We are talking trophies in the UK the ultimate being the Div one title. man U were relegated in the seventies does that make Everton bigger than them ? Liverpool were in Div 2 in the fifties, Chelsea in the seventies and eighties Man City etc all in div one and two recent years, Everton bigger then them ?
Stop press...........it has just been announced that honest Bruce Grobbelar has finally landed after his somewhat theatrical late dive for the third Everton goal that would have relegated them.
THE match- fixing allegations which surrounded Everton's dramatic relegation escape in 1994 sur-face again tonight - in a brand new series of Sky TV's Football Years.
The last match of the 1993-94 season has gone down in Everton folklore, after the Blues came back from 2-0 down to win 3-2 and secure a place in the Premiership.
Tony Cottee, who played in that match, is interviewed in the 10pm show and said: "The first time I knew we were safe was when I was walking along the tunnel and Fash (John Fashanu) is in the tunnel and he's waiting for me and he's gone 'Yes, TC, you're safe' - and he's given me the high fives and everything.
"I said 'Oh cheers, Fash,' and I don't know why Fash was so happy that we'd stayed up."
Cottee assumed it was because Fashanu was a friend, although he felt it odd that an opponent should be so pleased for him and his team.
Match-fixing allegations came to light some months after the match and Cottee added: "As soon as it was mentioned I thought straight away 'what about that third goal?'
"I wonder about the third goal just because of the way it went in. When you see it, when you look at it in slow motion, it looks like one of those shots that Hans (Segers) would have saved 99 times out of 100, but perhaps it was just the one time out of 100.
"I'd like to think Hans and Bruce Grobbelaar were honest and that was just a genuine mistake. I would like to think it because if you lose the honesty in football, then you haven't got a football game any more."
