Vintage FPL: Everton 4-2 Sheffield United

Vintage Values III

1993 is a year that I have many fond memories of: My first ever cinema visit; Jurassic Park at the Cannon, Northampton. I’ll always remember it as I got smacked really hard on the bum by the old man for doing a ‘silent but violent’ fart on the front row (to his credit he did wait until we were in the foyer afterwards), Bruce Grobelaar’s rat tail, Andy Sinton, Chris Bart-Williams, Darren Caskey and Carlton Palmer being selected for the England national team, Norwich City beating Bayern Munich in the Olympic stadium and best of all finding my old man’s stash underneath the drawers in his bedroom (it was moved many times after that but me and my bro always managed to locate it).

One thing I did not remember, however, was a game requested by @FPL_Fly for this week’s Vintage Values, the match in question was Everton v Sheffield United.

It was early in the season (August) and Dane Whitehouse bagged in the first minute (which, according to @GriftersUnited, earned Dane a Watch which he was presented with before the Blades next home game). With goals being scored in the 1st, 89th and 90th minute this was another edge of the seat contest with Everton coming out on top. The win took the Toffees to 3rd place in the table. This was, however short lived as this was the season when they appointed the in vogue Mike Walker from Norwich City. Everton scrambled to safety on the last day of the season when Wimbledon Goalkeeper, Hans Segers, threw one of Graham Stuart’s pea-rollers into the back of his net. Sheffield United were relegated in 20th position (this was back when there were 22 teams).

(Go to 6:55 – 7:35 to see snippets of this game)

VPL FF points:

Name	Minutes	GC	Assists	Goals	YC	RC	BAPS	Total Points
Cottee	90	2	0	3	0	0	3	17
Whitehouse	90	4	1	1	0	0	2	12
Ebbrell	90	2	0	1	0	0	1	8
Cork	28	4	0	1	0	0	0	5
Scott	90	4	1	0	0	0	0	5
Holmes	90	2	1	0	0	0	0	5
Rideout	90	2	1	0	0	0	0	4
Beagrie	48	2	1	0	0	0	0	4

FPLVintage Values:

EFC VFPL Value SUFC VFPL Value Neville Southall 6.0M Alan Kelly 5M Andy Hinchcliffe 6M Carl Bradshaw 4M Gary Ablett 5M John Pemberton 4.5M Paul Holmes 4.5M Dave Tuttle 5M Matt Jackson 5.5M Tom Cowan 4.5M John Ebbrell 6M Mitch Ward 5M Peter Beagrie 6.5M Paul Rogers 5M Graham Stuart 6M Dane Whitehouse 6.5M Mark Ward 5M Andy Scott 4.5M Tony Cottee 8.5M Willie Falconer 5M Paul Rideout 7.5M Jostein Flo 5M Preki Rado'ljevic 5M Paul Beesley 5M Stuart Barlow 4.5M Alan Cork 4.5M

Once again if you have any memories of this game or the 1993/94 season in particular please feel free to reminisce with me.

If there is a game you are gagging to relive send me a request and I’ll add it to my ever increasing list.

Although I don’t have great memories of the Everton v Sheffield United game, I’ll never forget those Readers Wives!

Thanks for reading.

@FPLVintage

Vintage FPL: Leicester 3-3 Arsenal (Guest Post)

As a 35 year old man I have seen a lot of goals in my ‘career’ as a football fan/FPL manager. The best three hat-tricks I have ever seen in the flesh are:

1). Sam Smart for Earls Barton Saxons Under 13s Vs Oakley Lodge Under 13s at The Pioneer, in 1993. This hat trick genuinely included a 35 yard header and Sam was a centre half!!

2). Neil (Larry) Grayson for Northampton Town away at Preston North End in 1996– The bald, stocky, pacey Cobblers forward bustled his way to a ‘hattie’ away at top of the league Preston, to help turn them over in their own back yard, “Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, oh what fun it is to see the Cobblers win away!”

3). Alexis Sanchez for Arsenal, away to Leicester City, earlier this season (did I mention I went to the game?!) – made all the better as I had him in my FPL team and my brother in-law had just taken him out of his (who I had gone to the game with).

Vintage FPL: Liverpool 4-3 Newcastle United (Guest Post)

So there I was, scratching around in the FPL wilderness trying to find my place, thoroughly enjoying my time being part of the FPL Community but feeling the need to do something to ‘earn’ my place. I began by posting some vines for a bit of fun – predominantly based on Ari Gold from Entourage and The X-Factor were getting me by but I needed something more...

In choosing the name @FPLVintage I suppose I kind of subconsciously pushed this kind of thing on myself but it wasn’t until an inspiring DM session with the man himself (when I was supposed to be washing up) that the task dawned upon me.

Chief - “You should do a Twitter post with vintage FPL values”

Nah I thought, too much effort. But then I started considering it; Why not? Shouldn’t take too long,  could make it a regular thing (if I can be bothered), might be quite an interesting thing to do plus I’ve always found it a lot easier talking more accurately about the past than the future, so….. here we go.

Number 1 instalment of FPLVintage, VPL (Vintage Premier League – not Visible Panty Line). Took place at Anfield on Wednesday 3rd April 1996, I remember listening to the game on Radio 5live in my bedroom on the ghetto blaster I had for my 15th Birthday (the November before) as the old man was always too tight to get Sky. Considered to be one of the most entertaining matches in Premier League history and, as a childhood Liverpool fan, I have to agree: Liverpool 4 v 3 Newcastle United.

Any suggestions for my next post would be greatly appreciated. Get involved.

Nice one.

@FPLVintage

 

VPL FF points:

Collymore 16 pts (2pts – 90 mins, 8pts – 2 goals, 3pts – 1 assist, 3BAPS)

Fowler 12 pts (2pts – 90 mins, 8pts – 2 goals, 2BAPS)

Ferdinand 10 pts (2pts – 90 mins, 4pts – 1 goal, 3pts – 1 assist, 1BAP)

Asprilla 10 pts (2pts – 90 mins, 4pts – 1 goal, 3pts – 1 assist, 1BAP)

Ginola 7 pts (2pts – 90 mins, 5pts – 1 goal)

McManaman 5 pts (2pts – 90 mins, 3pts – 1 assist)

Barnes 5 pts (2pts – 90 mins, 3pts – 1 assist)

Lee 5 pts (2pts – 90 mins, 3pts – 1 assist)

FPL Vintage Values:

			LFC VFPL Value NUFC VFPL Value David James 5.5M Pavel Srníček 5.5M Mark Wright 5M Steve Watson 6M John Scales 6M Steve Howey 6M Neil Ruddock 5.5M Philippe Albert 6.5M Jason McAteer 6M John Beresford 5.5M Jamie Redknapp 6.5M Peter Beardsley 8M John Barnes 5.5M David Batty 5M Rob Jones 5.5M Robert Lee 7M Steve McM'an 8M David Ginola 9.5M Stan Collymore 10.5M 'Tino Asprilla 10.5M Robbie Fowler 12M Les Ferdinand 12M Tony Warner 4.5M Darren Peacock 5.5M Steve Harkness 4.5M Keith Gillespie 7M Ian Rush 5.5M Lee Clark 6M