My best Derby Day moment was the 'Andy King Derby' on 28th October 1978. We hadn't won a derby for quite a while and had Mick Lyons the Everton skipper out injured. The kopites were bragging they were going to put 3 or 4 past us.
Everton dominated the game from start to finish. It was a typical derby with no quarter given. With it still 0-0, at half time, Everton fans could sense that we would get a goal. With fifty odd minutes on the clock, Billy Wright passed the ball out to Mick Pejic on the left. He crossed and the ball came out to Andy King, just outside the box. He volleyed it into the top corner with Clemence in a heap on the floor. Goodison Park exploded. Everton continued to dominate and win all the 50-50's. Gordon Lee's team won 1-0.
The scenes at the end were unbelievable. The game is remembered for an interview Andy King did at the end of the game. The BBC reporter grabbed Andy, as he was coming off the pitch and shoved the microphone in his mouth asking him how he felt? Before he could answer a copper pushed both off the pitch towards the tunnel. The plod was obviously a redshite.
Everton fans used to taunt the kopites by asking, "Do you know where King's Drive is?" The answer: "In the back of Clemence's net." I still ask the question now and again.
Everton: George Wood, Colin Todd, Roger Kenyon, Billy Wright, Mick Pejic, Andy King, Geoff Nulty, Martin Dobson, Dave Thomas, Bob Latchford, Mickey Walsh.
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