1966 FA Cup Final: Everton vs Sheff Wed

Everton 3 - 2 Sheff Wed

• Everton
  • Trebilcock 59'
  • Trebilcock 64'
  • Temple 74'
• Sheff Wed
  • McCalliog 4'
  • Ford 57'

Wembley - Saturday 14th May

Attendance: 100,000

Match Referee: J Taylor

Team Line-ups:

This Final will be remembered, along with the 'Matthews Final' of 1953, for a dramatic recovery by an apparently beaten team. In a match of extremes of elation and disappointment, and an exciting contrast of styles, Everton scored three times in sixteen minutes to win 3‑2 after being two goals in arrears with two‑thirds of the game gone.

A supporter is collared by the police and lectured by Brian Labone. Brian Harris tries on a police hat.

Trebilcock scores one of his two goals

Wednesday, underrated in advance, dictated the tempo in the first half and had the boost of an early goal. McCalliog's slightly mistimed shot from Ford's square pass was deflected past West into the net after only four minutes.

Everton might have had a penalty when Springett seemed to bring down Young, and just after half‑time Springett made a superb one‑handed save from the same player's hard, knee‑high shot.

Five minutes later Wednesday were two up through Ford, and they were now calmly and authoritatively in control. Then a young Cornishman, Trebilcock, playing in only his second Cup match, changed the pattern of the game with a brace of goals inside five minutes. Now, with the scores level, it was the Everton style that seemed more appropriate to the occasion.

Harry Catterick cannot watch the closing minutes!

Wednesday half‑back Young failed to control a bouncing ball in midfield, and immediately Temple was racing away towards goal with the ball at his feet, swerving slightly before driving the ball past Springett as he came out.

Man C v EVERTON 0‑0, 0‑0, 0‑2; PNE v Man Utd 1‑ 1, 1‑3, Chelsea v Hull C 2‑2, 3‑1; Blackburn R v SHEFF WED 1‑2

EVERTON v Coventry C 3‑0, Man C v Leicester C 2‑2, 1 ‑0, Wolves v Man Utd 2‑4; PNE v Spurs 2‑1; Chelsea v Shrewsbury T 3‑2; Hull C v Southport 2‑0; Norwich C v Blackburn R 2‑2, 2‑3; Huddersfield T v SHEFF WED 1‑2

Bedford Tv EVERTON 0‑3 Crewe Alex v Coventry C 1‑1, 1‑4, Man C v Grimsby T 2‑0; Birmingham C v Leicester C 1‑2; Man Utd v Rotherham Utd 0‑0, 1‑0; Wolves v Sheff Utd 3‑0; Bolton Wand v PNE 1‑1, 2‑3; Spurs v Burnley 4‑3, Chelsea v Leeds Utd 1 ‑0; Shrewsbury T v Carlisle Utd 0‑0, 1‑1, 4‑3, Hull C v Nott'm Forest 2‑0; Southport v Cardiff C 2‑0; Norwich C v WaJsall 3‑2; W. Ham v Blackburn R 3‑3,1‑4, Plymouth Arg v Huddersfield T 0-2; Newcastle Utd v SHEFF WED 1‑2

EVERTON v Sunderland 3‑0; Bedford T v Hereford Utd 2‑1;.Swinclon T v Coventry C 1‑2; Folkestone T v Crewe Alex 1‑5; Blackpool v Man C 1‑1, 1‑3; Grimsby T v Portsmouth 0‑0, 3‑1; Birmingham C v Bristol C 3‑2; Aston Villa v Leicester C 1‑2; Derby Co v Man Utd 2‑5; Rotherham Utd v Southend Utd 3‑2, Wolves v Altrincham 5‑0; Sheff Utd v Fulham 3‑1; Bolton Wand v WBA 3‑0; Charlton Ath v PNE 2‑3; Spurs v Middlesbro 4‑0; Bournemouth & Bos Ath v Burnley 1‑ 1, 0‑7, Liverpool v Chelsea 1‑2, Leeds Utd v Bury 6‑0; QPR v Shrewsbury T 0‑0, 0‑1 , Carlisle Utd v Crystal Palace 3‑0; Hull C v Southampton 1 ‑0; Northampton T v Nott'm Forest 1‑2; Southport v Ipswich T 0‑0, 3‑2; Cardiff C v Port Vale 2‑1; Leyton Orient v Norwich C 1‑3; Stoke C v Walsall 0‑2, Oldham Ath v W. Ham 2‑2,1‑2, Blackburn R v Arsenal 3‑0, Plymouth Arg v Corby T 6‑0; Huddersfield T v Hartlepools Utd 3‑1; Chester v Newcastle Utd 1‑3, Reading v SHEFF WED 2‑3