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[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

One for those of us of a certain vintage who happen to wander these pages.

I've only just realised that on this date four decades ago, I was watching Alty secure that famous draw at Goodison Park in the FA Cup Third Round.

Definitely an evening for raising a glass to John Hughes et al.

[ManagementGuru]

I was at that one too.  Another famous result against a team beginning with E

[B. 4D]

A good day out.
Boys could have won.
Never fogerty the replay. Standing in the Stretford end.

[anglo alty]

To be in front for so long, brilliant strike from John Hughes it was a penalty though didn't i didn't think so at the ti me. I can remember watching MOTD and the Liverpool fans chanting Altrincham

[Darren]

40 years ago today i was nine   

[RedhillAlty]

I remember that day very well. Great goal by John Hughes but pity he uncharacteristically missed a second half sitter which would have made it 2-0.
Probably the worse ground I have ever been on for poor crowd control with Alty fans split up all over the place.
When the draw was made Everton were top of the old First Division and we were top of the NLP.
Sadly non-league Wimbledon made the back page headline the next day with a 1-0 at bottom of Division 1, Burnley.

[JackSwindells No 1 Fan]

Sadly I missed the Goodison game... running for Sale Harriers in the Cheshire County Cross Country Championships... made it to OT though!

[Nom de plume]

Thanks for posting that Barry. You've made me realise that my eldest is not having any old birthday on 16th, but he's 40. I managed to persuade my wife to watch the Everton replay at Old Trafford. It was her first game and she was 8 and a half months pregnant!

I didn't manage to get her to any other games. 

[robininstockport]

Ny God I wasv9!

Remember being sat above home fans who were in a cage and none to friendly.

sh*t me sen tbh

[Number23]

Wow. Fourty years.
I watched it from the director's box with a bunch of school mates - Noel White's son was in our class!
A brilliant day in so many ways.

Thanks for the reminder Cult.

[george]

I was 35 years old then, & Ian White Noel's son Ian went on to play for me in the Altrincham Sunday.

[Kingys Beard]

On the drive home from Nashville, Tennessee this afternoon (how's that for a commute?) it suddenly hit me that Everton was 40 years ago today.  And of all the games I've seen since there haven't been too many that have had as much incident or been as sheerly gripping as that one.  The last 15 minutes or so after they equalized seemed like an eternity.  After this length of time memory has a nasty way of playing tricks.  Can anyone confirm that Peter Eales actually did collect a couple of beer bottles that had sailed out from among the Everton supporters behind his goal in the first half and put them on the penalty spot?  Or did I just dream that?  And how many times did Everton hit the woodwork before John Hughes scored?

[hsmith1]

I was there and Everton were lucky not to be the first top flight team to have been knocked out of the cup on their own ground by a non league team.

[Robin Reliant]

And if it was now, the replay would have been at Moss Lane, not Stretford.......

[Railway Alty]

I was 14 at the time and me and my Dad were taken by our next door neighbour Walter Baskerville who was Alty through and through. We ended up in the terracing next to the Gladys Street and were the only Alty fans in there. It was pretty scary I can tell you. Didnt Connolly their star striker break his leg in the game? Train to OT for the replay with 30 odd thousand Alty (United) fans lol great memories