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Getting away with one

Posted by TeddyBoy <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=TeddyBoy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 1:56 pm

Probably going to be the shortest thread ever this but what refereeing decisions can you remember going in our favour or with us getting away with one?

Kevin Richardson v Villa in the Milk Cup semi at Goodison in 1984, the most blatant handball that even I could see from the Gladwys Street. Loved the way he lied through his back teeth when I reviewed about it as well "nooooo,it goes across me" with a little twinkle in his eye.

I can't remember too many others.

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Posted by ESCLIP <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=ESCLIP' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 10:57 pm, in reply to "Getting away with one"

Then there is Chelsea actually making an effort v Bolton when they could have sat on the beach slugging single malt aand smoking cigars

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Posted by benefitfraudster <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=benefitfraudster' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 10:52 pm, in reply to "Getting away with one"

Fellaini at home against City. We were 1-0 up and getting battered. He punched the ball out of our area on about 80 minutes. City scream for a penalty. Nothing given. Actually, maybe a free kick.

Jelavic then goes and scores his deflected "just fkn hit it goal" at the Street End.

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Posted by santo_1878 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=santo_1878' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 7:19 pm, in reply to "Getting away with one"

Emergency centre-half Ian Marshall vs Oxford at Goodison winter 1985 sometime...leading 1-0 with about a minute to go, he bizarrely decides to win an aerial duel at gwladys st by punching it instead of heading it, the whole ground almost laughs in disbelief as the ref waves play on, and from the resultant punch we break away and make it 2-0 (bracewell i think).

The should-have-been relegated bàstards famously got their own back later in the season like....

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Posted by Beldale blue <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Beldale+blue' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 7:06 pm, in reply to "Getting away with one"

Loved reading these comments.
The thing I’ve noticed is how we remember the so, so few big calls in our favour. Many of them proved to be inconsequential.
Imagine asking a redshite this question. Their response would be something like ‘Never happened, the refs hate us’.
They are genuinely that deluded.

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Posted by henno05 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=henno05' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 7:02 pm, in reply to "Getting away with one"

Barmby diving v Birmingham in the cup

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Posted by Aberblue1 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Aberblue1' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 4:52 pm, in reply to "Getting away with one"

Chelsea had a shot which went over the line but no goal given when we played them in the Cup Final.

Typical that it changed nothing in the end.

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That’s one.
I watched that game a couple of years ago on the box.
In my drunken state at the game, I thought we’d been a bit unlucky. Saha, I think, should have buried a header.
We were actually outclassed, could have been about about 5-1.
The RS would have won on penalties if they had been in our position.

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Posted by Tonytaxi1970 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Tonytaxi1970' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 4:46 pm, in reply to "Getting away with one"

They are like rocking horse shite. I was at that game in the freezing cold. I could see the handball from my seat, so how the ref and lino didn't, is a mystery.

One of the few i remember was Sheff Wed away, the season we won the league 85.

Sheff Wed bombarded our goal for most of the game, but big Nev was in top form, saving EVERYTHING they threw at him. But there was a corner for them that got headed out. The ball fell to that Mel Sterland, who fancied his chances from 30 yards. He blasted it towards goal, and we could see that Psycho clearly diverted it for another corner, with his hand.
Sheff wed players surrounded the ref, but Pat just stood there, showing the ref the dirty "ball mark" on his yellow EFC shirt, where it had hit him. The ref bought Pat's excuses, unbelievably.

As Psycho retreated back to defend the ensuing corner, he looked into the Everton fans and did a little smile and a wink towards us.

It was a clear pen, like.

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Posted by AndyIsOurKing <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=AndyIsOurKing' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 4:32 pm, in reply to "Getting away with one"

Psycho elbowing Speedie against Chelsea circa 1988

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Posted by BertieBigBollocks <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=BertieBigBollocks' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 6:34 pm, in reply to "Re: Getting away with one"

He did it to Craig Johnston at Anfield in front of the Kop and got away with it, in this day and age he would have been hung, drawn and quartered by their stupid fanbase and media fan boys.

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Posted by TeddyBoy <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=TeddyBoy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 5:53 pm, in reply to "Re: Getting away with one"

Tremendous that and thoroughly deserved.

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Dwight Yorke had a shot that bounced down off the bar and behind the line at the Park End whilst playing for Villa. No goal given.

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Posted by Bob Loblaw <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Bob+Loblaw' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 3:20 pm, in reply to "Getting away with one"

There's a blatant Earl Barrett handball on the line at 1-0 in the Cadamarteri derby.

My mate never lets me forget it whenever I talk about them getting all the decisions.

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Posted by Cynically Optimistic <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Cynically+Optimistic' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 4:48 pm, in reply to "Re: Getting away with one"

That was partial, late compensation for the Hansen handball in the '84 Milk Cup final.

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Posted by Yogi_Clementine <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Yogi_Clementine' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 3:20 pm, in reply to "Getting away with one"

Who did Mountfield punch one in against?

Formerly yogiclementine

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Posted by johnbartonstache <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=johnbartonstache' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 3:30 pm, in reply to "Re: Getting away with one"

Southampton in the 6-1 in 86 wasn't it

for you I'd lose my self-esteem
for crewe I'd use junction 16

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Yeah, it was, i think.

The game where knob heads were circulating rumours about Kerry Dixon and Pat Nevin scoring goals against the shite, as we were Swatting the Saints like a fly.

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Typical. When it literally couldn't matter less

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it was the 1st goal,so might've, but typically didn't

for you I'd lose my self-esteem
for crewe I'd use junction 16

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Posted by efc84 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=efc84' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 3:08 pm, in reply to "Getting away with one"

Tarkowski last season according to modern football.

We got beat anyway like but according to 'the panel', including Duncan Ferguson, he should have had a 5 season ban.

I still insist it was a great challenge.

And for balance I thought his one on richarlison for Burnley was too.

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Posted by MTCEFC <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=MTCEFC' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 3:06 pm, in reply to "Getting away with one"

Sure I remember being at Sunderland one year and Osman falling over the ball and getting a penalty.

I thought it was this one but it wasn't, but this once too it seems - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7272604.stm

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Posted by Billybookcase <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Billybookcase' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 4:34 pm, in reply to "Re: Getting away with one"

He kicked the floor and fell over.
Probably because of his unequal legs.

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Posted by AverrageJoe <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=AverrageJoe' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 2:59 pm, in reply to "Getting away with one"

I can remember Tommy Gravesen somehow escaping a red card against Newcastle sometime in the 2000s.

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Posted by Mr OW Bol <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Mr+OW+Bol' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 3:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Getting away with one"

Was that at GP?

I seem to remember he did one of their players and I think we went on to score directly afterwards?

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Posted by drexxxler <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=drexxxler' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 4:24 pm, in reply to "Re: Getting away with one"

Robson went apeshit

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Posted by bennoefc <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=bennoefc' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 7:08 pm, in reply to "Re: Getting away with one"

After the game, Shearer called it a coward's tackle, conveniently forgetting his own shithouse tackle on Richard Wright.

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Posted by Bainesy003 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Bainesy003' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 2:36 pm, in reply to "Getting away with one"

Suarez ‘winner’ in a 2-2 derby at Goodison

About time we had a decision against them like

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Yeah, but let’s not forget Suarez shouldn’t h@ve been on the pitch when he scored that.
He ‘dived’ in front of the Everton bench to celebrate scoring earlier. A bootable offence then.
He also did Distin and Mirallas from behind. Ending Miralass’s season if I remember rightly.
When a RS brings that offside decision up, they always seem to have forgotten all this!

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Posted by Domi5 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Domi5' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 5:40 pm, in reply to "Re: Getting away with one"

I think Mirallas got him back (and got away with it) in either the next derby or the one before.

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Posted by efcman4ever <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=efcman4ever' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 3:47 pm, in reply to "Re: Getting away with one"

Same with van dead when Pickford killed him.

Never gets mentioned that he shouldn't have been on the pitch after getting away with two blatant bookings

How can you tell if someone is a Kopite? If the hat, scarf, T shirt or tattoo isn't enough of a clue, they will have told you within two sentences. Basically, it's a cult.

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Yeah. Rodriguez was never the same after that ‘accidental collision’ with the late Dutchman.

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When they bring that offside up, I just tell them it was a foul anyway. Coates had both hands on Jagielka's shoulders, climbing all over him. So, it can be scratched from the 'getting away with one' list.

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Yep 💯 correct

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Posted by Mr_Plinky <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Mr_Plinky' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 3:00 pm, in reply to "Re: Getting away with one"

After he should of been sent off twice over the dirty twat

Yeah got away with that

Winston Kodogo is a helmet!

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I’ll miles myself!

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Your detail was much better than mine though ha ha

Winston Kodogo is a helmet!

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Jeez yeah that was the same game wasn’t it. Raked his studs down Distins leg

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Yeah that's the one

Winston Kodogo is a helmet!

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Just remember being 2down and going down for a pint, and then planning to leave at half time. Everton for once had other ideas that day

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I can't remember it that much apart from fuming at that twat

Then laughing when that goal got disallowed HA!

Winston Kodogo is a helmet!

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Posted by adayinthelife <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=adayinthelife' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 2:56 pm, in reply to "Re: Getting away with one"

equally, the mum hendo's scored moment.

The fate of the fallen, nobody knows where I came from.
Even I have forgotten.

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Posted by Slim_Sheedy <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Slim_Sheedy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 2:21 pm, in reply to "Getting away with one"

Limpar's dive in the Wimbledon game

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Hans Segers

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Posted by Sarflondonblue <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Sarflondonblue' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 3:18 pm, in reply to "Re: Getting away with one"

this.

No one will convince me that a brown envelope wasn't somehow involved in that miracle.

Im convinced every bad decision against us since is Karma evening the odds.

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Posted by TomOB <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=TomOB' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 3:56 pm, in reply to "Re: Getting away with one"

I listened to an interview with Dave Bassett on some podcast or other, he said that within football it was common knowledge (or words to that effect). Would’ve been moot if we hadn’t chucked away a 2-0 lead at Chelsea, of course!
I think it looks dodgy but who knows? We went down because we were shabite, as we did 12 years later with a helping hand from Jagielka against Wigan, which looks way more dodgy than this, rather than West Ham cheating!

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Don’t forget that dave Bassett is thick as double thickness greasy chip butties

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I'm almost certain that Simon Davies scored an almost exactly similar goal for us in some fairly routine game. Nothing was ever made of that.

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Posted by fourjays <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=fourjays' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 3:24 pm, in reply to "Re: Getting away with one"

Did Limpar also get a brown envelope for punching the ball for no reason in his own penalty area?

And did Ablett get one for scoring an own goal?

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Posted by Fazak_Blue <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Fazak_Blue' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 5:12 pm, in reply to "Re: Getting away with one"

All part of the script. Barry Horne regularly twátted goals in from 30 yards as well in training, was just told never to do it in a real match. Until then.

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Arf

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Posted by Spart <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Spart' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 2:02 pm, in reply to "Getting away with one"

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Posted by carlos_the_jackal <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=carlos_the_jackal' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on July 18, 2025, 2:12 pm, in reply to "Re: Getting away with one"

Nathan Blake fouled Southall.

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