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Dennis Stevens
1 Posted 13/08/2025 at 19:55:02
Aye, Rob. I don't think we've ever played them before, unless in a friendly.
Dave Abrahams
2 Posted 13/08/2025 at 20:43:30
Dennis (30), I just looked it up we played them in a cup at Goodison— The Papa John trophy or something like that.

It was a trophy in which premier league teams were represented by their U 21’s and I’ve got a feeling I was at that game on a cold winter night but can’t recall it, don’t think it was all that long ago!

Jack Convery
3 Posted 13/08/2025 at 21:50:18
Didn't Andy King manage Mansfield at one time ? Hopefully he makes the front cover of the Match Night Program. Bramley Moore graced by "our" King.
Derek Knox
4 Posted 13/08/2025 at 21:57:58
Jack, spot on there mate. One of my favourite players back in the day. Met him a while ago in the Blenheim Hotel (Sefton Park) now called the Lakeside. He was up for a Sportsman's Dinner if memory serves.

Unfortunately had a heart attack aged 58, always be remembered, he loved Everton and the fans. If Dyche was still with us, I'd be thinking banana skin fixture, but think we will have too much for them.

John Atkinson
5 Posted 13/08/2025 at 22:40:46
I remember writing a football quiz many years ago and my question was, which is the only football team in all 4 leagues to not have a railway station? Mansfield Town! I think they've got 2 now!
Kieran Kinsella
6 Posted 14/08/2025 at 03:30:31
Yeah apparently we’ve never played them
at full level which is surprising as they’ve been around in the NW for 128 years. Hopefully it won’t be like when Moyes surrendered to Shrewsbury with a b team
Kieran Kinsella
7 Posted 14/08/2025 at 03:32:07
Dave

I think I remember that game a few years back in the Unsie era?

Joe Hurst
8 Posted 14/08/2025 at 04:53:40
A lad I used to work with, (Rob) was from Mansfield. I miss him, but not enough to change my opinion on a game I want us to win.
Danny O'Neill
9 Posted 14/08/2025 at 07:14:50
I say this every season, but maybe this is the one where we finally get our hands on this elusive trophy.

My first living memory, and I wasn't there, was the 3 game drama against Villa in 1977. Only 5 years old, I had to make do with listening on the radio with my dad and watching him kicking and throwing things off the table as Villa's winner went in at Old Trafford.

It's almost become personal between me and this competition.

Six matches from Wembley.

Jon Harding
10 Posted 14/08/2025 at 10:32:13
We're a similar vintage Danny and like you I find it incomprehensible that we have never won this trophy, which has been going since the 60s.
Just like you, I remember listening on the radio with my dad in '77. I was at Wembley in '84 - entertaining nil-nil (shame about the replay).
On a positive note, maybe this fixture is a good opportunity for occasional match-goers like myself to get a ticket and see the Hill Dickinson from the inside for the first time in person. Fingers crossed.
Jack Convery
11 Posted 14/08/2025 at 11:36:43
Danny, I was at all 3 games and could not believe how we screwed up the game at Old Trafford. Chris Nicholls shot from 40 yards that Dave Lawson ( I think it was him ), made a complete horlicks of and Terry Darracott kicking air instead of the ball, for that Brian Little ( great player ) to score the winner. Everton that !

The game at Wembley was truly awful. The only highlight being, watching the players and ref,
search for the spurs, from the marching band, that had been lost whilst they were entertaining us, a half time.

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