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[ManagementGuru]

They did both kick off at 3 but our match finished slightly later (perhaps because of broken leg?).

I do remember Liverpool fans asking us the score on the way back to the car and stuck in traffic around the grounds and becoming their best mates on telling them the score!

[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

The Liverpool Echo's perspective (from an article published in 2012):


1975 FA Cup 3rd round Everton FC 1 Altrincham 1 Replay Altrincham 0 Everton FC 2


“IT’S wet and windy with a deep depression over Bellefield,” joked Billy Bingham with press-men on the eve of Everton’s third round tie in 1975.

He was referring to Everton’s injury list. But barely 24 hours later he might have been referring to Everton’s FA Cup fortunes.

Against Northern Premier League Altrincham, Everton came as close as they ever had to suffering the shame of being knocked out by a non-league side. It was almost the shock of the season. Everton went into the third round tie one point off the top of the table – but after a superb autumn, Billy Bingham’s Blues had wobbled as Christmas approached. To add to the inconsistent form, Bingham revealed an injury list on the Friday – which would worsen the next day. “Steve Seargeant is out,” he revealed. “Martin Dobson will not play, John Hurst is not fit and Mick Buckley cannot be risked.”

As a result Ken McNaught made his Blues debut – and hit the crossbar within 10 minutes – while Gary Jones hit the post 10 minutes later. But a nine minute spell threatened to wreck Everton’s season. Saturday’s Daily Post had warned: “30-goal John Can Be A Danger” – and John Hughes did, as Horace Yates had warned: “slip one past them.”

Perhaps shaken by the goal, winger Gary Jones then lost his composure, swung a right hook at Morris – which connected – and was sent off, then a minute before half-time a “vicious looking tackle by Davison” left John Connolly with a leg broken in two places and he was stretchered out of Everton’s season.

“The Everton and Altrincham players looked at each other threateningly,” reported Ken Lawrence “and the match never recovered.”

Everton’s 10-men equalised 20 minutes from time, skipper Dave Clements hammering a shot into the roof of the net after Dave Irving had been tripped. With a full complement of 11 players for the replay, staged at Old Trafford, Everton won comfortably with goals by Lyons and Latchford.

But Altrincham did get their top flight scalp 11 years later, when Birmingham City were dispatched in the third round. For an hour at Goodison Park one wintry afternoon in 1975 it was very nearly Everton.

[Kingys Beard]

While the Connolly broken leg obviously earned the most attention, it should be remembered that Alty captain Lennie Dickinson missed the entire second half (if memory serves) with concussion I think it was.  And he was having a really good game.  Might have made the difference.

[thegazelle]

incredible day out for a 13 year old there was a free coach if you collected vouchers from games over xmas . during the match this coach was moved by the police and we couldnt find it after the match leaving a gang of under 14 year olds to have bottles thrown at us from stanley park such was the friendlyness of the lovely scouse comedians . it did go quiet though when we scored .

[B. 4D]

As posted by a lot, we were very lucky to have some great teams in the 60's and 70's.
Just hope the young fans of today will be able to recall such good memories in 40 years time.

[RedhillAlty]

The muppett on the PA system was incredible. Stupid jokes that had been told a thousand times before, but obviously outside Merseydive. Not only were his jokes not funny, he was insulting and ridiculing. The funniest part though was his response when Everton players took to the field for the second half. His speech was a desperate 'a call to arms' to all Evertonians to get behind their team now in their time of most need!!! He had Alty fans in stitches laughing. However I still have nightmares of the sitter that Johnny Hughes missed in the second half at 1-0. I wont go into the incidents after the match when the coaches had been moved.

[taxi Phil]

The muppet in question was Billy Butler, who went on to have a long running radio show on Merseyside local radio. He's a sort of poor man's Jimmy Tarbuck.

[GB Alty]

The muppet in question was Billy Butler, who went on to have a long running radio show on Merseyside local radio. He's a sort of poor man's Jimmy Tarbuck.

Butler was born in Amlwch, North Wales. In the 1960s he was a DJ at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.

Friend of the family

[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

The muppet in question was Billy Butler, who went on to have a long running radio show on Merseyside local radio. He's a sort of poor man's Jimmy Tarbuck.

Butler was born in Amlwch, North Wales. In the 1960s he was a DJ at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.

Friend of the family

You're getting confused with Barry Butler.....

[eightiesrobin]

I quite like the idea that a professional scouser was, in fact, born in Wales.  It reminds me of scene in "Cockney Ken" in Viz, when he goes to hospital and the nurse "outs" him as being born in Aberystwyth. "You sadistic NHS bastard" I remember him replying.