Everton v Manchester City FA Cup 6th Round 1980/81

everton away FA Cup 1980 to 81 prog

EVERTON 2 CITY 2

FA Cup 6th Round

7th March 1981

Attendance 52,791

Scorers
City
Gow(45), Power(84)
Everton Eastoe(42), Ross(48 pen)

Ref Peter Willis

City Corrigan, Ranson, Caton, McDonald, Reid, Tueart, Power, Gow, MacKenzie, Hutchison, Reeves – sub Henry(unused)

Everton McDonagh, Gidman, Ratcliffe, Wright, Lyons, McMahon, Ross, Eastoe, Varadi, Hartford, O’Keefe – sub Stanley(75)

EASTOE PUTS EVERTON 1-0 UP

everton away fa cup 1980 to 81 eastoe goal

GERRY GOW GRABS AN EQUALISER JUST BEFORE HALF-TIME

everton 1980 to 81 qf away gow gosl ROTR

everton away FA Cup 1980 to 81 gow goal

EVERTON’S IMRE VARADI IS BROUGHT DOWN IN THE BOX AND TREVOR ROSS CONVERTS THE PENALTY TO PUT EVERTON BACK INTO THE LEAD

everton away fa cup 1980 to 81 varadi earns a pen

everton away fa cup 1980 to 81 ross goal

PAUL POWER’S EQUALISER TAKES THE GAME TO A REPLAY

everton away fa cup 1980 to 81 power goal5

everton away FA Cup 1980 to 81 power goal3 everton away FA Cup 1980 to 81 power goal1

everton away FA Cup 1980 to 81 power goal

An incident packed cup tie on a A Goodison gluepot saw Everton twice surrender a lead in what amounted to the beginning of the end for manager Gordon Lee.
The Blues struggled to find their pattern as a crowd of over 52,000 saw Lee’s men falter in their bid to win a place in the last four and Paul Powers late leveller gave City a second bite of the cherry. To make matters worse, a young Kevin Ratcliffe was given his marching orders by referee Peter Willis in the closing minutes following a confrontation with Tommy Hutchison. City squandered a couple of good opportunities before Peter Eastoe put Everton in front with their first really well engineered attack of the game three minutes before the break. But City went into the interval on level terms after Gerry Gow produced an opportunist equaliser.

everton away fa cup 1980 to 81 gow goal

Everton regained their lead five minutes into the second period when Trevor Ross scored from the penalty spot, a week after missing from the spot during the Blues’ 3-2 league win at Crystal Palace. it was then that Everton should have booked their passage into the semi-finals but missed two good chances to stretch their lead. Imre Varadi stumbled and fired wide of an open goal alter latching on to a poor back pass and rounding Joe Corrigan and then Eastoe narrowly failed to score after being teed up by a clever header from Eamonn O’Keefe.
City failed to give up the ghost and grabbed an equaliser five minutes from time with Power finding a beautiful finish after good approach play by Steve Mackenzie and Kevin Reeves.
EXTRACT FROM ‘CLASSIC ENCOUNTER’ IN THE EVERTON PROGRAMME 30TH SEPTEMBER 2006

everton away fa cup 1980 to 81 action4 everton away fa cup 1980 to 81 varadi earns a pen

STATS FROM THE MATCH FROM THE CITY REPLAY PROGRAMME

everton away fa cup 1980 to 81 match stats

everton away fa cup 1980 to 81 action10 everton away fa cup 1980 to 81 action9 everton away fa cup 1980 to 81 action8 everton away fa cup 1980 to 81 action7 everton away fa cup 1980 to 81 action6 everton away fa cup 1980 to 81 action5

 everton away fa cup 1980 to 81 action762

3 thoughts on “Everton v Manchester City FA Cup 6th Round 1980/81

  1. Got into the street end at 3/4 time…l remember the city equaliser like it was yesterday…biggest away support lve seen at goodison (other than a derby) the city fans went nuts…l remember a young Kevin Radcliffe losing the plot in the corner flag head butting tommy Hutchinson…then we got stuffed on the replay…we had a good chance to win the cup that year…but as usual everton fluffed their lines

  2. I was in the Lower Bullens near the Park End for that game. I was all of 13 years of age and the photos show really well what a frantic, intense match it was.
    Being close to the away end I remember the hostility between the fans as much as the match…it was a bit more vocal than last Saturday’s Covid-dampened affair.
    We weren’t great that season but I thought our name was on the Cup after knocking out Arsenal, Liverpool and Southampton – all strong sides back in 1981 – but it wasn’t to be.
    City were a bit too good and experienced for us what with the likes of Tueart, Gow, Hutchinson and Paul Power in their team.
    Bitter-sweet memories of yesteryear.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*