei Kanchelskis
LM. Kevin Sheedy
CF. Duncan Ferguson
CF. Dixie Dean

Subs. Tommy Gravesen, Graeme Sharp, Alan Stubbs, Tony Hibbert and Nigel Martyn.

Babs. (08/09/05)

137.

southall
stevens
van den hauwe
ratcliffe
watson
heath
steven
heath
t. steven
lineker
bracewell
sheedy

subs: d ferguson, a harper, i snodin

Ian Doyle. (08/09/05)

136.

My all time Everton team would be:

Southall

Wright Labone Hurst wilson

Kendall Ball Harvey

Young Latchford Vernon

By Ged Nezzer 15. (08/09/05)

135.

SOUTHALL
GARY STEVENS
ALAN STUBBS
KEVIN RATCLIFFE
PAT VAN DEN HAUWE
TREVOR STEVEN
THOMAS GRAVESON
KEVIN SHEEDY
ANDY GRAY
GREAME SHARPE
GARY LINEKER

THIS IS THE BEST 11 I HAVE SEEN PLAY FOR EVERTON. PETE MAZUR. (08/09/05)

134.

The team that massacred Sunderland 4-1 in 1985 and would have won the
European Cup in 1986. COYB

Southall

Stevens
Van Den Hauwe
Ratcliffe
Mountfield

Steven
Reid
Bracewell
Sheedy

Gray
Sharp

Subs: Martyn, Dave Watson, Yobo, Gravesen, Lineker

Ruairi OConnor, London, (08/09/05)

133.

I've been watching Everton for 32 years. I loved watching Dave Thomas, Duncan Mckenzie, Mike Pejic, Andy King, Andy Gray, Gary Lineker, Norman Whiteside and Kanchelskis but my all time favourite team playing in a 442 formation would have to be as follows: formation,

Southall
Stevens
Ratcliffe
Watson
Van den Hauwe
Steven
Reid
Bracewell
Sheedy
Sharp
Latchford

Danny Gordon. (08/09/05)

132.

Very hard to pick a great team and very easy to leave some players out, but here's the best team I have seen on the hallowed turf

nev southall

gary stevens, dave watson, kev ratcliffe, psycho pat

alan ball - the greatest i ever saw, god bless you bally
howie
colin harvey - the white pele, remember the banner
andy king - how he would shine with these 3

sharpy, andy gray

subs: mountfield, martin dobson - class, peter reid, bob latch, ronnie goodlass - loved the guy in my youth - west ham 78 - brilliant

Sorry for players who I've loved in good times and bad - Gary jones, mick buckley, mick lyons, richard gough, tricky trev, john bailey, and the very under rated magnificent paul bracewell. Not forgetting one young man who would be on everyone's team and would have been second only to dixie if he had been a real Evertonian. Neil Chisnall. (08/09/05)

131.

I think this team would be hard to beat

1. Neville Southall
2. Ray Wilson
3. Pat van den Hauwe
4. Kevin Ratcliffe
5. Brian Labone
6. Alan Ball
7. Trevor Steven
8. Peter Beardsley
9. Gary Lineker
10. Graeme Sharp
11. Andrei Kanchelskis

Subs 12. Gordon West, 13. Gary Stevens, 14. Joe Parkinson, 15. Peter Reid, 16. Andy Gray

Dave Smith. (08/09/05)

GK - Southall
RB - Stevens
CB - Ratcliffe
CB - Deggsey Mountfield
LB - Andy Hinchcliffe
RM - Kanchelskis
CM - Reidy
CM - Bracewell
LM - Sheedy
CF - WR Dean
CF - Rooney

Subs: Martyn, Watson, Kendall, Limpar, Lineker, Sharpy

How scary is that team? Gary Willock. (15/08/05)

129.

My best Everton Team

Southall

Stevens

Watson

Mountfield

Van Den Hauwe

Steven

Reid

Bracewell

Sheedy

Sharp

Gray

Subs Martyn, Harper, Ratcliffe, Parkinson, Ferguson

Come on you BLUES! Stephen Day (15/08/05)

128.

Hello Kipperites, Best X1 from 1971 onwards.

1, Big Nev
2, Ian Snodin
3, Pat Van Den Hauwe
4, Ratters
5, Dave Watson
6, Reidy
7, Tricky
8, Brace
9, Sharpy
10, Gary Lineker
11, Sheeds
Subs, Nigel Martyn, Tommy Gravesen, Richard Gough, Andy Gray, Fat Manc - Rooney, Joe Parkinson, Barry Horne.

All the best, Bertie Bluenose. (15/08/05)

127.

Here is my best 11

1) Southall - Best keeper ever and the world knows it
2) Hibbert - Mr Dependable, solid full back
3) Hinchcliffe - Best left foot since Sheedy
4) Ratcliffe - Best reader of the game ever
5) Watson - Give us a wave dave!
6) Gravesen - Mr motivator! We still love you tommy
7) Kanchelskis - One of the best wingers I've seen
8) Beardsley - He saw sense and crossed the park
9) Cottee - scored all those goals in the nasty 90's
10) Horne - Who needs cantona... we love you Bazza!
11) Sheedy - Best left foot ever, class, power, i love you kevin...

Supported the toffees for 20 years, 26 now, wasted 6 years of my life being a silly child more interested in sweets and cartoons but making up for all that now! That was almost bloody impossible, i have so many heroes but the lads above would have combined really well i think, I've got a pacey right winger, I've got a skilful striker in beardo, with barry and tommy the centre of park is solid, we will always score from set pieces with sheedy in the side and wont concede anything with rat, watson, hinchy and hib not to forget nev. cottee would get loads of goals in that side. Id give Howard Kendal the managers job, and moyes be his assistant. Imran Malik. (15/08/05)

126.

Hi there. I'm only 17 so, I haven't seen any of the glory years but here is my team.

Southall

M. Jackson D. Watson J. Yobo A . Hinchcliffe

A. Kanchelskis J. Parkinson T. Gravesen A. Limpar

G. Stuart D. Amokachi

subs: n.martyn, b.horne, p.rideout, r.gough

barney bagan. (18/02/05)

125.

Best Everton 11. I'm only 25 so I will go with what I have seen.

Southall

Hibbert Stubbs Watson Hinchcliffe

Kanchelskis Parkinson Horne Limpar

Ferguson Stuart

Subs: Bent, Carsley, Cahill

Gary Thomas. (15/08/05)

124.

1) Southall

2)Stevens 4)Labone 5)Ratcliffe 3)Wilson

7)Steven 6)Reid 8)Ball 11)Sheedy

9)Dean 10)Latchford

Subs: 12)D. Watson, 13)N. Martyn, 14)Young, 15)Kendall, 16)Sharp

Most of these players are not from my lifetime as I am only 16 but after seeing videos from the glory days of the mid 80's and hearing stories from me dad this is the best I could think of. Joe Brown. (15/08/05)

123.

1. N. SOUTHALL

2. K. RATCLIFFE 5. T.G. JONES 3. R. WILSON

4. C. HARVEY

8. A. BALL 6. H. KENDALL

7. T. STEVEN 11. T. KAY

9. W. R. DEAN 10. A. YOUNG

SUBS: 13. G. WEST, 12. B. LABONE, 14. P. BRACEWELL,
15. P. REID, 16. R. VERNON

Sent by John Emmett 26, Ormskirk. (15/08/05)

122.

Southall

Stevens Unsworth ( True Blue ) Ratcliffe Van Den Hauwe ( Won us the League )

Harvey Ball Kendall ( Best Ever Midfield In World )

Kanchelskis Limpar ( Someone to get us pens )

Dixie Dean ( Worth 80 Mill 2day )

Subs: Martyn,Yobo,Snods,Beardsley,Lineker

Manager. Howard Kendall
Coaches. Harvey and Moyes

I think this side would beat any of the foreign import teams we have in our league today, Some of the team I understand were dodgy but tried to explain the decisions next to them and with that midfield we would get goals against any team. The bench means we could change people and keep the same formation or go 4-4-2 in needed. Just a thought if we had the team today how long before the board sold them for dosh with empty promises? John Cavell. (15/08/05)

121. Had their best years elsewhere and/or did not actually play much for Everton and some may not actually be regarded as Evertonians.

Jennings

K Newton Keown Todd Ablett

Rooney Gasgoine Ginola Whiteside


Hughes Linaker Kidd


Subs McMahon, Hartford, Rioch, Kanchelskis, Beardsley

Regards Ed. (15/08/05)

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