dalo
04/02/2003, 3:13 PM
found this in the everton fanzine www.whenskiesaregrey.com (i confess to being a fan)
(see the bit on cork city)
When Dave Watson joined Everton for £900,000 from Norwich City in 1986, the end of Derek Mountfield's royal blue career loomed large.
With Liverpool pinching the Double that summer Kendall knew that, in the words of the late Sir John Moore, "something had to be done."
And so it was that, despite a wobbly start to Watson's Everton career - a Guardian report on the embryonic Watson/Ratcliffe partnership said the pair looked like "they weren't yet on speaking terms", Mountfield became a more peripheral figure before eventually sliding off to Aston Villa for £450,000.
Mountfield cost the blues £30,000 from Tranmere Rovers in June 1982. And by the time he left in 1988, he'd started 100 league games for the blues, scoring a whopping 19 goals - 15 coming during 1985's return to the very top of English football.
In 20 FA Cup starts he only managed two goals - which one do you remember?
With Southall behind him, Ratcliffe's pace covering all conceivable gaps and Van Den Hauwe and Stevens flanking, Mountfield was part of Everton's most successful rearguard.
In fact they conceded 42 league goals that season - one per match. But what does it matter when you can score whenever you see fit?
Mountfield wasn't the most cultured defender to play the game but he was an important part of Everton's greatest ever team - the footage of him running, arms aloft, all moustache and smiley teeth, at Villa Park in the '85 semi is possibly one of the best clips from that era.
Another dominating image of Mountfield's defending was of his headed clearances going straight up in the air - with arms stretched out in crucifix pose.
After three years at Villa Mountfield began the steady slide into journeymanville that is the fate of so many footballers. Eventually he landed at Scarborough United where, apparently, he was manager for four games. They lost three and then he wasn't manager any more.
From July 2000 to January 2001 he was in charge of Cork City but he isn't any more. According to a Cork website there was 'unpleasantness' and he was a victim of player power - on a small scale, presumably.
Rumours in Cork circles suggest that a murky 'Gang of Five' led by former Cork star Ollie Cahill did for Mountfield. Although don't rule out the potato mafia. So here's to you Derek, wherever you are.
True story: Cork City had a gay porn website named after it (www.corkcityfc.com) but, in keeping with the general theme here, it isn't there now.
I had an idea a few years ago for a tribute album: Great Moustaches in Rock. It's still very much in the planning stages (Englebert's people are talking "comfortably six figures") but in the meantime 'Tache fans, behold:
(see the bit on cork city)
When Dave Watson joined Everton for £900,000 from Norwich City in 1986, the end of Derek Mountfield's royal blue career loomed large.
With Liverpool pinching the Double that summer Kendall knew that, in the words of the late Sir John Moore, "something had to be done."
And so it was that, despite a wobbly start to Watson's Everton career - a Guardian report on the embryonic Watson/Ratcliffe partnership said the pair looked like "they weren't yet on speaking terms", Mountfield became a more peripheral figure before eventually sliding off to Aston Villa for £450,000.
Mountfield cost the blues £30,000 from Tranmere Rovers in June 1982. And by the time he left in 1988, he'd started 100 league games for the blues, scoring a whopping 19 goals - 15 coming during 1985's return to the very top of English football.
In 20 FA Cup starts he only managed two goals - which one do you remember?
With Southall behind him, Ratcliffe's pace covering all conceivable gaps and Van Den Hauwe and Stevens flanking, Mountfield was part of Everton's most successful rearguard.
In fact they conceded 42 league goals that season - one per match. But what does it matter when you can score whenever you see fit?
Mountfield wasn't the most cultured defender to play the game but he was an important part of Everton's greatest ever team - the footage of him running, arms aloft, all moustache and smiley teeth, at Villa Park in the '85 semi is possibly one of the best clips from that era.
Another dominating image of Mountfield's defending was of his headed clearances going straight up in the air - with arms stretched out in crucifix pose.
After three years at Villa Mountfield began the steady slide into journeymanville that is the fate of so many footballers. Eventually he landed at Scarborough United where, apparently, he was manager for four games. They lost three and then he wasn't manager any more.
From July 2000 to January 2001 he was in charge of Cork City but he isn't any more. According to a Cork website there was 'unpleasantness' and he was a victim of player power - on a small scale, presumably.
Rumours in Cork circles suggest that a murky 'Gang of Five' led by former Cork star Ollie Cahill did for Mountfield. Although don't rule out the potato mafia. So here's to you Derek, wherever you are.
True story: Cork City had a gay porn website named after it (www.corkcityfc.com) but, in keeping with the general theme here, it isn't there now.
I had an idea a few years ago for a tribute album: Great Moustaches in Rock. It's still very much in the planning stages (Englebert's people are talking "comfortably six figures") but in the meantime 'Tache fans, behold: