The City is Ours! Everton win Liverpool Senior Cup

Nothing less than the full 9 points from the last 3 matches — make us fans proud for a change!

You do realise the team Everton played last night were mostly part-time Sunday League footballers who had won a final on Sunday, most probably went on the ale after that win, and then played last night?

A lot of them were getting on a bit, for footballers, and gave these Everton youngsters a good game in the first 45 minutes before tiredness took over and Everton got better and won the game!

There's one of them pithy pundit platitudes that comes to the fore in such cases:

"You can only play what's in front of you!"

Shocking that you, a True Blue, should be looking to detract from, denigrate and devalue what was a fabulous historic win. Hang your head in shame, Mr Abrahams!

Mind, for more years than I can remember, it has been the Everton U18s who have played in this competition... and not done all that well.

But my records show that the the last time we did win it, in 2016, it was the U23s under the greatly maligned David Unsworth — the last Academy manager to secure any silverware.

Prescott Cables 0 - 3 Everton U23s

Definitely some agricultural stuff from Lower Breck as I'm watching the first half unfold…

However Dave A. is correct. It may have been boys against men, but it is hardly the dawn of a new age.

Anyway, COYB

Saw them lift the Premier League 2 trophy too!

The warm up is in the Eight Bells.

Rob (10) I don't know who Lower Breck played in the earlier rounds, or Liverpool for that matter, but I think The Liverpool Senior Cup finals of the last few years are of less interest to Merseyside fans than they were going back quite awhile to be honest.

I bet you were part of of 45-50,000 fans who watched those finals then including the 4-3 game at Goodison when Ian St John made his debut for Liverpool, scored a hat-trick, and finished on the losing side.

As a matter of interest, the Liverpool Senior Cup was bigger and better than the FA Cup — talking about the actual trophy, not who took part in it.

Not related, but as we're talking U21s, a sad story.

Not in it's current guise, but Accrington have their roots as founders of the football league alongside us.

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Will there be a parade?

I think I seem to recall a young Jimmy Gabriel scoring with a bullet of a header!

Anyway, I'm off to watch the conclave, far more exciting than PSG/Gooners. Anyone know if there are any bluenose cardinals in the running?

Back to the game and Francis Gomez is very annoyed at being shown a second yellow and a red after sliding in.

I was skipping through the video but I don't recall seeing him carded earlier. Anyone see that?

I was at that 4-3 game at Goodison, Mickey Lill got the winner just before full time, his second?

Trying to remember which levels/clubs it was open to then and at what point the two senior clubs came into it as they did put out first teams in those days.

It's up there with Kenwright's "famous chairman – Everton aways get it right".

But of course, it's goals – that's all that matters. We grabbed 'em; they didn't.

Was that Denise Barrett-Baxendale handing out the gongs at the end? Surely not…

I never saw St John play, never mind score a hat-trick against us!!

They won the semi-final the previous weekend when a team from near Leeds brought 500 away fans. They then won the final on Saturday, after getting home advantage in both the semi and the final, because they came 2nd in their league, behind Bury. (Good to see Bury, up and running again, after Bill Kenwright was just too late to save them!) Bury had about 6,000 spectators for their final home game when they clinched the top spot.

I was told that Lower Breck had kept the prices at £7 for these two games (semifinal and final) and my mate was telling me that when he walked past the Willowbank pub, at 11 o'clock on Saturday night, the party was in full swing, and all he could hear was the Lower Breck players singing away!

I've seen plenty of evidence of what the a1878 group have done, but has anything else happened?

I was expecting to players of yesteryear paraded to the crowd (and other sentimental stuff). Have I missed anything?

Made up for the U21s, as I am for any Everton team. As a player, it doesn't matter what level or trophy it is. Success breeds success.

We need an Evertonian Mayor, a megalomaniac, to declare that Liverpool will now be called Everton.

Most Yanks I end up chatting with do not know that Everton is in Liverpool and most of the Yanks when I say that I was born and bred in Liverpool immediately think that I must support the red shite.

If my VW Golf is nearby, I point them towards my license plate where white letters against a black background shout EVERTON. I understand that EVERTON could not be a registration back home in Blighty.

I get more traction in Germany with people recognising Everton being from the same city than I often do in our own capital.

Black smoke over the Vatican. A kopite must have been involved.

We are stuck with little old Everton now, we will just have to produce a better team than them, that's all.

Well, we are in Everton but yes we are also the only team in the city. Don't get me wrong – I adore the name Everton but that was Kenwright/Denise thinking.

Alan (25) Jimmy Fell at outside left scored 2 and I'd say Bobby Collins got another one not sure if Mickey Lill played to be honest. Not sure how many clubs entered the competition then, remember Tranmere — saw them in a couple of finals against Everton we won 4-1 at Goodison on a sunny Saturday afternoon and we beat them at Anfield 8-5 on a Friday night — that might have been because Goodison's pitch had been dug up for the undersoil heating.

Rob (28) I thought you were a very young looking and handsome 68!

I hope you are right. It would seem fitting to see a selection of the older players grace the pitch again … Colin Harvey, Bob Latchford, Big Nev – and if Graeme Sharp can be forgiven, then it's time my late father's favourite Everton player, Tony Kay, was invited to join them.

What about the guys who are under 100?