Everton 0, Millwall 2. FA Cup 4th Round, February 3rd 1973

[@redflag8970]

Great footage well done for finding this

[@timothyreardon653]

I was 18 and was a lively day out..can't remember the pitch being that bad ! But harry Cripps with a header.. priceless... Liverpool played man city on the same day..made the station after a bit lively! Great memories though.. COYL

[@tonynesbit9673]

My God we were really shite at this time some truly dreadful players,what the hell happened to us from just 3 years earlier being champions of England!

[@redflag8970]

Ye I get what you mean it seems teams could be at one end of the scale one yr an ordinary a yr later then.

[@spanishpeaches2930]

It is an odd thing that even though i have supported EFC all my life and was mental about football in the 70s and 80s, I can recall the starting eleven of Leeds, but could barely name five in the Everton lineup.

[@moslater3172]

Well, some great old footage,so well done for that,really enjoyed it. Some good football ,a terrific atmosphere played on what appears to be someone’s allotment and two real quality goals , sadly too many of the comments are not about what happened on the pitch but what went on either on the terraces and in the street ffs

[@jpberm-on-sea]

Yeah Everton fans mostly, gloating about stabbing people. Sad, especially as they cry like babies to the authorities when it happens to them, yet on here they revell in it 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@jimbroadfield9554]

@@jpberm-on-sea....Its a scouse thing...always the victims,its never their fault !

[@jpberm-on-sea]

@@jimbroadfield9554 spot on mate! 💯

[@benb8980]

​@@jimbroadfield9554yas get battered everytime you lot play everton

[@wendyloo8637]

​@@jpberm-on-seaYes it's an Irish cowardly act . Liverpool is full of Paddy's .

[@Isleofskye]

The Lions Came, Saw and Conquered...😀

[@Eel.666]

And got battered as usual.

[@johnholmes8178]

Incredibly, this match was played at exactly the same time as the Liverpool-Man City cup tie over at Anfield. Must have been nearly 100,000 altogether at the two grounds that day. Wouldn't happen now. The Police would be whingeing about resources.

[@Arthur_Pint]

As soon as a ‘big team’ loses at home to Millwall, then they’re on the slide. And apart from a ‘brilliant mid-eighties’, Everton have been on the slide ever since.

[@Arthur_Pint]

@@EvoGoody and …………. ?

[@johnplynch4866]

Thank you for posting.

[@OGSilverfox8]

Magic of the F.A Cup.

[@donaldcunningham2386]

Just look at the pitch! Looks like it's been ploughed. How did they manage on that surface?

[@wendyloo8637]

With skill . Unlike Soppy lot today .

[@brenforan4916]

Where it all started

[@AndrewStack-lr9fv]

What is it with scousers here we have them using Stanley knives with the Millwall and we're doing the same when Luton played them in 85 I dare say times haven't changed even today but tell me different if Everton supporters are less likely to use such tactics after all it's 2024 so surely the supporters are cleaner

[@phillipsexton9543]

This is when the Everton Millwall hate fest began and Millwall started it it's been going on a generation now having said that the scallies aren't innocent either

[@spanishpeaches2930]

News to me.

[@petersmith4202]

A good fee highlights before the kick off as well

[@fruitychink]

Wee Joe Harper was a real goal threat

[@randybackgammon890]

Looked like a darts player

[@fruitychink]

@@randybackgammon890 If you see him today more like 2 darts players but he was deceptively quick ( especially when drink was around lol ) . A great wee Greenock boy !!!!!

[@tonynesbit9673]

I was in the street end,the millwall lads came in and got battered,I remember thinking what the hell is going on I was only 13 did not know what footie violence was,just thought it was evertonians fighting each other,I distinctly remember the Everton lads taking the sheepskin coats of these guys and these guys all piling on to the pitch to get away ,not only did they get a kicking it was freezing that day,No fun going back to London,but they did win so some consolation.

[@rossi6113]

I was also in the Street end mate and this was also my first experience of the headcases. Frightening or what. I have hated Millwall ever since.

[@chicotheblue]

@@rossi6113 I was too!.Infamous.

[@lennylaa1686]

The moment it sparked off Tony, was there a big parting of the crowd, a large gap
on the terracing and presumably about 100+ Everton were fronting up to 30+ Millwall?

[@tonynesbit9673]

Lenny,l was just behind the goal and just saw a bunch of lads getting punched and kicked as they were jumping over the wall to get away,l didn't know at the time it was millwall fans but soon found out it was,stupid move going into the away end of any club not just everton.

[@lennydickens9943]

Millwall run Everton 1973 true

[@staceygrove5976]

Millwall obviously a very decent side in this period, but by 1974-5 they were a pretty poor Second Division side and ended up being relegated. What went wrong?

[@roystonhesketh3987]

😂var...harper goal never offside. I was there

[@ArchieFatcackie]

The year Sunderland won the cup

[@lennylaa1686]

Two goals scored and that looks like they were into the Park End...and a good few Millwall
jump up...but there is not much of a roar. If the hard men went in the opposite Everton
Gwladys Street End,..it sounds to me like there was not enough of them to hold their own.
But tbh, it was pot luck, you took your life in your hands when you chanced it and went
steaming into the home end., it would have been very unpredictable in normal circumstances
but those with the toughest reputation would always have a very big mob at the back
of their own home end terrace,..... a visiting mob too small to be effective would get battered.

[@michaelmorgan8539]

There was three thousand of us there that day that's all we were allowed you got a few of us before the game but after we ran you every we're fact

[@strumbolli]

@@michaelmorgan8539 You grandad, still not got this shite out of your system. For fucks.

[@michaelmorgan8539]

@@strumbolli I just don't like bullshit about Millwall yes we have been done now again but you these silly utube warriors saying this happened when it did not I think today's so called top boys just love using there mobile phones that's why I get wound up

[@randybackgammon890]

@@michaelmorgan8539 blimey this was nearly 50 years ago.All the boot boys must be pensioners now.What a concept.

[@briankelly5443]

You go looking for it at Everton you'll get it Evil Nasty place

[@peterreid9769]

Harper was onside. Everton should have gone 1-0 up.

[@davidwilliams7844]

Is right, Reidy

[@paulflemming732]

No way. Harper was clearly offside when the ball was flicked on to him. At that time you had to have two full defenders between you and the goal line when the ball was played forward to you to be onside, the goal keeper usually, but not always, being one of those defenders.

[@randybackgammon890]

Should be a parliamentary inquest what what?

[@johnholmes8178]

Miles offside !

[@vicfromyer8376]

True millwall got absolutely smashed on the terraces and after the game

[@michaelmorgan8539]

You got a few in the ground but after the game we gave you a right kicking in the park fact I was there

[@tonynesbit9673]

What the hell were the millwall lads thinking coming into the street end there was only going to be one outcome they got the shit kicked out of them all over the ground did they really think for one minute that the scousers were going to lay down for a few leary cockneys ,that was never going to happen,never will,as for what went on outside the ground l wasn't there so l dont know but inside the ground l saw millwall lads getting battered all over the place it was scary.

[@michaelmorgan8539]

@@tonynesbit9673 we didn't think your brave lads can only fight withe blades and revenge was sweet after the game

[@tonynesbit9673]

Michael can you imagine what would happen if an Everton mob paid to get into the millwall end,they would get twatted what did you expect would happen when they were trying it on in the street end?by the way l saw lots of millwall lads getting kicked and punched but l never saw anybody get cut!again what went on outside the ground l didn't see as it was at the park end,mob mentality eh,luckily no one was killed.

[@michaelmorgan8539]

@@tonynesbit9673 there was twelve stabed that's what it was like in them days

[@paulkersey9857]

Millwall were massively outnumbered. Scousers still had to resort to using knives. Anything like equal numbers and Everton would've been destroyed.

[@bluescousenilsatis]

Like recently in the cup you mean?

[@rossi6113]

Millwall are the scum of the earth son. You got what you deserved that day.

[@michaelmorgan8539]

I was at that game you got a few at the start but after the game you got bated all over the place you know that's a fact

[@steventootill3332]

Where you there soft lad no so shut up

[@michaelmorgan8539]

@@steventootill3332 I was there dick head your lot gor batted outside even chased Liverpool a few slaps as well as they were home against Manchester City in the park and at a pub down the road from the station a true fact and if you was there you know it but you sound too young to have been there coyl been going since 1960 the mob who have stood the ground is West ham