a tribute to mountie

**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:

**Pablo** · 04/02/2003, 3:29 PM

english gits. potato mafia indeed. thats the kind of tripe that makes me wonder why irish people support english sides

**dalo** · 04/02/2003, 3:36 PM

i thought it was kind of funny

**Pablo** · 04/02/2003, 3:39 PM

it isnt

**dalo** · 04/02/2003, 3:45 PM

it is, ah wake up -have a sense of humour, it is a fanzine after all. i mean you do call urself pablo

**pete** · 04/02/2003, 3:59 PM

Originally posted by dalo
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.

Me thinks somehow a lot more people know CCFC for porn than football.

I thought it was just a regular (maybe i not look hard enough) porn referal site?

Anyone who can't laugh at the city & irish references needs to relax a bit.

**Pablo** · 04/02/2003, 4:07 PM

Originally posted by pete
Me thinks somehow a lot more people know CCFC for porn than football. I thought it was just a regular (maybe i not look hard enough) porn referal site?

Anyone who can't laugh at the city & irish references needs to relax a bit.

i got them all through college and it p!ssed me off. its ok to take the p!ss out of the irish but not asians and blacks. double standards.

ok thats too heavy a topic for a football forum so thats all i'll say!

**pete** · 04/02/2003, 4:10 PM

Originally posted by Pablo
ok thats too heavy a topic for a football forum so thats all i'll say!

To Off Topic you go...

**Gary** · 04/02/2003, 5:40 PM

1. Whats a Potaoto Mafia.

2. Pablo, get a grip will ya. Have you ever told a Kerry man joke? Are you not the same fella who is forever bitching about Dubs?

Christs sake, if we cant laugh at the whole porn site thing, then we are idiots. personally I think it is one of the funniest things to have ever happened. imagine some poor 10 year old showing his father the ccfc site, and there is porn there. Interesting discussion would ensue i can only imagine.

english gits. potato mafia indeed. thats the kind of tripe that makes me wonder why irish people support english sides

sure thats a ridiculous statement.

**bert** · 05/02/2003, 12:25 AM

Fact is player power did force him out, led by that Judas Cahill.

**Pablo** · 05/02/2003, 9:27 AM

Originally posted by GWA
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sure thats a ridiculous statement.

well i support my own. ridiculous that may sound to you but not to most on this forum i would imagine. if your content with the paddy bashing then i feel sorry for you

**A face** · 05/02/2003, 11:33 AM

Originally posted by Pablo
well i support my own. ridiculous that may sound to you but not to most on this forum i would imagine. if your content with the paddy bashing then i feel sorry for you

I'd be more or less from the same school of thought, .... But i dont make an issue of it, i leave it unsaid most of the time.