25 years on - what Everton's stars of the glorious 1984/85 campaign are doing now

Dave Prentice looks into what the Everton squad from 1984/85 is doing nowTHEY'RE the most successful group of footballers ever to pull on the Royal Blue jersey. But what happened to Everton's 1984/85 squad after that classic campaign had ended? And where are they now? The Echo investigates in the latest of our series celebrating the 25th anniversary of that season. NEVILLE SOUTHALLSOUTHALL was widely considered to be the world's best goalkeeper in 1984/85, the season he was voted the Football Writers' Player of the Year.He stayed at Everton a further 13 years to become a true living legend, winning another league title two years later and a second FA Cup 11 years after his first!He left Goodison in March 1998 for Stoke City - perhaps fittingly on Friday the 13th - and ended a brief top flight spell with Bradford City.He had a spell as Wales under-19 coach, but showing the same typically forthright views he often displayed as a player, quit, claiming he was treated with 'a total lack of respect' and that the coaching was compromised because '.as always, it's about money.'He managed Hastings United and then Margate in the Isthmian League Premier Division, but currently teaches academy football at the Chaucer Technology School in Kent.GARY STEVENSA WONDERFULLY gifted athlete, Stevens became frustrated during Everton's exile from European football and the club's subsequent slide and moved north to Glasgow Rangers.He returned to Merseyside to play for Tranmere Rovers and retired in June 1998 to start work as a physiotherapist.He now works in that capacity at Ellesmere Port Cottage Hospital.DEREK MOUNTFIELDSUFFERED a serious injury during Everton's second title winning season of the 80s - and when he recovered found that Howard Kendall had spent £1million on a replacement, Dave Watson.Moved to Aston Villa and then Wolves, before taking his career appearances tally to over 600 at Carlisle, Northampton and Walsall.Worked for the Everton Former Players' Foundation and now works as part of the PE staff at a specialist sports college in Wirral, Pensby High School.

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