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The worst of all time!

Really hate this time of the year in the football calendar so to captivate my depression I thought I would make a topic about the worst ever Everton team from all the players over the years, its probably been done a thousand times already but heres mine!

Manager - Mike Walker

GK - Espen Baardsen
RB - Earl Barrett
LB - Terry Phelan
CB - Per Krøldup
CB - Carl Tiler
LM - Andy van der Meyde
RM - Niclas Alexandersson/Osman?
CM - Alex Nyarko
CM - Danny Williamson
ST - Michael Branch
ST - Stuart Barlow

Subs: anyone from a good choice of 50!
Dan Machin, Sheffield Posted 27/06/2009 at 08:56:53

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Michael Kenrick

Okay... since it's close to being dead on here.... but we have done this before... and you know you shouldn't drop Osman's name in casually like that... very naughty!

Gavin Ramejkis
1 Posted 27/06/2009 at 19:52:58

Don?t forget some a little further back, Dai Davies was one of (if not) the worst keepers I?ve seen. I remember him scoring an own-goal on his debut after about 15 seconds. Gareth Farrelly was abject shite too ? despite his fluky goal to keep us up.

Gavin Ramejkis
2 Posted 27/06/2009 at 19:56:14

15 minutes, not 15 seconds... makes it sound better than it actually was, he was dreadful.

Chris Matheson
3 Posted 27/06/2009 at 20:37:35

Surely the worst 11 must include Brett Angell? He was 6’5" of something but couldn’t jump shy of two inches, was slower than a lame carthorse, but did amazingly actually score once. I think. At least Messrs Branch and Barlow were fast enough to make opposing defenders slightly concerned. With Brett Angell they could take the afternoon off.

Tony Williams
4 Posted 27/06/2009 at 23:13:00

You?re having a laugh with Osman in there aren?t you? I mean how can Osman keep out the blinding pace and skill of Ian Wilson, one of my all time hated players?!?

Andy Crooks
5 Posted 27/06/2009 at 23:44:54

Dan, many of the players in your team were decent players before they came to Goodison Park or had potential which they never lived up to. So, in some ways, it?s an eleven who were fucked up at Everton.

Lee Rogers
6 Posted 28/06/2009 at 02:35:58

Earl Barret ? he?s defo on my list too; he was rubbish. I used to cringe when his name was called out on the tannoy... made Tony Hibbert look world class!

Sam Higgins
7 Posted 28/06/2009 at 05:47:58

To be fair 85% of the players who put a blue shirt on beween 1990-2002 were absolute fucking dogshite. It's only been the last 6 years that you can say, "Shit, we have a really good team with some shit-hot players."

Fuck me, I mean I ask you ? can you even imagine how we would react now if our star signings this summer were Carl Tiler & Mitch Ward in a dramatic double swoop!?! Holy crap... And this was common place back in the day!!

And people moan that we haven't yet secured the services of Moutinho. Good Lord, the chances of signing someone like him back then would've been about as likely as Lionel Messi signing for us tomorrow.

Tony Kelly
8 Posted 28/06/2009 at 10:01:15

Gerrard.
Hottiger.
Keeley.
Tiler.
Thomas.
Alexanderson.
Thomsen.
Farrelly.
Spencer.
Madar.
Angell.
What a gang of beauts!!!

Mike Allison
9 Posted 28/06/2009 at 11:19:59

Madar was pretty good, that?s an odd one. Maybe only in comparison to everyone else in the team at the time... but still.

Gerrard?s definitely the goalkeeper though, even worse than Richard Wright. Thomsen?s a good shout too. Oh my God ? to think these are the guys I had to watch every week. I remember Davy Weir?s debut as a rampaging right wing back in a Walter Smith team with about 6 centre-backs in it. (We beat Middlesbrough 5-0!)

Will Leaf
10 Posted 28/06/2009 at 11:59:23

Most disturbing headline from The Telegraph dated Wednesday, 26 October 2005:

"Kroldrup and Van der Meyde set for Everton debuts"

Andrew Cunningham
11 Posted 28/06/2009 at 15:12:26

Who did you guys play for? You were probably as bad as me... :) :)

Mike Galley
12 Posted 28/06/2009 at 16:16:45

Hope I?m not to old to join in with this debate but surely Rod Belfitt and Bernie Wright should be getting a mention here!!! To be fair, Brett Angell is a good shout!

Brian Lawlor
13 Posted 29/06/2009 at 09:30:02

Goalkeeper has got to be Paul Gerrard.

Claus Thomsen has to be in there as well.