Everton will induct four new Giants at Goodison Park during the match against Manchester United on Saturday. Andy Gray, Derek Mountfield, Kevin Sheedy, and Paul Bracewell – part of the most successful Everton team in history, during the 84-85 season – will find their place in the club’s Hall of Fame which began in 1999.
The visit of Man Utd, themed as Giants’ Day, will be a historic occasion as it will be the first time so many players are getting inducted as Everton Giants at once. All four legends will receive their honorary status on the pitch at half-time of the contest.
Every Everton Giant will be immortalised with a specially engraved stone to be laid in the Everton Way at the new stadium in Bramley-Moore Dock which recently hosted the first test event in front of 10,000 fans. The dazzling walkway is made up of 36,000 personalised granite stones.
Gray, Mountfield, Sheedy, and Bracewell will receive replica stones at Goodison Park on Saturday. The four players were part of the Toffees side that won the league title, the Charity Shield, the club’s first European trophy and beat fierce rivals Liverpool thrice.
That team came close to securing an unprecedented treble with Manchester United pipping them in extra-time of the FA Cup Final, barely 66 hours after the European Cup-Winners Cup Final. Gray and Mountfield also won the FA Cup for Everton in 1984.
A huge celebratory banner in honour of the Giants is being planned by the 1878s which will be on display in the Gwladys Street and they’re requesting volunteers for the same on social media! Pin badges portraying the new Giants will be handed out at the Fan Zone and around the Holy Trinity statue before kick-off on Saturday.