BBC chief football writer Phil McNulty has been reminiscing on the 4-4 thriller that took place between Everton and Liverpool at Goodison Park in the 1991 FA Cup fifth round.
After a goalless first meeting at Anfield, the Merseyside rivals played out an exhilarating draw, which ended up being Kenny Dalglish’s final match before resigning as manager of the Reds.
Substitute Tony Cottee’s equaliser six minutes from the end of extra time secured a draw for the hosts after they fought back from a goal down four times.
The second replay, also at Goodison, finished 1-0 to the Toffees – the last FA Cup tie to go to multiple replays before a rule change the following season limited ties to one replay.
“It was an absolutely wild game because Liverpool led four times and Everton pulled them back four times,” McNulty said.
“Liverpool scored some absolutely wonderful goals, some strange goals, people clearing the ball off the line and it flying back in.
“Every time you thought Liverpool had won the game there would be some calamity in their defence that bought Everton back into it. It was an incredible game of football.
“I remember walking away from that and people from our vintage were saying they had never seen anything like it.
“It was an absolutely wild night of football. I remember it like it was yesterday because we had never seen a derby like it, with goals being exchanged like that.
“Then obviously there were the events after it with Kenny resigning a couple of days later.”
Listen to Goodison’s Greatest Derbies on BBC Sounds
Read the full article here