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25 Oct, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Southampton host Everton, the league leaders, today. Here are half an hour of highlights from the 1984 FA Cup semi-final at an absolutely teeming Highbury - esp those enormous north and south bank terraces - from ITV's The Big Match Sunday programme
Everton played Southampton 3 times in 18 days in this crazy league & cup schedule. March 31st league game (my 10th birthday was April 1st) was my first ever game at Goodison (11.30am kick-off, Grand National day) having been at Maine Road for the Milk Cup replay on the Wed night! Image
Iconic images of Adrian Heath at Highbury, April 1984, in the 117th minute. ImageImage
Southampton were 4th in the league and Everton 14th (but on their tremendous run since new year: 3 defeats in 23 games) when the sides met at Goodison a fortnight before the semi-final. Southampton were to finish runners-up to Liverpool and Everton 7th in the league in 1983/84. Image
Southampton also lost in extra-time in 1986 semi-final to Liverpool as Everton beat Sheffield Wednesday (in extra-time). Those semi-finals on the radio were on same day as Grand National (April 5th). My twin sister & I were having a 12th birthday party. I had £2 on West Tip!
Southampton came to Goodison on the final day of that 1985/86 season, but Everton's 6-1 win was not enough, with Liverpool winning 1-0 at Chelsea to clinch the league title
I have a vague recollection that - when the Cup semi-finals went to extra-time - that night's Football Echo might have come out without knowing the results "Semi-finals on a knife-edge" headline, with a report on the 90 minutes!
The 1984 semi-final in which Everton were considerably the stronger side against the 1983/84 league runners-up, along with those Milk Cup finals where on a par with Liverpool, maybe underestimated as indicator and platform for 1984/85 title-winning season

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