Many Everton fans have been replying to a recent post on Twitter by Tim Cahill, as the Australian icon reflected on his goal scored against Newcastle United in 2005.
The Magpies arrived at Goodison Park back in May 2005 as the Premier League season began to wind down, but our campaign was far from over as Champions League football remained in sight.
UEFA’s premier club competition became even closer at full-time, too, after David Wear and Cahill fired home to give us a 2-0 win that put the Toffees within a point of qualifying for the Champions League.
That place would indeed become ours when Arsenal beat Liverpool 3-1 the following day, to deal the Reds’ their 11th away defeat of the season and ensure they were the ones who missed out on a top-four finish.
Goodison Park was rocking ????⚽️???? https://t.co/fXtJttof1n
— TIM CAHILL (@Tim_Cahill) November 18, 2019
Weir had opened the scoring for us against Newcastle two minutes before half-time when the Scot headed home from a Mikel Arteta free-kick, rubbing salt into the Toons’ wounds after they spurned numerous chances to score.
Newcastle suffered further pain after the break when referee Barry Knight showed Shola Ameobi a red card for a clash with Cahill, who – two minutes later – double our lead when he met Arteta’s drilled pass to calmly slot home into the top corner of Shay Given’s net.
Would Cahill be a good replacement for Silva?
Yes, bring him home!
Needs to prove himself first
Cahill played in a total of 276 matches for the Blues during his eight years at Goodison Park, scoring 68 times and assisting a further 29.
Here are some of the messages shared in response to Cahill’s post…
Legend
— Dave Banks (@DaveBanks73) November 19, 2019
Sadly it doesn’t rock much anymore!
— Danny (@danny01_efc) November 18, 2019
It always was when you were playing mate ????
— SavageOppress (@oppress_savage) November 18, 2019
Promotion to main Everton team manager I think
— idcaboutaname (@widnesvikingsf1) November 18, 2019
Proud to pull that blue shirt on Tim it showed Never gave less than Your all
— tentoseven-four-one (@tentosevenfour1) November 19, 2019
Boss when that went in
— Michael Stock (@Stocky_88) November 19, 2019
Remember it well you were my sons hero and ur signed Everton shirt takes pride of place in his first home true legend ????
— neil griffiths (@neilgriffiths4) November 18, 2019
Haha, I remember Graeme Souness highlighting how lucky we were cos of this goal after a ‘miss hit’ shot from Arteta. Apart from we’d battered them all game & this made it 3-0! What a day ????????????
— AJ Smith (@andystreacle) November 19, 2019